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retention for 'safety' -> AI race as national security -> training on your data for 'national security' aka safety
It's simple mental calisthenics. If you are handing an organization whose entire business model is built on stealing data with spurious reasoning, what do you actually expect they will do? Don't be a fool.
Aahahahaha yes the solidarity of the common memecoiner must not be broken.
Is claude code the best coding harness? Anyone running evals on that?
What are the VSCode features you find difficult to replace? Zed is quite good as a similar workspace, but I can't speak to extensions.
It's your own fault for using anything made by microsoft at this point.
Ah, to have "kill a million people and don't go to jail" money.
The last few days I've seen more degradations and canceled my Max subscription.
Presumptuous and wrong "memories" from a one-off command which affect all future commands, repeated/nonsensical phrases in messages, novel display bugs which make going back in the conversation impossible (I can't tell where I am), lack of basic forking features (resume a current convo in a second CC instance -> fork = no history for that convo?), poor/unclear reasoning, a new set of unclear folksy phrases (it really wants to "cut code" all of a sudden).
Qwen + Opencode has been a game changer: which runs very well on a 4090 for basic/exploratory/private tasks, and being able to switch to and between frontier models (using openrouter in my case) to avoid vendor lock in feels like basic hygiene.
There's also the homo economicus psychological difference between having a token budget to use up, and a cost per token. I'm more thoughtful about my usage now.
He was directly addressing apps that claim to do so, and proving that they can't, with laypeople who might have diabetes as the target audience.
It's more a data-driven pub test, I think it explains itself well.
The question is - are those apps actually so simplistic? Or is this a strawman.
Construction regulation is the preventative measure.
Pillage libraries for LLM training data, then sue them and shut them down for archiving a different format. Cool.
Proposing a definition of slop: content optimized for profitability, regardless of quality.
If AI slop is replacing the content you were consuming, it was already slop.
Meanwhile, Sora and other video models have become available on Openrouter. Are we sure this is the end of Sora? Or just the interface?
weird, still dead here (entire rest of the internet is fine) :shrug:
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You don't have to assume: He seems to provide ample detailed western sources to back up his claims in every video.
Perhaps it'd be more difficult for him to broadcast if he had an anti-china perspective, but the content itself seems legitimate.
Ok, well let's think about this with the same framework I'm trying to bring to the discussion above: system dynamics.
Your comment has the effect of being flippant, condescending, and seemingly callous to the subject matter. When called out, you have backed up to an alternative explanation which is, again, massively condescending (I don't need channeling mate, certainly not from you).
You have not engaged with the content in a good faith manner.
So, standing back and looking at your comment in terms of its effects rather than what it claims to be its effects (AND the effect that making those secondary claims have - doubling down on condescension), it looks more like you're trying to bully me into changing my behaviour and viewpoint without meaningfully engaging with the content.
Ironically, I'm feeling psychological reactance, so your comments polarized me against you (see the Backfire Effect) and deepened my convictions.
I won't engage with bullies any further but to call them out, I'm hesitant to bring the conversation down to this level and give you any kind of air to begin with, but I think it's important to analyze discourse as it happens.
Not taking this as good faith, if you're devolving into sarcasm I assume you have no insight to offer.
The function of a system is what it does.
Meta knowingly hurt children for profit. It worked.
If we are in any way serious about technocratic solutions to social problems, this would be untenable, the company would be bankrupted, a new company would fill its place. No tears would be cried, nothing of value would be lost, half of hacker news would be chafing at the bit to build a better alternative for the newly opened market.
But that's not what happened. We allowed children to be knowingly hurt for profit.
The system is functioning as intended.
Mass surveillance 'for your own good' instead of regulating social media in any way.
You can purchase a scam ad it'll be up in 10 minutes. Lie to every anxious child they have ADHD and need meth, lie to every dejected boy that they just need to manosphere up and buy supplements.
They think the public is stupid. They might be right.
375 million awarded at $5000 per child harmed. Implying that only 75,000 children were harmed.
Got away with it again, good profit, will repeat.
Well, with data analysis powers like this a few treasonous words in front of a flock camera will show you the way.
This is completely sane and consistent with the incessant lies, and crackdown on free speech across the US-owned internet. The free flow of information is a threat.
Power revels in hypocrisy: Rules protect the in-group but do not bind them, and bind the out-group but do not protect them.
It's not just logical, it's affective: There is a real pleasure in domination, and a real fear in any loss of control. It feels good to be strong, to be in control, to be protected but not bound. Domination is hegemony, hegemony is safety.
These billionaires genuinely feel themselves to be oppressed if their power is threatened in any way. [1]
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This is for mass surveillance by the US government.
You're right more self assured than I actually think, but that's my prediction.
I agree, China is not looking to fight and would only fight a defensive war. With how the US attacked Iran first (during negotiations!) + have led escalation patterns (Israel hit Iranian oil infrastructure before the LNG terminal in Qatar was hit), China will be watching very closely.
The US have already cut off Chinese oil from Venezuela, and are now disrupting the flow from Iran. This is legible as a strategy to deprive China of resources.
I have built this tool* over the last few weeks which collates, maps and timelines reports, the pattern of American and Israeli escalation is very clear (also look at the Israeli domestic expansion into the west bank while this is all going on!).
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* https://conflictintelligence.ai/ running cheap on deepseek at the moment as a proof of concept but the extraction and synthesis is performing well :)
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Yes, they are flooding the zone with many alternative explanations so that they're both all deniable, and all accessible to anyone who finds just one of them convincing. This is a strategy.
This is a historical pattern: Bringing border forces to bear against your own population, because those border forces are trained to deal with people who don't have the rights of the state.
With China's manufacturing capacities, self-reliance, and access to resources, the US's only way of winning a confrontation is a nuclear first-strike.
Before the attack on Iran, China arrayed 6000 fishing ships in formation in the south china sea, demonstrating impressive militia command and control. Their weapon systems are modular and containerized and designed to militarize their civilian manufacturing on demand.
If the US attacks china without crippling it and forcing a surrender immediately, they have no chance of winning a protracted conflict.
It is frankly weird that Americans don't understand this. It's not how much you spend on military, it's how much you CAN spend on military, when you have to. Autonomous weapons also close the training and experience divide very quickly (especially in a conflict with mutual losses where trained specialists can't be easily replaced).
We won't save ourselves. We might slow the process, but the information environment is permanently altered and we can't put it back.
The information asymmetry between individuals and the powerful is permanently reversed.
Thinking about it in terms of the monopoly of violence being the root of power negotiations; typically a resistance movement has more information about the state/colonizer than vice versa, because power has to be visible - guerilla warfare thrives on this.
That's gone. The powerful will have complete detailed information and automatic analysis.
The medium is the message.