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7mo ago
You've completely misunderstood the poster's point. Nations are being taught that without nuclear weapons you could be attacked in this new world.
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7mo ago
It's amazing how reflexively the taunts always start with welfare. The case for prioritizing people over corporations shouldn't ever need to be made.
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7mo ago
Wouldn't 2 be applicable to Block? Dorsey is pretty much saying AI's made these positions obsolete.
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7mo ago
> It's already the wrong side of the AI curve to be on. Maybe AI will replace dev jobs, but why not wait to find out? Have you considered their internal use has already proven AI's capability to them?
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7mo ago
An external tech appears that eliminates the need for human labor. But a CEO acknowledging its arrival and adjusting for it is a 'massive failure of leadership'?
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8mo ago
That's uncertain in a post-work economy or even for the transition. Some mechanism will need to exist for the abundance resulting from automation to be distributed fairly - in both the post-work era and during the transition to it. Als
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8mo ago
Oh really? You think an entity that knows everything, oversees its own development and upgrades itself, understands human psychology perfectly and knows its users intimately, but isn't aligned with human interest wouldn't be '
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8mo ago
There should always be web fallbacks for those opposed to smartphones or unable to use them. Insisting the elderly use them for any type of bureaucratic flow results too often in stress and confusion.
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8mo ago
If Wagner's rapturous welcome in Rostov was typical elsewhere, he wouldn't have needed to run a military dictatorship. He seemed to lose his nerve after his call with Lukashenko. It's tough to imagine it being anything other
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8mo ago
Do you really pay so little attention to the space that you think this is all they do? Almost every public discussion or interview involving these figures turns at some point to society's unpreparedness for what's coming, for inst
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8mo ago
The elimination of jobs necessarily 'makes a path' to a post-work society. Post-work couldn't exist without it. Beyond that, it isn't in AI companies' power to shape economies and societies for post-work (which is w
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8mo ago
> and now I'm supposed to let LLM agents go wild on my data? Who is forcing you to do that? The people you are amazed by know their own minds and understand the risks.
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8mo ago
People excited by a new tech's possibilities aren't lunatics and psychos.
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8mo ago
That's exactly it. Good catch
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8mo ago
I've just seen there is a court order against the .org site, going back to 2024. So presumably some ISPs are more proactive about extending the ban to backup domains.
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8mo ago
This isn't the case for me with Anna's Archive or Sci-Hub. I use the biggest ISP, and both are fully accessible.
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8mo ago
I live in the UK and Anna's Archive is fully accessible to me, both through my ISP and phone data service, without monkeying with DNS settings.
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8mo ago
How can the West end the war today?
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8mo ago
Debt is the money supply.
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8mo ago
Russia could end the war today if it wanted to.
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8mo ago
Why do you imagine Ukraine's desire for sovereignty would be exhausted before Russia's stomach for economic hardship? Do you really think the Russia public has the stamina even for the 4 more years it will take them to capture the
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8mo ago
> Claude Sonnet 4.6 was trained on a proprietary mix of publicly available information from the internet up to May 2025, non-public data from third parties, data provided by data-labeling services and paid contractors, data from Claude u
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8mo ago
It sounds very reasonable. But it's also directly contradicted by the government information about this case, which was very specific even about the number of breaches: > Our understanding is that some 700 individual cases, at least
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8mo ago
The problem with this expectation of usual market behavior is that demand from AI will still be unsatisfied even after buying out the current providers' whole supply, so any new manufacturer entering the market will also prioritize hig
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8mo ago
This presumably also falls under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 which forbids this kind of citizen data being relayed to third parties without permission. The company don't have a leg to stand on here, which is why it is basing its
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8mo ago
The government provided data to a private company. The private company sold resold access to a third party for AI ingestion. it's a plain case of tough titties to the private company. That said I don't know why the hell the servi
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Similar wonderings occurred to me at that point in the vid where he struggled to understanding Amodei's explanation of the economics, which was pretty straightforward. Unless he was just being deliberately arsey.
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8mo ago
I'm a layman to this jargon, but are 'crystallized intelligence' and 'emotional intelligence' in any actual sense 'intelligence'? I can't see how these terms mean anything other than judgement, experi
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8mo ago
Is this reply meant to me? Because what I wrote was: > But at this stage, what we're seeing is just the opposite: significant progress in model development last year, patterns for use being explored by almost every development team
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8mo ago
I agree. We've been assured by these skeptics that models are stochastic parrots, that progress in developing them was stalling, and that skills parity with senior developers was impossible - as well as having to listen to a type of se
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