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by frm88 10d ago
Not exactly misfired, the title is somewhat clickbaity, 5 diplomats pointed to several aspects of difficulties with Ceta - nobody really "rebuffed" anything. The article is also somewhat hostile to the EU in general, is that a com
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by frm88 11d ago
Because Iran is a member of BRICS and BRICS establishes its own payment system as an alternative to SWIFT: https://observerdiplomat.com/brics-officially-announces-fina... on top of which they have digital payment systems wi
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by frm88 12d ago
The Chinese government does not concern itself with American AI, they have just reached an agreement with the BRICS members: the BRICS countries have been developing initiatives focused on the ethical governance of this technology, joint i
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by frm88 12d ago
You and I and METR and the public would all want the frontier labs to face adverse consequences if their products caused huge problems That makes you very negative forces, according to the US president: https://www.reuters.com&
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by frm88 12d ago
you will face criminal and financial penalties for damages caused. No you won't. The US president, yesterday: U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday likened critics of artificial intelligence to "very negative forces" bring
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by frm88 13d ago
He's right and I don't even like the guy. More importantly tho, painting China as "The Bad Guy" who has to be supressed at all cost until Dario feels he has a save advantage is a surefire way to minimise Chinese willingn
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by frm88 14d ago
the only dangers with the current technology is a) massive loss of employment, b) deployment by humans to control critical infrastructure that LLMs shouldn’t be in control of. Can we look at a possible economic disaster scenario for a bri
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Capital Without Labor: Data Centers and the Local Economy(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by frm88 16d ago|0 comments
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by frm88 17d ago
But why wait? We can has global financial crash now:)
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by frm88 17d ago
Example 8: like in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619884 but isolate synchronised megahack on banking that adds one more zero to the US debt and all dependent systems and banking during runtime. Let the
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by frm88 17d ago
There has been a big problem with migrants in the syrian civil war, most of which are gone again. Without immigrants the ageing German population has no chance to keep their social safety net and as we see in the US, even when the social sa
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by frm88 18d ago
They want to deport undocumented migrants and remigrate certain refugee groups, such as Ukrainians. No. They want an ethnical homogeneous country, hence their remigration institute. Feel free to educate yourself on the institutes own webs
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by frm88 19d ago
Conservators use a precise tracking system to ensure that the total amount of light the artefact receives does not exceed a safe annual threshold. These limits are essential for ensuring that the tapestry remains in a condition suitable fo
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British Museum faces question over Peter Thiel's private Bayeux Tapestry viewing(londondaily.news)
23 points by frm88 19d ago|3 comments
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by frm88 20d ago
If you guys didn't support Soviet union in 40s... You can go even farther back in time. If the US hadn't massively relieved the famine in Russia in 1920/21 there might have been a chance, Lenin and the Bolshevik regime wou
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by frm88 23d ago
I had to shorten the title from: Elon Musk Says AI Could Add Up To $30 Trillion A Year To Global Economy – Predicts ‘Stockfish-Level’ Capabilities Within 12 To 18 Months
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by frm88 25d ago
I have a Poke since 2022 because amazon deleted my library from my Paperwhite. Same functions, better format and I can buy my books directly via browser from Kobo. No more perpetual airplane mode. Also, tons of formats, not limited to awz o
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by frm88 29d ago
More dark triad because pure narcissicm misses the transactional behaviour and the psychopathy where a clear perception of reality is sometimes muddled. All three dark triad traits are believed to be conceptually distinct, although em
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by frm88 1mo ago
This was done for mostly ideological reasons, "green transition" and such. The area is sinking. Literally: " The pressure decline in the field causes compaction in the reservoir which is observed as subsidence at the surfac
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by frm88 1mo ago
The “nurture” explanation that I’m more inclined to, which is more optimistic, is that our culture changed, that people became risk-averse; science became feminized, bureaucratic, and regulated ... The Boomer kids were weaned off violent
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by frm88 1mo ago
But we don't necessarily know what we might find valuable in the future. 1. This is not the 404 media story you quoted as source 2. Maiberg's answer is most likely a book that has no emotional value. Translation: they do not k
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by frm88 1mo ago
Last I read North Korea seems to be doing amazing of late: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korea-economy-success-e...
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by frm88 1mo ago
Alphabet is issuing Euro bonds in big tranches. Euro, not dollar. They diversify away from the dollar: https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabet-taps-euro-bond-mar...
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by frm88 1mo ago
And even that was a betrayal of European allies since the US sold Euros without notifyong the ECB. Lagarde will see to it that such a thing never happens again. The trust, though, is gone. https://www.ft.com/content/d99
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by frm88 1mo ago
It's not. The 404 article states (paraphrase): we're not going to disclose any titles, so where does your information come from. Please provide a link.
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by frm88 1mo ago
You're trying to imagine rare valuable books and then fantasizing about AI companies destroying them, but what's actually happening here is that AI companies are acquiring, digitizing, and then pulping the instruction manuals to
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by frm88 1mo ago
Off topic: The dead comment below by AnthonyMouse already pointed out that even in your scenario there's no difference with the status quo anyway. It's insane that it's dead and reeks of astroturfing, as nothing about it is
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by frm88 1mo ago
There is an expansion to the surveillance. The cameras now get additional phone tracking abilities: https://archive.is/Tkwc3
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by frm88 1mo ago
English Is the Finest Language, and Thus, Perhaps, More Fingerprintable Lastly, here’s an interesting point to ponder. English is the most expressive language in the world. Don’t take my word for it — it’s the only language I speak... Th
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by frm88 1mo ago
https://archive.is/Tkwc3

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