31 May
2025
31 May
'25
10 p.m.
Adam Thornton wrote in
<CAP2nic0sDT4K73n4Nc_29yt8h-fVgi+0u4NjErvobth6FUzUaw(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|One could make a really good case right about now that:
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|a) Vladimir Putin is doing his best to put the band back together, and
Sorry, sorry to come back on a computer list. I stop thereafter.
But, one can only press thumbs that it all gets through without
further escalation; the desired block formation has resulted, at
quite a price, but the river is still floating. If _there_
a really radical establishment would arise, though, and i mean
really really (really!), if it were only the military, you know,
there would be plenty of (pro) Russian(s) to protect in
Transnistria; they had to sit in the cold without heating this
winter, until a solution was found after months (and i *guess* and
*bet* it is a very expensive and other-side-favouring solution);
and their voted head is imprisoned, for, you know, in any case,
much much less than a jumbo. You know; PJ Harvey sings
On Battleship Hill's
Caved in trenches
A hateful feeling
Still lingers
Even now eighty years later
So all that can be said is. Nothing changed, all the faults and
idiocies happen over and over again. This is not "we have
a liftoff", but we are plain as stupid as we always have been.
(Btw. In this house where i work we have a middle-age Ukrainian
Woman living here for many years, and a twin refugee couple.
Thirty meters aways there is a German/Ukrainian (married) couple
with lots of young children. More Ukrainians, Russians and
Polish, all around here. And i always said i admire the men, and
there are plenty, who deprive themselves from *that* government,
even if "their country is calling" them. I only wish it would
worked out that way for me, personally and environmentally, would
i have lived during WWII. And the opposite for WWI.)
|b) Republicans are acting as extremely willing Russian assets, so therefore
|c) Associating them with the red of Soviet Communism is pretty accurate.
The entire AI thing yet escaped me. I never looked and tested AI.
I remember, on TUHS, and i think it was Steve Johnson who pretty
much enthusiastically talked about "thousands of 8-bit processors"
which understand a computer game "only by looking at the pixels"
so good that after several hours they "beat the milk out of" it.
From memory. That was fascinating, and my mind was busy looping
over that on that evening, fwiw.
I now have read that the Chinese approach they talk about uses
that "8-bit" approach with the elder hardware that they are
allowed to use, whereas the western guys use that super hardware,
but nonetheless decline.
Maybe that was what Steve Johnson was talking about.
There are surely useful tasks for AI, when it is driven with green
energy, and after is has been fully understood.
Before that it is just another race that is raced at whatever cost
there may be. The price is payed by the environment, and the
grand children, but no longer further down the line. That is
possibly the good thing about it. Exactly as said by the Club of
Rome in 1972, and at least ever since also by the Catholic Church.
As can be seen by reading the introductional words of Pope
Franziskus "Laudati Si".
De facto all this thread, and this entire email, is only about
"structural disfunctioning" .. "that is unsuitable to guarantee
respect for the environment".
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)