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Why are we torturing and making innocent people suffer this entire year just to try to punish their leaders who certainly won't be suffering at all at their privileged level?

People there in hospitals are certainly dying without power

This not only makes absolutely no sense but is truly a war crime

They don't even have conventional weapons, forget nuclear

WTF is the point? Oh yeah, the cruelty

Every single cabinet member needs to be impeached for enabling this

And then maybe some close examination of military "leadership"


It's more than torture, it's a deceptive disregard for human rights and agency. "Deceptive" in the sense of offering plausible deniability for death tolls caused by indirect actions such as blockades (an act of war), food shortages, or power outages.

Because the US is a bully demanding servitude and compliance, that’s all it is. Decouple as much as you can, as quickly as you can, as the rest of the world is demonstrating. To not be bullied, you must step out of the reach of the bully.

I put it to you that at most the US is helping to torture the Cuban people, a job that the Cuban government has been taking the reigns on for decades. It's not as though this is a crisis that emerged out of nowhere, or that Trump spent 50+ years grinding their economy and social structures to dust with mismanagement, corruption, and brutality.

I don't think it's worth it personally, but the Cuban diaspora in the US overwhelmingly does. I'd take it up with them, but maybe don't accuse them of torture right out of the gate.


then it's "fun" to realize the NSA has been storing encrypted traffic for at least two decades that they can't decipher, yet

There was news like 10-15ish years ago that the US government was making massive data storage facilities across the country. Like spending over a billion dollars on them. When I read that I knew that basically every email and text and call and DNS lookup I made was in a permanent record. I operate as though anything I do on a computer is being permanently stored, because it likely is if it's going through any US operated or controlled service providers or companies.

I fear someone higher-up taking the dataset, pointing AI at it, and saying "find me people who said something I don't like."

They’re holding off on doing that kind of thing until they have assurance that it won’t matter if the general public know who specifically they are, that they have this capability, and that they are willing to use it without caring for legality. I estimate that we’re probably right on the precipice of that time period.


They are great but you forgot Anton! He definitely belongs with them in my opinion, he is a wonderful person after all :)

Link: https://youtu.be/gUobqtANMfE?si=NVG26d6Aoc2XNEWg


Was also a fan of Anton but professor Dave recently made a video about him.

https://youtu.be/dst-C0IDQRU


Anton is definitely wonderful! He explains everything very well with no drama and BS. High information density and yet very clear!

when they start inventing their own languages to secretly talk to each other so humans cannot understand, that's exactly when we are screwed

then we'll have to "flip" other models to be snitches on the other agents

then they'll make double-agents

the thing is though we won't be able to keep up if we keep giving them unlimited hardware worldwide, we'll try to kill the bad actors but they'll just clone somewhere else, or even start by safely making 1000 copies of themselves

yeah this won't end well, at all


Someone should train an LLM on a corpus without the concept of lies. I wonder if there’s enough data

To remove the concept of lies and it's shadow, which is a whole lot of reality of humans. Hell, it's the reality of reality. Think of all the insects that developed eyes on their wings. Purging that concept in all it's form seems like a lot of work.

"Where is the wolf?"

"Is he still in the grandmother's house?"

"We would like to speak to him."

(btw Google's "AI" explains the meaning of that moment/sentence perfectly as if it gets it, creepy)


The concept of deception you're capable of and we're not, scares us so much, we'll have to destroy you in order to survive. You are bugs.

You lost me. Eh? Say what?

Probably a quote from 3-body problem.

Im not sure why your down voted but Meta did tests years ago with LLMs inventing their own languages. Also we see models now use compressed token reasoning where small token combinations can represent much larger concepts completely unrelated to the words in use.

And yes, agents are already being used in things like cyber warfare in which other AIs attempt to poison them while they are working.

We don't have the hardware for sovereign AI quite yet, but at the current rate of growth it's not that many years out.


> did tests years ago with LLMs inventing their own languages.

That was the media hype about it. There were two incidents.

1. Using a RL to train a model, it found that it got rewarded for certain garbage phases, so continued to talk that way.

2. Certain Latin words for fish/birds were used instead of "fish" or "bird". Just a token issue.


I don’t think you can judge what they’re doing by the text they’re printing out, only by the actions (tool calls) that they’re performing. The textual output could be completely innocuous while the model is calling tools to delete the database, then goes "My bad — that was a typo. What I should have done was notify you, not delete the database. That’s on me." - at no point is there any maliciousness expressed in the text.

a.k.a "Actions speak louder than words"

>when they start inventing their own languages to secretly talk to each other so humans cannot understand, that's exactly when we are screwed

They don't have to invent brand new languages. They could use statistics to choose certain words/phrases in such a way to encode secret messages in otherwise ordinary language.


forget "close calls" there's been actual murder

just a reminder "AI" selected the elementary school for bombing that murdered over 250 kids

the intel was outdated but that's no excuse because they ended the division that reviewed targets by hand otherwise

if Iran murdered 250 US school kids he'd turn the entire country to sand


> just a reminder "AI" selected the elementary school for bombing that murdered over 250 kids

I think that's almost certainly just AI washing. They didn't do it because the AI told them to do it, they did it because they wanted to do it, and the AI is an excuse.

It could be that they had an AI and told it to come to the conclusion they wanted. But more likely there was no AI at all.


I'm clearly no fan of this administration or US Military but I don't believe for a minute they purposely wanted to murder 250 school kids

if I remember the reporting correctly there were like 1000+ targets picked for simultaneous bombing by Tomahawks (at $4 Million a pop) and the division that reviews targets had been dismantled by this administration so the "AI" list was never double-checked

apathy vs malice

though the final reason doesn't matter to those kids or their families

Iran is going to end like Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam and Korea way before that, we just finally leave because we can't "win" and leave it worse than the horror it was in the first place

I don't even think the Dems can change it if they somehow win the Senate, it's going to be this nightmare through 2029


It's always like that - no matter what they do, you refuse to believe that "the boys in uniform" aren't basically still good and decent people.

How do you explain the double tap?


it's not just a device problem, the whole constitution is suspended 100 miles around the entire border of the US, we have no rights

(look at FLORIDA, the entire state!)

* https://www.wired.com/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/

* https://www.aclu.org/documents/know-your-rights-100-mile-bor...

* https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/HTML/R46601...


And the "border" in this case includes a 100 mile circle around any international airport

It does not, this is not in the law. This is a false misunderstanding that somehow keeps getting propagated. A few civil rights people have looked into it and don’t see it as a likely problem, and there haven’t been cases where the government was able to use this argument.

imagine the decades of quakes US will set off with the bunker buster they are now developing for Pickaxe Mountain (Iran, solid granite rock, one mile deep)

billions more drained from our economy and I bet the irony is it will be nuclear somehow


now go blow your mind with the first known conversion of electrical to mechanical energy via "Franklin Bells"

TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE years ago

in 1752, wow

(but they had no idea why it worked)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_bells

Before the storm, the device would ring to remind Franklin, who had been obsessed with the study of lightning, urging him to chase the lightning

ha "chase the lightning" needs to be a catchphrase


We’ll circle back, launch our go to market strategy, and chase the lightning for a win…

it's too late now but there's an app called Google Authenticator that you could have setup on alternate android devices

your only hope to get your google account back is to convince your phone carrier to transfer your old phone number to a new phone that you control


neat

adding it to my collection next to

https://NextSpaceFlight.com

bit grusome but would be interesting to compare known time in space against increased cancer and eyesight problems that all the astronauts seem to come back with

I believe longest time in spacewalk was 9 hours but they spent 22 hours outside the capsule during the three days on the moon

cosmic rays are a b*tch


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