Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes Russia now has the upper hand in the Ukraine War.
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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Military & War
- Topic: Ukraine War Watch Thread
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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Military & War
- Topic: Ukraine War Watch Thread
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Re: Ukraine War Watch Thread
The fall of Avidiivka may have been more damaging than thought. Up to 1,000 Ukrainian defenders are still missing, and the number captured by Russian troops could be in the hundreds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/p ... ussia.html
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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: AI & Robotics
- Topic: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) News and Discussions
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- Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
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- Views: 375993
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Think of all the fun you could have if you had an implant that could stimulate every part of your brain, and you laid down and set it to "Random." The brain implants might also make drugs and alcohol obsolete since they'd let you induce any kind of mental state at will, including various ...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Home & Leisure
- Topic: Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality News & Discussions
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I'm sure these deficiencies will be fixed.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:07 pm
- Forum: AI & Robotics
- Topic: AI & Robotics News and Discussions
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This excellent essay on Astral Codex Ten explains why the success of GPT-5 is so important to the pace of AI development. Let me explain: There have been four GPT AI's so far: GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. On average, each took 18 months to invent after the last. Each one cost roughly 30x as much money to cre...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
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- Views: 375993
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In a future where everyone's subsisting off of UBI and there is mass surveillance, some key aspects of life would be improve and become more efficient. Welfare fraud would go way down since an AGI would manage your UBI transfers and directly pay for your food, rent, utility bills, and other essentia...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
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An advanced android could be like Jesus. 1) It could have tiny needles in its fingertips that it would use to painlessly inject people with medical nanobots that would heal their health problems, and mind-altering chemicals to make them appear to fall into trances in front of everyone. 2) The miracl...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Society & Demographics
- Topic: Society & Demographics News and Discussions
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- Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Physics
- Topic: Chemistry news and discussions
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The automation of chemistry lab work is continuing. This will let human chemists focus on harder problems and accelerate the pace of innovation.
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