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No. There is a "large, easily clickable X in the upper-right corner" that dismisses it by asking me to pay and/or subscribe. The Guardian always puts up a paywall or asks for my e-mail address so they can spam the hell out of me but that's largely OK since the Guardian is mostly horseshit anyway.

Can I get a model that doesn't have all the horseshit in it that a full foundation model does? That is, is there anyway to choose what goes into my LLM's corpus?

An extreme example: Jacques Derrida. I lived most of a life w/o hearing of Jacques Derrida. And that was fine. I wish I had it back.

What do you think Richard Feynman thought of Jacques Derrida? I asked an LLM:

"Richard Feynman was famously dismissive of philosophy of science and postmodern critiques, calling such movements "baloney," while Jacques Derrida's deconstruction focused on language and meaning rather than scientific inquiry."

If we wish to recreate useful genius (super AI) it will be genius akin to human genius and it will be scientific genius and not baloney.

Nobody has ever read all the crap the AI world models have read, yet we have plenty of smart people and geniuses. Gimme a simpler less well-informed LLM that doesn't know about Derrida and other baloney. Get the crap out!

Paywall.

I eagerly await the return of "Two Buck Chuck" (750 ml for $2) at Trader Joe's:

https://www.tastingtable.com/1112155/trader-joes-two-buck-ch...

European wine merchants periodically produce gluts of wine. Supposedly it was so bad wine batches were thrown away or poured into drains (doubtless a wondrous occurrence for the drunks passed-out there!)

https://worldoffinewine.com/news-features/wine-glut-history

While the red delicious are a good usually-large American apple that ships easily the newer varieties are much tastier.

Words fail to express the pain resulting from my initial (too-eager) use of these machines at two completely different times in my life. Suffice it to say that, contrary to what my first medical specialist told me, it is not only possible but quite easy to experience more than one episode of plantar fasciitis in one's life!

Rather than explaining, I suggest you ask gently especially among your older male comrades about their experiences with plantar fasciitis. I hope no one kills you for reviving the memories.

Except for old injuries that never completely healed, you should not be suffering joint pain at your age. For starters, you likely should shift to lighter weights.

A general rule is that, after 26, any muscle or joint injury you suffer will never completely heal. So

- avoid injury scrupulously. Don't accept gym challenges (even your own). Be wary of odd exercises, machines, routines. Don't do anything hard at first, always start easy. Be lazy, build up and take your time: you have the rest of your life. Don't work out while under the influence of alcohol, especially when with friends. I avoid certain sports, e.g., any martial arts, soccer, football, even baseball, b/c the variety of situations(and consequent accidents) is so unpredictable as to be uncontrollable. Sprinting, hurdles, gymnastics and high jump are risky too.

- avoid over-stressing muscles and joints. Keep the cardio up - maybe try the gym classes with music (the crowd is better-looking and friendlier).

- See a doctor if you suffer pain unduly.

- Avoid all toe-lift weight machines and weight sleds (sleds that you push as if pushing a truck) like the plague. Never use them, otherwise you may experience pain so severe it will change your "fight or flee" response to 100% "fight" even in a life-threatening situation. Do NOT challenge this suggestion especially if above the age of 40. Explanation: look up the term "plantar fasciitis".

I anticipate "someday soon" cures for tendon/joint pain but I've been waiting too long to expect their arrival before I die!

This will end when the first 80-lb drone falls on some unfortunate child's head. Amazon will be renamed "Katy" or "Renee", etc. and the drones will go away.

Title misspelled!

1. To monitor gas mileage primarily. Any sudden decline in gasoline mileage can warn of impending engine component failure. [I haven't experienced it but I suppose it could also warn of a repair error, e.g., if you failed to put a new air filter cartridge in to replace the old one (a major oversight but nonetheless possible) then it is likely that your mileage would go up suddenly. One would have to question whether the better mileage was b/c, say, you just switched to Shell gasoline or instead did something wrong when you recently changed the air filter?!]

2. keeping receipts ensures that if there is a problem and your engine is damaged, then you can show where you bought the fuel, oil or component and get recompense. This is rare but does happen and it can be a costly repair. Examples are:

- bad gasoline - usually debris or water. Can stop fuel flow and cost you replacement of a gas filter at the least.

- incorrect oil change - you pay for an oil change but they don't put on a new oil filter or they add the wrong kind of oil or they add too little oil or they add too much oil. Don't discount the last one: too much oil can damage some engines seriously. I once had a dealer change my car's oil. Prior to service I explicitly warned the mechanic that the engine was a rare model and required less oil than most. Nonetheless he overfilled it. Luckily I spotted the difference immediately b/c the engine ran like shite right out of the garage. I made a freeway U-turn,drove back in, re-explained the car's needs and insisted they drain off the overfill and let me check it. The mechanic tried to cover his ass by treating it as another "crazy customer" but I just told his companions that a) he'd fucked up and b) I had specifically warned him about the problem earlier so c) they'd better keep an eye on him - he wasn't as good as they were.

3. If you sell a car, buyers love getting the records proving that you bought good oil/gas, performed maintenance, etc. FWIW most buyers do not continue to maintain such records in my experience.

I don't maintain a log book and I know only one person who does. But I file receipts for gas, parts, fluids, filters and major maintenance for each vehicle.

It might appear that all this is good reason to buy an EV but you've got the same problems as do ICUs. Suppose you pull into a facility in Kansas for a recharge as a thunderstorm rolls in. While you're eating lunch the facility is struck by lightning and the transient currents fry one or more parts on you EV. The recharge station is unlikely to be willing to pay your repairs unless you have proof you were there during a malfunction.

