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>Policies include building one affordable house. Mine too.

>Poland and the Baltics know they're next on Putin's list. "Putin's list" is a dishonest meme, just like the "rules-based international order" that the Western nations supposedly e…

It means have fun, be adventurous, bend the rules a little bit.

Did you feel safe, growing up?

And what lesson should be drawn from that?

>They'd need to sell a sub to everyone in Europe and North America. Yep. Every man, woman and child, and even then provided we include Russia, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti etc, and, out of …

That's all true... however the point that Google will get just $1 billion per year from Apple for the AI service is still insightful. If AI use via Apple represents 10% of the tota…

>Seems like the simplest test would be to see if an AI can refuse a command, of its own free will Certainly not the simplest test, since settling the concept of "free will" is real…

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>I also think different ideas get conflated. Yep. For example, your post conflates the idea of having a brain with the idea of having consciousness.

>I think you either added an extra zero or were looking at the hyped prototypes I thought I was clear where I was looking - here, you may check for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.o…

>Iran would have to respond and thus would have to try to find a way to inflict ‘pain’ on the United States to force the United States to back off. But whereas Israel is in reach o…

2022 was abnormally high, caused largely by the disruption of gas supplies to Western Europe after sanctions on Russian gas and the destruction of the Nordstream gas pipeline.

Yes, it is nothing like 2022 yet . But the concerning thing is that this may be just a beginning of a protracted event, plus the world, and especially Western Europe, is less resil…

I'm a bit underwhelmed tbh. Here is Anthropic's motto: "At Anthropic, we build AI to serve humanity’s long-term well-being." Why does Anthropic even deal with the Department of @#$…

>It's not as safe as flying In France and Japan, HSR has had zero fatalities in the entire period of operation. In China, HSR had AFAIR one fatal crash, with 40 fatalities. Per pas…

Imagine if Jensen Huang started meeting Xi Jinping to seek help for carrying out political change in the US . What then?

>This ascribes an agency to capitalism that doesn’t exist. You may find this marvelous piece enlightening: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Ramstein is like 400 km from the sea, Munich is 800 km. I am puzzled that the alleged ship-launched drone swarms were allegedly able to penetrate this far undetected.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-launch-new-phase-v... How about now?

Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Türkiye all host U.S. nuclear weapons. Incidentally, US nukes in Turkey in 1960s was the starting point of the Cuban missile crisis. ht…

>Prusa generally has better print quality Only if you compare Prusa printing at 50 mm/s with Bambu at 500 mm/s. >and better overhang performance What? No. Proof: https://youtu.be/H…

>If you're an American and don't know what it's like to have your country and culture reduced to about three wildly inaccurate stereotypes... ...you can watch Borat, which is far l…

Yes it does. Consider too that after kerosene whaling declined while world population, wealth and demand for lighting grew rapidly. Also, kerosene for lanterns became a thing in 18…

The really big problem in open source intelligence has been for some time that data to support just about anything can be found. OSINT investigations start with a premise, look for…