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Learyon Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon

If the EU is so hostile as you claim, why did France, Italy, and Sweden all collaborate with China on this mission to the moon?

Learyon US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in September

Foreign propaganda is allowed. (Lamont vs. Postmaster General)

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/lamont-v-postmaster-...

Learyon US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in September

Even if it deals with national security, the law must pass either strict or intermediate scrutiny [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny

I think it won't.

Learyon House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure

American users do have the right to receive Chinese Communist propaganda. See Lamont vs. Postmaster General [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamont_v._Postmaster_General#:...

Learyon House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure

One could only make that assertion if one has never actually used Douyin. Try it on douyin.com and see how much education content you see.

Learyon US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest

Hahaha, this won't survive even intermediate scrutiny of the First Amendment. Tiktok really lucked out that Congress is not smart enough to pass the bill Cantwell had in mind.

Learyon Ask HN: Anyone here using Gemini Pro 1.5? How does it compare to Claude Opus?

Feels the same as 1.0 Ultra but with much longer context window

Learyon Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants

Thanks for the response. The article only mentions Ireland though, has Intel done the same in the US?

Learyon Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants

What's the most advanced node Intel is producing in the US right now in mass production?

Learyon The New Inflection

Exactly, honestly I think their business model could work if they have a GPT-4 level model for subscription.

Learyon Major scientific paper says Covid Lab leak more likely than natural origin

Rootclaim debated this with a $100,000 bet saying it was a lab leak. They lost[1].

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1au49wh/pet...

Learyon Chinese and western scientists identify 'red lines' on AI risks

https://archive.is/LICWk

Learyon House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

Wrong, it owns 1% of a subsidiary of Bytedance that has nothing to do with TikTok

Learyon House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

The First Amendment does not directly protect the speech of non-US persons outside of US territory. However, US courts have held that the First Amendment can limit the US government's ability to restrict the speech of non-US persons abroad if that speech is directed at or received by people in the US.

Learyon House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

It’s going to pass Congress, signed into law. Then a federal judge will issue a preliminary injunction blocking it on first amendment grounds just like what happened both times with the Montana ban in 2023 and trumps executive order in 2020

Learyon House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

Next up, China forces Tesla to divest its Chinese operations or face ban

Learyon OpenAI and Elon Musk

I guess Sam Altman finally somehow found Ilya Sutskever after saying he didn't know where he was and whether he was still working at OpenAI [1]

[1]https://officechai.com/startups/sam-altman-is-unsure-if-ilya....

Learyon I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Poetry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Documents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Rites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_and_Autumn_Annals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zhuan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian

Learyon China's Carbon Emission to Peak Earlier Than Expected- Possibly as Early as 2024

https://archive.is/nU0yd

Learyon American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military

Glad to see the House Un-American Activities Committee is well and alive. In fact, the current iteration was established by none other than someone named McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, that is.

Learyon Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

Yeah, China arrested Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the latter later admitted he was used by Michael Kovrig to pass intelligence information to the Canadian spy agencies. [1] The Canada paid them off to remain silent [2].

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig... [2] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-ready-pay-sett...

Learyon Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

How about a hard cap on inheritance instead.

Learyon Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated

SCMP

Learyon Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled

https://archive.is/g2Pjm

Learyon The pro-Israel information war

>Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok

That's because TikTok is a global platform where the voices of 1.9 billion Muslims outweigh those of the 19 million Jews.

Learyon Helen Toner shares her side

Key passage:

"Altman approached other board members, trying to convince each to fire Toner. Later, some board members swapped notes on their individual discussions with Altman. The group concluded that in one discussion with a board member, Altman left a misleading perception that another member thought Toner should leave, the people said. By this point, several of OpenAI’s then-directors already had concerns about Altman’s honesty, people familiar with their thinking said."

Learyon Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths

This is a meta analysis of observational studies. There's random controlled trial which showed all cause mortality was 14% higher for "healthy older adults who received daily aspirin than among those who received placebo"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1803955

Learyon OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

Who were on OpenAI's board?

"OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner." [1]

[1]https://openai.com/our-structure