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But Microsoft seems to be doing fine too ?

bamboozledon When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

So basically, war starts, oil prices go up because war has started, and oil companies pocket the extra money for their oil which they've literally done nothing yet received a handsome bonus?

Do farmers triple or 5x the price of food during droughts?

bamboozledon Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

I think you'd get the same results if you play golf with the right people?

bamboozledon Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

It is funny really, the way the systems we've built and the tax we pay, basically goes to protecting those who abuse our systems the most.

The police are like a private army to make sure no one fucks with the psychopathic nutjobs that re running civilization into the ground.

I don't know for sure but it feels like "Citizens United" was a full on disaster.

bamboozledon Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

Go do it yourself.

Start a company, get a bunch of agents to hack a bunch of stuff, say you were "just training the models", let us know how you get on?

bamboozledon When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

I've always founds this curios, if I'm my company is going through a rough time, I don't call my boss and say I want 50% more money, I usually just help out until we get through it, occasionally I'll get a bonus for that but it's optional.

Oil companies are interesting because it seems like the first thing that happens if there is any kind of problem is put their prices up?

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

What do you think Israel should do now? What would be a sensible course of action going forwards?

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Are you actually sending the Hamas charter and expecting me to read that and think it's reasonable ?

(I have read it before)

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Without some pretty good evidence, it sounds like conjecture, which is fine, but nothing of substance is being presented here.

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

I don't think what you're saying is actually right, if peacekeepers came in, it would (likely) mean a freezing of the current borders / situation, and isn't that what most people say justified October 7, "the theft of land"?

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Didn't he have ties to basically all powerful people? Is there something special about his Israel ties that are different to his Bill Gates ties?

I thought this was interesting, from Al Jazeera to boot:

Political Reactions: While critics and unverified intelligence memos pointed to the deep relationship as a sign of state ties, current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly dismissed the notion, stating on social media that Epstein's close ties to Barak (a political opponent of Netanyahu) actually "proves the opposite" of Epstein working for the Israeli state.

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Why is it likely ? Why not Russia ? I’ve heard it’s Russia ?

bamboozledon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

It's the cost, having a glass or bottle of wine before was just like buying some cheese to take to a party, now it's something you have to think about that, pair that with a potential hangover and people just decide not to bother.

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

You provided a list of reasons why you feel like teenagers at a music festival should be murdered, right?

Like my personal sentiment is, war is senseless, and both sides are wrong in some way or another. But yeah, I don't think children should be murdered period, so I'm not going to try and give a list of reasons why it's OK, because there isn't one.

Anyone committing war crimes should be punished for it, period.

My original question was simply, what should have been done differently "by the world leaders"?

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

This is where you notice that the world is more complicated than social media posts.

Like it would've been a nice idea, until you realize that Hamas is heavily backed by Iran, Iran is helping Russia, Russia is invading Ukraine, and it starts to look like that level of intervention is a step towards a world war.

Then you notice world energy markets are going to be effected by a massive conflict etc.

If the UN went into Gaza, got attacked by Iran, then had to respond, next minute they're attacking a close Russian ally, and maybe even China might have to get involved in that.

What would've been good is if October 7 didn't happen, and that goes for both sides.

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

So you feel like after October 7, there should've just been a talk about what happened and some form of negotiation ?

bamboozledon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

What do you think world leaders should've done differently?

bamboozledon AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

Even if what you're saying is true, did they monitor the outbound connections from the training network? Was that a coverup by the bots too ?

Seems pretty wild these things were hacking government websites etc but yeah no one picked that up until the victims reported it?

bamboozledon AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

Kind of makes you wonder why they built the tech in the first place, I don't know if we're on the eve of the apocalypse or not, but why the fuck build it all and then run around telling us how dangerous it is when...they were already warned?

Bit strange no?

I'm a bit fatalistic about it all now. The cat is out of the bag, unless we see some never seen before leadership from the current US admin there is almost zero point in worrying about it. Not going to pretend what the future holds but it's looking unpredictable, as usual :)

bamboozledon AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?

Well are they going to stop developing the tech or not? If not, then you can see why people don't trust what they're saying. I mean if it's that dangerous, why not step down from your role as CEO to demonstrate how seriously you take the threat? Why not immediately call a pause on all training, today ?

bamboozledon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

I am, which is the problem, if you start banning social media, you are banning access to information.

The real way out of it is education. Educating people about algorithms, social engineering, the harms of misinformation etc?

bamboozledon Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

So they will be replacing themselves with robots then? It's either foreigner workers or robots, either way, the average Joey Japan doesn't end up with any more money in their pocket and therefore many people will still struggle to find the money to have children.

bamboozledon Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

I recently went to Spain, it was the best country I've visited in years. Most cities were head and shoulders above anything I've seen in the US in recent times. I couldn't believe how vibrant the place was, it was like buzzing with events, people out on the streets having a good time on weeknights etc.

I notice there is a lot of Europe bashing going on on HN but I don't think it's actually warranted.

bamboozledon Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

> No one is forcing them to leave. They can continue to live and work in Japan on their current visa, and renew it.

Totally wrong, people who were eligible for the business manager visa are no longer elgibile with zero warning or grace period granted, so yeah, total BS. If you built a business here, that's been destroyed if you don't have enough money to quality for another business manager visa under the new (ridiculous) requirements.

What about the people who have worked for 10 years , paid all their tax, not broken the law, but don't have 30 years worth of money to live on, do you think they should be rewarded with the rejection of a PR? On what grounds is that fair?

I get the feeling you either have zero connection to Japan, or you do live here and are married to a Japanese, so you're happy to see the ladder get pulled up because "you're ok".

bamboozledon There are no "rogue" AI agents

It’s called corruption

bamboozledon Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

Because western democracies are about freedom of speech and access to information ?

bamboozledon Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

It's not about being reasonable, it's about having a good reason to kick basically everyone out who isn't 100% Japanese, or who has enough money to prop up their aging population and get almost nothing in return.

bamboozledon OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

Because you're a pleb in a corrupt world.

bamboozledon OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

Is this an attempt at satire?

bamboozledon Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

I think he means, how did they workout how to use artifactory, like why did the agents start and say, "oh I know, everyone is talking on artifactory"?