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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand on January 21, 2025, 02:09:59 PM »

Every single human being in the Trump ecosystem is a greedy piece of shit.

https://news.bitcoin.com/pastor-lorenzo-sewell-launches-his-own-meme-coin/

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« Last post by Action80 on January 21, 2025, 02:09:09 PM »

No president has absolute power and unlimited power.

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Technology & Information / Re: Autonomous weapons systems

« Last post by Action80 on January 21, 2025, 02:06:28 PM »

Is ChatCPT the pinnacle of AI, LD?

Really?

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Technology & Information / Re: Autonomous weapons systems

« Last post by Lord Dave on January 21, 2025, 01:45:48 PM »

AI can certainly write code that will compile.

I do not know where you are getting your information or why you are choosing to write false information.

Oh sure.  It'll do well documented stuff.  Hello world, making a login page, maybe a short function.
But ask AI to say... Write a Linux OS, and it will not compile if you get anything at all.
Or ask it to code a chat program that can send video, audio, and text.  You'll get nothing useful if anything.

And just the code to look at an image and identify objects is extremely complex.  Forget decision making on what to do with that info.

But if you believe otherwise, go ask ChatGTP to make you an auto targeting program.  Then try to compile it.

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Technology & Information / Re: Autonomous weapons systems

« Last post by Dr Van Nostrand on January 21, 2025, 12:47:28 PM »

AI can certainly write code that will compile.

I do not know where you are getting your information or why you are choosing to write false information.

Written by someone who has never produced a line of code in their life. Compiling code, running code and secure code are all different things.

Everything you believe, everything you think you know is rooted in ignorance with no real experience to back it up. You are a mindless minion of misinformation being used by grifters and despots. Enjoy.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Solar Eclipse of Aug 12, 2026

« Last post by flannel jesus on January 21, 2025, 12:40:05 PM »

They predicted eclipses relevant to the earth, period. They didn't use a model of a flat earth to do it - they didn't really use a model of the earth or the moon or the sun at all to do it. So with all that being said, I'm not sure why we're even talking about it. Yes they were flat eathers. That doesn't mean everything they did, they did with a real model of a flat earth. There's not a whole lot more to say on that topic.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Solar Eclipse of Aug 12, 2026

« Last post by AATW on January 21, 2025, 12:38:54 PM »

They knew the earth was flat and so did everyone else.

They didn't have the technology to observe the earth directly.
Now we do.

And while cycles may be used to predict eclipses at a high level, calculating the exact path uses a globe model

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Solar Eclipse of Aug 12, 2026

« Last post by Action80 on January 21, 2025, 12:07:13 PM »

The Ancient Babylonians did not need to be "proponents" of any "model."

They knew the earth was flat and so did everyone else.

So, I guess I misused the word "proponents".

The fact is, Ancient Babylonians ascribed to a flat earth.

They predicted eclipses relevant to the flat earth.

The same calculations we use today.

Saros cycles.

Nothing has changed.

It is not mythology.

Globularism is the mythology.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« Last post by Lord Dave on January 21, 2025, 12:05:26 PM »

It is not the idea of the power of pardons being absolute and unlimited that is dumb, LD.

It is the idea that pardons can be granted prior to any finding of guilt or culpability.

They're the same thing.
Unlimited and absolute power means it has no limits, like pre-pardons. 

Regardless, I agree.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Solar Eclipse of Aug 12, 2026

« Last post by flannel jesus on January 21, 2025, 11:45:30 AM »

To what type of theory did the ancient Babylonians ascribe?

"ancient babylonian models of the earth"

Does that make them a proponent of a model? I guess I think the word "model" refers to something a bit more rigorous than "the world kinda looks like such and such to me". And a proponent is someone who advocates for a theory, not just someone who kinda passively believes something. Were they out there convincing people the world is flat?

I wouldn't call their mythology a model or a theory at all. It's at best the seedlings of something that you could later turn into a model or a theory, which they didn't do.

And it's obviously not relevant to their calculations of the eclipses anyway. Right? Their calculations didn't involve calculating positions of things relative to a flat earth.