well said!

I know that is what tech companies think will happen, but it massively misunderstands the role of a search engine as an input into any broad llm type tool.

Search engines are going nowhere, or rather if they die it is not because they were made irrelevant it is because of overconsolidation in the market (Google).

Yes!

The amount of different answers to this is probably dizzying, it is a wonderful question!

I prefer to answer it by pointing out that we assume predators are in a hostile relationship with their prey and other predators that access the same types of food. Of course in some ways this is true, in my opinion the definition of an “invasive species” is a species that is invisible to a local ecosystem’s pre-existing network of relationships between species and becomes hostile to the ecosystems continued dynamic equilibrium. However most of the time I don’t think this is necessarily a very productive perspective to take even though our subconscious continually does given the ways in which nature has been narrativized in the modern world.

I propose we consider predator-predator relationships the way plants naturally space pollination and fruiting to fill in gaps other species aren’t filling in terms of providing certain categories of important ecosystem players sustenance to make it to the next season in order to supercharge the productivity of the entire ecosystem and dynamically stabilize it.

Why do we assume two different species of predator that feed on the same prey and live in overlapping areas are truly in conflict? Sure conflict happens, but the point is when you zoom out I don’t personally see good evidence for the “evolutionary battle to the death” that popular nature descriptions (outside of indigenous explanations that feel far more honest) almost suffocatingly rely on to explain things.

I guess my point is, I wonder if an indigenous person who has lived their whole life learning about and interacting with ecosystems would be surprised by this? Probably to some degree, the science is beautiful but I think we don’t realize how culturally we are pressured into simplifying stories around violence and the quality of “uncivilized areas”.

Most human hunters over most of human history have been opportunistic and fairly generalist in nature compared to other types of predators, shouldn’t one of our base intuitions be that our presence as a predator doesn’t mean the other predators are under existential threat because of our presence…?.. and oh! There we have it That is the nut of capitalism that turns us cynical right? Humans HAVE to be in a zero sum existential conflict with Nature.

In order for society to not question the need for our societies to be so cruel to human beings simply so that the rich may remain rich it must be intuitively natural to people to hyper individualize EVERYTHING into a zero sum game of violence… which is why the way nature is narrativized in pop culture is so foundationally political.

What is the metaphor of the Jungle used for? How often does it betray the basic beauty of interactive relationships that jungles are… in favor of indulging in an invocation of the possibility of violence at any moment?

We must demand of ourselves why and how these perspectives became unintuitive to us not in the least part in order to fight the cynicism rightwing extremist ideologies rely upon to subsist. The Jungle is not a place of violence, it contains violence, that is the point. Capitalism does NOT contain violence it spreads it like wildfire.

I don’t think you are going to get a clear answer on that but I would say that part of being a good predator and surving as a species for any length of time probably means being proficient at navigating novel predator-predator relationships that arise locally all the time without creating unnecessary conflict.

I am sure there exists very highly trained russian air defense crews, I just think russia’s whole air defense strategy relies on them being technically real cryptids that one could encounter but probably won’t in a sea of barely trained crews on questionably working equipment.

I was kinda self conscious because I thought people were gonna say “Is this Solarpunk though?” but honestly to me the solution here was solarpunk as hell.

Imagine being the Vice President of the US and still being this much of a loser. It is hard to comprehend.

I would argue russia was already too hopelessly committed to the russian/soviet tanks of the last several decades for an effort to wholesale replace russian tanks starting in the 2010s to ever work or experience enough broad based support to work.

The T-14 was just as much a problem for russia having forward thinking aspects of its design in that it pointed out how bad russian tanks actually are that aren’t T-14s.

The measure, whose approval was greeted with tears of joy and the popping of champagne in the legislative chamber, is a concise legal expression of the core animating idea of modern Israel: that there exists no humane obligation in Jewish tradition with a durable universal ambit. The notion that Jews should have a special concern for the fate of all humanity, regardless of ethnicity or creed, lies dead beneath the rubble in Gaza.

It had to be killed, however, because there was a time when it lived.

Ok, so basically what you are saying is Android is “Open” in name only and that in practice it is functionally not open.

What happened was decades before drones were even a thing russia/the soviet union fucked over their own soldiers by doubling down on making tanks that aren’t actually tanks.

If a tank has a bunch of thick armor and yet a small explosive detonated on the turret can bypass all of that by setting off ammunition inside the tank so the tank becomes a pressure cooker… it isn’t really a main battle tank, it is a deathtrap.

For decades the soviet union and russia pretended this wasn’t the case and the impact has been massive on russian tank losses in the Ukraine War. Russia has stumbled so badly here I am pretty sure the russian society is convinced that they need to double down on their tank designs such as Turtle Tanks when what they really need is to throw them away and start from scratch.

It isn’t just about obsolete ineffective armor design, that can be rectified by producing new tanks, getting rid of obsolete and ineffective doctrine in a military on the otherhand? I am unconvinced russia will be able to do that for many years.

It will certainly be the indirect or direct cause of whatever kills me shrugs.

There is nothing free or open about Android, it only looks like it is when compared with iOS.

This is what AI is for, you can blame your incompetence and failure to catch this on it.

My ADHD destroying my life

The IDF is a genocide masquerading as a professional military.

At al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza, a colleague of Majdi Aslan told reporters the vehicle he was driving was clearly marked with the WHO’s logo on all sides, and that it had been at the front of a co-ordinated convoy transporting patients to the Rafah crossing when it came under fire from an Israeli tank.

This is what Israel uses tanks for.

By the way, modern tanks like the merkava have extremely advanced optics, there is NO EXCUSE for acquiring a WHO logo’d truck from the gunner seat of a tank and mistaking it if you aren’t using the tank in a wildly dangerous way around civilians or aren’t openly committing murder.

Stunningly evil…

I agree but I think people are also missing that attack helicopters are already flying flak cannons.

That is a fair criticism! I agree.