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Comment Re:Argument is the same as Drexler's Nanotech (Score 1) 60

Someone understands the situation. Yes, it's a typical silicon valley tech scare thing. People profit off these tech scare schemes. Sometimes a bit worry is good, as they say, but in this case, it looks like it is way overblown, as was the case with nanotech with one difference, AI is becoming immensely successful, and pervasive, but it doesn't seem to be as harmful as scaremongers claim it is.

As an AI researcher, I'll say we should research safety aspects, but this borders on paranoia now.

Comment Re:Debian + Xfce (Score 2) 76

Microsoft already responded to it. They had the original Pardus project shelved because it was too dangerous by making a deal with the government to give them free windows+offices licenses and suspend this project somehow. I calculated our project cost like dozens of millions of dollars to Microsoft. They were terrified!

The project originally was based on native system tools and not debian. The switch to debian is a poor decision, they didn't have competent staff so they decided to do it on the cheap it seems and scraped a distro that is in fact superior to debian. So pardus already was killed by Microsoft once.

Comment Check out pisi linux (Score 1) 76

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pisilinux.org%2F

I'm the author of pisi, its original package manager. This is an offshoot of that original distro from sratch using an entirely new package format. This is the most popular pisi based distro.

Hopefully, they'll use the much improved major revision of pisi next. You can follow the pisi releases here:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fexamachine%2Fpisi

PISI was top notch when it was released. Today, only ports system compares to it IMHO. The packages were based on emerge scripts anyway, so the original system is actually related to gentoo more than it does to debian although it had features of both!

Cheers,

Comment So they are imitating Western imperialism? (Score 1, Troll) 57

You know nazis like Peter Thiel, Koch brothers, Trump, Ron Paul, George Bush etc. flooding media with pro imperialist programming? Their minions like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg flooding social media with millions of boths pushing far right-wing fascist, capitalist, imperialist brainwashing disinformation on the peoples of the world? Just like them? They learnt from the best!

Comment Re:Electrical (Score 1) 122

Actually, one thing that might happen with an ETI drone, I forgot to mention, would be that it would have a magnetic shield. Strong MF and moving quickly can harm the brain:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discovermagazine.com%2Fenvironment%2Fwhat-magnetic-fields-do-to-your-brain-and-body

Comment Re:Electrical (Score 1) 122

I shot one, it was visible for hours. Ball lightning lasts only for a few odd seconds. I didn't feel sick because I wasn't too close. However, what I saw had spectacular exhaust and could well be a fusion drive. So, it's not altogether unlikely. It could be an ETI drone with no biological components so it could be generating massive EM fields around the craft. We have such preliminary designs as you know, superconducting EM magnets are usually seen vital to the successful completion of a fusion drive.

The other possibility is that it creates a warp bubble which might induce a flux of exotic particles outside the craft.

Both are of course amazing

Comment The soil depletes by itself. It's impossible. (Score 1) 115

Soil is not an infinite resource. First you need to generate soil. Without generating soil you can't reforest substantially. This has been known for 5-10 years. People are stupid.

Read that again. People are stupid. Reforestation can't fix global warming because of fundamental facts about soil biology.

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