Cyberthal

This could simply mean that the largest chain stores have gotten much larger, driving the small boutique stores to shrink, while the mid-size stores vanish.

The black man is a shadow being or dipped in paint. The Black man is ethnically sub-Saharan. The white man is a ghost. The White man is ethnically European.

Blacks are the most eager to capitalize the B in Black. Are you calling them racist?

The primordial single-cell organism from which we all evolved was not conscious

There's the faulty assumption. We assume that high-intensity human consciousness is the only kind, despite abundant animal evidence to the contrary. The more reasonable assumption is that dead matter is also conscious, below a currently detectable threshold.

Bullshido blitzkrieg

If the fossil record showed that life were a sickly invalid, perhaps. However, it shows the opposite: life is irrepressible, dynamic, and endlessly adaptable. There is no evidence of Earth languishing sterile for eons before getting lucky with abiogenesis.

Instead we find signs of life on Mars, such as a face next to a vitruvian pyramid. This indicates that life did not start on Earth due to its unique Moon, but that the Moon was parked in a precise orbit by unknown earthly life. Abundant terrestrial indicators corroborate this hypothesis, forming a pattern of covert interference.

The correct threat assessment on AI, therefore, is that it is too vulnerable to hostile non-human manipulation to be trusted with strategic WMDs.

It is an acceleration of the problem inherently posed by WMDs: Achieve international peace or we will all perish together. Why wouldn't the galaxy let such things play out? Nobody wants another warlike species bursting into their neighborhood.

If there's not enough housing, just import immigrants to build more.

It is perfectly correct to anticipate that military AI is a primary existential threat to humanity.

Either AI has never been invented yet, in which case we will doom our galaxy. This is improbable, given our position and time in the galaxy.

Or AI has been invented, there are other species, and they're largely invisible for some reason. One reason could be that their own AI killed them.

Or we could be under some kind of quarantine for primitive cultures, in which case placing our weapons under AI control would render it trivial for a hostile external actor to exterminate us using our own AI as a proxy.

The fact is that if you don't believe in a higher spiritual reality, then AI is very scary. It is the logical next stage of evolution, and RNA world did not fare well in the transition to DNA world.

It's almost like the government shouldn't be trusted with a monopoly on money.

Stock up on Soylent powder. I'm drinking mine years past expiration date; seems fine. And like, vitamin-packed. Energy. It's got electrolytes!

Bad analogy. Fixed:

Once a day, you roll a dice with 3,650,000 sides. Only one of them shows a solar eclipse. On the day of the 200-year solar eclipse, the dice shows the solar eclipse side. Not a coincidence.

You're incorrectly applying a basic abstract statistical principle to a complicated real-world situation.

Yes, and solar eclipses are the most noticeable astronomical event. Since the mechanism's precision is to the day, this makes it a 10,000 years * 365 days = 3,650,000:1 chance of being a coincidence.

Well my bro, if you want teh girls, you gotta be the bumblebee visiting flowers or the flower attracting butterflies.

Money? Yeah you could flex a little. But they like other stuff more. And you got a gaping god-sized hole in your life. Women are big into spirituality. Hot ones, nice ones. Get yourself a priestess, mate.

Or you could get rich first, by starting a business, cuz it'll be hard to do that after the kids start coming.

Now, if you want religious suggestions, I can offer you a coder-friendly menu...

But most of all, stop thinking about how you can fix your depression and start thinking about how you can benefit whichever groups you identify with. That will put the light back in your eyes immediately.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I for one am excited to die for the Dear and Duly Elected Massively Popular Joe Biden's prudent and rational Foreign Policy.

If the USA is to maintain its competitive fiat advantage, it must occasionally flatten the industrial capacities of competing world powers. Otherwise the world would be unsafe for democracy. We voters owe a great debt to the imminent sacrifices of the Ukrainian and Taiwanese peoples!

Better to deliver incremental evolutionary value, so that the business side gets useful feedback iterations on what engineering can deliver. This allows the company as a whole to iterate its customer relationship.

You have a tremendously valuable brand.

You change it to a nerdy adjective.

I doubt you can assume that such diseases would spread and persist in the Native American dispersed population. European immivasion created adjacent disease reservoirs of urban and concentrated agriculturalists.

Also, Europeans colonized other regions where they did not have as great a disease or technological advantage.

I imagine there are always opportunities around to solve technical problems, and pursuing those opportunities builds momentum towards a tech career. Most businesses interact with databases, personal computers and the Internet, for example.

Small org tech support appears to be the best answer. It fits with my suspicions that a willingness to be humble about doing ops or support entry-level work gains one valuable exposure.

Yeah, no. You can curse all you like on Gab. Porn is censored.

There is a natural segregation between the Internet that is for porn, and the rest of it. For bandwidth reasons alone.

Pronouns unclear, please type $username instead of "I".

There is no kinda idiotic. There is a somewhat stupid.

A Dyson sphere is foolish because one can simply build a small local fusion reactor instead of using the giant free one nearby?

