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> that intelligence agencies like to recruit young people active in the cyber criminal scene

Just linking this back to the story, am I mistaken in saying that DOGE is not an intelligence agency? (It certainly is a great position to exfiltrate information however.)

> Wealth, attention, and power influence people

I think in this case, it attracts the avaricious rather than changes their beliefs. Joe Rogan can be influenced by poor lunatics as much as rich ones. As much as I can tell of peoples' opinions of the All In pod (never listened), it sounds like they were always sell-outs (or their beliefs have not strayed)

I’ve been listening the latest series of the Revolutions podcast by history nerd Mike Duncan, where he’s switched to sci-fi mode to do the Martian Revolution.

Kind of interesting to listen to, though I wish now that instead he’d turned his attention to AI. There’s huge potential for revolution when our whole economy is upended and humanity is facing an existential terminus.

It seemed you were implying the article was naive to the earlier post, whereas the OP poses itself as a rebuttal. Perhaps a fault of my inference.

FTA:

> This week, there was a viral blog about Gemini 2.0 being used for complex PDF parsing, leading many to the same hypothesis we had nearly a year ago at this point. Data ingestion is a multistep pipeline, and maintaining confidence from these nondeterministic outputs over millions of pages is a problem.

It's a good list, but...

> [ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

... only matters for mobility applications. You can forget about this one for grid storage.

Being pushed in front of a bus would be rather unpleasant.

Are you sure it wasn't a strawman?

> being willing to do anything for money has historically been categorized as evil behavior

Even megacorps will do categorically good things if it helps their bottom line.

> might make it harder to hold people and corporations accountable

The problem is that someone (or some organization) chose to employ that system, and if the errant system doesn't oblige to have itself replaced with a new one, or be amenable to change, the responsibility rebounds back to whoever controls that system, whether that be at the level of the source code, or the circuit breaker.

More than any other organization, the military can literally get away with murder, and they're motivated to recruit and protect the best murderers. It's only by political pressure that they may uphold some moral standards.

I take your point, but the cement mix can absolutely have an impact on the integrity of the bridge structure. But to further your point, the cement mix was either incorrectly specified, or inadequately provided, and the responsibility for that falls on one of the humans in the loop.

Surely the company that is making profit out of said build systems and providing attestations holds some accountability. Someone wrote the code. Someone paid for the code to be written to a particular standard, under particular budget and resourcing constraints. Someone was responsible for ensuring the code was adequately audited. Someone claimed it was fit for purpose, and likely insured it as such, because they are ultimately responsible.

This highlights why the Internet Archive is so important.

Rustler actually wraps the NIF and passes the exception back to the caller

> The library provides facilities for generating the boilerplate for interacting with the BEAM, handles encoding and decoding of Erlang terms, and catches rust panics before they unwind into C.

https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

ICEs do need far more servicing to stay safe and functional on the road vs an electric, and this is doubly true for high performance vehicles. They have a precision machined block of metal, creating hundreds of explosions per second, lubricated and liquid cooled by hoses that degrade and slip with the vibration, using turbos and superchargers to milk out performance, exhausting gases, driving a multigeared transmission, synchronised by perishable belts, with gaskets and sealants holding the shuddering mess all together. Miracles, all of them.

All ICEs are Rube Goldberg machines, especially the high-performance brands. It's a miracle of engineering that they run at all.

Sure, that too

> pro-business

Correction: the administration is pro-monopoly.

It's corrupt in the same ways that Trump accused of other administrations – it's just funneling cash and opportunities to a few established companies who are in good graces with the government. To be pro-business would be to welcome competition and encourage new businesses (a.k.a start-ups) by establishing proper incentives and removing roadblocks.

It's basically a slow return to the cold-war era strategy of brinkmanship

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

No, it’s that welfare programs reduce crime and improve the livelihoods of the entire population, and they have flow on benefits to the economy by increasing workforce participation and lifting education levels where more advanced products and services can remain on shore (subsequently also increasing government revenue).

Instead, the US does not invest in its people, and fears the immigrants that will do the jobs they aren’t willing to endure or study for. Compare to Asia, where universal education and healthcare are valued at the cultural level and it’s clear why they have sophisticated economies and why jobs have shifted there. The US only holds its position as long as it holds it’s hegemony on global capital, but it also holds record amounts of debt vs GDP, and disruptions like Deepseek are a reminder of where most of the talent in the world comes from. Capital and geopolitical dominance alone isn’t going to save the country. To make America great again, you have to invest in the people. (And if America isn’t the people, what exactly is it to you?)

> it doesn't absolve them from knowing right from wrong however

Certain mental conditions absolutely do, in a legal sense. Some conditions onset from brain injury and tumors, some to drug exposure, some are genetic, etc. For those unfortunate few who are afflicted, the most humane outcome is to intervene to keep them away from harming themselves and others, though often they are left unattended to by overstretched mental health services.

Observing patterns when dead is also useful for subsequent games (a cryptic clues in the monsternomicon on the bottom right of the screen)

> But yes, many games are unwinnable.

Below the game: "Yes, the board can be cleared."

> I’m able to Matrix-upload docs into my brain like Trinity learning to fly a helicopter.

So you're using it like Wikipedia? I find when learning something new (and non coding related) YouTube is infinitely better than an LLM. But then I prefer visual demonstration to tutorial or verbal explanation.

> I think you're being less than honest with yourself

Are you sure that's me?

> A group organizing 60 protests is organizing at scale

Again: what scale? Are we talking all protests? Some? Half? What is "a lot"?

> > delegitimizes real protest movements

> Who cares?

You would, when the protest is about something that matters to you. The very thing that divides so-called Western democracy from the evil Russians is the right to organize, criticize, and protest against the government. When you can't do these things, you're living in an autocracy, something like, um... Russia?

I'll leave you to argue this one out with yourself.

Perhaps they mean there's less wealth to be extracted from the closed-source training side of the equation, which requires huge capital investment, and promises even bigger returns by gatekeeping the technology.

Huge shrug to that. Show me the evidence of the scale of it. 10%? 90%? There's an aspect of this reasoning that delegitimizes real protest movements, of which there are 'a lot', and of course there's a long history of 'a lot' of foreign geopolitical actors (including the US) of agitating actual grass-roots movements, muddying the waters even further.

A lot of sour grapes on here, and the attendant cognitive dissonance. Communism and open-source development have overlapping ideals, and there's no better project for worldwide cooperation than AI. But that's at odds of the US having monopolistic control over the SOTA. Ultimately capitalism horseshoes into the authoritarianism, gross inequality, and poverty of the Soviet states it likes to contrast itself to.

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

Why couldn't this be viewed from the capitalistic lens of good old fashioned competition? No cynicism is required in viewing the export restrictions on ASML's lithography technology and nVidia's most advanced chips as blantantly anti-competitive.

While they were exaggerating by saying, "a lot of protests", certainly there have been some protests that have been organized by Russian agitators

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/russian-troll-...