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The O' Club / Re: Is McDonalds Beef Chain Legit?

« Last post by Captain Virgil Hilts on Today at 08:13:38 PM »

Thinking at some point soon, I'll make red beans and rice, jambalaya, and cornbread.


Not sure what I'm cooking over the holidays. Almost always smoked prime rib. Everyone else made awful powder dry turkey, and stringy ham for Thanksgiving, so I may be forced to cook for Christmas just to prevent my taste buds and innards from being terribly insulted again.

Going to Indy next week, the wife loves to hit restaurants up there, St. Elmo's for sure. Probably a German place, maybe an Italian place as well. No fast food though.

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by Busher on Today at 07:10:20 PM »

Succeed in beating us to a Super AI. That will be bad. For us.

Still find the entire discussion to be laughable. An alleged intelligence that in some way becomes brighter than the team of people who built it? And even if that's possible, some human is going to hit the start switch and give this thing some form of control? And all this in a so-called advanced society where kids can't do basic arithmetic (let alone advanced calculus)?
Screw the Chinese - God help us

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by AKIron on Today at 06:27:56 PM »

I wasn't aware that they weren't.

Succeed in beating us to a Super AI. That will be bad. For us.

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Aces High General Discussion / Re: What happened to auto-ack?

« Last post by MDStampf93 on Today at 06:25:02 PM »

Just to play devil’s advocate here…

Recently I have noticed an uptick in single ack pilot wound hits as I’m flying adjacent to a fieldwith only 1 maybe 2 guns firing at me at high speeds.

I’ll be cruising along thinking nothing of the ack and WHAM pilot wound…

Now, this could just be a coincidence and an unlucky roll of the algorithm dice a few times but it has happened more recently than I remember it happening before.

Not saying anything has or has not changed, just an observation.

 

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by Busher on Today at 05:58:09 PM »

You want china to succeed?

I wasn't aware that they weren't.

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by AKIron on Today at 05:26:18 PM »

We didn't have households filled with everything from the USSR did we then?

Apples and oranges..

Eagler

What are you saying? You want china to succeed?

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by CptTrips on Today at 05:18:10 PM »

You can honestly see it turn out any other way?

After a good financial/economic collapse and boom..

Yeah.  We are energy rich.

We still have the best schools.  There is a reason the Chinese want to send their students here.  And not ALL of them are spies.

Our GDP is still significantly larger than theirs.

In any economic collapse, they will collapse first and we will recover faster.

If we lose the AI race, it is because we got stupid and just let them win.  It's ours to lose.

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by Eagler on Today at 04:20:12 PM »

Western country companies are in it for monetary profit ultimately. China is in it for total dominance. Many, including me, believe Reagan drove the Soviet Union to over spend on defense in an effort to keep up which resulted in its demise. Hmmmmmmm.

We didn't have households filled with everything from the USSR did we then?

Apples and oranges..

Eagler

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by AKIron on Today at 03:50:28 PM »

Western country companies are in it for monetary profit ultimately. China is in it for total dominance. Many, including me, believe Reagan drove the Soviet Union to over spend on defense in an effort to keep up which resulted in its demise. Hmmmmmmm. 

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by Eagler on Today at 03:42:08 PM »

That would be very unfortunate for America.

That would be like deciding to just stay an low income agricultural civilization rather than join the Industrial Revolution.

You'll regret it when your competitors come back with tanks and all you have is a pitch-fork.

You can honestly see it turn out any other way?

After a good financial/economic collapse and boom..

Eagler