"This is a great data center we're building, surely nothing ग़लत हो सकता है!"
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Was hast du gesagt? Kannst du etwas lauter sprechen? Ich versteh dich nicht.
This is a great data center we're building, surely nothing ग़लत हो सकता है!
Besser?
Besser?
Leider nein, ich habs immer noch nicht verstanden. Danke trotzdem
De nada
Wen? Den Ader? Wer ist das?
Como é? Fala mais alto!
Wohin soll ich kommen? Wer ist alt? Du nuschelst ein bisschen hab ich das Gefühl. Kannst du etwas deutlicher und langsamer reden?
Abokina, akwai wahalla. Ban gane ba.
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Oh no! If it succeeds, we’ll have a bunch of new programming languages
Have you heard of RustScript?
Gave me an idea. I will now be waiting for Rust++
I'm more into Rust# myself.
The Tower of Sloppel
The Tower of Babel was probably just a ziggurat that suffered a structural failure and the proto-Hebrew goat herders were like "haha that's what you get for building cities, assholes."
Funnily enough, something similar is probably the truth behind the "Exodus" and "Conquest of the Promised Land"
Tl;Dr the Israelites were just rural Canaanites
I think Abraham was originally from Ur, which was near Sumer...
But then again, nothing was written down until the time of Moses, so it really depends on how much you want to trust oral tradition.
The early Hebrew script was directly related to the Phoenician alphabet and Egyptian hieroglyphs though, so it does seem they at least had more than cursory contact with those civilizations
Yeah but Phonecians and Egyptians were in a shared trade sphere with Canaan. Phonecians were some of the primary traders of the Mediterranean and their city of Tyre is now in Lebanon. Ramesses II like many Pharoahs went on campaign in Canaan.
Canaan was a borderland between the spheres of influence of Mesopotamia and Egypt. It was a nice spot on the Mediterranean that never got powerful enough to challenge either for more than independence or mild incursion, and was far enough from each that it was hard to hold and different enough to contain exotic goods.
Abraham being from Ur makes sense. There's a lot of Mesopotamian influence in Judaism. Sure it's far, but the Hebrews saw themselves as people who left civilization after it became too corrupt to go be shepherds in the desert. All of that maps to things we know happened in various Mesopotamian cities at various times (and is common in all ancient cities). From there we have schismogenetic counterpoints with Mesopotamia, especially in the form of sexual mores (they aren't calling Babylon a whore because they think it's cool that Mesopotamians had sacred prostitution).
The bit I'm far more doubtful of is the long term enslavement in Egypt. Especially the stories of Joseph and Moses.
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Also, that a city would have done what cities do, attract people from all over, from an array of cultures and languages.
It's literally an allegorical warning against diversity, and the perils of not hiring an engineer.
I bet you can't prove that it wasn't a fully operational space elevator built by the same aliens who built the pyramids that they then sabotaged when they left/integrated into human society in order to prevent humans from becoming a space-fairing civilization and competing with/drawing attention from our advanced intergalactic neighbors.
Are those the same aliens that turned the earth flat?
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Shhh, nobody say anything. Nobody try to stop them.
We already have enough programming languages without yawallahod making more to punish us.
The ziggurat of slop
We could power it with an internal automated nuclear reactor and flood the access points with deadly radiation for extra security, what would go wrong?
It's Forbin' time!?
I haven't seen this particular piece of media, but I fully support this kind of tom-fuckery
Yeah, then God will destroy it and no one will be able to understand each other anymore
What if we build it on a repurposed oil tanker and park it in the great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Does no one think of the latency?
Ah fuck, the last time we did this, we got english. Still... maybe its worth it
"Come let us make bricks and burn them hard" somethjng somethjng Bad Religion
Every aspect of it written in a different programming language.
I imagine it looking something like this
Can it reach back to hell so these tech bros and chomo Caligula can return home?
Put them in space. You want maximally dumb data center? I'm afraid Musk and Bezos already have you beat.
Advantages:
- No planning department to come in and disrupt your idea with the laws of thermodynamics and silly questions like "Where is all the heat going to go?" and "where will the power come from?"
- No zoning and land use rules
- No taxes
- No one asking "Are jobs are being created in the community?"
"Oh no my space debris accidently destroyed your multi billion dollar datacenter"
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Only if you dedicate it to LLMs that translate languages between each other
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