So if you had the chance to murder Adolph Hitler in 1939 knowing his plans for the destruction of Europe/Russia and mass murder of the Jews, and you knew the likelihood of him being able to do it, you wouldn’t murder Hitler because you don’t know the future for sure and your worldview/religion that says murdering people is “always” wrong?

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Fun fact: I have 8 Nostr accounts

Jitsi fixes this. nostr:note1ha54fy008w89dus8n9hlk634myl0zqhrjymnv99e867emd3zsn3se52wvq

So what to do.... guard? Just ensure nothing running? Hmmmm

Are you saying we need Neuralink? :)

Gotta find an overlay to play while you type your passwords, something that is typing out some choice words 😂

Seriously tho.. this is crazy 😳

You weren't already? 😅

The harder part to mitigate is when you want to unlock your machine outside your own office...

Holy fuck, guess I'm muting my microphone on stream now while typing pwds

Remember, this doesn’t use any OpenAI API; you’re literally running the entire model.

Moreover, any developer can use my Colab notebook shortcuts and deploy this Llama language model for free, offering it with their apps.

It’s even easier than running your own relay. How does this make any sense? nostr:note1rtkrkwdq0k42pp26v22ltjdvxjf6umdkqzq4cfxgeutustfzzckq26djvy

Like the Nazis did to the Brits?

It's easy to criticize these actions when us civilians have been isolated from the effects of war for so long.

Yes, Nukes are pure evil and should never be used in war again. But they also served as an effective deterrent against civilian attacks, creating the relatively peaceful world we take for granted today.

History should be remembered to learn from our past mistakes, not assign blame through the lens of today.

I think perhaps the Japanese had show willingness to a conditional surrender, but that the US would only accept unconditional. I believe that the US is the most uncompromising and dominant empire we've seen since Rome, and Hiroshima strikes me as a Carthage or sacking of Jerusalem like moment in establishing hiarchey as a global hegemon in a history defining way. In that sense it was necessary (from the point of view of a US imperialist) It was needed to break the spirit of the Japanese and subdue the entire region (even world) to US power. But in terms of being necessary in the strict sense of simply ending the war, you are probably correct in that it wasn't needed. Not sure if the "pax Americana" would have lasted without the psychological edge it gave the US for decades after, although the value of the so-called "pax Americana" is itself something that can be debated, I am aware.

True, it's very easy to look at what they did and cast condemnations. I've thought about this quite a lot, and when I was younger I couldn't even fathom attempting to justify it. I always wondered why they didn't just drop it off the coast or something to showcase what they could do.

Think about this though... it took *two* direct atomic bombings to get the emperor to surrender.

Not one. Two.

That means they saw the absolute devastation and annihilation of the first bomb, and said "nah, we're not phased, we're staying the course". There is no reasoning with that level of devotion.

What would be the next step then? An invasion, more war, more "conventional" bombings and dead civilians. WWII already killed tens of milllions, and it could have easily been much higher.

Not saying if I were in control I would have done the same thing with certainty, but I at least understand the reasoning now.

A country at war is not “peaceful”.

It is not that simple. You can make a strong case that if the US had not murdered 100k civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese would not have surrendered, which would have necessitated a ground war in Japan for the Allies to win the war, that would have no doubt resulted in the death of millions of Japanese citizens.

Maybe, but your argument was "absolutely not necessity" which I think is untrue. Now if your argument should be interpreted as "violence is never necessary", Tolstoy-like pacifism, rather than "necessary" in any utilitarian sense of the word, then I respect your (I would argue) correct interpretation of the Gospel, and I see where you're coming from. I just think many people will misunderstand your original note without that context.

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