(08-08-2025, 06:48 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I wanted to add that this announcement from China may help explain Trump's goals for AI lately. Apparently, this is the new "arms race" in a large-scale cold war, but this isn't about weapons systems so much as a system of worldwide control that also functions as a weapons system. How will we regain control if it gets out of hand?
Especially with AI 'hallucinating' responses to situations and questions. This idea is dumb as dirt.

(08-08-2025, 10:44 PM)Ninurta Wrote: That is a fool's errand. The fact is, the fighting efectiveness of any fighting force is the human element - it's people, it's "fighting men". All else is just window dressing. You CAN NOT "technologize" fighting spirit into your fighting men. They are either born with it, or they aren't, and the Chinese in general aren't. They have had any actual fighting spirit bred out and beat out of them over the past few millennia, until it exists no more in the Chinese "fighting" man.
Yon cannot beat down and micromanage a population, and then expect to extract "fighting men", men who think outside the box and act in ways their opponents can't foresee, out of that beaten down population.
Quote:We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. ( C. S. Lewis )
Indeed.

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