Determining if there is a genocide or not doesn't depend on the kill score but on factors which (ironically) find their highest experts among jews and Israelis (Lemkin, Bauer, Charny, Auron). Some of them have actually helped define the definition in the UN Genocide Convention.
If you take a look at the definition, even before October 7th, Israel is pretty much committing a genocide.
Regardless of the outcome, one of the key factors is intent, and after October 7th, lots of important Israeli figures came forward with unambiguous statements of their intent.
I'm not particularly involved with the whole Israel/Palestine question yet I was unable to not find myself put in front of a lot of evidence, and I don't follow/have social media.
Feels like saying a kidnapper is "actually" feeding its prisoner, so after all it's not so bad. With all the money and political goodwill the US has spent on Israel, couldn't these good results be reached by anybody having that much capture on the US?
The real treat would be using AI to stop regulatory capture so you don't end up in a country where it's okay to be presented with a 195K bill that can be magically lowered if you insist hard enough.
I think "our" mistake is that we wanted to make a modern human first, while being unable to make an animal or even a caveman, and we lost something in the leap-frog.
But we effectively have a database of knowledge that has become interactive thanks to reinforcement learning, which is really useful!
It's truly saddening that we have to solve this problem technically, whereas it should have been solved politically (or better, this absurd thing should never have been considered). The fact that it can be slightly contained by more technically capable people is worse, because instead of shocking everyone all at once it allows you to boil the frog as a politician.
Pretty sure lots of smart-minded europeans would love a chance for europe to detach and be actually allowed to develop its own services sector. Seems to me the US wants europe to be a contributing ally when it suits, and an open market to dump services into when it doesn't
Somebody might even say that the administration sees russia as a useful tool to force europeans into paying a protection tol, not sure it's limited to this administration either
The AGI argument assumes there is a 0 -> 1 moment where the model suddenly becomes "AGI" and starts performing miraculous tasks, accompanied by recursive self-improvement. So far, our experience shows that we are getting incremental improvements over time from different companies.
These things are being commoditized, and we are still at the start of the curve when it comes to hardware, data centers, etc.
Arguing for an all-in civilization/country bet on AGI given this premise, is either foolish or a sign that you are selling "AGI"
I think the "deep state" crusade assumes a sort of good faith that it's obviously lacking in this administration, judging their intent from their behavior and outcomes paints a much scarier picture.
I agree. My speed at reviewing tokens <<<< LLM's token's. Perhaps an output -> compile -> test loop will slow things down, but will we ever get to a "no review needed" point?
The USSR fell because its economic model didn't work and was a society steered by corrupt principles. Jeans and rock and roll "envy" was just a symptom. After having seen the effect of communism/russianism on post-soviet countries I'd rather take a nuclear bomb, it's better in the long term.
Sanctions work but it depends what you are min-maxing because obviously some sanctions may hurt your own country/block.
This needs to be solved at the language level by defining whitelist-like contexts. Some sort of
with MyContext(allow_sys_cmds=false, network=false, read_disk=false):
...
I've seen at least a paper trying to bolt-on such a feature on golang but it's way too convoluted. Of course this doesn't solve everything, especially for languages with magic/collateral effects like running logic on module import.
Assuming the "Designed for caching immutable blobs", I guess the approach is to indeed increase the cache size in each AZ or eat the cross-AZ networking costs.
And a lot of lead-generating subreddits are gatekept by admins/mods, sometimes for money. Also, there are russians offering services to promote (spam upvotes and fake comments) your product, and for some of our competitors it's very obvious when that happens, somehow reddit doesn't notice.
Same about twitter, somehow super tight checks for normal users while some spam is somehow unfiltered. Social media is a destructive force.
But that's exactly the point of those visas! It's all about leverage. I truly hope that one day, centuries from now, we will look at the fact that people working for the richest man in the world had to poo in bags to work harder and faster with disgust
A huge problem of articles in general is that they are made to entertain you rather than inform you because of ad-driven incentives. It's indeed all bullshit.