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  • The Chinese Han culture absolutely set out to colonise, conquer and subjugated other areas. Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria were all conquered during the Qing dynasty and Zhang He projected power and subjugated city states and cultures during his many naval expeditions out.

    Colonisation was common all across all cultures. Look at how the Aztec acted towards their many neighbours.

    The reason European colonisation was so “successful” was just a “lucky” fluke of circumstances and technological evolution. Had the same conditions occurred in China first, Europeans would all have been subjugated by them. Not because the many Chinese cultures are worse or better than ours but simply because it’s been an incredibly commonplace activity across all cultures. The European colonisation was just the most “successful”.


  • Some context, which I’m sure will be downvoted because we don’t like chat control.

    The Danes currently hold the rotating presidency for the council. As such they are required to be the architects of the council position, good initiatives and bad.

    The EU holds countries that are against government access to chat services and countries that believe access should be routine and warrant-free.

    The Danish “architect of chat control” is thus required, by EU law, to define a compromise position and see if that can be voted through in the council.

    The compromise position is a combination of “scanning at source” using both known fingerprints and AI, with a warrant based access process for police sources.

    As a compromise position that’s possible passable in parliament and council.

    I personally think the whole thing the entire thing is unworkable in practice. But the Danes are getting involved because they have to.



  • Well let’s start with the jokes. They are just subjectively funnier, with many tie-backs and connections (Seinfeld/CYE long running set ups).

    TITC is laughing at the normies and celebrating the geeks. TITC isn’t afraid to be really funny, which means recognising the human condition and laughing with it. The characters aren’t “good people who fail”, they are “humans who fail”, which mean we recognise them and empathise with them. Who hasn’t wanted to give a really impressive speech and said some bullshit.

    BBT is bland. The characters are bland, with only external failures. The jokes dare not really poke fun at anyone and the jokes are sentence-long. Finally the actors and the script just aren’t as out there, so it all just feels dull as dishwater.






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    24 days ago

    I’m not really sure if your comment is a reaction against my statement, in support of my statement ir adding further nuance to my statement.

    I certainly believe AI is capable of producing value. I certainly believe AI will take people’s jobs. Exactly because it is able to produce value.

    I’ve seen both things first thing, many times, already.

    My statement was meant to highlight that it is exactly because it is producing value and taking people’s jobs that we ought to have a debate about whether it should and who it will benefit (and who will lose out) from that great replacement.

    Right now, all I see is a further concentration of wealth built on the backs of thousands of years of human creativity. It’s the ultimate rent seeking.




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    25 days ago

    I’m sorry to say that a AI could recreate that look in a flash. And within 5 years you could have a completely consistent, feature length film done in that look.

    Let’s not minimize the threat. If we want to avoid being replaced by computers, it’s now the fight has to be had.