cultofmetatron

> worship of a single person, personal loyalty triumphing over competence, and the Chinese economic machine, subject to whims of a single person, seems to be slowing down.

The whole world is swinging in that direction. its not like the US is any better in that respect in our current political climate.

> There are plenty of disastrous decisions in the last 70 years at the level of major policies.

one thing I've come to respect about the Chinese is that while they make huge decisions that sometimes have disastrous consequences, they don't make the same mistakes twice.

At this point they have fed information from their environmental impacts into reforesting entire mountains and improving air quality.

They went in on Evs. not just subsidies but recognizing that you need an entire supply chain. so while americans bitch constantly about the failing power grid and how we can't switch to evs cuz it would be disastrous, the chinese built renewable energy projects and a massive DC transmission line accross the entire country. This is also a big part of why they can provide AI services for way less than america can.

> If you weren't OK with that you weren't eligible to serve on a jury.

same reason they are really out to disqualify jurors who know about jury nullification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

> Once of age, no need, come of age, can remove.

children don't tend to object to losing rights they never had in the first place.

get them used to livign with less rights and a lower standard of living and they wont' know what was taken away from them.

> There is surely an international special interest group lobbying for this?

yea, you know who they are, I know who they are and we all knoww what they are tryin to hide. but anyone who spells it out will get downvoted to hell here.

as a CTO, its been crazy pushing back against these AI mandates. Almost always from VCs and non technical contributors. I'm pretty liberal about using AI but it has its limits. I think of them like swim fins. you can dive much deeper with them but if you didn't earn that ability, you can find yourself too deep to get your next breath of air. likewise, its important to never let the ai do work more than one ring outside of your knowledge base lest it do things you dont' understand and therefore can't audit.

no kidding. I learned last week that they have intercontinental high voltage DC transmission lines.

SOTA AI is the only place where we are ahead. china has us beat on manufacturing, logistics and workhorse grade models like deepseek pro and glm5.2.

we're increasingly irrelevant

if only there was a magical place where geothermal and hydroelectric is ubiquitous and the weather is cold enough that no one is going to be complaining about free heating.

lets say you have a table that is partitioned. how do you lint/format "any select into this table MUST include the partition key in the predicate and any join must include it in the on." I'm not personally familiar with any static analysis tool that does this but its trivial to implement with an llm prompt. trivially easy to add to your automated PR reviews.

I seriously dont' know all this big hullabaloo about one shot prompting.

by definition, a single prompt wont' constitute the complexity of a software project. ergo, what you'll get is a series of assumptions made by the model based on preexisting code in its training corpus.

I'd rather see a coding agent that can follow steps in a plan file to a T while following guardrails and adhering to the proper coding conventions in the human reviewed spec.

Id rather see performance in agent loops against human defined objectives where it can be verified to stick to defined guardrails and continue without drift till its objectives are complete.

I'd also like to see it identify bugs and potential performance increases by identifying existing code and suggesting refactors based on context it can pickup about the particular use case you are trying to create.

These are way more valuable metrics than "hey build X"

This is far more to do with different people having different definitions for what constitutes a genocide with one very well funded minority group having a large stake in their version being the accepted one.

realisticaly, the united states has no right or moral authority when it comes to human rights or rule of law given the last few years. given that, the admonishment of china's human rights violations against uighurs run hollow and hypocritical.

just happy to have more models that I could eventually play with if hardware ever becomes cheaper.

step 1: find a problem people are willing to pay to make go away.

step 2: find a way to solve that problem for less money than they are willing to pay

step 3: AI???

we already have a fleet of autonomous robots composed of protein that solved this problem. its not infeasible for artificially created robots to eventually be able to do this stuff on their own.

> It's insane how universities are so chill when students literally call for genocide of Jews.

where exactly have students "literally" called for genocide of jews?

The only people I've heard the "kill them all" mentality blatently to my face so far have been pro israel zionists.

for anybody else interested in this undertaking, I recommend this book https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challeng...

my my nieces are always "how do you know so much"

I then show them my playlist on youtube (veretassium, tomscott, redvsblue, pbs eons etc)

they go back to scrolling though shorts right after.

you can lead a horse to water but well...

all this talk of "protecting people's jobs"

no, we need to get rid of as many jobs as possible. whats missing is talk of a universal basic income. AI is going to get rid of a lot of jobs but people still need to eat and have a place to live. its really created a need for us to explore a system beyond the lessai fair capitalism the US has been creating over the years. tax AI and use it for building subsidized housing and food. made education free so that we can learn skills AI can't do.

its also hilarious when you consider that building nuclear weapons is fundamentally a supply chain problem. The taliban isn't going to suddenly have nuclear capabilities by asking chatgpt. Any adversarial nation that has the means to extract and concentrate fissile nuclera material probably has HUMAN scientists who spent years studying the problem in well funded labs.

apple revolutionizing power supplies is hilarious given how big and bulky they are. I have an anker 145 watt charger. smaller than macbok pro charge and yet it charges my macbook pro, ipad and steamdeck at the same time

I was thinking of checking out blacksmith for my own startup but yikes.. this kind of surprise gotcha is a major dealbreaker for me.

you don't think criticizing asymmetry in policing isn't criticizing government?

there was a recent case of a kid who was literally stabbed by a sihk guy and got arrested because the sihk guy said the guy said something racist.

Now before you say that I need to check my white privilege, I am brown. everytime one of these people commit these crimes and the police look the other way in the name of political correctness, it gives legitimacy to the racists who want to cast all of us in a bad light. Law and order needs to be a applied equally and its very strange to me how people are getting arrested for speech when they are a direct consequence of government policies. don't make teh speech illegal, correct the issues the=is speech is surfacing.

what happens if you criticize the government with regard to certain topics in the UK on social media?

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...

> What a callous view of people. Who's your benchmark? TikTok addicted kids?

brother, we are all walking around with a supercomputer in our pocket thats capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge and yet we're still stuck with people who think the earth is flat.

Iran isnt' getting tax dollars from the united states to commit their 6e|\|0c|de.

Its 2026 and its now controversial to say that a adherence to broad respect for human rights should be a minimum bar for being considered a proper western democracy.

> Surely, out there in the wilderness, there is a company staffed by intelligent, skilled people. Right?

of course there are but you don't hear about them.

deepseek pro and flash are dirt cheap.

kimi-k2.6 can do a pretty damn good job with vision for optimizing ui design workloads in a loop. not cheap but significantly cheaper than anthropic.

mimo 3 is jsut pretty damn good when you need a high end reasoning model - also reletivly affordable.

I was able to run gemma and do some coding locally on a 32 gb machine. it was slow as molasses but the fact that it worked at all on a local machine that wasn't desinged around AI workloads is great.

Its only a tokenpocalypse if you rely on these closed and frankly overpriced american models. is opus better than kimik2.6? arguably yes but not 16 times better from what I've been seeing.

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