What's disgusting about this?
Also Soviet agriculture, say, used anti-hail rockets to prevent conditions for hail from forming.
It was both useful for agriculture in mountainous regions and also allowed people in places like NK to arm themselves with something relatively long-range when they had to fight for their lives.
Yes, people like us might see this as a necessary mechanism with very bad side effects, and offer replacements which wouldn't have those side effects.
While some people in charge might see those side effects as the main reason to use that mechanism.
If most of the planet goes for renewable energy, dynamics of power are going to become more fluid. Owning some geological massif, which is a rather stable and controllable thing, will matter much less. Attracting and managing expertise will matter even more.
Maybe not entirely, you are still going to be affected indirectly, those are global crises.
Also in a conflict involving you as one of the sides the other side may use their fuel trade connections to a great effect.
But one thing hard to argue is that you don't have to do the "say we are a respectable partner and not a bunch of cannibals or we'll make your economy hurt" thing if the bunch of cannibals can't make your economy hurt.
You are saying truisms, everybody agrees there are good trolls and bad trolls aka assholes in disguise, the real point of contention is which one is of which kind.
Actually, the way your comment navigates around the question makes me think you are a bit of a troll yourself (not that there's anything wrong with it).
Rebecca Watson had a nice breakdown of how Wikipedia avoided this:
My whole experience of seeing articles raided by Azeri and Turkish users in English-language Wikipedia, and the way discussions there go, says that they didn't avoid it. Well, maybe only the specific case of German NSDAP fans. Not the phenomenon as a whole.
And also "Wikipedia" includes its non-English spins, there are two things about them - 1) each one is different and has different problems in general, 2) various kinds of evil are well represented.
If we remove ourselves from the Nazi\Turanist\tankie\flatearther\etc problem, I've also seen harmless geeky articles about software etc removed because of being "too niche" or something (sometimes, but not always, presented as lack of good sources, because of course these would be underrepresented in what that ignorant fuck of a moderator would consider a good source), so there's an "aggressive normie" problem too.
Like one can use POV-Ray for pictures, one can use a script generating ABC sequences and choosing keys and instruments according to some math, which are then converted to MIDI, for music. It's not all machine learning (which is more or less just extrapolation).
Then, with ML you can be smarter than just finding a generator and feeding it keywords. You can (with converters and stuff) use ML for sequences and keys and instruments known to "feel good" with your own brain. Say, playing with different optimization criteria for the last N elements (notes) of a sequence (using how they relate to each other etc). EDIT: ... and then use the result to generate something.
I guarantee that the result won't be anywhere near perfect and beautiful, though.
You mean - just use IPFS? Or Tribler? And maybe there's been something else of the kind recently.
I guess Retroshare is not user-friendly enough.
There's also that LBRY thing with some web-hosted instances, an Electron native client and weird cryptocurrency usage attempts (in their case the goal seems honest ; it's just that I don't like things using blockchains - never understood how it would work for the use cases imagined, even in theory, people would tell me that I don't get it but they do, and somewhere around now it seems neither did they).
I mean, you are right, but there are attempts, sometimes close to success, of doing this with P2P (a video streaming service).
If you say then that monetization is an issue, then what I wrote about LBRY in parentheses is an attempt to do that exactly.
If you mean that executives want to share the victories and disown defeats, then there's nothing new in this, and no AI would make a difference in the long time perspective, but right now, when this is still a bit new - possible.
Features are better, inner workings are ... ugh ... not, at least judging from what I've read about WA and seen myself in TG and one of its alternative clients and the Pidgin plugin for it ("ugh" relates to the protocol).
WTF and it all through telgram isn’t that the scam app?
Close to that. Has that flavor. It's not a scam app, but really stinks of being made by the same people who made VK (Russian "main" social network, a FB clone initially).
It sort of turned into a social network of its own (no friends or personal pages, but plenty of group chats and channels with posts and comments with lots of users), so hard to avoid using it, other than that - it has turned into the default IM here (Russia again), in addition to WA, of course.
(And Russian)
I had that happen after saying to one guy that attempts at censorship should be met with gunfire.