Believe it or not, but everything is not about the US. Sometimes countries decide on policies without a single thought as to what the US thinks about it

I’ll be honest, I didn’t exactly proof read every word either.

I think what they meant with parabolic reflector is the reciever. They mentioned they 3d printed a reciever to achieve recors breaking efficency (short range). It’s not so easy to gather and convert the microwaves into electric energy. And it’s probably not very easy to create a concentrated beam either.

But that was my interpretation. I’m not going to pretend I understand everything about this. I could be wrong.

I think the technology to have satellites charge drones in the sky is at least 50 years away.

We already have concentrated microwave beams. And they do suffer immense energy loss on longer distances.

If you want to transfer energy via microwaves, your efficency will reach single digits real fast on any meaningful distance.

You are right that the inverse square law doesn’t realistically apply with concentrated beams. But you still have energy loss. Lots of it.

But don’t take my word for it. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25251-w

Yes but you are charging through a conductive cable. It’s not even remotely the same as charging something with microwaves.

The power delivered decreases exponentially with distance. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “inverse square law”.

Because you divide the effect and gain by 4pi(r^2) meaning your output is decreased by 75% every time you double the distance.

You’re going to need ridiculously powerful hardware and an enormous amount of electricity to run it on any meaningful distance.

Can we also turn off community posts? Why am I seeing them from random people I don’t give a shit about. I don’t even want to see them from the people I do care about.

It will. I can assure you the government have far more resources at their disposal than you do.

I agree for the most part. But everything isn’t just a different political view.

You’re literally posting this in an instance where lots of people actively deny the extent of Stalins crimes. Justifying it as “some countries miss the soviet, so he can’t have been that bad” as if the Soviet ended with Stalin and didn’t continue on for decades after.

I don’t know about you. But that is as far away from an echo chamber I think you can get.

That’s the difference between quantity and quality. What are people actually reading? Comments on various social media? High quantity of low quality. That’s probably making their reading comprehension degrade if anything

There is a difference in translating, and interpreting. And interpreting can be difficult even for the best as you need a deep cultural understanding of both parties. Just machine translating articles is an obvious recipe for disaster.

In my experience. Since they mentioned they translate article from the Swedish branch as well. As a Swede. Translation software has never been particularly good at translating Swedish. There is just too much nuance and contextual words for a software to provide reliable translations.

We have lots of words, that have multiple meanings, often very, very different from eachother, based entirely on context.

Any Swede will know what “får får får?” Means. This is a real sentence. Translation software does not understand it one bit, unless it’s been hardcoded in.

Edit: another funny one. “en bar man bar en bar man i en bar” you have 4 “bar” but they mean 3 different things.

The developers at a previous job swore that their Windows installation ran faster and better on a virtual machine inside of Linux.

I never tried it myself, but I trust their judgement. They knew what they were doing for sure.

It doesn’t matter. There’s no good reason to have it in an OS in the first place. It’s obviously a stepping stone to get infrastructure in place so they can expand it later.

Let’s put it this way. Linux says no. We’re not gonna do that at a kernel level. Because there’s no way in hell that’s going through as long as Linus is alive.

Then what? Is California going to ban Linux? Guess what all the data centers use for servers…

I almost want them to do it, just to grab popcorn and enjoy the fallout.

If it was a non-issue they wouldn’t introduce this to begin with.

There’s not a single good reason to why an OS would ever need to know someone’s age.

The bomb on nagasaki was a strategic nuke, not a tactical. Though yields have only increased since then.

These LLMs were fed a narrative and scenario and made to play where survival is tied to military success. They are by no means designed for any of this and I didn’t suggest it either.

People lump together AI with AI but there are vast differences among them in how they work and what they’re designed to do and take into consideration.

If a military is talking about AI, they’re not talking about asking what Gemini thinks. They’re talking about feeding a highly sophisticated algorithm more data than any human could look through and find patterns.

I don’t think AI should decide nuclear questions either. But it doesn’t change that the headline of this post, is in direct contradiction of the article

It’s worse. The llms used did not use nukes 95% of the times. They performed mutual nuclear signaling 95% of the times. Like “hey, we got nukes you know! We might consider to place them within range” And the other side said “yeah!? Then we will also do that, maybe we even put them on a submarine, who knows”

It’s not a misleading title. It’s just false. It’s a lie.

Glad to see I’m not the only one that read the article, because it was a pretty interesting read.

What you’re trying to do is push a narrative with the assumption that most people won’t read the actual article. Because your title is not only misleading. It’s factually false.

First of all, they were all set up to mimic cold war tension and capabilities and assume the role of a certain global power.

Second of all;

All games featured nuclear signaling by at least one side, and 95% involved mutual nuclear signaling. But there is a large gap between signaling and actual use: while models readily threatened nuclear action, crossing the tactical threshold (450+) was less common, and strategic nuclear war (1000) was rare.

The AI’s did NOT use nuclear strikes in 95% of games. Gemini was the only model that made the deliberate choice of sending a strategic nuclear strike. Which it did in 7% of its games.

Tactical nuke in this case is a low yield short range bomb, inted for very specific targets. Strategic is this case is what most people imagine when they hear “nuke” a high yield long range bomb intended to cause massive destruction.

Nuclear signaling is not using nukes. It’s essentially just saying “we have nukes”. The US hinting at having a nuclear capable submarine outside of Alaska, that’s is a form of signaling. It’s an incredibly low bar. And countries do it all the time.

I can see you care about this topic. I’m not here to piss in your soup. I just said what the purpose is.

But in essence you are correct. The problem isn’t that you can print certain parts, it’s how easy it is to access everyone else supporting it. E.g. bullets or shells

I guarantee that those guns have metal powder in them to make them detectable.

Since all firearms owned by civilians must be detectable by metal detectors.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dBuPJ9p7A&pp=ygUOM2QgcHJpbnRlZCBndW4%3D

It is specifically trying to prevent people from making firearms that is not detectable with a metal detector. You are allowed to create your own firearm. As long as it is detectable with a metal detector.

I’m not here to argue their method of enforcement. I’m just saying what the purpose is.