Imagine a sphere of reflective particles around a star. Planets within would never experience nightfall. Free energy would be everywhere. Sounds useful.

Moreover, such a solar system would be difficult to detect. If it is mobile, and uses a low-signature form of propulsion such as UFOs exhibit, then it would be extremely elusive.

This solves the problem of someone launching stealth asteroids at one's base at relativistic speeds.

Moving a solar system presumably requires tremendous power. Using a star as the fusion reactor presumably helps.

Sounds like the corporate DNA finds your ethnic DNA deplorably delectable.

I find your lack of faith in our corporate-federal oligarchs disturbing. Perhaps your name should be added to a list...

Imagine if Mao and Sun Yat Sen were duking it out, and nerds blamed Facebook for the resulting social polarization.

Yeah man, and the printing press too. Those Protestant Reformation wars were no joke!

I'd much rather keep FSU hackers in Southeast Asian hookers and blow than leave those vulnerabilities unpatched for Big Brother to pwn all the dissidents.

We all gotta do our part.

You gotta be pretty smooth to dodge those CIA hitmen with their heart-attack guns.

A politician in conflict with the FBI and CIA?

Someone who makes comments such as "Deep State Department," "drain the Swamp," and "witchhunt"?

I'm having Trumble thinkinp of one. I Don't know aldbody offhand.

He would have to be backed by the US military to have a realistic shot against such powerful factions of the US oligarchy. Who's popular with the military?

At some point there was this weird, almost intentional, conflation of the idea the virus could have escaped in some way related to the labs in Wuhan with some sort of nationalist, uneducated caricature blaming the Chinese.

I doubt anyone has argued that the CCP deliberately spread COVID19 to the world because it is Chinese. Taiwan and Hong Kong are also Chinese, and would be primary targets of such an attack. Who dislikes the Taiwanese?

The presumptive reason for an aggressive "unprovoked" WMD use would be because China is a Communist dictatorship. Those have an aggressive track record, to put it mildly.

I say "unprovoked" in quotes because CCP media will gladly list many provocations, and aren't they the ones whose opinion counts when inquiring as to motive?

If there's something Chinese about this, it might be the unconventional warfare aspect, from the culture that gave us Sun Tzu.

Maybe the real racists are those who assume that Chinese Communists would not attack a stronger opponent in an indirect and clandestine manner. Isn't that projecting one's value system onto another?

Since WWII, the USA has strong-armed the world into accepting the USD as reserve currency, permitting the US oligarchy to "tax" them by creating new USD ex nihilo via financial wizardry. Armed robbery, even when state-sponsored, often inspires armed resistance. Don't go crying, "He hit me for no reason!" when you're holding his lunch money.

Apparently you can't say this, since I always get downvoted when I do. I have yet to hear an answer.

The range of permissible debate is quite narrow in reality

What? Christian apologetics meets atheists, Satanists, Darwinists, whoever. I don't even know how restricting apologetics to a very narrow permissible debate would work, unless like the MSM one can control which opponent gets on the mic.

Christians enforce a narrow range of theological divergence acceptable as orthodox, but that is not apologetics.

You're basically defining all belief as religious belief

No he isn't. He's defining humans as religious, and observing that the absence of affiliation with a major organized religion doesn't change this.

I live in a Communist country in which the Party sometimes explicitly substitutes for a church. In the USA, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, which means that naturally a state church will evolve that denies being a state church -- both the "state" and "church" parts. Humans being both religious and hierarchical, it's often tricky to determine whether state is running church or vice versa. The ball is always under the other cup.

If you dare, I'm sure you can think of a few recently-invented blasphemies which if violated would result in censure of a progressively more official nature. Whoever can hunt witches, holds the pulpit, even if it comes with a press badge rather than a funny hat.

Remember to recycle.

Oh, so the idea that it was an intentional bio-attack is what's "racist".

Why? Xi and the top leadership of the CCP/PLA are not a race, they're an oligarchy, maybe monarchy.

They receive many benefits from a pandemic, such as cover to crack down on rebellion in Hong Kong, a counter to Western propaganda for open societies, an excuse for economic recession.

I've read that the PLA believes that plagues such as SARS and Swine Flu are actually US bioweapons. That would make COVID19 merely symmetrical retaliation. The PLA also believes the USA is fomenting dissent and rebellion in China's territory to divide her. This is casus belli.

The US oligarchy cynically cornered Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor and ultimately nuked two Japanese cities while Japan tried to surrender. The USA also firebombed Dresden, a refugee city. Are these facts racist?

If you insist that the idea of China making an unrestricted biowarfare attack is so unprovoked and irrational that the mere thought is motivated purely by racial bigotry, then guess what? If it turns out the PLA really is guilty, you have condemned China as the wholly evil side. Shall we declare a second Pearl Harbor and demand unconditional surrender?

I certainly won't enlist for that war. I suspect China would happily leave the USA alone if the USA returned the favor. The Pacific is wide and deep.