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by the_af 8mo ago
> Do you think a continuation of the firebombing campaign and an invasion of the Japanese home islands would have resulted in fewer deaths of civilians (particularly of the 'volunteer fighting corps')? I don't know, but
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by the_af 8mo ago
This today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPnh3u1vBs Evangelical pastors laying hands on Trump and praying for his success in his holy war against Iran. I don't know the overlap between Christian Zionism and evangel
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by the_af 8mo ago
I do believe there are major technical impediments; other than a modern attack sub reaching that far undetected I can't think of how they would do it. The US is the only nation that can effectively project power so far away from its
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by the_af 8mo ago
None of the recently attacked countries posed an imminent threat to the US. In what kind of deranged world are we living that people are fighting against the notion that waging war on another country should be a costly decision !? My, the
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by the_af 8mo ago
True, but this doesn't in any way undermine the point that making war easier is not a good thing. It should be a costly decision, lest leaders of even those cultures find it too appealing.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Did you mean Venezuela or Iran? Because there are actual technical impediments why neither China nor the Russians could have blown a US carrier in the Caribbean.
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by the_af 8mo ago
> the moral choice might well be the drones - because it doesn't put our service members at risk. Not so clear cut. Because now sending people to die in distant wars is likely to get a negative reaction at home, this creates som
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by the_af 8mo ago
You're right. And the military in movies used to be depicted as inflexible, stubborn, paranoid, incompetent, and usually either "the bad guys" or authorities that impeded the progress of the main characters. (With exceptions;
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by the_af 8mo ago
In the average real world, the staff engineer learns nothing, regardless of whether they get to lose or keep their job. Some time down the line, they make other careless mistakes. Eventually they retire, having learned nothing. This is more
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by the_af 8mo ago
> Written in Rust, of course. Safety is important.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I think a lot of this kind of conversations seem to be simply ignoring or missing the lessons from the past. For example: > [...] OpenClaw is around 400k lines of code for a while loop and the list of all the integrations and connection
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by the_af 8mo ago
Thanks for providing another link. I quoted The Guardian (a mainstream newspaper, whatever you may think of it) mentioning this same source, and got downvoted for it. Oh well.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Which sources do you suggest? Everything I've read suggests the US and Israel are stomping all over Iran, and have destroyed their air force, navy, and even anti-air defenses. I know these news are necessarily biased (e.g. do we know
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by the_af 8mo ago
> Pete Hegseth is hyper-conservative too. Actually all three of the main combatants are hardline religious groups. You get downvoted for saying something that's true, and it's not even a defense of the Irani theocratic dictat
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by the_af 8mo ago
I think China will sit this one out. There's nothing to gain for them with direct involvement. Any assistance to Iran (like satellite imagery) will have limited effect, and the Chinese know it. In my opinion, there's no way the Is
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by the_af 8mo ago
I don't see it. Russia has their hands full with Ukraine and has failed in the past to protect other allies such as Syria. China seems wise enough to provide some support to Iran while sitting out of direct involvement in the war. Chin
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by the_af 8mo ago
How does it work? How do they prevent model colapse? What purpose does a majority of artificial data serve? How do they measure success? Edit: I asked ChatGPT and it thinks "success" means frontier models being distillated into sm
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by the_af 8mo ago
Could you elaborate?
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by the_af 8mo ago
> Data sharing agreements permitting, today's inference runs can be tomorrow's training data. Presumably the models are good enough at labeling promising chains of thought already. Wouldn't this lead to model collapse?
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by the_af 8mo ago
I find it hard to believe the people who use AI haven't read a single article about AI. That would also disqualify this judge, if it were true. This exceeds the tech bubble. My local newspaper, completely clueless about tech, runs an a
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by the_af 8mo ago
They cannot even claim they weren't aware of the danger. LLM hallucinations have been a discussed topic, not some obscure failure mode. Almost every article on problems with AI mentions this. So the judge was lazy, incompetent, or both
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by the_af 8mo ago
To me this is extremely relevant regardless of the specifics in this case. From TFA: > It also comes at a moment in which many media bosses are pushing staff to find uses for AI — as are executives across most industries — even while cl
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by the_af 8mo ago
Interesting. Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I'm vaguely aware of what the Moomin are, yet I really like these drawings. Ok, unsure about Gollum, but the dwarves and the dragon rock.
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Oooooh, true. Well, I think I'm not artificial.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I've read the book and I'm a fan of Ishiguro in general, but I'm failing to make the reference, so I'm going to go with "no" :)
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What's bizarre is this particular account is from 2007. Cutting the user some slack, maybe they skimmed the article, didn't see the actual line count, but read other (bot) comments here mentioning 1000 lines and honestly made this
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by the_af 8mo ago
Or even 1000 python lines, also wrong. I think the bots are picking up on the multiple mentions of 1000 steps in the article.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Even without internet access, probably everything there is to say about Z80/Speccy emulators was already in its training set.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Agreed. I wanted to give some credence to the fact many cookie-cutter CRUD apps can absorb a ton of inefficiencies until they truly burst at the seams, but yeah, even in that case software bloat and bad use of resources matters. I find it i

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