It's not a Sputnik moment you stupid fuck. It's Pearl Harbor and THOSE ARE OUR OWN PLANES DROPPING THE BOMBS. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

carlbergstrom.com • 31 days ago

It's not a Sputnik moment you stupid fuck.

It's Pearl Harbor and THOSE ARE OUR OWN PLANES DROPPING THE BOMBS.

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the0point.bsky.social•31 days ago

Since when did China not lead in production and technology anyways?

carlbergstrom.com•31 days ago

The US system of higher education has been the best in the world, and now is very explicitly targeted as "the enemy" by Project 2025, Vance, etc.

the0point.bsky.social•31 days ago

I meant more with the outsourcing of everything made in China. But i completely see your point. It's like tariffs don't work, and information wants to be free.

mossgatherer.bsky.social•31 days ago

Has it? The US, UK, and Canada fill most of the powerhouse spots. The US isn't unique in that, I'd say.

pepperqi.bsky.social•31 days ago

Impermanence & the theory of relativity say "has been the best was ... and now it's not."

This hasn't happened overnight.

I've been concerned for my friends with positions within US UK academia for about a decade now.

the0point.bsky.social•31 days ago

And you know, they were voted in... manufactured consent.

pepperqi.bsky.social•31 days ago

Too many Americans refuse to accept they vote for their Country's byproducts, taking the position of infantilized victim - the most brain broken insist 1/2 elected byproducts are demonic reptilian alien beings who religiously drink & eat sacrificed kids prefattened up in secret tunnels by Bros Grimm

teemuroos.bsky.social•31 days ago

I guess it's a bit tense over there on that side of the puddle, but may I just cast my vote for less Twitter-style discussion on this platform. 🙏

carlbergstrom.com•31 days ago

Very fair sentiment and all I can suggest is — genuinely and respectfully — muting me for a while.

teemuroos.bsky.social•31 days ago

haha, yeah, no worries. we all need to let out some steam now and then

teemuroos.bsky.social•31 days ago

oh, and for no particular reason: a snickers? 😀

carlbergstrom.com•31 days ago

I was kind of hanging in there until he shut down a trillion dollars of federal grant funding this evening and then yeah.

everydayhuman.bsky.social•31 days ago

I was too barely by a thin 🧵.
I hope the crows bring you some joy today. A break from all of it, enjoy those precious moments.
Cheers!

nathanielvirgo.bsky.social•31 days ago

What's funny is that if I log in to that site I basically only see posts like that, about how amazing AI is. Even the posts about the site's owner are mostly gone. The algorithm is really pushing that topic because the bubble really needs to stay inflated just that little bit longer.

kellumdander.bsky.social•31 days ago

People still haven't figured out that AI is a MAD technology like nuclear weapons.

kellumdander.bsky.social•31 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/kellumdander.bsky.social/post/3lgrz7ia4322w

robb.doering.ai•31 days ago

How so…? Presumably this concern isn’t about AGI!

Side note, pretty hilarious all these comments are just attacking “AI”. Pretty sure that’s not the important issue here, for once

carlbergstrom.com•31 days ago

Here are just a few of the grant review panels that were cancelled *today*, setting back computer science research and education in the US by many months at best, and more likely permanently.

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the0point.bsky.social•31 days ago

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montisboeher.bsky.social•31 days ago

So...
All of these tax dollars,
All the fossil fuels,
All the battery tech.
Has gone into unreliable AI tech information.

Already incorporated in our search options...
Incorporated into our information systems...

Just to fire knowledgeable people who get salaries.

What else am I missing?

peterdebode.bsky.social•31 days ago

So that new Shipbuilding Act is gonna boost American maritime business to wordclass and supercompetitive no doubt. I guess they've just commenced woodworking apprenticeships.

brettbuttliere.bsky.social•31 days ago

how am i not getting funding from information and technology ecosystems idk

msms42.bsky.social•31 days ago

Yikes

antiintelligence.bsky.social•31 days ago

The AI-bros have always been anti-science.

robb.doering.ai•31 days ago

I mean I won’t defend the “bros” whoever you mean by that, but AI has always been a scientific endeavor. Who else would be doing the research

antiintelligence.bsky.social•31 days ago

How can a discipline that refuses to study the system that it is trying to replicate be scientific? You can hire PhDs to do research into telepathy but that wouldn't exactly make it science. If you are interested got a blog post on this: https://aichats.substack.com/p/is-artificial-intelligence-science?r=4tn68o

robb.doering.ai•31 days ago

lol by “system it’s trying to replicate” you mean the human mind? They definitely, definitely do. Would recommend Minsky, Dennett, and Fodor for commentary on that, or hell, Turing!

robb.doering.ai•31 days ago

“Natural science” typically refers to physics et al, and excludes psychology et al — so right off the bat it’s a confusing framing. Also love seeing anti-AI stuff argued via chatbot lol, that is fun

kevin.crime.group•31 days ago

They want all the money the gov’t spends on real research at universities to go to their own businesses so they can turn it into services they rent to the gov’t.

antiintelligence.bsky.social•31 days ago

I mean the standard practice has always been for the state/public to pay for the research and then to pass it to private sector. But these people genuinely believe that the way forward, let's say in theoretical physics, is to create a superintelligent AI that will spit out all the answers.

bartholomewk.bsky.social•31 days ago

Surely Congress is going to stop him from just stealing this power?

askyez.bsky.social•31 days ago

So technically yes but Congress would have to act and most of them are afraid of Trump.

damngroundhogs.bsky.social•31 days ago

i do not understand…i will Never understand Ever how people can be so willfully, gleefully, *wantonly* stupid…

therion5.bsky.social•31 days ago

Agree with first, disagree with second
The AI is something very little have a bright idea about, one thing is clear it can walk on water. But how and why do we need it 🤔

memccarron.bsky.social•31 days ago

If it is a Sputnik moment, then techbro usa who launched Sputnik via its weak ai efforts and it is China taking the role of 1960 USA via its revved up capabilities to make techbro ai look like the flailing scam it is. Marc isn't even Khrushchev, instead some nameless ruskie oligarch history forgot.

memccarron.bsky.social•31 days ago

Also, ask Marc what the usa corporate and personal income tax rate was in usa when Sputnik went up? In other words, is he volunteering his wealth to the cause?

carlbergstrom.com•31 days ago

Quite the opposite. He wants a government bailout.

kraniumkracka.bsky.social•31 days ago

Deepsteak A1

ericarthur2.bsky.social•30 days ago

Guess that means DeepSeek is a myth.

zoloftenthusiast.bsky.social•31 days ago

This whole AI nonsense is stupid but the grift is at risk. That can’t stand, they’re doing everything they can to shift the focus away from their own grift.

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lgpwdmpmdk2x

samuelting.bsky.social•31 days ago

China’s been technologically ahead for years with an insane talent dense pool. R1’s just revealed this due to all the hype around the west’s supposed dominance in software/ai

aidanbindoff.bsky.social•31 days ago

Concentrating power into the hands of the few rather than the many

tronc.bsky.social•31 days ago

It's also one of the ironies of protectionist politics. Refusing to share/export tech to China simply stimulates new discovery that renders the export ban irrelevant. (But it is also a propaganda battle)

sixnein.bsky.social•31 days ago

Comrade, you must be more patriotic and support the anti-science jihad.

arthurdeodat.bsky.social•31 days ago

It’s not just him with this garbage. It’s one of the supposed leaders of the Democratic Party https://bsky.app/profile/schumer.senate.gov/post/3lgr3kjuht225