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New comment by vuurmot in "The turbulent AI era is here"

vuurmot — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:48:10 +0000

tax the rich else eat the rich

New comment by vuurmot in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

vuurmot — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:25:12 +0000

if the US can't even spell Malaysia, I doubt they have interest fighting for them

New comment by vuurmot in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

vuurmot — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:19:34 +0000

fyi Finland has the same conscription rates, I don't see them being criticized for conscription? Maybe they are too white, or maybe people who injected too much rugged individualism into their veins have rotted views of society

A system that has brought security and cohesion, and thus wealth, is accused of being dystopic

New comment by vuurmot in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

vuurmot — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:39:03 +0000

In Singapore, policing does not have the dystopian surveillance thing attached to it, because a large number of police are civilian conscripts. It takes the edge off, when you know that your neighbor's 18 year old kid is working in the police force, rather than some mercenary force

On top of that, the majority of the military consists of civilian conscripts, which arguably holds more power if the system ever goes bad enough to degenerate into martial law

New comment by vuurmot in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

vuurmot — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:19:48 +0000

by force

New comment by vuurmot in "PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US"

vuurmot — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:50:53 +0000

AI is able to recursively improve its code now, and Anthropic warns we should slow down development before it gets too advanced (reported 2019, and 2026)

PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates

Anthropic and OpenAI holds all the power and will create world utopia

oh btw, we will both IPO after SpaceX

lol, clown world.

New comment by vuurmot in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

vuurmot — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:06:17 +0000

ESL moment Read the article properly, it is the company that tried to shirk out of it

New comment by vuurmot in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

vuurmot — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:20:39 +0000

this is a very interesting comment. care to elaborate on it?

New comment by vuurmot in "Declining America"

vuurmot — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:57:23 +0000

he literally says people are intrinsically the same, but extrinsically different (due to culture)

why are you misrepresenting what he says?

New comment by vuurmot in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

vuurmot — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:06:09 +0000

how about explaining why without giving an analogy?

New comment by vuurmot in "How the U.S. became a science superpower"

vuurmot — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:00:07 +0000

You make it sound like the US is a parasite that takes the young of other countries to endow itself, never mind what happens about other countries. Maybe it is?

New comment by vuurmot in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

vuurmot — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 04:22:36 +0000

So? Less capital chasing after housing means housing prices fall. If the capital was not destined to be used in the first place, then it only serves to inflate the economy

New comment by vuurmot in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

vuurmot — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:47:28 +0000

It's weird that the comments are deflecting from the parent point. But yes, over time, it hurts the country.

New comment by vuurmot in "Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy"

vuurmot — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:20:59 +0000

There are plenty of other comments citing Nvidia statements, so I don't think I need to address this.

Certainly the tendency for people here to reach for the most conspiratorial theories is bizarre to me.

New comment by vuurmot in "Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy"

vuurmot — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:31:38 +0000

It is a pretty unfounded claim.

Singapore holds the headquarters of a lot of SEA megacorporations, as well as regional HQs of big tech in both USA/China.

These chips are bought from these HQs and redistributed to the rest of the world (Singapore is a major shipping hub). India imports chips through their HQs in Singapore, so does Australia, Saudi Arabia, Europe, America, etc.

Maybe you could make the case that shady companies are exporting to China, but I am fairly skeptical as there are already American officials in Singapore collaborating to investigating this issue

New comment by vuurmot in "How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed"

vuurmot — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:51:07 +0000

I think they are like $15k rather than sub $20k

Though I wonder if EVs are really all that good without the infrastructure.. With state of the potholes and electric infrastructure in most countries, can EVs hold up?

New comment by vuurmot in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

vuurmot — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:45:17 +0000

looking at this from the other side of the world, it feels like americans are so insecure, as if they are constantly frightened

New comment by vuurmot in "China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025"

vuurmot — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:04:44 +0000

What are you on... I am not interested in the political slinging that both the west and china deploy large capital in.

I just think it is funny

New comment by vuurmot in "China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025"

vuurmot — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:39:48 +0000

It's a meme. Just google "china but at what cost" There are probably hundreds of articles with the title at this point

China is getting smarter - but at what cost? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50658538

China's wind industrial policy "succeeded" – but at what cost? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/chinas-wi...

China Invests in Environment – but at What Cost? https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-04-...