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Then no lobbying against the politicians would be needed to be done.

It’s easy to reduce it to party lines, but that kind of thinking is just wrong. Details matters.

Is there a word for reducing it to something abstract and then attacking the abstraction, even though it is leaky?

Well put. I haven’t thought about it like that.

Yes, if you see the LLM as a compressed dictionary of all available information.

But if they succeed with agentic reasoning models (we are absolutly not there yet) then I think meritocracy will be replaced with assetocracy. The better the model, the more expensive it will be and the better the software will be.

I don’t worry about it myself, but I do worry for my kids. Im not even sure what to teach them anymore to have a shot at early retirement (and they keep raising the retirement age too).

I correct my kids when they do mistakes, how else would they improve?

Calling people racist when they try to be helpful might say more about you than them.

I mean what I say and say what I mean is also something worth striving for.

If it did frequency analysis then I would consider it having a PhD level intelligence, not just a PhD level of knowledge (like a dictionary).

The Budapest Memorandum (1994) gave assurances, that the U.S. would militarily intervene or defend Ukraine under attack like an alliance-treaty.

Ukraine surrendered the sharpest tool in its arsenal for those assurances, its inherited nuclear arsenal, the world’s third-largest at the time. But the loss was broader than warheads; it was the surrender of a strategic future.

America first means America first. All politicians will say one thing and do another, always check the incentives…

US needs China to have something for us to rally against, otherwise focus might be on the asset owners vs workers, which would cripple us.

We need to win the AI race! The implication being that there can not be more than one winner…

Might sound cliche but it might shape you to become a responsible person from pure pressure.

If you are jumping around from project to project, odds are that lack of commitment stems from lack of pressure.

No one wants pressure though… it’s hell.

They have the eight highest MEDIAN wealth per capita, USA is in place 15th.

42 homicides year 2021, so an extremely safe country too.

Calling people too dumb to handle democracy sounds a tad facist. They are literally in top 10.

I can tell you our politicians where usually picked up from high school, never been to college, and had worse grades than the general public.

So direct democracy might be like capitalism… the worst system besides all the others.

The media have been shouting the high salaries and IQ of programmers for nearly three decades, it was bound to satiate the market one day, with or without AI. Add to that the addictive nature of programming…

Well, in this era Im not entirely sure the quality aspect is even considered. CEO wants AI? Then he will get it, so that the next earnings call can be bombastic!

Saving zero dollars and making the product worse is not important, only that there doesn’t seem to be a browser monopoly is.

And if they don’t match? Let’s say all of those parmeters indicated a different country…

In theory everything will work fine, with models being sent to Apple as weights. In practice, Gemini will probably be a huge service with a lot of Google consultants doing remote work in Apples cloud… with debug info being sent directly to Google… all with contracts saying it is not allowed to use the data for anything else than “improving their services“.

If Google only gets money from this, Id be happily surprised, but this is an ad company with sharp finance sharks…

You might be on to something. Do you have any further reading?

Wow, know you make me curious about the business processes at Microsoft. Did they see that they would earn more money if the interpreter had a 5x speedup, that they wouldn’t see with 1.5x? Or was it trust broken?

More important is if they fire any managers that don’t make good strategic decisions…

Here is another study, as early as 2008 that shows similar results:

Objective: We sought to determine the prevalence of PA among Israeli and UK Jewish children and evaluate the relationship of PA to infant and maternal peanut consumption

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19000582/

Insane stuff. The headline doesn’t do it justice.

” This student described getting a phone call from their country's chief negotiator who said, "I know you told me not to budge on anticircumvention, but the USTR tells me that if we don't give them this, they will block our agricultural exports. I'm sorry." Country by country, the world fell into line.”

You are criticising them for their lack of CVEs?

And to top it off you add Microsoft into your mentions, that just had a disastrous security bug, that was just mind blowing?

I get what you are saying but the FANG evangelism gotta stop. They are just like other huge companies. When was the last time your bank got hacked?

I hear quite a lot of these stories from my parents. Are these kind of personality shifting diseases, like Alzheimers becoming more common? And if so, is it because we take better care of our hearts and don’t die as early as?

Why attack someone like Satoshi who can’t/won’t defend himself on based only on your own hunches?

It will be funny if it isn’t social engineering.

But if we find it drifts further and further from the truth in cases of biases in news articles, image generation and others we will find ourselves bombarded with historical deviances where everyone can be nudged to anything.

All in the name of safety.

They currently have the most unpopular prime minister in history with 64% disapproval rating.

Give it time. As long as democracy/liberties are not taken away they will heal.

Scandinavians are known for being quite naïve and Americans are quite good at psyops (historically).

You might expect them to have christian values, but it would be a mistake…

You don’t get to decide the price after the fact.

The petroldollar has been amazing for every citizen of US… somethings just give and take.

US can choose to jump out of Nato whenever it wishes.

The real danger here is that we might all be chatting against llm bots…

Exactly my thoughts.

I think US ownership (not necessarily of land) is inevitable, but it is going to take a couple of decades of these kind of polarising pieces.

It will, in time. You basically cut the hierarchy in half. A citizen can now meet their politician in the supermarket.

The other parts necessary is transparency and democracy but those are on other orthogonal axis.

Brexit was an awful thing, BUT it will increase democracy for both parties.

EU needs to be made more democratic or we need to severely limit its power, as its original intent, because the current show is just a farce.

Ylva Johansson (the creator) didn’t get into the EU by being popular in Sweden, she was appointed by the Social Democratic government in 2019, and commissioners aren’t elected anyway. For Brussels the boxes she ticked (party loyalty, decades of ministerial experience, gender balance in von der Leyen’s Commission) mattered more than domestic approval. In fact, governments often use the EU to park politicians who’ve lost their shine at home. Now she’s mostly known for pushing “chat control” (mass scanning of private messages), which only makes the disconnect clearer: an unpopular figure at home ends up driving some of the EU’s most controversial policies.

It was not a Nobel prize. It is a parody prize that dishonours Nobels name, called Ig Nobel By Marc Abrahams.

Your reward is a solitary banknote for the amount of 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars $0.40 USD.