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It seems like the better strategy is to not be worth bombing to begin with. It can be extremely expensive to act like israel on the global stage and I strongly recommend we don't do that any more than we already are. Americans are pretty notorious at encouraging and being unwilling to avoid blowback and avoiding all sense, and this seems trivially avoidable by not using our military to perpetrate evil. For the eighth fucking decade in a row.

Like, is clouflare just a saas for hosting memcached or does it provide some distinct sense of value that the rest of us don't see?

The complete disintegration of the concept of intellectual property seems worth it

What does cloudflare contribute? free hosting or

They've shifted their em-dash usage to the british standard (any dash+spacing on either side for no discernable reason—probablt a typesetting detail that hasn't made sense forever) and it looks like shit. I know, like other british standards—it's still sad to see.

That such a phenomenon is easily visible in waveform make this pretty expected. Animals likely evolved to discretize audio long before mammals showed up

> it's in deciding what to build and what not to build

Unfortunately, humanity seems like a race destined to kill itself. People are more interested in how much they hate their neighbor or feel excited about an advertisement than anything meaningful. such a society has no basis for stable governance.

I don't think anyone is arguing their car product is illegal. Legality seems more focused on the self esteem of boomer losers than it is on giving a shit about all other humans. We must learn to exist in a world where we don't have much and the state hates us—already reality, but we don't have to deal with liberalism

I see people just skip over the part where "intelligence" is uncomfortably difficult to define and may not be a generally coherent concept to begin with.

It worries me far more what people are ok with us doing in broad daylight.

> Have you ever wondered why Manus founders gave up billions of dollars from Meta and “voluntarily” moved back to Beijing?

This country wouldn't be such a shithole if we were able to bring the wealthy to heel. I suspect most people on earth see China as the more competently governed country. Understandably, this forum tends to select for people who view private investment positively, but this is clearly insufficient by itself to produce functional societies.

In what way is this an engineering achievement? Presumably two thousand years ago people understood that flight requires lift. It's not like anything novel is occurring here.

Presumably this isn't an actual roadster but a motor in a hollow car

Probably worth it just as an investment into their developer ecosystem. They could probably sell at a deep loss and still justify it.

That is generally how hardware gets sold yes

Not to mention other technologies like balloons that actually make climbing through the (denser) atmosphere easier on denser planets.

I imagine most people don't expect actual justice in life.

I favor a "diversify" approach more than I have a dogmatic interest in any one source. The benefits of developing any of these far outweigh the costs.

I'm struggling to imagine how this even comes up.

> Does a system need the knowledge of the full works of Shakespeare to be able to output Javascript?

Probably not unless you're writing tooling relevant to literature or prose, but I can't imagine trusting jetbrains (or any ai studio) to curate this.

Frankly, with the EA folks I've met (only in the bay area btw), none of them seem well-read enough for me to trust them with a cent.

You might call it a capital movement

Man who refers to Heaven's Gate as a social movement

Or on a windless night?

Why is both not an option? Nuclear works well where solar and wind don't.

Surely this should be the opposite direction, no? Nvidia drivers on linux have always been trash. If anything, I would much prefer nvidia learn from amd.

Compared to what? It serves its niche quite well. It's not nuclear power's fault people wait until they should have built it twenty years ago.

> but being able to solve problems not known in advance

So.... people expect it to read minds?

This is such a silly game to play, trying solving problems we haven't even created yet.

LLMs do not learn at all!

This was facetious of course, but humans generally don't learn this through analysis the way you'd have to train an LLM to answer questions about expectations about the world. In this sense he is accurate.

I'd take ASI (or even AGI) more seriously if we could actually propose problems such things could solve. That's actually fun to think about! As it is, it feels a lot more like a really crappy drug that got slipped into some peoples' drinks that makes them ramble in random fits of psychotic mania.

Manipulating people is not a very difficult problem, frankly. You certainly don't need AI for that; it just made it cheaper.

> and they would still complain if they got it wrong - it's always the platform/company's fault.

I mean, it's really not unless they don't build it in the first place—that really is the platform's fault.