It’s almost like basing your whole program on black box genetic algorithms and statistics yields unintended results

And this is why I do the captchas wrong.

It’s not strength, but rotation. Shoot a photon at the cube at a certain spot, you get data out of it. Hit the same spot in the cube with light that is polarized perpendicular to the first, and you get different data out of it.

Er… that’s what it sounds like, anyway…

those are the places that most need it though

See, now this is the tech I would understand pouring billions into. Give every nation on earth a durable copy of the last 100 years of medicine, physics, biology. That’s what a reasonable ruling class ought to do.

The US has rule of law?

Last I checked, it was just a two tiered justice system.

You can discount it if you like, but if we’re trying to analyze how Russia justifies its invasion and perceives its relationships with other nations, then considering the recent past of various NATO members is relevant.

Many NATO members contributed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the international legal framework put in place to justify those wars was cited by Putin at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.

everything after the question mark in that link just tells X twitter they went to the link from you

next time, use Xcancel

https://xcancel.com/michaeljknowles/status/1759042756536656020

It’s always convenient and reassuring to know one’s own ideas, alone, are untainted by scary foreigners.

Please tell me you are younger than the TSA

Back when this kicked off, Putin even cited a bunch of laws the UN drafted to justify the Iraq invasion.

And every single liberal should be protesting this in all the ways they’ve been saying Russian civilians ought to.

Can’t train one though. That’s what the datacenters are for. That infrastructure could put to more useful research, and the current owners are digging themselves a pretty deep hole…

Maybe after the bubble pops, we can have the public ownership all them datacenters. Let grad students run… I don’t know, statistical analysis of particle physics? Folding proteins?

That’s a joke, of course. We’ll foot the bill to fill the hole, but all the infrastructure will stay private.

Problems AI companies would like you to imagine (what if their product is too good?!) VS problems AI companies would very much prefer you not think about (their product isn’t actually AI)

This is my working assumption for all those teenage dystopias.

Hunger Games? World outside the US is fine. Better, now that the hegemon is more interested in watching it’s own population murder each other for television ratings.

Don’t want me making that assumption about your story? Maybe mention anywhere outside the continental US at least one [1] time. At least Handmaid’s Tale acknowledges Canada. And I guess heaven forbid Mexico ever get a mention.

I like this button layout. If one of the face buttons is gonna be used more than all the others, why shouldn’t it be bigger?

Yeah, Trump’s ideology is that of whomever had a polite conversation with him last. The only thing he actually believes in is television ratings.

It’s why his first administration’s policies were tamer than this one; there were slightly more ‘moderate’ (or, in a normal country, ‘hard right’) Republicans. This go round, he’s only surrounded by deranged sycophants and dorky natzi-fetish staffers.

most yankees don’t have coherent political views

He was a mormon kid who wanted people to be nice to each other. And shot someone about it. That’s not really right or left.