LordFall

That was pretty cringe to watch from John. It's what you call being reactive and qualifying yourself instead of being at the cause not the effect.

This video makes a good point that it's probable that the IDF will try to assassinate Ali Khamenei probably tomorrow. It would basically condemn the clerical regime and benefit everyone in the region including satisfying the people. All the incentives align towards getting rid of him.

What do you think makes that so unthinkable? It all depends really how far the US is willing to go with their attack on leadership.

I'm very curious what the airstrikes aim to accomplish, this video breaks down why intervening in Iran is much more difficult than Venezuela. They can try to kill the leadership or go for the oil fields, those are the two objectives that make sense. What will come after will be chaos though. The best case scenario I've heard is Reza Pahlavi coming back to the country as a symbol to oversee a democratic election taking place.

If you use merriam-webster it defines intelligence as: the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations. Google defines it as : 1.the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. It's just a wild thing to believe that reaching the top of 3 industries is lucky or he was somehow born into it? He became a real estate mogul, a media star and then got into politics. All three being complex industries full of competition and other talented people that won't give you their money easily. What exactly do you think defines intelligence if not for the ability to grasp systems and maneuver them to your advantage? Philosophy? It seems like you're coming at it from a socialism perspective which is often tied to delusion since oftentimes people believe themselves to be competent but cannot produce results outside of their imagination.

Yes gender is a biological construct. Souls don't have genders nor do consciousnesses. Females have boobs though so that's good. Big W for sexual dimorphism.

@Joshe I don't know why it makes you feel better to fantasy someone gaining control of a whole country to be stupid. It seems like lazy epistemology to me and actually it loops back to victim thinking. My whole point with this post is for us to understand how the system is skewed and learn the lessons and strategies of power to be able to influence it the right way. To summarize it as dumb stupid corrupt people take control of the system what can we do is weak thinking.

If you want to bootstrap a business one of the most important tools to understand are facebook ads. For $5-10 a lead you can start to find people interested in whatever you're pitching.

There's not really a more interesting topic in contemporary science. Especially if we're talking about removing dogma and ideology from the field and pushing the boundaries of what's achievable.

I would be careful saying LLMs can't think. They can find solutions to problems by analyzing data and connecting ideas between them. It's not so different from how a human brain works.

You should talk about anti aging and biological immortality with them.

I don't think these current protests will bring down the regime, lack of infrastructure to support a transition. Best of luck and much love to the Iranian people though.

Curious what that entails. The current regime is highly dependent on oil so perhaps they'll strike that(but that would cripple the future of Iranians regardless) or they'll blockade it or they'll go for a leadership decapitation strike and kill/capture the Supreme Leader or prime minister. It would be a much more tactically difficult operation than Venezuela though. Today is gonna be a popcorn type of day I see.

@zazen The americans having causes this mess doesn't change the fact that this Islamic theocracy is a terrible government that's not supported by 80-90% of the population.

Yes indeed. In the gaming world it's called a bug exploit. When you discover a vulnerability in software you exploit it to publicize it so it's fixed faster. Trumps abuse of the political system will lead to more robust international law and domestic law. It's an important phenomenon to study in depth.