- > Having beliefs, principles or values is not lying to oneself.
The lie is that you adopted "beliefs, principles or values" which cannot ever serve your interests, you have subsumed yourself into something that cannot ever reciprocate. Ideology by definition even alters your perceived interests, a more potent subversion cannot be had (up to now, with potential involuntary neural interfaces on the horizon).
> Citation needed
I will not be providing one, but that you believe one is required is telling. There is no further point to this discussion.
- > I prefer my positions strong and based on reality, not based on lies (to myself included).
Then you would be the exception, not the rule.
And if you find yourself attached to any ideology, then you are also wrong about yourself. Subscribing to any ideology is by definition lying to yourself.
Being able to place yourself into the shoes of others is something evolution spent 1000s of generations hardwiring into us, I'm very confident in my reading of the situation.
- Gemini 2.5 was a full broadside on OpenAI's ship.
After Gemini 3.0 the OpenAI damage control crews all drowned.
Not only is it vastly better, it's also free.
I find this particular benchmark to be in agreement with my experiences: https://simple-bench.com
- The answer to that is simple: They hate AI and the environment angle is just an excuse, much like their concern over AI art. Human psychology is such that many of these people actually believe the excuse too.
It helps when you put yourself in the shoes of people like that and ask yourself, if I find out tomorrow that the evidence that AI is actually good for the environment is stronger, will I believe it? Will it even matter for my opposition to AI? The answer is no.
- The real question is if AI replaces labor, what will keep democracy in place?
People who advocate for things like UBI don't seem to realize that when voters don't have a share in the productivity of their nation, they become 100% a liability. The reason democracy persists is that the powers that be aren't incentivized to destroy democracy as it would harm them too. In 10 years that will no longer be the case. Arguably, you can already see this today as the future expectations affect the present.
- The US could just adopt a law which automatically seizes assets from the EU to cover any such fines. Demonstrate where true power lies.
Define this type of action as "bureaucratic piracy". Any rule which preferentially targets US interests over domestic either in its creation or its enforcement. Apply some of that "disparate outcomes" logic.
- This is almost certainly just for show (as in, they would have no reliance on it and not expect it to ever be triggered).
They will have agents both known and unknown operating at those companies. A company cannot as a policy set out to violate the law (if it's smart). It would be trivial for individuals to have covert channels set up.
- There has never been a point where tipping point public demand for regulation did not lead to regulation (if it was for example unconstitutional to regulate). Which makes the assertion that regulation is the solution unprovable.
If the FDA never got established, would firms emerge that put their seals of approval on medicine and become trusted? We will never know. It's pointless to point out what happened before the FDA and after because these are not random samples, the FDA didn't get randomly created. The demand for the FDA if denied would have transformed into the demand for something else.
We will also never know the progress in medicine we lost due to the red tape. There would of certainly been scandals and deaths, but if we got a cancer cure as a result would it not have been worth it?
I suspect that if regulation was not a feature of government we would of solved it in other ways, such as the ability to pierce the corporate veil both civilly and criminally for gross negligence etc. And third parties whose only product is trust - these parties would have infinitely more incentive to preserve that trust than governments.
- Almost everything. Can't even do pointer arithmetic without x.add() and x.offset()
- The ergonomics of unsafe rust are abysmal. It would have been 10 times better if they just let you do inline C instead.
- It's not the models, it's the tooling. Models are just weights and an architecture spec. The tooling is how to load and execute the model on hardware.
Some UX-oriented tooling has sort of solved this problem and will run on AMD: LM Studio
- > She's published by huge multinational corporations you've heard of.
Publishers have an interest in publishing stuff that doesn't sell as long as ticks some other check-boxes to appear prestigious or politically correct for the time.
Should society bear the costs of maintaining artists who produce things that are not in demand or have low value?
- That would be part of the cost benefit analysis. And you would be surprised how "trustworthy" these ransomware groups are. Probably because publishing the data is a hassle they would rather do without, and finding actual buyers for such data is hard (corporations don't tend to have black budgets).
No, whenever they decide not to pay it's because they made the decision to absorb the damage rather than pay criminals who may or not be sanctioned (and that fact may later emerge) creating additional liability. So you know that when they pay the damage would have been very great indeed. In this instance the damage is likely minor or more likely, off-sourced.
Nobody is not going to pay because that will be better for the collective to let the ransomware industry die. They may however choose to publicly state that as the reason.
- Tragedy of the commons. It's irrelevant to the extorted company whether or not it becomes more common in the future, they have a much bigger problem now.
The reason they didn't pay is because they conducted a cost benefit analysis and decided it's not worth it to them.
- unless you have a specific use case where you need to run a server through your vpn this isn't as much of a problem as you think it is.
torrents for example have hole punching functionality built into uTP where reachable peers help unreachable peers connect to each other.
- If you asked to do something fishy then document it and consult a lawyer. Don't do anything that is above the bare minimum required to cover your ass. You get nothing for doing the "right thing" and are likely to be penalized for it - word will get around and future employers have no interest in figuring out if you were right nor will they care, you will have proven to be disloyal or worse an idealist.
- Wireguard would be an answer here, IP's are authenticated with ECC keys.
- What about the smart TVs? There have to be a lot of them, do all of them run JS?
Also what kind of environments are executing the JS? If Google begins to employ browser fingerprinting that may become relevant.
clouflare only blocks the most dumb of bots, there are still a lot of them.
this is why cloudflare will issue javascript challenges to you even when you are using google chrome with a VPN, they are desperate to appear to be doing something. and every VPN is used to crawl as well. a slightly more sophisticated bot passes the cloudflare javascript challenge as well, there really is nothing they can do to win here.
i know some teams that got annoyed with residential proxies (they are usually sold as socks5 but can be buggy and low bandwidth) so they invested into defeating the cloudflare javascript challenge and now crawl using 1000's of VPN endpoints at over 100 Gbit/s.