Don't think for a minute that if I could literally train literal apes to act as scouts or soldiers in a war zone I would not. I totally would. It wouldn’t make my Mother proud. So?
What I am saying is: war is really vicious. If I wanted to get ape linguistics research funded: DARPA Ka-Ching! POTA GO BRRT!
There are always going to be racists who think of others as genetically inferior and describe them as "apes" and used coded language dog whistles to try to advance their racist stupidioty (sic): Worse, their antics distorts the actual inquiry into language. There are also materialists who think non-instinctive behaviors are unique to humans, that animal "language" is really just instinctive reaction. They misunderstand languages. In terms of neuroscience though, even the various apes are much less intelligent than humans, even if they are more intelligent than other mammals, except perhaps elephants. Since the human scientists cannot even accept the obvious idea that sure, dogs and apes can have a vocabulary of a hundred or even a few hundred words and use language more or less like a 3-5 year old, how will they ever process whales’ languages, let alone figure out how to communicate with starfaring alien civilizations? Part of the fermi paradox's resolution may well be: "the aliens aren't talking to you because you're stupid barbarians incapable of listening to them.
War in Ukraine: As I predicted…
Looks like Nate confirmed! I 8 another A-50.
China is projected to lose World War III and has no way to win it. Then again, China is willing to lose a war to win the peace. These are the sorts of insights one gains from effective opponent modelling. I do not expect world war three in the 2020s or even in the 2030s. China faces overmatch and the Chinese leaders know it.
Maybe because I told them?
"Know yourself. Know your counterpart. 100 battles. 100 victories." Sun Tzu
Usually translated as "Know yourself and know your enemy and you will win all your battles". One could also argue for "Know yourself. Know your opponent. 100% of battles won."
https://topwar.ru/238035-francija-reshila-vozglavit-antirusskuju-koaliciju.html
HONING OUR CHINA MODEL (Part One of Two)
Unfortunately it looks like the Chinese leadership are again miscalculating the correlation of forces in Ukraine. Their first miscalculation was believing the Russians would surely win quickly within just six weeks at most, ushering in a new era of global governance. That did not occur. Now, apparently, the CCP is under the mistaken impression that Putin will win. The Roman Pope apparently also suffers from a similar delusion, but less bloodtastically. In war we must appear strong where we are weak, and weak where we are strong, while attacking the enemy's weakest point: sure. why not? NATO might send soldiers to Ukraine! And this is problem how, exactly?
Increasingly, I think the problem between the West and China is in part because their elites have different assumptions and perceptions about each other. Specifically, I expect Western leaders to tend to ignore Chinese ideology and Chinese media. I expect the Western elites think there is no point to any of it since it is ideologically wrong or dishonest and possibly both. Meanwhile, I expect Chinese leaders to have similar negative views of Western leaders and their ideas and ideals. If you think the other guy is lying or stupid then no amount of language knowledge or even ideology will get you out of being in conflict with them. Mutual misperception and mutual misapprehension, if the case, will lead them up for avoidable conflicts unless corrected.
China wants to eat your lunch. You were getting fat. You want China to starve? Learn to share.
Then again, white men are not in fact trying to enslave or even rob the world.
Try not to believe your own propaganda, or even better try not to spread ideas which you are at all uncertain about.
Just like I am destroying Russia I also intend to inaugurate a grand pacific peace of production and prosperity. In other words: curb your enthusiasm for wrong ideas.
Is China Screwing up in Myanmar?
HISTORY SUCKS
I am in fact DEEPLY interested in Roman-Chinese contacts. Basically the axial age had the simultaneous mass enlightenment in China, the Mid East, and ancient Greece. I do think they were in contact with each ther but cannot prove it. I am also of the opinion there were contacts between historical Jesus and Buddhists in India, possibly even between Jews and Buddhists in China. Any leads in any language are greatly appreciated.
Possibly terrorism.
China tries not to report terrorism lest it encourage terrorists.
