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There are numerous institutions that have agenda transcending individuals. Communist parties are very prominent among them.

We're rapidly approaching the Jetsons one button workplace territory.

No mention of Lone Wolf 2100.

Been using it for bit over a month now. It's really nice that you can click on code references in Codex summaries and open them right there in Emacs buffers.

Yeah the stupid machine could have picked "let us circle back" or something but nope.

Heat dissipation and gracious distances for installation and servicing.

Let me simplify it for the sake of argument. Imagine I am unable to follow a middle school proof of Pythagoras. How does it matter if I trust anyone beyond that? What possible contribution can I build on top of that?

You can literally see the analog video links in countless thousands of published recordings. Nobody really does the hopping with analog video.

How come? It plainly negates the "easy" part. It's not easy at all, you need to scale your signal path to the magnitude of power. I.e. the expensive part.

FPV drones in the Russian war are generally pretty dumb devices, there's usually no frequency hopping involved to begin with. They have a lot more in common with baby monitors than with modern military comms.

Well we're literally discussing a human readable machine generated proof here yet you don't seem happy with that.

I didn't say they have no value. Just limited value. A novel readable proof that expands the horizons of human insight is certainly more valuable than a megabyte sized trychnobezoar of machine generated predicates.

Yes. That makes it fat, expensive and vulnerable target. There are videos of them being blown up regularly.

How does it matter if it Lean verified or a human verified proof if you comprehend neither?

There can't be too many people working in that corner of graph theory, and I expect the result to them being eminently straightforward.

Human unreadable proofs have only limited value.

It's not a long proof (it's not in Lean after all) so easy enough to comb through for a domain expert.

Jamming broadband is a lot more energy expense than frequency hopping. Orders of magnitude.

You could try solving that in Lean perhaps

…and thank God it's not Lean.

What happens in countries with no rule of law is rule of power hierarchies. A regional party boss would have his trusted deputes running things, who have their underlings, they underlings have their preferred business partners (police chiefs, businessmen, prosecutors, control authorities) and so on. A bribe at any level is always redistributed upwards.

Sometimes the big guy falls out of favor with bigger guys, and then the whole structure is up for grabs. The whole vertical is massacred (sometimes literally) while new people take over from the top down. Often what's visible happens a few degrees removed from the actual cause.

There's understanding among the ruling class and much of the populace that it's just How Things are Done. But moments like that give you public trials with executions that make some naïve Westerners clap.

What did you use for the simulation part?

I have in fact masters in SE and three decades experience of commercial programming. Loved every minute of it (well except the burnout episode) and still do my hobby projects. So I would say no, you are wrong. The models decimate not just the coding (the best and the most fun part of development) but all the pseudo-engineering roles like architects or product managers too. Simply because there's less need for communication in the team as the surface of work for each dev is now quite enormous.

It's fine for your pet projects. But for most of professional programming it's no longer feasible as you'll be at a small fraction of your machine assisted performance.

It's not anywhere close. Like, by four orders of magnitude.

You know how I read new papers back in 1994? By going to the library, finding one in bi-annual publication list and requesting it through the University system. And it better be necessary because the uni had to pay both the catalogue and each reprint of an article. The access is most certainly easier today.

Engineering is used fairly loosely these days but I insist engineering ends where you have to prove theorems.

Normally export controls once introduced last years to decades.

So two and a half weeks, and on the workday. I wonder how much Jared had made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519513

Naturally I wasn't implying they'll restrict the current models retroactively. Which either way trail behind even the universally available frontier models.

What's perplexing is people see CCP as some kind of libertarians while they in fact love regulations and routinely leverage them both domestically and in exports.

Not sure why people here are so upbeat about China. It is almost guaranteed it will also introduce export controls on the models.