Theron

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Traveling and hiking keep me sane

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@MrBeast 3 million

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@TLAMB91 Got in on Friday!! Excited for the group!!

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@TLAMB91 Well.....I think it is time for me to join!

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@LayoffAI @theallinpod @DavidSacks Please explain this to all of us who are going to loose our jobs. Still waiting to see what these "new" jobs are going to be like.

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@PalmerLuckey Please go public so I can just put my entire IRA in Anduril!

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@yoyonofukuoka Yeah....I am currently in Japan and see that. The question why do japanese people point or stare at Americans vs other tourists? I have walked down the street and had locals point at me. I am fit but also follow all the cultural rules.

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@Ayase_Chii Thats ok...we Americans are fun too

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@pika_nekopanda I was on a train yesterday in Ueno. The only people being loud were Europeans. As an American I think they give us a bad look. I feel like japanese people so far assume us Americans are always loud.

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@MUKIDEZA2 I am terrible with them. But I am visiting japan now and I try my best even if I look like an idiot.

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@AiPinfu2003 I was just at a dominos in asakusa. The menu was wild!! I didn't know all these things could be put on a pizza. Loving japan!

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@rambling_28 Looks amazing!!

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@Fubgun What's an astrolobe LOL! The only one I got was when I got my first voidstone for memories. Have not dropped any since.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms.

Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control.

Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer.

Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like:

-What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more?
-What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President?
-At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality?

The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive?

At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe.

And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

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@NeverSinkDev I think all these changes will be great for more powerful builds in SSF.

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USA vs Canada on Sunday