I don’t get the fuss. American “terrorism” prevention is super easy:

Is someone white? -> Troubled upbringing, mental health issues, deserves a second chance

Is someone anything but white? -> Terrorist!!! lock him up for the rest of his life or torture him to death in Guantanamo Bay

Not just Russia.

Israel, US, China, North Korea, India and other countries… Nuclear Lobby, Fossil Fuel Lobby and countless other industry lobbyists… Private companies advertising their products…

If you create a technology and make it publicly available you need to consider the possible uses and misuses. Misusers wont be held back by a license limitation. That is a simple fact of life.

Afaik they had fake ceilings yeah. However noone that would bother to look, would be tricked by fake ceilings. That trick exists since horse carriages. The fake ceilings only give the driver some deniability.

Well, there is the whole payload aspect you need to figure out.

If you have that figured out, the rest is and has always been relatively trivial in comparison.

The trucks in the videos clearly never went through any check of the cargo. Could have had a simple trebuchet design in there and haul some explosives onto the airfield.

Yeah, i don’t think any military will care about what restrictions you put in your license anyway. What are you going to do about it? Sue them?

I know that people here generally like to shit on Brave, but it seems that the claim “Privacy by default” has held up in this context.

Using machine learning including neuronal networks, generative AI based off of neuronal networks and so on exist well longer than since the past few years.

“DeepDream” was released as a software ten years ago. Research into LLMs exists since at least the 90s.

“AI” also has been a hype term in many industries since a decade, just that it reached the general public with the ChatGPT hype.

“our crypto is backed in value by bitcoin”

If i understood it correctly, meta wants to slap its own crypto-currency on everything.

Well, the decentralization of Bitcoin only lasted so long. Now it is in the hand of a few large “mining” corporations who can afford the hardware and have access to cheap electricity.

LLMs among other things lack the whole neurotransmitter “live” regulation aspect and plasticity of the brain.

We are nowhere near a close representation of actual brains. LLMs to brains are like a horse carriage compared to modern cars. Yes they have four wheels and they move, and cars also need four wheels and move, but that is far from being close to each other.

Isn’t the whole point of Lord of the Flies that the adults ain’t better and any level of civilisation is just a thin layer on top? From the beginning that the boys told themselves they were the social elite and had civilized manners, which would make it easy for them to retain civilization to the end

Farmers need to plant crops that are less water intensive. Industries need to use processes that are less water intensive. Water usage needs to be limited to sustainable levels.

Seem pretty reasonable and acceptable, even endorseable consequences as opposed to subsidizing wastefulness with megalomaniac technology projects.

I am sorry, but now it is getting ridiculous. You need solar panels. You need distribution lines. You need the desalination plants. If you run a reverse osmosis plant you need to regularly renew the membranes. You need the pipes and the pumps to transport the water for hundreds of kilometres. All of these need finite resources.

Claiming resources are unlimited is techbro nonsense.

Cost is absolutely relevant. Resources are limited. As i have said the wasteful use by industry and agriculture needs to stop. I don’t understand why you are arguing against that and then claim that cost wouldn’t be relevant. Unless you want your taxes to be ramped up so some private business can waste subsidized water and make profits off it.

The solutions are reducing water usage by using more efficient processes or shutting down wasteful industries. Crops need to be switched to less water consuming crops. Meat consumption and animal farming need to be reduced. Natural structures that help retain water need to be reestablished. Fields need to be downsized with hedges in between to protect against winds eroding and drying out the soil.

These are the choices we need to make as society. Not throwing even more resources at a wasteful system that has no right to remain wasteful.

https://livetoplant.com/the-cost-of-desalinated-water-is-it-worth-the-investment/

Typically, prices can range from $0.50 to $3.00 per cubic meter. As a comparison, traditional freshwater sources may cost significantly less—often between $0.10 and $0.50 per cubic meter in many regions.

So you run up the water costs by factor 5. But it only starts there. While the lower end of the basin is close to the Gulf of California, the upper end is some 800 miles away from the sea. Also the upper basin is at an elevation of about 1,500 m.

So for every cubic meter you get up there you need at least 4 kWh of energy purely to cover the elevation. more realistically you are looking at double that amount as you also need to cover the distance.

Furthermore you need to build the appropriate pipes and pumping stations. Those need to be kept up and manned, further driving the costs up.

So you end up with maybe $5-10 per cubic meter of water.

That is 3.4 billion m³ of water. Imagine a cube of 1500m side length, all made of water.

There is no way that agriculture, industry and the like can be competitive with using desalinated sea water. The crazy water usage needs to stop. Nothing else will work.

And that part is entirely independent from whether the electricity is generated with solar, wind or fossil fuels.