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So the unfortunate thing is that after dealing with Navy acquisitions, I don't don't know if they could build ships effectively at any level of funding.

But like, they need funding.

Straits around the globe

Ah, that's why p-orbitals look like that...

We rely on coup d'œil, like the good book preaches

A terrifying thought? The horror we see is not Orwell. It’s rather Huxley (or maybe both), and the solutions for one are not transferable.

We have problems, not “a problem.”

My argument is similar for AI - the promise of AI can't both be "we will replace workers" and "everyone can make an app" while also having the AI companies be filled with people working 9-9-6 schedules.

I mean, there was the same level of dislocation in the adoption of computers - typist, calculator, spreadsheet writer, etc. were all real jobs that now seem antiquated, but firms increased their demand for administration alongside this displacement.

Stuff like this gets mega-reach on here but “oil is back below $100” 8 hours later…not so much. This dynamic is why you should absolutely not be trading actively unless you have a high risk tolerance and capital to burn.

The point I’m making is exactly that. AI art and branding is very mediocre and there’s a competitive advantage to building creative right.

So like a futures contract that would just be “my gas for the next year will cost $3.25?”

Even the companies that research and develop AI are fighting for human capital. They would be the first place to replace their workforce because of lack of concern for liability and safety, but no.

The thing about the implications of an AI economy is that there’s a higher premium on human creativity. If the only barrier to entry for making an app is the idea, then the ideas have the value; if every brand is made with slop, human creativity stands out.

I was thinking "at least we won't have shortages like the 70's" and boy, wrong.

So admittedly I think some folks might need to remember that for a lot of academics the first real interaction we directly have had with "AI" writ broadly was either a) our laziest students trying to cheat or b) whole swathes of our profession being gutted by these kids who don't know anything.

It's real.

How could everyone have foreseen this?

It was wild.

I’ve posted this many times before, but NJ is the most de-industrialized state in the union by an order of magnitude

Which quarters and why? I mean, I hate the phrase.

Baudrillard would feature prominently in Makers of Postmodern Strategy.

I was joking. I’m sure it’s just boots now.

I thought that was slang as in “fierce boots…”

"low key" and "high key" mean the same thing.

Cooking = good
Cooked = bad thing

That and the regime killed some of the most willing to protest people already.

Pretty much.

You likely have similar spreads in worldview to the US - rural areas are going to have a different view on their government than urban ones.

(because it is technically correct)

And the thing about regime change theories of victory that I wish more people thought through is "would this work on you?"

So the regime in Iran is not broadly popular - I've seen different estimates but those are all fraught. And Iran just did multiple Tiananmen Squares worth of killing people over the last round of protests.

But expecting them to rise up and do so amidst a bombing campaign is wild.