Paradigma11

How much profit did Botswana generate of its natural resources before Debswana was founded?

Is that really a problem? Since there will be lots of evidence and criminals tend to fuck up quite a bit this should be well documented. Unless you think that those election fraudsters that buy tons of votes from civilians have better opsec than drug dealers and the like.

So it is like 3D because you do not visualize the complete 3D models but only 2D projections of them. Or do you really visualize the back and inside of a vase at the same time?

But in what goods/currency/assets are other nations paying China for those goods if China does not want/need to import anything?

Explain how this is supposed to work on any medium time frame.

But China wants to make everything, that is the problem. It might also be the case that we misunderstand the state of the Chinese economy quite a bit. I heard an argument by an economist that the situation is mainly explained by the real estate crash. That was a ginormous event but the government basically just denied any big consequences. That did kill the credit market for a long time. Now Chinese consumer have little money to spend and China is forced to export their products, no matter the price to keep things going.

That an Executive would remember what he recommended a month ago?

Unless it is specifically instructed in the system prompt it will give you the most likely answer, which is Claude. If there are instructions in the system prompt it will give the correct answer, which would be Kimi. Or are you suggesting that Kimi is copy pasting Claudes system prompt?

Please elaborate the mechanisms by which a LLM would know what model it is.

So, what exactly did Nuland do? What are the actions she took and how did those actions accomplish a coup? Besides, afaik there had been a plan in place for a peaceful resolution but Yanukovic chose to flee to his handlers in Moscow.

That does not make much sense. In 2014 Yanukovic was in power, who had been bought off by Russia. Lets not forget that Yanukovic ran on a pro EU platform and then reversed a day or so before signing the EU association agreement. Naturally the people went to the streets and eventually Yanukovic fled. Not sure what you would have wanted to spy on.

Its easier since they have no defenses up and lots of valuables are in reach. It makes sense if you are that ethically challenged.

So you are saying that you also don't have any concrete examples of the West doing the same.

So you are saying Germany and the UK have no right to see Russia killing people on their soil as hostile act because the US drops some bombs in the middle east?

The history is far more banal and less nefarious than you give it credit. Nobody gave a fuck about Russia. Russia was a self limited kleptocracy and everybody just ignored it because nobody needed the headache. That is why the reaction to the land grab in Georgia and later Crimea was pretty muted and everybody just hoped that Putin would be sated and ride into the sunset as great leader who took Crimea home into the motherland.

But he wants an empire, and an empire can not be an empire if nobody cares. So he overplayed his hand to sate his vanity. One of his first public announcements after the invasion was: "I hope I am now being heard.."

Well, the World heard and now it is raining oil in Moscow and the Russian provinces are getting depopulated.

One main difference is that those examples you brought up are ideological propaganda. RFE/RL try to amplify their message and yes, the current Russian regime is very antithetical to that message. Russian propaganda is not ideological, it tries to maximize the damage to western nations and uses whatever political and ideological message that will achieve that. They have been doing that for decades, which is something a hostile nation does.

As for the assassinations, those are wartime actions by Ukraine. Not sure how they are supposed to fit into our discussion.

As for Salisbury, so you found the story of these fitness supplement salesmen convincing?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrdqM6hNrI It has been my impression that not even Russia tries to push that narrative any more.

Only API or also sub?

From approx 2008 on Russia has conducted operations that are in no way ideological but have only the goal to destabilize western nations. Supporting extremist parties of all orientations, magnifying events in their propaganda to maximize discord without any ideological consistency. They also quite frequently kill people on western soil. Sometimes using radioactive and chemical weapons.

Please elaborate when the west has done the same in Russia.

Not a lot since WW2.

For me the main difference is if the activity is clandestine and meant to deceive/hide the origin. Everybody tries to influence things their way. Doing it covertly is a hostile act. That does not mean that I would not condone hostile acts against my/our enemies but it is something take into account. And regarding your Russian examples, it showed for how long they have seen the west as enemies and conducted hostile acts.

A gem Opus 5 gifted to me today: "A devastating pair of findings, and the first is beautiful in a way worth naming: the anti-vacuity floor is what blinds the gate to a vacuous case."

Absolutely, if there is any somewhat reasonable alternative, I will always use a non Musk product. Its less about morals but more about self interest. I am from Europe and Musk supports far right extremists and a breakup of the EU. I will not support and enable someone who intends to do me harm.

Yes, but it will be much more expensive and inefficient compared to the trades and alliances with nations that are trusted. Basically the US is a failed state. Functioning nations can make agreements that survive leadership changes. The US is not one of those.

For veracity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty was that guy.

But there wouldn't be a Chinese navy left which would give Taiwan and it's allies some breathing room.

If you take a look at ng prices you will see that the prices went up more than half a year before Russias invasion of Ukraine: https://www.macrotrends.net/3235/eu-natural-gas-prices The reason for this was because Gazprom stopped supplying the spot market and also bought storage capacity and kept it empty. All of that only made sense after the invasion to better blackmail Europe. It was their bad luck that China allowed them to attack only after the Olympics which took most of the force out of that blow. Anyway there was no sane way to continue this business relationship.

If you read up on it that was basically India protecting its corrupt cronies. Janestreet showed severe problems with some Indian companies and instead of fixing that and creating a healthier and more transparent market they decided to go after the messenger.

Thats not a property of nuclear power plants but of having been built some 60 years ago when nobody took that into account.

You are anthropomorphizing LLMs. They are just tools and cant build anything. He is responsible for the code, he built it.

Lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy

Do you have any actual rulings that support your interpretation?

How often do you need the task to turn out harder than you anticipate and the small model unexpectedly failing to change the calculation?