Drilling is slow. Efficiency isn’t the point here, speed is.

This isn’t exactly a regular road either but highway number four which leads straight to Helsinki.

You can see these same hooks on the support pillars of most bridges as well. Once you start paying attention to it you can’t really unsee it.

I’m not sure if this is something you’ll find an official source for as FDF isn’t known for openly sharing information regarding national defence.

However, you can find plenty of discussion about it online and for example on this video it’s mentioned around the 1:25 mark.

Payload only accounts for a small part of the missile’s cost. It’s still going to be really expensive for both parties.

Locals don’t seem to mind. At least this one. Just filming and unable to contain her laughter.

Here’s a nearby railroad bridge with an opening left for the explosives instead of hooks. Different bridges use different methods.

Oh, c’mon now. People are individuals. You’re not really doing anyone any favors with these broad generalizations. Not all non-straight men are interesting, and not everyone who joined a fraternity is an NPC incapable of thinking for themselves. You can’t just take a massive group of people like that and treat them as if they’re all the same.

Which of those vehicles don’t even need to exist?

Waking up at 7am on weekends?

This is genuinely so strange to me. I wouldn’t generally mind that one has to somehow prove themselves to be able to join but just to humiliate other because it’s something you had to endure few years earlier makes no sense to me and I don’t want anything to do with a club that does that. I’m far more likely to find likeminded people within the group who chose not to join for the same reason.

Why would you assume they’re all straight?

As with most things like this it’s probably a spectrum rather than something you either are or are not. It’s easy to tell when someone is in the far end of that spectrum but the line where it officially crosses into psychopathy is always going to be arbitrary.

I never claimed it will.

I’d imagine the core idea is to try and limit investing for individuals only - not organizations.

Couldn’t we all just get along…?

You don’t seem very interested in sticking to the topic, do you? This conversation has been all over the place, complete with ad-hominems, concern-trolling, red herrings, strawmen, gish galloping - as if you’re trying to break some kind of record.

It’s pretty clear you’ve built up a cartoon-villain version of me in your head and now you’re fighting that imagined version like it’s real. I made a pretty simple claim about AGI, you’ve piled an entire story on top of it, and now you’re demanding I defend views I don’t even hold.

I’ve been trying to have a good-faith conversation here, but if this is what you’re going to keep doing, then I’ll just move on.

That doesn’t have anything to do with my claim about the inevitability of AGI.

So do you think Dyson Spheres are inevitable too?

I’m less certain about that than I am about AGI - there may be other ways to produce that same amount of energy with less effort - but generally speaking, yeah, it seems highly probable to me.

First you were implying that today’s AI would bring about AGI

I’ve never made such a claim. I’ve been saying the exact same thing since around 2016 or so - long before LLMs were even a thing. It’s in no way obvious to me that LLMs are the path to AGI. They could be, but they don’t have to be. Either way, it doesn’t change my core argument.

people you hold so dear

C’moon now.

Fair enough. Kids were also their retirement plan.

My argument is that we’ll incrementally keep improving our technology like we have done throughout human history. Assuming that general intelligence is not substrate dependent - meaning that what our brains are doing cannot be replicated in silicon - or that we destroy ourselves before we get there, then it’s just a matter of time before we create a system that’s as intelligent as we are: AGI.

I already said that the timescale doesn’t matter here. It could take a hundred years or two thousand - doesn’t matter. We’re still moving toward it. It does not matter how slow you move. As long as you keep moving, you’ll eventually reach your destination.

So, how I see it is that if we never end up creating AGI ever, it’s either because we destroyed ourselves before we got there or there’s something borderline supernatural about the human brain that makes it impossible to copy in silicon.

If you’re just gonna keep ignoring every single point I make and keep rambling about unrelated shit, then there’s nothing left to discuss here. If you actually had an argument, you would’ve made it by now.