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The Russians signed it and then completely ignored the agreement.

That is an objective fact and has nothing to do with the rest of the cultural relativism you're engaging in.

Whataboutism about the US _not signing_ things is also irrelevant.

The whole AI treaty discussion is about a treaty countries will _actually sign_ and the relevance of Russia cheating on the BWC is that the signatures of some countries are absolutely worthless, which _is_ relevant.

Google would have to start selling them (the real ones, complete with interconnect) to third parties. If google does that, though, Nvidia is done.

Unlike AMD, Google can actually ship software. AMD has never shipped good software other than drivers (maybe) in the entire history of the company, including both ATi's history and true AMD. They have always relied on Intel to provide the software.

Nvidia's moat is the IBM, Microsoft moat:

I am about to spend $20M, if I buy anything other than Nvidia, and things go wrong, I am going to get blamed, and if things go right I will get no credit. This is why AMD is making no progress outside of very narrow cases and supercomputing.

Their "own" as in built by Marvell and Broadcom. Especially Trainium but also TPU4.

I doubt we can even track all of the chip production capacity.

A lot of it relies on what is effectively "the AI will be so smart it can solve anything" magic.

The Soviet Union systematically ignored the BWC. There's tons of evidence.

Blade servers have been doing this for 25+ years.

Until you get cancer.

Survivalist fantasies aren’t realistic.

Being able to punish and control others, especially sexual exploitation, is a huge part of the draw. You need lots of slaves for that.

There's also the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" by Sonya Dorman in the first Dangerous Visions which is like this, in a way.

Are you familiar with Elon Musk's endless, repeated and obvious lies for the last decade?

A shocking number of the neocloud teams have exactly one skill set: raising money.

A few of them also have locked in power agreements.

Almost none of them have the expertise to build anything. Some of them are even outsourcing that to geezer tech and consulting shops.

It's not going to go well.

No. xAI is buying Nvidia, not using Tesla chips.

Are you implying that it might be exploited by unethical tech bros looking to build data sets?

Anyone who would voluntarily work for Musk when he went obviously has things going on that aren't great.

The tech companies will just use face recognition, tracing, gait recognition, unique properties (like scratches) etc. etc. for the same purpose, same way they pioneered browser fingerprinting.

Attacks in general are all rare in practice in the grand scheme of the internet. So?

It’s html. Which is code that your browser executes.

Millions of routers are compromised. BGP attacks happen. Anything http stands out as an interesting target for injection.

This position is foolish. It’s not a major ask to enable https.

I guarantee you're not getting "all kinds of MITM injections" on this block of text

You actually can’t guarantee anything of the sort. BGP hijacks are real.

The film is very much better than the book. The sequel books, however, are not good. At all.

? can you expand?

You could attach an H-19 to an H-8 and play advent on H-DOS.

The first computer I ever used. I was so young I didn't know how to spell "bird."

Hard sectored drives!

A lot of people suspected that most programs were absurdly redundant and for a very long time. The real issue is that the languages do not really allow for producing code that can be easily shared. Some of the functional languages do, but mostly in ways that are completely irrelevant and useless in practice for such a goal.

Programmers writing their fiftieth mostly identical CRUD handler may not have noticed but a lot of other people did.

I don't disagree with that, but my point is that Rust will not really solve vulnerabilities.

I am looking at the results of a mass vulnerability scan as I type this. Half of the bugs in one case are in fact (binary) parser errors for hand-written parsers. These really should not exist in any language - but in C it's particularly bad. Kaitai Struct or something similar would broadly have prevented these. Rust would help here, but less than a parser generator (because it could automate error checking insertion for things that aren't just out of bound access).

However, half of the vulnerabilities are logic errors in terms of what I would call RBAC enforcement, incorrect access permissions, and so on. Rust won't help at all with any of these.

I’m so confused. At least in tech all the big companies I work with are hiring in Poland because it is about the same as India after losses around fake hiring and the quality averages better.

It is absolutely a huge offshoring target at least for the US.

My wife makes extensive use of inkstitch and loves it.

This. The fact that the ai projects have to spin so hard should be tipping people off. But for some reason it doesn’t.

Agriculture is used to grow _food_.