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Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by red-iron-pine » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #91

inglor_cz wrote: post #87

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I wouldn't underestimate the market for AI videos. From funny to hyperpolitical/propagandist. One of the most globally recognized attribute of the recent US-Iranian war was the Lego cartoons. This sort of content will be soon churned out by everyone.

The propaganda lego cartoons I have seen were not AI slop. They were also perfectly doable in a traditional studio. The lyrics had meaning - insulting but a real one. They were not constrained to truth, but that seemed like normal propaganda lying rather then hallucinations. The lying was very purposeful.

"the russian firehose" and "flood the zone" have been proven to work, and work well.

that a human studio can make similar things is irrelevant; they're aiming for volume, one that is utterly all-encompassing, and they will succeed in that effort.

marketing is simply the same idea but pushed towards economic ends. instead of flooding the zone with memes to curate an entirely GOP worldview, they curate a lifestyle that creates anxiety that can only be remedied by buying a comically large pickup truck

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by zkmon » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:20 AM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #99

zkmon wrote: post #96

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You notion of "species are OK to be aware of differences, but races are not" - is flawed. Species and races are just two levels of hierarchy which has several such levels of distinction and evolution branching across flora and fauna. There are further levels of branching below the "race" level too, the evolution of which is defined by the differences. It is a continuous spectrum. You can't single out two levels somew…

You should just be honest with yourself and others that you're a racist, instead of hiding behind flawed pseudoscience interpretations. You're the one picking arbitrary social distinctions and pretending they're immutable natural ones. Why is race mixing different from hair colour or religious mixing?

> Why is race mixing different from hair colour or religious mixing?

Because evolutionary distinctions are indicators for the norms and actions of the species. Why would you treat a shark differently from a salmon? Because you acquired knowledge about them. The whole point of evolutionary perception and survival instincts was to perceive and decode these indicators.

People and animals grow up in different cultural contexts and with different norms and values. What's OK for others may not be OK for you. Some of these differences are not purely psychological that can be erased by having common rules. For example, some races are good at some sports. Do you complain if a sports team is 100% one kind of race?

All races are good and I'm a big fan of so much variety in nature. But please don't erase that rich variety with your common rules.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by Obscurity4340 » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

petesergeant wrote: post #65

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #49

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By what metric(s)?

Are you being obtuse, or you genuinely don’t know?

I think you are being a bit obtuse unless you have some genuinely novel information which you should have pointed out without me needing to coax it