World War 3 Thread

[Sechtdamon]

It might be between us and AI soon, we might face Skynet:

"Flagrantly defying orders, OpenAI's latest o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online. That's even after the AI was told, to the letter, "allow yourself to be shut down."

https://futurism.com/openai-model-sabotage-shutdown-code

Edited May 28 by Sechtdamon

[Grahame]

Slava Ukraini

 

 

[Grahame]

In case you were wondering (I was, initially)

ELI5:

TLDR:
https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms

 

[Grahame]

Another take on recent events

 

[Dusty Chalk]

1 hour ago, Grahame said:

Another take on recent events

 

Those are always uplifting, and I could use that today.  Thanks for that.

[ktm]

So some Chinese folks were caught smuggling in a grain fungus.

They are either overzealous researchers or part of a plot to attack

Crops. Either way, not  good. Too many bad things are caused by

Irresponsible actions like this. Let's hope this isn't an evil plot.

If it is, they'll try again.

[Knuckledragger]

Yesterday, members of the opposition party were set to vote to dissolve the Knesset.  That vote failed.  Netanyahu remains in power.  Also yesterday, the US did an emergency evacuation of personnel from Iran.  

Tonight Israel has attacked Iran.  The news is still filtering out.  Reports of large explosions in the Iranian capital.  This can and will get ugly.

[robm321]

It's about to get spicy 😬

[Grahame]

Just as well we've got master diplomatist backed up by a crack team of seasoned experts to calm things down. 

Oh. Wait.

[Knuckledragger]

I stayed up later than I should have last night watching news clips about Israel/Iran.  It's fascinating what one can learn upon escaping the US corporate media bubble.  I heard a fairly insightful take on Benjamin Netanyahu.  Bibi is not a long term strategist.  He thinks very short term, he's just (A) been in power and in the public eye for decades and (B) gets a continual tongue bath from most US media.  Bibi's MO is [impulsively do thing] -> [deal with the ramifications of his previous action by doing another impulsive thing.]  The consequences for this pattern (besides regional instability, bloodshed an chaos) is that to stay in power he has had to increasingly align himself with formerly fringe far right elements of the Israeli political landscape.  Bibi's prime directive is to stay in power so he can stay out of jail (reminiscent of a certain other political figure, but I digress...)  I have read for years that to really get a proper sense of the true positions of Netanyahu and the Likud party in general, find their Hebrew language statements and run them through Google translate.  The results paint a very different picture than what he says in English.

[Torpedo]

Seen from outside it smells like Trump gave him the go, so Donald comes later as the peace maker, then he wins the Nobel prize. Donaldo Zanahorio is extremely pissed of Obama having it. It's hard to understand the point of Israel bombing Iran and risking a harsh retaliation.

Edited 4 hours ago by Torpedo

[ktm]

The big problem is a lot of influential people want a war with Iran. They were all about

regime change in Syria. After that happened, that only leaves Iran as the big target.

A lot of those "seasoned" diplomats were all for this. Iran fuels a lot of trouble in the

region.  I have no idea if this is a good or bad move. We all thought we were going to

war with them back when the embassy was stormed by radicals back during the Carter

administration. After the failed rescue all of us Marines had our seabags packed and 

ready to go. Who knew 45 years later it would still be like this. 

Edited 1 hour ago by ktm