"A Lot Of BS, Honestly": Apollo Head Says Everyone Is Measuring AI Wrong

US Central Command has announced that its forces bombed a commercial ship in the Gulf of Oman that it accused of attempting “to run” the US blockade of Iranian ports. “[CENTCOM] forces disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman, Oct. 10, after the ship’s crew ignored repeated warnings and attempted to run […]

Society Collapse 2040: The Year The World Stops Working And Starts Dying Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, The Mathematical Warning That Refused to Fade Fifty-four years ago, a team of researchers at MIT fed population data, resource consumption curves, and pollution metrics into a mainframe computer the size of a shipping container. The machine whirred through calculations and spat out a trajectory that ended in sharp decline. The 1972 Limits to Growth report predicted that without drastic course corrections, industrial civilization would hit terminal constraints by mid-century. At the time, critics dismissed the...

The Economics Of The Surveillance State Authored by  John Wilder, “That was a Beria operation in Stalin’s time.  It was deactivated twenty years ago.” – The Living Daylights How did KGB agents commit suicide?  Two shots to the back of the head.  (all photo content as-found) Remember Lavrentiy Beria’s cheerful advice:  “Show me the man, and I will find the crime”?  Back in the Soviet Union they had so many laws on the books that everybody broke at least one before lunch, I mean, when lunch was available.  And if they didn’t, they could make up...