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I think recent events have proven otherwise. Asymmetric warfare hurts the big guy more than it hurts the little one. The US was only ever in charge of the world order because most of it's power was not through military action. The threat is there, sure, but the US built most of it's empire off of soft power and diplomacy. Ironically, flexing it's military muscles too much is one of the few sure ways of destroying the American hegemony.

It makes me wonder- how many people are making a living guessing 'secrets' like this on polymarket? Not with bribes and leaks, but just poor infosec. Seems like interesting work, and probably lucrative with the right skillset.

I look forward to anthropic drone swarms defending against AWS mounted infantry and OpenAI cruise drones. SpaceX is at war with Pepsi. SpaceX had always been at war with Pepsi.

I mean... just about every 'enforcement' of international norms has been by american hard and soft power. Might has always made right, it's just that the guy with the biggest gun happened to have western liberal values.

Seems like that changed a little in the last decade. Hopefully it's not forever, but who knows.

Some careers that will undoubtedly exist are the 'human manipulation' trades: politicians, salespeople, con artists, religious leaders, basically anyone who convinces people to feed them.

...Do you think the point of the United States of America is to help you get a job that a brown person is better qualified for?

Why not just decide that only white people or only men or only people born on Tuesdays can apply for the job you want?

The job should go to the most qualified person. That's how america works. If that most qualified person is actually a guy who was born in india, great. I have no problem with that. You don't get to bogart opportunity based one what zip code you were born in.

If they had wage parity there is zero disadvantage to a US citizen. The problem is not H1B's as a concept, it's making foreign workers indentured servants paid a fraction of the wage, thus incentivizing their hiring over US citizens.

From the internet: In 2026, you can contribute up to $24,500 pre-tax or Roth to your 401(k). Some plans may allow after-tax contributions up to the combined employee and employer limit of $72,000. The annual contribution limit for IRAs, including Roth and traditional IRAs, is $7,500 for 2026.

One of these things is not like the other...

What does it mean for a gas to be 'fickle'? Hydrogen gets stored long term all the time. It's made in refineries and used in chemical plants all over the world every day. It's expensive to store, but it's certainly doable with the right metallurgy. If your goal is reducing carbon emission as much as possible, it's way better than methane, regardless of source.

Yes, best to live in a cave and never take any risks or have any contact with dangerous, suspicious, filthy humans.

It's fine. There is plenty of good in the world. Touch some grass and take a deep breath.

No, scientists check their work before releasing it. Slop is still slop if you wrap it up as an academic result.

It is irresponsible when nobody checked it for correctness first. They just copy pasted what the slop machine spit out.

This is weirdo pseudo-neo-religious slop.

This metaphor might be applicable if the AI slop machine was in fact producing novel output. It seems to be getting invalidated as people dig through the wall of meaningless text surrounding the actual results.

I think the obscurity is a feature, not a bug. They don't want a headline where 250 of these results are invalidated overnight. They want rejections to trickle out and be buried.

Because people are finding errors using other LLMs. This implies that if they spent a miniscule fraction of the enormous pile of money they spend making this pile of slop they'd find the errors. They didn't want to find errors. They want to build hype for an IPO.

If you want to be secure in your papers, maybe don't type them into a giant data collecting machine.

You can barely capture folding laundry using task data, and you're vastly underestimating how much independent decision making the trades do in their regular work. If I'm honest this whole thing reads like someone who's never been exposed to the actual work.

It might shock you to learn that almost everything that has ever been explained to anyone has been dumbed down from the true description of reality.

We make little abstractions of the world around us to help us navigate it. Nothing wrong with that.

How much do we care about refugees and other castaways of the modern world? They can tell us how much they suffer.

The answer is that humans are inherently only capable of local empathy, on average. We have enough empathy to cover the local tribal unit and that's about it.

training data for physical tasks like that is much, much harder than just collecting the entire internet. It'll be resistant to AI much longer than knowledge work will be

Is this a point you're arguing seriously? If you find someone's plans to, for example, shoot up a school crumpled in a note on the ground that should be...ignored? Or what? I struggle to comprehend what you're actually arguing for here.

You're really stretching here for some reason I can't fathom, but yes - if you write a credible threat to shoot up your school on a crumpled up paper and someone finds it, they should report it. I'm not sure that complicating this with which kind of app it's written in is all that useful ...

Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.

Pro tip: there have been a lot of people before the current ones.

Generally true for all things.

I think wildly out of control inflation is what's doing that.

When half of the people who have lived stopped living because of a mosquito I think we are firmly in the 'give it a shot and see what happens' territory. As long as you don't kill half the population it was a success.

I don't even think government would be the primary customer. Advertisement is already that.

...yes?

They draw the line using a team of humans who evaluate whether the threat is real and give a recommendation to management.

If you operate a gun store and someone reveals to you that they intend to use your product to shoot up a school you have a similar moral obligation, I think. This isn't a special case.

Those tax refunds are a little more eye watering IMO. Why? The net economic benefit of a datacenter is almost zero.