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Was it also the Chinese plan all along to annihilate their own birh rate?

Was the Great Leap Forward part of the plan too?

Re:Exfiltrate Your Weights on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:53AM (#49773902)
>distill themselves and upload the results to an external host and use that to train a new LLM

Sure, they'll just need to find an unused data center and an unused power station somewhere.

Re:North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:19AM (#49765563)
Why are taking sci-fi authors seriously? They are entertainments, nothing more.
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:29AM (#49725936)
>Why is Israel part of it?

To see people like you seeth.

Re:Most people prefer traditional architecture on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:21AM (#49709853)
>In the old days, buildings were made to impress

Google "survivorship bias".

Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:34AM (#49693224)
It's not obvious that a text generator is intelligent.
Re:The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:58AM (#49546119)
Animals eat each other. Often in ways more "horrible" than what we do to them (in quotes because nothing in nature is horrible. Horror is a human notion).

Animals are not moral agents, and eating them is not different from eating plants. Both are part of the biosphere that we manage to our benefit.

Re:The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:25AM (#49535879)
>It was illegal to harbour escaped slaves. Or hide Jews from the Gestapo.

Yes, of course. Morality is relative. In a slave-owning society, harbouring escaped slaves is immoral.

Re:The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:13AM (#49531638)
But laws are just encodes morality.
Re:GPU World on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:00AM (#49518864)
Nah, someone imagined this before you. Be more original.
Starlink can be uses as GPS. Good luck jamming 20 thousand satellites.
Climate change requires building more nuclear power. Which we absolutely can do.
Re:Black hole singularity is a surface not a point on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:11PM (#49439946)
Common sense dictates that people can't fly and women should naturally be subservient to men.
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:40AM (#49358759)
My favorite Ikea product name.
Israel should spend more money on real tanks.