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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go up"
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:29:57 -0800
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On 13 Feb 2025 00:25:58 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:13 +0100, "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>You forgot about the American AI.
>>
>>That's old hat. Chinese AI has rendered it ... superfluous.
>
>Hitler destroyed his nuclear bomb program because he didn't believe in
>"Jewish Science."  The thing is, science isn't Jewish or Aryan, it is
>just science.

I suspect it had a lot more to do with limited resources, better spent
on more tanks. But racism did affect the war, on both sides.

>Likewise, AI isn't American or Chinese, it's just math.  And when it is
>open-sourced it becomes math for everyone, too.

I was referring to the actual manifestations, not the underlying
theory.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"