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by vrganj 3mo ago
As an Austrian, Bertha von Suttner is a big deal. First woman to win a Nobel Peace prize (and probably the reason that prize exists in the first place!), second woman to win a Nobel ever (after Curie). Your ignorance of her is not an indict
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by vrganj 3mo ago
As an Austrian, it feels a bit annoying that the Germans got their one famous composer - they're kind of our thing! Why not Mozart, Strauss, Haydn, Schubert? It's also unfortunate that the nice peaceful bird motif was paired wit
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Why is it all either the same people or the same birds? Was that an explicit part of the brief artists were given? I feel like the selection of motifs is more interesting and where more of the creative process in defining a representation o
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I think these days not being in the US is a plus for many potential hires.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predica
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by vrganj 3mo ago
The "try and stop me" authority of a guy that has armed goons marching down city streets and brutalizing his opposition.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Sure, and my nephew is building nice little trucks with Legos. The point is, is anyone getting any value from it?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
But diversify into what? If we assume this takes down the US economy and bonds, what then? International bonds/stocks? Won't those also be too entangled? Precious metals?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I'm not sure I've seen what I would call dramatic improvement since maybe GPT4? Sure, things got better. But I'd call it iterative more than revolutionary. I still wouldn't trust any of the models to do anything meanin
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by vrganj 3mo ago
What would be the best thing to do with ones investments considering these alarms? Say you had some money in cash rn, what should one do? Wait for a crash and buy stuff up cheap? Put it in some safe category? This stuff is stressing me out
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by vrganj 3mo ago
This fine is more of a warning shot. The DMA allows for fines of up to 10% of global revenue or 20% in the case of repeat offenders. These 890M are a first warning. Now Google has some time to react, but if they don't implement what is
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Generative AI and the German Far Right: Narratives, Tactics, Digital Strategies [pdf](isdglobal.org)
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Do you know when the last war China started was? 1979. What about the US? 2026, still ongoing, still fucking up the global economy and threatening food supplies (fertilizer) and fuel reserves, no plan out, no objective reached, no coordinat
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by vrganj 3mo ago
What a full, mask-off crashout. Point four is especially telling. Ball is deeply terrified of "AI communism", or in less red-scarey terms a world where AI is a public good and him and his fellow oligarchs don't get to central
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by vrganj 3mo ago
True. The Chinese Communist Party's motto is "Serve the People". [0] They might not always live up to that, but at least the aspiration is there. No such pretense from American VCs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Sure, but seems again is a subjective qualifier. It's not the same as presenting something as objective fact.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
> So the quality of AI code will absolutely surpass that of human code. This is unfounded speculation, presented as inevitable fact.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
China-ambivalent: Open Models are good, Closed Models are bad. Not centralizing power in a few big American companies is good. China is who's building this right now, so we're aligned for now.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Only the optics is an ... interesting way of phrasing it. There was a great Economist article a while ago that talks about this. ASMLs moat isn't just the know-how to build the machines themselves. It's a network of suppliers al
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Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud(thenextweb.com)
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by vrganj 3mo ago
The EU was never just an economic union of markets. Hell, the Schuman declaration from 1950, the closest thing it has to a founding document, calls for an ever closer union .
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by vrganj 3mo ago
How is this immigration enforcement? I see they're no longer bothering to even put up the slightest bit of pretense ICE is anything but Trump's brownshirts, a group of goons to brutalize and intimidate any opposition to his antide
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Words to Avoid (Or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing(gnu.org)
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Xiaomi did a quite good job copying (and surpassing!) Apple. They even got the car Apple always wanted, but never managed to build.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Yeah real convenient that the line would be exactly after pilfering all of human knowledge work, but before American model providers.
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EU fines AliExpress €550M over illegal products(euractiv.com)
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Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project(theregister.com)
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Your entire account seems to have a strong agenda in portraying this message. But yes, as a European, the US hasn't exactly been making friends over here.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
The US leadership (both government and industry) really seems set on making everyone go with the Chinese competition at this point.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
In other words, hiring him was an explicit play for more entanglement between regime and industry. He says as much in his point 5. They know they can't win on the fundamentals. Regulatory capture is the only play left. Keep in mind LLM

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