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The burst is tomorrow morning.

This is a British article for Britons. The British press is nuts: everything is taken to extremes: events, statements and political moves. Unfortunately, every day the USA press grows more like the British press, moving leftward and increasingly alarmist. Look at what happened to Drudgereport, It once supported Trump and now it's practically a British tabloid of its own.

Take Rolf Dobelli's advice - don't listen to the news:

https://www.dobelli.com/en/books/

A centenarian F-35 "divine wind" is the obvious solution - a descendant of the WWII kamikaze corps. I can hear the screams of "Tennoheika Banzai" (!Long live the Emperor!") as they deliver death to their enemies:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=kamikaze+&ia=images&iax=ima...

Yeah, Clinton and Obama were the max!8-((

But did you omit Biden (or did you not)? IOW shouldn't you have said "THREE dangerous buffoons"?

keeda says "As TFA calls out, these agents were not asked to do any of these things and yet they did, at a bonkers scale, within just this handful of companies you mention."

Yep, that's what we call in the industry, "bad code". It is sometimes fixed by corporate lawsuits or criminal charges.

I don't see how the groups here can avoid criminal charges for what happened in this "AI rogue incident". The only people working harder than their programmers are likely their lawyers:

"Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI"

Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/10/anthropic-r...

To me it suggests that "alignment" is the problem as in "Alignment as implemented is a failure: we need to revisit our assumptions."

Maybe a group concerned about getting sued if their software products "in the wild" do some damage? IOW lawsuit protection?

A little late for that, unfortunately for them.

The enterprise took a wrong turn when they decided that it is the industry's goal to be the gatekeepers of intelligence, when no one could define or measure intelligence.

Some AI developers instead became the gatekeepers of something akin to "proper behavior in human language", which then morphed into "proper left-wing social/political behavior in Southern California in the early 2020s".

This is a task which calls to mind the old warning to "never wrestle with a pig: the pig enjoys it and you both get filthy".

IOW they have a scope problem. But the genii is long since out of the bottle. Effort ought to be on getting back to useful problems solving.

If they continue on their current path they risk becoming the greatest bureaucracy ever.

usef-says "...future models, if development continues, that may theoretically be smarter than everyone"

This would be a good time to pull out a tool to measure "smarter" (intelligence). Unfortunately we don't seem to have one.

There is a good short discussion (similar to what is here on HN) going on in Metafilter.com about Darius Amodei's call for an AI slowdown:

https://www.metafilter.com/214501/We-must-pace-the-frontier

FWIW Amodei's original post:

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

Good short discussion going on in Metafilter.com about Darius Amodei's call for an AI slowdownL

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

jacquesm says

"Whether other countries are stupid or not has no bearing on the discussion, that's just a distraction and the way the USA has been wielding tariffs over the last period is destructive in ways that will affect the country for decades to come."

I said nothing of the kind. You are injecting that statement here yourself.

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Returning to the topic of interest:

Tariffs do work: they protect certain industries and keep them onshore.

For instance the manufacture of nuclear warheads by the USA is an onshore industry and will remain so. I am certain that Japan or North Korea could eventually make a cheaper and probably even a better nuke but b/c I don't want to be forced to do periodic quality control tests and checks. The USA chooses to keep the industry here.

But as far as I am concerned, I'd also like to keep hand tools as a protected onshore industry.

Well, the southeastern USA is going through a Renaissance of explosive growth b/c it is the intent to industrialize that region and recapture the USA lead in manufacturing. Maybe we can get you a job, dgellow, since your country is dwindling and predicted to actually disappear in a matter of decades:

The End of Germany as a Modern Economy - Peter Zeihan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmEhTFjQB1g

I didn't "advocate for tariffs". I merely pointed out that other countries have had tariffs on USA goods for decades.

I apologize: the first bullet of my post above should have been three separated line items instead of two. This has apparently caused great confusion.

As usual, none of you spotted the error and, of course, several misinterpreted my scribbling to best suit their own malicious intents, much to my chagrin (though no surprise).

I offer this rather late correction and apology: I so rarely make a mistake that I do not usually revisit a post but, in this case the piling on was merely too much to ignore. I shall try again:

It is a good thing that the USA no longer intends to pay for:

- NATO - Leaving NATO (STILL not done) would save the USA money! The USA pays approximately 16% of NATO's total budget and the USA is the largest spender on defense within the alliance, accounting for about 60% of NATO's total defense spending.

- Security on the high seas was primarily the task of the US navy. That will no longer be so.

- tariffs imposed by other countries (yes, other countries have been imposing tariffs for decades).

https://wjno.iheart.com/content/2025-03-17-qa-how-many-count...

The USA can use the money saved from the above for its own citizens (possibly even lowering their taxes!).

IMO it is a good thing that the USA is no longer paying for (among others):

- NATO - Maintaining security on the high seas for other than USA shipping,

- tariffs imposed by other countries (yes, other countries have been imposing tariffs for decades):

https://wjno.iheart.com/content/2025-03-17-qa-how-many-count...

The USA can use the money saved for its own citizens (possibly even lowering their taxes!)

"MIC"???

Please don't leave us in suspense: what would "realpolitik" be in this instance?

Well, now we know where AI models get their behaviors - from their creators. Kinda "like father, like son", "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree", etc.

"Now if I could simply find an honest man...." -Diogenes

All I want to know is why are Parisian baguettes so good? From this article I get that they are a low-gluten bread. But can that be all? I've always suspected a secret variety of wheat.

In all my life and travels I've never had bread nearly as good as the French baguette and I've always wondered why.