By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.

He was an outspoken civil rights advocate, even back in the 1940s. Seems like a pretty rad dude to me.

I mean, vaporware would require it to fail to manifest. There is a game. You can play it right now. Has it delivered on everything they promised? Absolutely not. But that was never the definition of vaporware. And, paradoxically, what’s there, despite being far reduced from the theoretical scope, is also one the most technically impressive games ever made. Entire planets in a complete solar system that you can traverse without a single loading screen. Not even a disguised one. It’s also, y’know, a buggy janky mess that still lacks many core gameplay features.

Like, there’s so much that you could legitimately criticise about Star Citizen that resorting to the both meaningless and innacurate claim of vaporware just shows an extreme lack of imagination. If you want to be critical go for it, but surely you can come up with something more coherent than that?

The airship is what sold me. I’ve wanted ships in Minecraft for as long as I’ve been playing Minecraft, both because it’s cool, and because I think survival games would really benefit from the idea of a mobile base. Being able to take your home with you is such a huge deal and really bridges the gap between the “cosy” and “adventure” aspects of these games.

Even putting aside the science, Einstein just seems like he was a really good dude. I feel like he’d be a chill person to hang with.

“Match the force” is extremely broad. If someone tries to beat the shit out of you with their bare hands, and you defend yourself with a baseball bat, that’s almost certainly going to be kosher. It doesn’t have to be exact.

Failing to use proportional force has to be really egregious to meet the standard. Something like shooting someone who was twenty paces away from you and armed only with a tire iron (even then you might still have a case). That’s a situation where any reasonable person could have defused the situation by just telling the other guy to fuck off, or get down on their knees with their hands behind their head. And even then, you’d probably still be OK to shoot if, say, they lunged at you (check with a lawyer before putting this advice into practice, obviously).

Basically, if you can make the case that what you did was necessary for your own safety, you’re in the clear.

The other stuff that gets people jacked up is continuing to “fight back” after the threat is over. You hit a guy with a baseball bat, he goes down… Yeah, that’s probably kosher. If you were afraid for your life, well, you did what you had to. But if you then proceed to beat the guy until his skull shatters… Well, what part of that was necessary?

No one has to think through the tests described in the law, because those tests simply exist to define what everyone can already intuitively understand as being reasonable behaviours. You defended yourself? OK. You hunted the guy down and tortured him? Not OK. This isn’t complicated, and it’s not difficult. You just have to exercise a modicum of self-restraint. And the cops look very, very favourably on people who were defending themselves, unless there was clear evidence that they either majorly crossed a line, or they were actively looking for trouble (ie, walking around armed for a fight).

That’s fine. The law allows for that. If someone tries to beat the shit out of you and you defend yourself, you’re in the clear.

Examples where people get charged are things like the guy who saw someone going through his truck and shot him, or the guy who chased after a fleeing burglar, dragged him back into the house and beat him unconscious. Those are both real examples, and in both cases they clearly went beyond self defense.

We don’t know the facts in this particular case, but it’s very likely going to turn out to be some similar set of circumstances.

There’s nothing moral about allowing your country to fall into fascism because you couldn’t swallow your pride.

No, the people you’re talking about aren’t the people I’m talking about, and the fact that you can’t figure out the difference perfectly illustrates my point.

There are people who hate us, and there are people are genuinely just misguided. If you can’t figure out the difference you’re going to throw away potential allies at a time when you could not possibly need them more.

It’s not my job nor my responsibility

Then why do you care?

The problem is that a lot of people really are ignorant and gullible enough to not realize that the other nine people are Nazis.

This doesn’t make the effect of their actions any less bad. Not knowing that you’re helping fascists doesn’t make what you’re doing any less fascist. But it does matter when it comes to assessing who those people are, and how reachable they are.

Reaching out to fascists is pointless. They know what they’re doing and they’re going to keep on doing it. But a lot of people make the mistake of thinking this means it’s also pointless to reach out to anyone who has ever been duped by fascists. And that’s an attitude that very quickly leaves you on a shrinking island with fewer and fewer friends.

This is the trolley problem all over again. Do you want to do the most good, or do you want to avoid anything that makes you feel icky?

Progressives in America need every ally they can get. Whether that’s to win the next election, or to win the civil war, numbers still matter. You’re not going to get those allies without reaching out to some groups of people that you don’t personally like or respect, and one of those groups is the gullible idiots in the middle who have been swayed by false promises.

Telling yourself that every person who’s ever voted for Trump is a lost cause just leaves you with fewer people you can call on. It’s not a winning strategy. This isn’t about being nice, it’s not about forgiveness and kindness; it’s about doing what it takes to get your country back, before its too late. Even if that makes you feel icky, or forces you to swallow your pride and make nice with people you don’t respect or like.

Yes. They were ignorant, and stupid, and poorly informed.

Where does that get you? Does writing them off instead of reaching out to them make the world better?

If elections still matter, you need them to win the next election. If elections don’t matter, you need them to overthrow the tyrants. Either way, you need them. You need every single person you can win to your cause. Even the idiots.

You don’t get to work with only people who meet your standards for intelligence, capability, and moral purity. You’re not going to fix the world hanging out in your little “Smarts only” club with the ten other people you deign to associate with.

Maybe. But not everyone who voted for Trump is a fascist. There are enough voters on the edge who really did vote for lowered cost of living, after four years of everything getting more and more expensive under Biden. Those voters can be won over, and this is really going to slap them in the face.

We’re talking about repurposing the GPUs, not the AI.

Let’s be absolutely clear about something; it’s not Trump who burned America’s goodwill. It’s Americans.

The rest of the world understands that he is just one senile narcissistic old man. That’s not what bothers us.

What bothers us is that you voted for him.

Twice.

That’s why America can’t be trusted anymore. Not because of Trump, but because all it takes for us to end up with Trump is for a bunch of blue state Liberals to decide that they’re just not feeling it this year.

OK, if we’re talking about infrastructure rather than specific equipment, then yes, I would broadly agree that the datacentre infrastructure itself can be repurposed.

Unfortunately, by that point the whole data centre will already have been sold off for parts because its never going to recoup its initial investment in the first place, and throwing even more money into swapping out those GPUs for CPUs is going to be a complete no go.

If anyone actually spent money on science anymore, I bet this would be great for, like, protein folding, that sort of thing.

Terrible for running websites though.

GPUs are only good for workloads that multi-thread really, really well. That’s why we don’t just use them as CPUs.

The idea that today’s GPU will be tomorrow’s CPU makes no sense. We’ve had GPUs for ages. If they were capable of being used in place of CPUs we’d already be doing it. Why aren’t yesterday’s GPUs today’s CPUs?

This game looks awesome. People who’ve gotten their hands on it are saying great things.

But in absolutely no way should you pre-order it.

Unless they can come up with a truly spectacular defence, they will be. There’s very little tolerance for this sort of thing among the forces leadership. I know it’s hard to believe that, but I know a lot of people in the CAF and this kind of shit really is the exception, not the norm. For the most part, the CAF really fucking Hates Nazis.