There is a technology called BLE, which together with mesh networking and synchronization of messages instead of routing them can give you connectivity in the middle of big events, without too much signal noise.

Of course other than Briar and that Bitchat thing I don’t know what to use in such situations.

I know this is not the point of your comment, but which Georgia specifically is the right target to bomb?

The one in Caucasus is supposedly friendly, South Georgia is British property so allied land, and, eh, the remaining one is, as I understand, the always wrong one to bomb.

There’s one thing funny about this - everyone is treating what’s happening as still some tomfoolery that will end after an election.

This is institutional. I don’t live in your country, so I might be mistaken, but even if pretentious naming like “Department of War” goes, autonomous weapons remain. And also it’s easy to play a fool or employ a fool as a talking head, but most people are not fools, especially those with power. There will be wars.

I’m not excited.

Actually I might be, I had a thought now that I might have a more specific interpretation of what happened to one girl. She had sort of a “dark triad” personality, and a nasty one, but I’m starting to think that what I was hearing about her without specifics wasn’t connected to what she did to me (which I’d forgive despite her probably not caring at all). It was about her once having met herself, that is, seen a sadistic event and enjoyed it, and having been shaken since. And people who carried those indirect and vague messages to me seemed to think very badly of her because of that reaction alone, but I don’t know - I might be the reason she even saw that, and she wasn’t looking for it. She loved Exupery’s “Citadelle”, and if you read it, then you might notice that the same man who wrote “The Little Prince” definitely had some sadistic leanings.

And that was because another girl took interest in me, and then was disappointed. That another girl was a real depraved sadist. That’s how this one got involved, my acquaintance from another place. And this one too took some interest in me.

And I’m thinking that perhaps I too have something sadistic in my personality if they liked me. The girl I’ve started about is a pacifist. And one of my family members is a veteran (and he was basically special forces, so the kind of service that’s usually not a transformation but a discovery of personal traits) and a pacifist. And I’m a pacifist (I think everyone should be armed to react to violence, but I’m against any initiation of violence). It just seems to make sense that if you notice something sadistic in yourself early on, you become interested in pacifism, as well as in other ways of considering and containing your (and others’) inner Mr Hyde.

So, getting back to names and what matters.

The change that has already happened is contained in human psyche. Your society might have a hidden, but slowly unearthing desire that will have to be fulfilled. I think Freud also described in sexual terms (well, as was his usual trick) what he was feeling about the start of World War One.

You have a Department of War and have probably even gotten used to that name.

People are talking about AI killbots and upcoming crash at the same time, and complain about AI slop and vibe coding.

Sorry, but if something is usable for making killbots, there will be no crash. And AI slop proves that for someone it’s useful to make slop. And vibe coding proves that someone makes things working in production with those tools. Saying that quality suffers is like saying that cobb houses are not comparable to brick houses and vice versa. Both exist. There are places where technologies related to cobb are still common for construction.

But the most important reason is the first one, if some technique gives you a more convenient and sharper stick to kill someone from another tribe, then that something stays as tribe’s cherished wisdom.

That LLMs consume too much resources … You might have noticed there’s a huge space for optimization. They are easy to parallelize, and we are in market capture stage, which means that optimization is not yet a priority. When it becomes a priority, there might happen a moment when all the arguments about operations costing in resources more than they give profit and that being funded by investors are suddenly not true anymore.

I have been converted. Converted back, one might say, there was a time around years 2011-2014.