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Wang
Good luck hitting anything without your precious satellites
@IL_Shaman
wishful thinking wang
we have brand new better ones to launch on the pad jr
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@IL_Shaman
the second china weaponises space... we will have a brand new satelite system
Wang
It is well known that the US military buys all their equipment from China... oops, I guess we planted some bugs in it. SORRY!!
@IL_Shaman
well.. it would actually take about an hour to become fully operational
sure
yeah
lol
IBM is a chinese company now
lol
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This seems like a productive conversation.
@IL_Shaman
I am gettin a woody
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Do any of you have graduate degrees?
@IL_Shaman
ya realise... how many troops did china send in 1955.. to support north korea>?
Wang
IBM gets its components from China too
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@IL_Shaman
how many came home?
that was with none of those fancy toys
Wang
We already own you and you don't even know it
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@IL_Shaman
yer right... I dont know it
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Wang: I added you to ignore.
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oh good, Lania is back
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Wang: There is no separation between 'China' and 'non-China' in some worldviews.
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For example, Mahayana Buddhism.
(Mahayana Buddhism is prevalent in 'China')
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@IL_Shaman
ya might wanna look it up jr
then.. maybe.. vietnam
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IL_Shaman: do you think Trump is guilty of treason?
@IL_Shaman
then... america's iraq war
FaithsDiscord.. no...
not yet
how could he have commited treason?
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Aside: Taking personal satisfaction in the success of your nation-state is an example of BIRGing.
BIRGing is ultimately unproductive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_in_reflected_glory
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[ Basking in reflected glory - Wikipedia  ]
@IL_Shaman
FaithsDiscord... I am nt familiar with birgine
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Basking in reflected glory (BIRGing) is a self-serving cognition whereby an individual associates themselves with known successful others such that the winner's success becomes the individual's own accomplishment.[1][2] The affiliation of another's success is enough to stimulate self glory. The individual does not need to be personally involved in the successful action. To BIRG, they must simply associate themselves with the success. Examples of BIRGing include anything from sharing a home state with a past or present famous person, to religious affiliations, to sports teams. For example, when a fan of a football team wears the team's jersey and boasts after a win, this fan is engaging in BIRGing. A parent with a bumper sticker reading "My child is an honor student" is basking in the reflected glory of their child. While many people have anecdotal accounts of BIRGing, social psychologists seek to find experimental investigations delving into BIRGing. Within social psychology, BIRGing is thought to enhance self-esteem and to be a component of self-management.
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IL_Shaman: do you think that Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign?
@IL_Shaman
I wouldnt call that treason FaithsDiscord.
no
not enough to sway the election
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IL_Shaman: He could have committed treason by inviting and working with a foreign power to undermine the US election.
@IL_Shaman
the hillary supporters... were hillary supporters
the trump supporters were trump supporters
pretty much... no matter what anyone said about either
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IL_Shaman: is what determines whether or not working with a foreign power to undermine the elections of your host election the success of that operation?
I would say it is not the success, but the attempt.
of your host election is treason*
@IL_Shaman
and damn sure not as much as the CIA effects their elections
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I do not need to actually steal money from a bank to be guilty of a serious felony.
I need only make a serious attempt.
@IL_Shaman
and damn near everyone elses country on the planet
good luck with that lania
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/21/upshot/how-readers-react-to-political-news-they-dont-...
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I read that a person might read ~250 journal articles while getting a Ph.D.
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I am on my 8th article on neural networks -- mostly published by the Deep Mind team.
I just finished Outrageously Large Neural Networks. It was interesting.
The managed to construct a model that is composed of a mixture of experts, each of which is a neural network itself.
On different problems in the input space, different experts are recruited to translate/solve the problem.
In one of their models, they had ~131000 neural network experts.
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So, the top-level model was composed of over 131000 inner models.
PinkRoses
hie
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These systems are very close to being able to translate between some languages at the 'fluent human' level.
PinkRoses: do you participate in Reddit?
PinkRoses: IL_Shaman thinks that Trump is not guilty of treason by colluding with the Russians.
Because Hillary ran a weak campaign.
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It's an incoherent argument and he is probably a partisan that cannot be trusted to form meaningful beliefs from a datastream.
Conceptualize him as a parasite on modernity.
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