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Claude, please destroy nature.

Claude, please remove all invasives

Claude, please acquire the seedlings and reforest these 100 acres with the right native plants. Follow up for 3 years to ensure atleast an 80% survival rate. Ensure 20% are commercially viable hardwoods to pay for your operational costs.

We're starting to see some of this trickle through, but an AI that's really really good at recompiling binaries and remapping system calls and graphics calls is imo possible.

An emulation and platform support dream. Run almost anything anywhere.

It'll probably be a dream


Other people are using them.

You are surrounded by people using them.

Therefore, you are subject to the mass surveillance they encode.

And by NOT using them, you mark yourself as dangerous.


The Chinese being a continental empire, andin particular bordering the Mongol hordes, have basically been a continuous cycle of growth and collapse for 1000s of years. It can be argued they are headed for yet another collapse.

Do you want garbage collection in your SSL?

Clearing of the secrets is a separate issue from memory allocation mechanism. It must be done all the way from the encryption layer to the program to avoid the leaks.

This is typically not done, only certain parts such as handling of the crypto keys. That's because it's pervasive and requires reworking everything with that in mind (TLS library, web framework, application).

On the other hand the centralization and global usage of GC in the process allows to modify it to always zero out the memory that it deallocated and to do GC at regular intervals so it can have advantage here (it's very easy to inadvertly leak the secrets to some string).


Where do you see the problems? Because of memory that was not cleaned up and leaks secrets?

There the new runtime/secret could help.


Better than no memory safety, sure. Also a kernel should be memory safe, so garbage collected.

Garbage collection is not required for memory safety.

Languages that have garbage collection are not all memory safe.


This is the frontline fascist unit in the newly fascist US government. Fear anything they get funding to do. They have one aim and none of it is for the betterment of the people.

They are taking a percentage point or two on the entire consumer payment system.

I think there's plenty of money to back all the activity.

Especially if there are central banks willing to back them


> They are taking a percentage point or two on the entire consumer payment system.

Visa/MC make about 0.1-0.13% of each transaction, not a 1-2%. The rest of the interchange (the vast majority) goes to the issuing bank.


Doesn't it depend on the country? Payments with Visa and MasterCard work very differently in various countires. In Poland you can pay 0.01€ with credit card and the seller will happily oblige. In Germany even few Euros they prefer to be paid in cash.

That's their cut in the US, the market with the highest total interchange fees. In other markets with lower total fees, it's hard to imagine Visa/MC's cut being higher. They do a pretty useful service for a pretty reasonable fee.

Patio11 doesn't name names or give precise figures, but: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make...


A true spaceborne civilization, assuming anti-gravity isn't in there bag of tricks, probably wouldn't bother with the gravity well planets.

I feel like for this reason we should be focused on colonizing asteroids rather than the moon or mars. We can do various tricks to get artificial gravity via centrifugal force. For example if the asteroid is solid enough, we can consider putting it into a spin. If it's not solid enough, we can consider laying a track around the circumference and/or boring a tunnel around the circumference and essentially having the habitat(s) constantly rotating around the asteroid.

Exactly. Those kind of people could support much larger populations than the Earth with a lifestyle they find comfortable in interstellar space and would look at living on Earth at best the way we look at living on Mars.

The country desperately needs antitrust action to vastly increase.

We need all these monopolies and cartels broken up so that there is a dynamic competitive environment in all sectors of the economy


You’re talking about something that happens in a country that wants free markets. It doesn’t really apply to countries that want oligopolies or monopolies.

Google is a massive population monitoring and propaganda machine.

With AI and an authoritarian government they are an existential threat to humanity.


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