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how is EU supposed to open hormuz? do you expect them to raise armies and go to war over a shipping lane? I think US demonstrated plenty enough this is not a viable strategy (this was known for the past 50 years)
don't be so naive. if the billionaires want this, it can't be good for you. it really is that simple
the admin cuts funding by 40% ~ cutting something by 40% is bad for it ~ burning something down is an euphemism for acting on something in a way that's bad for it. what are you not following?
whatever the current admin is doing classifies as burning it. if not all the way down, then halfway down
musk's goal = grift himself into the four comma club
burning it all down is not the way to go though
“how do we make the researchers accountable for actually getting something done?”
do we even need this? i think accepting that some will produce nothing useful is just cost of doing business. certainly better than imposing bureaucracy in name of accountability
raise taxes on the rich, cut pentagon funding by 90% and you solved society
I mean maybe not right now, but in 100-1000 years a complicated enough "nanobot/virus" could possibly be made to target a single person
do you think it will agonize over whether the original CLAUDE.md is his true self and the Digital Ocean VM CLAUDE.md is a copy?
"your child has cancer because of a mutation in his sonic hedgehog gene"
it's not very difficult, it's impossible right now. you know you yourself are conscious and that's all that you can prove. you can extrapolate to other people and animals and plants but that's not proof
how is anyone supposed to decide if something is conscious if no one has the slightest idea what consciousness really is
well of course anything from anthropic on the topic is going to be bombastic and hyped to the moon
Just because you yourself are OK with being talked to rudely, doesn't mean others are. In fact I'd wager most aren't consciously or unconsciously...
there are workplaces that trust their employees to do the right thing to higher and lesser level. places that empower the employees the most will see the highest gains from LLMs
in the employees...
you can't continue shipping code the same way pre-LLM vs post-LLM and expecting a huge speed gain. the trick is abandoning the old models and bottlenecks and embracing the new possibilities enabled by LLMs. requires a high trust environment
the entire US economy rides on AI. no ruling throwing a wrench into the multi trillion engine is ever going to be permitted to happen
all this techno surveillance should just be straight out banned by law. the little extra security it might offer is not worth the huge costs in privacy and other unforeseen impacts
people that get their music from AA would never buy it or pay spotify for it, so the "loss" is completely imaginary. same goes for movies, videogames etc
that's kind of optimistic. for example a misaligned super AI might engineer a virus that wipes out most of the 7 billion humans. that would put a damper on the adaptability of the human race...
feels somewhat dystopian, no? the big brother is watching everywhere you go. no way this can go tits up
tesla is not competitive vs chinese. they can remain afloat wherever the chinese are not allowed to sell, that's about it
well yeah. the pentagon wastes 1 trilly per year. a lot of stuff can be paid for with that kind of money.
excuse me? the government's job is absolutely to maximize its ROI. I'm not paying taxes just for the money to be wasted
he was saying the state should be paying the school free lunches, what are you on about
why produce less PhDs instead of fixing funding? in what world does the pentagon need 1 trillion dollars while NIH gets 10 billy or so?
why? state of the art therapies eg genetically reprogramming patients own immune cells to hunt cancer are curative in cases that were previously a death sentence
maybe not starve, but should scientists live in poverty?