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How long would it take to turn a defensive mechanism into an offensive one?
Well, you see, if men stay alive, but women are killed, society collapses eventually as not enough new people are born. It sucks being a man in this scenario, but it is what it is.
I don't know if US miles gives better deals, but in EU (Flying Blue, KLM) Amsterdam-Munich (1hr flight) business class is 52k miles. Amsterdam - Los Angeles business class goes for 550k miles. For 1 passenger.
I red 1984 and "Brave new world" roughly at the same time, and for quite some time I thought 1984 to be too unrealistic, and I considered bnw as more likely scenario.
I was wrong.
I found that running an agent in ralph loop, showing it the agent text and saying "run this, if it fails - identify the reason, and modify the agent instructions to avoid this, acceptance criteria are this and that" worked surprisingly well. Not sure if it qualifies as a self-referential self improving, but it was something.
How long would it take to turn a defensive mechanism into an offensive one?