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weatherlite··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Isn't it a reasonable assumption that an LLM was involved in helping prepare this attack? §
weatherlite··on We won't "just hang out"
What? How are you gonna communicate with anything without speaking? The LLM will keep showing you videos and you will draw it pictures of what you want?
weatherlite··on For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue
Actually search still grew 12% yoy last quarter
weatherlite··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
> Was it the culture, as others here pointed out? Or did I just get busy with other things?

Culture or no culture LLMs killed SO for good, there's simply no need for it anymore

weatherlite··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
If not yen I for sure have that in Iranian currency I guess
weatherlite··on Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
There's a huge opposition to Bibi's government in Israel and unfortunately the American president is actively colluding in our election and even threatens Israelis - who are generally terrified, that Iran may destroy them and that he probably won't do anything about Iran unless Bibi is re-elected (!).

As for genocide, "Zionist terrorism" etc that's your worldview not how I see reality.

weatherlite··on Shitter – A Nitter Fork
What the hell is this Xit
weatherlite··on Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
I feel like you want to condemn all Israelis for some sick reason
weatherlite··on What shall I teach my son?
Don't get me wrong I like that list and agree with everything in it. I just think, as others have said, kids are smart. They pick up on our shit and unfortunately internalize a lot of our values, insecurities, biases, anxieties.

You can't really teach/enable any of that stuff for real without living it yourself and being an example - which is very difficult because most of us weren't really raised that way ourselves, so we're not like that.

I'm not so sure what my point is other than that change is very difficult and raising children is difficult and raising them to be genuinely good people will be very hard without change.

weatherlite··on What shall I teach my son?
> Parents should focus on enabling their children to be: Curious; Resourceful; Self-reliant (to feel they have agency in the world); Compassionate; Value personal integrity, themselves, their ideas / wishes, and time on the planet; Able to cooperate, communicate, and work as a team; Able to make sacrifices for the future versions of themselves ("I'm having a bad day today, what can I do to make tomorrow me have a better day?"); Able to enjoy life and find fulfillment (however small) even in bad times.

Could be nice to have if the parents knew how to do all that themselves ...

weatherlite··on [dead]
So , perhaps not a huge shocker but Trump has officialy endorsed Bibi as next prime minister in the upcoming elections. Not only endorsed, he's threatening Israelis things won't be good if they don't choose Bibi:

"If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so"

So, he's threatening Israelis if they don't vote Bibi he's gonna let Israel handle Iran on its own.

I can't express how damaging this is to the chances of replacing Bibi, very difficult moment for those of us in Israel who wanted to see him go - or in the very least wanted to see a neutral election where the leader of the free world doesn't intervene and threaten them to vote Bibi or else.

weatherlite··on Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank
> You think fully half the population of Israel opposes the current government and the actions of the settlers?

Well we know with a certainty that more than half of Israelis oppose this government by quite a majority, the current government can't get re-elected. As for what Israelis think about the violence in the territories - I don't have numbers but yes I think the vast majority opposes it. It might surprise you but it is being reported on almost daily in the major Israeli news media with an extremely alarmist and negative tone (which it should). Perhaps it's self serving (every Israeli with 2 brain cells understands what this is doing to our reputation and our longterm ability to survive) but I truly believe it just contradicts most Israeli's morals.

You will find very few people say it's cool to attack some elderly reporter or some shepherd kid just tending to his goats. They exist for sure but I don't think they're that many.

BTW I'm even surprised to see opinion pieces by very prominent and quite radical figures in the settlement movement (Hagai Segal, Benzi Lieberman to name a few) calling to stop with this shit.

weatherlite··on US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion
So ... low?
weatherlite··on Waymo in Toronto
Simple: humans are needed for their physical labor (traditionally) or more recently their cognition. We are now automating the cognition part, and it is widely believed physical labor will be automated not that far after that. So what's left ? Most A.I labs mention some form of UBI why do you think they're saying that?
weatherlite··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
I hear you but maybe not everyone wants this. It sounds great but it's also high investment/high effort and sometimes hurts and disappoints. I think some people are fine with having shallower relationships than that.
weatherlite··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
> Most people are completely and utterly uninteresting

How do we even define interesting ? Like interesting opinions/hobbies? Good storyteller ? Who cares about that. I do need to like you and you need to be an agreeable person imo, but no having a real unique life or opinions is really not that necessary imo. Having a sense of humor is a big plus to me though.

weatherlite··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Depends on how we define interesting. Interesting in itself is pretty overrated imo, I don't need you to be some artist who lives in the streets and is addicted to heroin - I mean that's really interesting but not something I want in my life. Be boring - have a 9-5 job like me. But be agreeable, be interested in me as well from time to time and we can relate. Whether we truly hit it off is not about how interesting I am to you or you are to me I think.
weatherlite··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Dang you're on top of things, kudos. Wish I had the mental energy to do all that.
weatherlite··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
No. I don't deny other groups could get attacked sometimes or have something vile said about them, but it's not at the same scale and geographic spread the Jews are having it.
weatherlite··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Which one is the least valuable?
weatherlite··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
I'm ruled by my wife's weight
weatherlite··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
> Assuming there is a secret group in charge of world affairs

Ah and it just so happens to be the Jews again, gee what a shocker never heard that before. And no , not antisemitic at all!

weatherlite··on CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse
I think you're talking to a bot no way is that a person
weatherlite··on CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse
> The CIA’s “red teams” are tasked with developing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots that can take hold within the intelligence apparatus.

So this is not some kind of consensus view within the CIA, it's a think group trying to come up with none consensus scenarios. We don't get to see the report itself of course so we don't know how likely the writers think this scenario is. Writing something may happen is great - if it happens you're a genius. If it doesn't happen - you wrote "may".

I'm not saying this definitely won't happen , but nothing makes me think this is likely anytime soon and I don't think the CIA itself thinks it is likely any time soon.

weatherlite··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
> somehow makes me sad in a far-off way, like hearing an ex-girlfriend died suddenly in a car crash

You mean you ran her over , or someone else ?

weatherlite··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
> The animals we raise for slaughter are often mistreated

"Often mistreated". Dude, they are held in tiny cages injected with hormones and what not till we kill them so we can have a big mac. It's very hard to argue we do any of this for nutrition reasons, we do it because we like the taste of burgers and roast.

weatherlite··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I think OP is saying Lean does indeed help.
weatherlite··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
The million dollars. A Nobel prize is worth a million dollars.
weatherlite··on Israeli man used AI, ChatGPT in covert tasks while spying for Iran
I don't think anyone is encouraging would be spies to talk to the Iranians. If anything these stories deter people from doing that.
weatherlite··on Gemini 4 Argon
> Google makes AI profits, its in their breakdowns.

What "AI profits" exactly. Their capex is through the roof. What they're actually earning is in cloud , their own AI is lossy for sure. Who is paying for Gemini? Not many people.

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