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Real “sit the fuck down” moment
How much of this is actually because China is better at building ships compared to the MIC looking to make more bag from a congress already terrified of China?
China is actually better at building and at building MORE due to having greater number of shipyards, skilled workers specific to the purpose, and general manufacturing capability. The MIC looking to make more bag = the 200x part, which is indeed an exaggeration. But 20x? 30x? Not unrealistic.
china is reaching levels of basedness long thought impossible
The day when it becomes unavoidably obvious to Americans that China is doing better than them will be hilarious.
if USians weren't so good at burying their heads in the sand it would've already happened
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I read a while back that the PLAN was using AI specifically to quickly generate many iterations of more efficient and compact electrical grid layouts for their ships, and I think that's a really neat and levelheaded way to use AI. No marketing bullshit, no insane and dangerous cost-cutting measures, just "generate a path between these points while staying at least x centimeters away from y and z subsystems at all times, give me 50 variants."
That's just called metaheuristics and they've been a thing since the 70s. Super super interesting, but calling it an AI is a stretch.
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One of the lead designers on Spore described this design process as [paraphrasing] automating the thought processes of subject matter experts. In the case of Spore, that subject matter was creature design, but every single model had to be fine tuned to exclude large swaths of the design space which the model made possible, but were undesirable in some way. Automation of expertise followed by expert review is the way to go. It makes expertise more efficient and also tends to lower the bar to access to that expertise.
Edit: also, this has been a standard technique for decades and “AI” is often used as a marketing term to rebundle old tech that’s gotten faster.
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Better give the MIC another 100 billion!
The Jones Act really paid off, amirite?
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