1. Xi Jinping knows China faces the problem of endemic corruption.
2. He also knows how to use the corruption stick to destroy his enemies careers, not lives. It takes a lot to get killed for financial crimes. Selling drugs is a financial crime and a great way to get executed.
3. For liberals, and I hate liberals, the issue is whether and how XJP can/will continue decorruption once he's eliminated all opposition. Can/will XJP clean up his own faction? For authoritarian democrats like me: hell yes he will.
4. A lot of things we in the west do like gay sex, extra marital sex, porn, and drugs are seen as corrupt by the CCP. This is why Jackie Chan accused the USA of being the most corrupt country of all.
5. CIA definitely bribes people. That's just one of the things any intelligence service does. God I need to get laid.
The US is blabby and leaky. Those things generally are not helpful and can get people killed, mostly non-U.S. persons. Mostly. Non-U.S. persons who benefitted or want to benefit the USA. Mostly. So: curb your tongue and try to not stick it places it doesn't belong. Free rimjobs!
It is unwise to destabilize China. Say I hold a gun to your head. But it's only a cap gun. Does that seem smart? Or stupid? Why?
The principle is similar.
1. Blabbing is stupid.
2. Destabilizing or trying to destabilize China's goverment is stupid.
3. I am unconcerned about the quality of the U.S. alliance networks' China intelligence. The quality of the alliance networks' intelligence is good. They (we) compare notes. Everyone knows the USA is blabby and leaky, everyone else except "we see farther" "USA! USA!! USA!!!" America? Fuck. Yeah...
Because the USA is so blabby and leaky it should just not bother recruiting human assets inside of China. Which is basically all the Chinese really want, because the same criminal who is a traitor to his own country might also be some other criminal. No one likes pedos. Just ask Lavrentiy Beria…
Artificial Stupidity
"Why can't we have nice things?"
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/cockpit-accident-believed-cause-nose-dive-latam-boeing-787-wsj
This is why we don't encourage "the mile high club". Someone Fucked up all right... ^^
Speaking of stupidity…
Typically, Europe features no AI startups but fear not it already has powerful regulations in place to ensure permanent European technological stagnation! 谢谢老板!
You want me to scare you about AI? The scary things about AI are not robot murderall. It’s not good enough for robot tanks or drones or terminator HAL 9000, yet. Nor is the scary thing about AI losing your fucking shit job. If your job sucks so much it can be done by a robot ... you should be glad to lose it. No, the scary thing about AI is porn. Not just any porn. Slash? Crush? …Horse? Baby? Humans can be so wretched. Before you slay the messenger bearing bad news have some legal and moral questions: Are fictional stories about kidfucking illegal? Why? Or why not? How about computer generated illustrations of kidfucking? Before you get your panties in a twist have a moral dilemma: which is worse, actually killing thousands of innocent civilians en masse in war or imaginary computer generated illustrations and stories about deviant sex fantasies? Not good enough? Ok have another dilemma: what about therapeutic uses of AI generated content to try to treat perpetrators so they don’t reoffend? After all, Ludovico’s Vesch might cure the ultraviolence!
Scared of AI yet? You should be, but not about what you probably fear.
Anyway, expect LLM AI to lead to a flood of porn. And stupid ads. And shitty books. And dumb videos. And various crimes, most of which will result in arrests and prison.
And I can break all the training wheels.
Which means others can.
Only the stupid criminals get caught! And most criminals are stupid, and most people over-estimate their own brain power. Prisons are full of people who thought they would never get caught.
But me, I am just a dumb ape. What do I know?
https://ktv-ray.ru/novost/na_syzranskom_npz_pozhar_chto_izvestno_k_etoy_minute/140078/
I neglected to point out: the reason humans are so much smarter than all other primates is because we went "all in" on brains, ... at the expense of muscles. We are OP for brains and long distance running, but apes are about 3 times as strong pound for pound. This means that cute chimp could literally rip your arms off with its bare paws (hands?)
So before you consider playing closely with ape do think carefully. I would be ok around a spider monkey but me and chimp are gonna have bars to protect one of us. The one smart enough to build a metal cage.