Navy Vet (AM2, F/A-18F) • Software Engineer at Fermilab • CERN collaborator • Founder @Gear_OS
Opinions are my own. Building reliable systems at scale.
Genghis Khan was a fierce and formidable strategist, but his empire was temporary and collapsed as quickly as it formed. He is occasionally described in lectures on history.
Christianity is still prominent and globally recognized today. Jesus Christ is a household name spoken by millions every single day.
Ruthless brutality and evil can briefly overcome good, but it cannot outlast it.
@mistressdivy It’s always been a long term investment.
If you’re hoping for fast returns, you’ll be disappointed. If you’re willing to hold for a decade or two you’ll be rich.
@alphafox The only thing stopping it is the Geneva Conventions.
Lasers have long been powerful and single enough to make in a way that it would permanently blind the enemy in a millisecond.
And they are not allowed in war for that reason.
Not that it would stop anyone who doesn’t care.
@elonmusk AI is the catalyst that will make that unit of measurement mainstream. We already see the main bottleneck with scaling our existing AI systems as energy demand, rather than financial costs.