• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      “Oh yeah? Show me the evidence, bro!”

      “I can’t, because the researchers all got fired.”

      “See, bro, I knew you were full of shit!”

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    Broligarchs determining U.S. domestic policy: There’s no question China has an advantage in AI development. That’s why we had to cut funding to every other area (including science), strip away privacy laws, destroy civil liberties, gut regulations for corporations, and put all of our eggs into one AI basket.

    Trump: Done.

    NSB: China has a growing advantage over the U.S. in science. Perhaps we should rethink dumping money into the AI hole in the ground you have been banking on turning into the next .com boom? Maybe we could consider moving it back into science.

    Trump: Yuh fiyad…

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      Tech bros are about hype, money, and eventually control.

      Science is (ostensibly and ideally) about facts, education, and improving the world for its inhabitants when applied properly.

      Those two paradigms don’t mix so well anymore.

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      Or the corporations running the government are intentionally hoping to cause the collapse of the United States and completely privatize every aspect of whatever they replace it with.

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      That’s exactly what I thought of. These people think hiding their heads in the sand is good enough, as long as they can pretend they aren’t getting fucked in the ass at the same time.

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    As petty as he is. This is bullshit. Its not news worthy or report worthy. You have an anti science government a lot of damage can be accomplished in 4 years with a self destructive administration. Obviously they gained the edge as soon as Trump came into power its basically captain obvious at this point.

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      I mean, anyone with common sense and a feel for how things are, knows we’re lagging behind. Still, some folks need to see the evidence to be convinced. Now we have no evidence. I don’t know where you got the impression we’re only falling behind because of Trump. We’re a liberal capitalist society. Us common people were always going to be left behind in a system that only cares about the elites and the rich willing to exploit their fellow humans. We revere demons like Jack Welch who are the reason we’ve lost our edge.

      Unlike most folks I think this is good. I wish we didn’t have to suffer to get the point across, but we’re too stubborn to make the right choices without negative stimuli. Now we see how bad it gets until the idiots among us wake from their stupor.

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    “They can’t surpass us if we don’t record the numbers!”

    That’s like the time they fired the Labor statistician for reporting bad jobs numbers…