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I wonder if anyone's tested the reverse, whether Claude/GPT models produce worse code for an ostensible Chinese or Russian government agency or contractor.

Zuckerberg's Hawaiian demesne has a fully underground bunker complete with medical clinic. I know several people who worked on it (and disregarded their NDAs entirely, impossible to prevent people in Hawaii from talking story)

In order to really do the math here, you'd have to determine whether such drugs are as likely to be created under non-capitalist regimes. In other words, even if capitalism has less-than-ideal mechanisms for distributing lifesaving drugs widely (during their patent period at least), maybe it is better at creating lifesaving drugs in the first place. It's possible that the net result of the capitalist pharmaceutical industry is millions of lives saved. Without taking that account, you can't do a real cost-benefit analysis.

Of course, it's probably not really possible to do such a comparison, because there are so many other factors, and state intervention is everywhere even in capitalist countries, via publicly funded research.

I think the only really fair way to compare which system causes more deaths than the other is to look at overall health outcomes and lifespans.

I thought it sounded a little stilted and weird and then I realized that was the human half of the conversation.

The conversation with the AI fake wife was a little creepy, albeit honest about what this tech is probably going to be used for.

Based on my search attempts for specific works or artists by name, it seems that it's not using the catalog text.

Yes, it would probably benefit from a hybrid search with RRF.

The comma after "hear" reads as non-LLM to me

A day of press is probably better than no press at all, if you're the CEO of a publicly traded company

Ukraine and Russia routinely exchange POWs. This wouldn't be possible if Russia almost never kept POWs alive.

A few random recent examples from this year (but there are many others):

https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/russia-and-ukraine-swap-...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-ukraine-swap-205...

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2026/06/05/russia-u...

Correcting mistruths is not a defense of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Your own reading comprehension needs work. The commenter I was describing is clearly writing from their own perspective, and uses the word "they" to describe Ukrainians

> We did lose manufacturing jobs, but not because we "sold" them, it's because productivity has increased so much.

It's because of both.

Mature economies would do well to hold onto some basic manufacturing capacity as a matter of national security. Or at the very least, retain some of that capacity within the sphere of close and trusted allies, assuming allies of that type can even be maintained by the US at this point.

It's for the resumes of the people "writing" them

I'm a millennial and I feel like nearly all the discourse about who is (generationally) responsible for society's problems is aimed at the boomers. And the zoomers to a lesser extent, though that seems more of a prophecy about how they're going to ruin society. Jabs aimed at us millennials tend to be that we're cringe (or boring), which I can accept.

Not accusing you (or the imaginary person who returns many things but can't reach a post office, UPS store, etc, since you've made it clear that isn't you) of abuse. But it makes sense that they are doing analysis and banning customers that look like they're abusing the system, regardless of the truth of the matter. If someone is frequently receiving damaged goods and frequently requesting refunds without returns, that will be flagged for fraud.

Dinner + tip can easily reach $200 if you're talking about a fancy restaurant for date night, even with just a single drink each. $50 for parking is crazy, that's like a music festival price or something.

Of course, if you live in the kind of city where the above is true, then a very delicious dinner + tip can usually be had for $50-75, it just won't be as fancy.

You don't have to live this way. To begin with, drinking a six pack at night on a regular basis is absolutely terrible for your health. It disrupts your sleep and so you will always be operating well below what you could be. The social problems are harder to solve because they are society-wide and not individual, but at your age a lot can change, and I think it's really important that you don't start to give up and think of your situation as inevitable, lest you ossify.

Uphill battles are often worth fighting.

I think people are actually increasingly exhausted and disillusioned with life, but that increase is basically entirely due to spending hours doomscrolling and similar behavior.

Your second paragraph seems to explain your first.

I believe you have missed the point entirely.

That would actually be quite interesting. But then there's something sad about the thought that the results, if shared online, would likely be used to train future models.

Wild leap from biome-destroying alien colonization to election interference. Quite imaginative.

I believe we're already past that point, at least in the US. Only 44% of American adults had level 3 literacy (6th-grade level) or higher in 2023 [0], down from 48% in 2017. We are probably near 40% now.

These are not necessarily unintelligent people, but they haven't developed the skills necessary to critically analyze textual information. My opinion is that without those skills it is not possible to meaningfully engage in a democratic system.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

There is good evidence that at least some of them take the idea very seriously.

NYT gift link to article about their discussions with religious leaders: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-moral...

Believing that these guys have high enough EQ to pull off the above as a marketing stunt while remaining believable is not really plausible to me.

There are many 300mcg options available on Amazon.

Americans are quite bifurcated on this topic, and although the population as a whole might be pretty out of shape there is a fairly large subset for whom exercise is practically a religion.

> It is difficult to imagine a people - on paper the richest, most educated and healthiest in the history of the world - intentionally choosing a real villain as their duly-elected leader.

Arguably the richest in terms of the GDP per capita, but I don't think Americans have ever been the most educated or healthiest in the world.

Fixed link: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-yandex-says-sec...

(looks like they changed "center" to "centre")

Elon Musk and I are doing quite well financially, in aggregate.

Obviously how wealth is distributed is a hugely important factor, which a "good" economy does not necessarily take into account.

I not only do it on paper to stay sharp, sometimes I even do it in my head.

Probabilities are one reason. If the Decisions call returns a decision with a low probability you could route that decision to a smarter model.