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One mentions distillation to intimate that one is in fact still the leader. It has zero to do with fairness.

The US is a genocidal ethnostate. The few remaining Jews of the planet are mostly 'oriental' and are ethnicized by the Islamic world they have been exprelled from.

These articles are for the sake of the misleading headline. The postmonotheistic planet is in a fever that is far far far more profound, delusional and apocalyptic than anything thing in the 30s.

If the weights are published, we can run them in our ‘murican datacenters. Everything about this Will China Win discourse seems like fan fic or sports discourse

Is anyone setting up data centers in USA to give inference with top-notch full-powered K3 (say)? I mean, you get the model for free; you get lower latency.

Dunno I put to deep seek the question what I’d need in hardware to get full service k3 with lower latency in western pa (I was making like it was a business proposition.) It says several million dollars at minimum.

It’s AI talking about AI so cum grano salis, but my AI is saying I would need at least a half million dollar in hardware to run the newer high quality Chinese models with bemchmark-competitive force.

You can run a Moroccan chicken fragment on the cheap in homage to what you cannot run

Open weights are a red herring if you can’t run the model independently. Good luck fitting these models on your Mac mini.

In fact the superior models are irreducibly nothing but superior web services run from China.

Isn’t it basically impossible to run the newer high quality Chinese models locally, even for a corporation? The better they get, the more they need a data center. So, the ‘better’ Chinese AI gets , the more it will just be a service run on Chinese hardware competing with ‘our’ lower latency AIs .

The open source character of the models is irrelevant if you need a nuclear powered data center for inference. In the end it is just another internet service.

What is ‘China’ going to do when it ‘wins’? The framing of this duscourse is all meaningless

In the 30s, say, the proportion of Catholic population constituted by nuns living in poverty, chastity and obedience for the good of the church and its people was higher than the proportion of American schoolteachers to population today. Remember that in those days Cstholics were paying for our schools too. They could afford their own parallel school system because an astonishing proportion of the women committed to poverty and communal living to supply it. The rest of the United States benefited quite massively from these pious women. We noncatholics benefited again from the fact that women generally had so few choices. It was just a more complex version of the Catholic case.

I am over 60 and can assure you that the older women who taught me in public school would be federal judges and high class lawyers today. The system will be righted when schoolteachers get the pay and respect of eg federal judge and not a moment before.

Quality has deteriorated because we aren’t willing to pay for what we used to get for free.

Isn’t Gaza like 10% more populous than on the day its leadership decided to do a final solution on the Jews?

It might seem so til you consider how an LLM is trained.

An indirect illustration: I can attest that Deepseek has very good 19th German, and knowledge of German 19th c literature, science and historical scholarship. No one in China could control the training that led to this. The German training sources were well aware of the exact nature of eg American slavery, so they are in the weights.

State control operates in the outer layers not the llm itself.

‘Russia’ is not a human subject and can say nothing, and this is obvious, so the question is framed with propagandistic intent.

The judgment was the basis of the invasion. Lukashenko and state TV did however say it; more interestingly the Biden administration - which had access to internal discussion and wrongly credited the cognition and rationality of Russian bureaucrats - also/ affirmed it.

In fact victory was assumed to have happened instantly: the famous widely mocked hundreds of miles of stalled trucks in the opening week contained //no military equipment//: it was all police equipment for managing recalcitrants in Kiev. Why? Because the war was ‘always already’ won; it was just a question of taking possession. The basic structure they falsely thought they had imposed everywhere did more or less materialize and work in the SE

It doesn’t matter that you like them, a democratic state must burn them all utterly the ground. No state document in a proprietary format has legal significance. This was obvious before but it now settled law across most of the world

It violates elementary, ABC, read-it-in-Rousseau principles of legitimate state operation if government documents of any kind whatsoever are in a proprietary format. This is why EU courts forced .docx on Microsoft. .doc files were found to be simply invalid binary blobs with no meaning whatsoever in a democracy. I dimly remember a US court - maybe Minnesota? - tending to the same.

It was only the magical atmosphere in which Microsoft and ‘tech’ must succeed that made this flat out obvious conclusion invisible.

I remember beginning writing a pandoc writer the minute it happened but some bright young brain beat me to it.

The XML if I remember, had manifold curiosa probably meant to impede other implementations, but it was real.

My impression is that his complaints, which echo those of the doc period in detail, arise from users’ failure to adopt best practices.

The US under e.g Hamilton opposed all trade secrets in principle on Englightment grounds, and thus did not protect its own.

By contrast, export of protected Chinese tech today frequently gets the death penalty.

Agents of American companies who don't mind 15 years in the federal pen do it to American companies. So it must be right.

The purpose is the same as that of all Putin-Xi-Khameni geopolitica: destruction of any democratic alternative to cults of personality.

I was aware that all these changes reduce to the fact that half society’s brainpower used to come cheap, but hadn’t registered this very pure expression of it

“The cheap and effective Catholic school system of old has largely collapsed due to the dearth of nuns“

That professor at Brown I think was able to verify that all but one of like 90 students had used AI on the midterm. The heroic naïf improved on the final. The part you miss, if I follow, is that the going view is that youre a chump if you don’t.

It really is absolutely clear that higher education is over for good unless radical measures are taken. You can calculate the economic conquences. Colleagues are adopting 19th c tech and it may be well for universities to enforce them across the board https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessm...

First things first: the CCP must dominate China itself. For this job one is the global discrediting of democracy in favor of cults of personality. This is the single objective of the Putin-Xi-Khamenei information system. China global hegemony would merely be an instrument of CCP internal control. Similarly Khamenei supported Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthi, Iraq militias ... to control his own population.

It is an absolute dictatorship like the Nazi Reich or the Stalin system, only hundreds of times more powerful than either.

We entered a war in Iraq a quarter century ago

Primary Education (K–5): The U.S. spends 21% of its GDP per capita per student. This is exactly in line with the OECD average, which is also 21%.

Secondary Education (6–12): The U.S. spends 23% of its GDP per capita per student. This sits just slightly below the OECD average of 24%.

What country are our boys occupying now?

When Eisenhower made the expression famous, the military hardware industry was many times its current size, as % of gdp. It doesn’t exist anymore; what does exist is mechanized parrot like repetition of phrases from 70 years ago.

No cultural destruction visited by the Spaniards on the Mayan peoples can hold a candle to the destruction visited, centuries earlier, by the Mayans upon themselves, and from which their spectactular civilization never recovered.

The Spaniards can have been as nothing compared to the Mayans themselves. The composition of these codices was at its peak hundreds of years earlier and zero survived the reciprocal annihilation that had not a trace of influence from the Spaniards who were under direct Arab colonial domination that was to last longer than any in the post columbian period.

Exactly zero of what must have been countless thousands of codices, whole limitless libraries, survived the reciprocal destruction of the Mayan polities.