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I suspect Hegseth's atavistic attempt to turn the US military back toward a culture of machismo is resulting in misery for anyone who doesn't fit the part, whether they're skilled …

I would be delighted to see a glut of compute. I'm not optimistic, though.

SpaceX mainly showed how corrupt securities regulation has become in the US. It was already quite corrupt, but there's no way that IPO would have flown under the Biden administrati…

I think there's not much to model. Either AI actually becomes a hot commodity, or the people invested in these deals are going to take a bath.

Power is more decentralized in the US, even now with Trump.

Do you doubt that Xi Jinping is a Marxist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprKDXRlubw

What Xi Jinping Wants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprKDXRlubw

At least they can resist it, as we saw with Anthropic.

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Open Source won out because the cost of compute fell through the floor. I'm not sure whether we're going to see a similar dynamic play out this time, although I would greatly prefe…

How are you going to confidently tell the difference between it being slightly dumber, vs just having bad luck with your recent attempts?

How does that work? Doesn't that mean Microsoft/Amazon/Google have full de facto access to OAI's and Anthropic's model weights and operational processes? This is one reason it surp…

There's likely a major world war brewing. Should I not be thinking and forming opinions about that? It's probably going to profoundly affect me.

How do you reliably prevent a clever psychopath who's set their mind to it from gaining power?

> Change is not going to happen until it's forced. Yes, Pearl Harbor was a known vulnerability, prior to the Japanese attack. The US just wasn't ready to take airpower seriously, a…

According to Zelensky, there will be drones capable of traversing tens of thousands of kilometers within a couple of years. The US mainland is definitely at risk of drone attack in…

According to The Economist, the Iranian theocracy is no longer in power, the IRGC is. Still, not the regime change Trump was hoping for, that's for sure. > Khamenei’s killing has a…

The goals for intervention in the Serbia/Bosnia conflict were clear and noble, IMO.

> Why don’t we have reasonable logistics and supply lines and infrastructure with $1T? Deeply entrenched corruption, obviously.

Surprisingly, it is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance

Where can I read about the Anthropic incident?

> things like ethnic cleansing (which these models are already being used for). Got a cite?

At this point, it has a lot to re-learn, as the Trump administration has been systematically lobotomizing it for 18 months.

> How in the world did Anthropic have to do all the theatrics about Mythos just to have OpenAI release an equivalent or stronger model a month later without any drama??? Corruption…