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Fair enough, but it sure meets the definition of 'helpful intervention'.

Whose work on KV-cache reduction did Deepskeep clone? Please be specific.

The problem is that a truly low-carbon lifestyle is indistinguishable from abject poverty.

Surely its just any postcode east of Berlin?

I am slightly disappointed that emacs has not yet (somehow) become the leading agent. Seems built for it.

… and every government department starts writing up a letter asking for an exemption.

Which is always granted.

Unless its mandatory, it's just theater.

That’s > 150 countries including Japan, Europe, Australia, Brasil, Mexico, Canada, etc.

It crimps their style.

I believe its called the second amendment.

"The US isn't subject to it"

American citizens are subject to ICC jurisdiction if they commit crimes in an ICC-member country. Like US soldiers in Afghanistan.

Which is what freaks the US government out.

Because

- they issued a non-revocable arrest warrant for Netanyahu

- Afghanistan is a member and once threatened to prosecute US military staff for human rights violations.

Its not just the Trump adminstration, the "Hague Invasion Act" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...) was signed into American law in 2002 by G.W. Bush.

Impunity is a drug.

Nothing quite as important in life as picking your parents well.

"Even if Canada and Australia don't join the EU as full members"

The European project is bigger than the EU - that's just the central core.

There's also the EFTA, EEA, CEFTA, CU, Eurozone, Shengen, CoE, and Swiss-style bilateral treaties.

See https://thisbugslife.com/2021/05/10/graphic-representation-o...

Canada can easily find a home one of these.

Chemist here, what bioweapon do you know of that can wipe out 8 billion people before anyone can do something about it? Never mind one release by a single person. It's really not 'trivial' to slaughter millions of people.

"So it's either they truly think AI is going to kill us all"

Exactly how does a CPU kill 8 odd billion people? Even if they got hold of the weapons to wipe out a few billion, surely the remain billions would just turn off the data centres?

Yes, asking a first-year physics student why they are studying a spring, and why its called Hooke's Law leads down a rabbit hole that ends with the entire British Empire.

The wording of the CLOUD act prevents any American company from competing, but yes, other European-only companies could offer the same.

"What does Mistral own?"

Independence from the USA's CLOUD Act, secret FISA courts, and ICC-style disabling of important services.*

*…and the Chinese equivalents.

Given that some will freak out about GHB, is there any information on whether beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) would help?

BHB is quite similar to GHB, but is a naturally produced ketone.

(I did try google)

Tell me comrades, are China and India doing this?

Here's how you can stop it: no national licences to distribute power, telecommunications, medicine, fuel, etc. Even some software.

Then you will have to have regional duplicates of each.

Stuff will cost more though.

"you can’t stop talking about yourself, but from an earnest yearning to share authentically".

Well, that killed it for me. Talking? Honestly?

Dear lord, no.

"also much worse …"

Why is convicting and sentencing criminals a bad thing?

"The amount of water used is somewhat less important than what the source of the water is."

Where I live, the golf courses are the largest and often only consumers of recycled water — in a water stressed city. This directly subsidises indigent water use.

It doesn't stop the easily-offended from agitating to convert them into low-cost housing.

The Europeans didn't think it was a bluff.

But more generally, when the foundation of your country's morality is "all men are created equal" you really have given up the space to object to others doing what you do.

If honour is a thing.

Huh, a lot on the 737 Max situation was due to standardisation.

Boeing didn't want the time, expense, and hassle of certifying (= standardising) a new narrow-body aeroplane, so they continued to reuse the FAA type certificate (= standardised design) of the original 737 from 1966.

This meant they had to keep, inter alia, the short landing gear, which in turn made the wings lower to the ground, which forced them to position the new big engines ahead of the CG, which forced them to add the faulty MCAS computer, which killed all those people.

Admittedly the decision to use just a single sensor on said MCAS was due to systematic, decades long corruption and emasculation of the FAA.

"climate doomerism"

Just a reminder that actual adult scientists at the ACS (American Chemical Society) have calculated (for all to see) that the excess heat being trapped just over the continental USA since 1750 is about 28 500 Hiroshima bombs.

Per second, every second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimZGu5GadQ 11' min in.

"they also send thousands of sex-spies"

Could they send one (or two) my way?

And when you here unsubstantiated rumours* that ­say Anthropic has been sending exchanges to say Alibaba's Qwen, will you als oconclude the same about the entire US AI industry?

I doubt it.

* publish the logs.

"Especially outside of US market."

A euphemism in polite company for: we'll ban them on national security grounds like we did with cars and phones.

… for which (if you think women are equal) they should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Husband and father of daughters).