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by myrmidon 9mo ago
You absolutely have a point, I just don't see how this is functionally different from western/US policy, especially from the perspective of e.g. BRIC nations: We have ample evidence that US intelligence siphons data from literally
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I don't want to be overly dismissive, but where do you actually see the cultural threat scenario? Do you want the west to stick together mainly to preserve disneyified European fables in cinema as opposed to Chinese three-kingdoms dram
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I wonder if this might even be below reasonable "subsidy-compensation" tariff levels. BYD, for reference, got almost 30% of their 2024 income from the Chinese state (~$1.4b). But this is always difficult to judge because most nati
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
> WHich question did I not answer? The "what policies should a perfect government have enacted instead, with hindsight". But your last post adds a lot on that front. > Depressing economic situations is what leads people to s
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I think people generally vastly underestimate the negative effect of "nativism"/anti-immigration rethoric on desirable foreign workers. Even if those desirable foreigners are completely unaffected by actual policy. I person
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
You are exactly not answering the question though. It is easy to complain about energy dependence, struggles with immigration/integration and precarious national budgets, but the conditions for those weren't caused by recent dec
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I completely disagree with your base premise: I think EU leadership (national + EU) performed on an average level over the last three decades, and the EU as an insitution did even better than I would've expected given its limitations&#
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
Just because of supply/demand alone? If sitting in a comfy office pays as well as it does, why would people take care of children or build houses for way less? I think this is just Baumols cost disease in action: you really cant have
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
Are there significant usecases for the really small LLMs right now (<10b distills and such)? My impression so far was that the resulting models are unusably stupid, but maybe there are some specific tasks where they still perform accepta
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I do agree that boiling it down to a single comparison is always gonna be reductive, but the median is IMO still the best you can do here, because it ignores outliers completely (on both sides). From what I can tell the prosperity gap is al
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
Agree completely with your position. I do think though that lack of online learning is a bigger drawback than a lot of people believe, because it can often be hidden/obfuscated by training for the benchmarks, basically. This becomes ve
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
The same is true for China, though; all the wealth is at the urbanized coast, with a somewhat poor and underdeveloped hinterland.
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
What numbers are you referring to? From what I found, median full-time salary in the UK is >40k USD/year, and in urban (!) China it's ~20k USD/y. Purchasing power adjustment is ~1.5 (in favor of China, obviously), so this
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
Brits already have more prosperity (=> median wages) even after adjusting for purchasing power. Some stagnation is to be expected from high energy prices and trade disruption (brexit). British surveillance state tolerance has always be
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
What pockets of reddit do you suspect of being heavily Russia-influenced? My experience of reddit is that it is wildly anti-Russian since the invasion, sometimes to an almost cartoonish degree (e.g. r/worldnews).
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
There was a discussion around a very similar model (Qwen3 based) some weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826 I found it particularly thought-inspiring how a model with training from that time period comple
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
This is exactly how a lot of "misinformation" spreads in reality: The article implies to a typical reader that the danish governments stance changed in some way, or that there was some kind of posturing regarding US/greenland
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
The article says no such thing, it just makes sensationalist implications. The actual meat is: Danish newspaper approaches government and asks if the 1952 order is still in effect-- government replies "yes". Which is a complete no
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
You want individuals to have one vote, instead of half a million (by bombarding other voters with misinformation/propaganda at a modest price).
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
I'm absolutely not saying that there is no western propaganda. But giving control over your media to any single actor (especially sovereign ones) is basically suicide for a democracy because it allows those actors to "democratic
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
Absolutely. A quite typical way for dictatorships to consolidate power. But the question is how much this applies, especially in most western states; there is a huge spectrum between having some government-determined regulation (or funding)
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
Counterpoint: Sufficient media control kills a democracy because it enables you to control public sentiment and election outcomes. A democracy that yields sufficient media control to (single) individuals, corporations or foreign nations is
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
So your theory is that a single, coherent actor ("deep state"?) is responsible for current public sentiment that is both somewhat critical of social media and specifically foreign control of that media? I disagree on that. In a de
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
I do agree mostly, but the threat is not empty: If democratic outputs can be sufficiently controlled via media that is for sale, then you already have a de-facto plutocracy. Similarly, allowing foreign interests a significant media presence
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
What I mean is: This ringbuffer implementation (and its simplicity) relies on the index range being a multiple of the buffer size (which is only true for powers of two, when the index is e.g. a 32bit unsigned integer). If you swap bitmaskin
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
What is your worst-case scenario here? Something like a pop-sci article along the lines of "Mad scientists create racist, imperialistic AI"? I honestly don't see publication of the weights as a relevant risk factor, because s
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
I do agree with this and think it is an important point to stress. But we don't know how much different/better human (or animal) learning/understanding is, compared to current LLMs; dismissing it as meaningless token predicti
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
Replacing just the mask operation is not enough. The problem is incrementing past the index integer type limit. Consider a simple example with ring buffer size 9, and 16bit indices: When you increment the write index from 0xffff to 0, your
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
There are at least one more joke: "There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't." Personally I prefer the cache invalidation one.
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by myrmidon 10mo ago
"Explicitly chose" is a strong word. US and China are on completely different stages of industrialization: The US had its massive boom of manufacturing almost a century ago, enriching its population massively. Those rich citizens

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