A decentralised conglomerate of independent city states, which have internally variable governmental systems

I had a 2 year old account, then lemm.ee shut down and I’m a baby again :(

The point of the paperclip maximiser is that it doesn’t care about you at all, ‘being nice’ to it makes no difference. It just wants to make paperclips, and will destroy you to do so.

As if some private guns would be any sort of fair fight against the full force of the US military anyway

So would it have a similar effect to a radiation bomb, but without the radioactive fallout?

How explosive is the explosion of 1kg black hole?

I don’t know who is in the right. I would say that the important thing is that, since both of them condemn Israel’s actions, and the argument about whether it’s a ‘genocide’ is purely semantic, it isn’t a useful or productive argument - serving only to divide people and distract from the real issue.

The sad reality is that although there were some dissenters, the majority of the people in the country supported the Nazis because they actually believed it, they were taken in by the propaganda, which is insidious and ubiquitous. Humans find it easy to hate an out group, forming an in group. Dehumanising others who are different from us is a natural part of human psychology, and it’s an achievement that in the modern world we have achieved a widespread morality which is so accepting - although obviously we still have far to go.

I also don’t steal. I download my books from online copies, which is copying, not stealing.

I would have silently gone in my head ABCDEFGHIJKL and then said “MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”, but I suppose I could have said “MABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”, or should I say “MABCDEFGHIJKLOPQRSTUVWXYZ”?

Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one? A better order, off the top of my head, is OUEIAPKGHXBDPTMNLWYVZSFRCQJ

What do you mean, they give open weights models back that anyone can use. Only the proprietary corporate AI is exploitative.

If that’s so, the angles are probably not right angles.

Straight lines. Also two sets of parallel lines. This is one definition of a square, but not the common one.

What is this racist bullshit?

Not engaging with any other part of your comment, but is Islam a race, now? I thought it was a religion.

I use Mythic Beasts