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- Comment on TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin' 5 hours ago:
That’s OK, it looks very interesting. 👍
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 8 hours ago:
Joke aside, that’s kind of the vibe it gives off.
- Comment on TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin' 10 hours ago:
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 10 hours ago:
Enron was cooking the books hiding huge deficits, and spending the money from the workers pension funds, so no Nvidia isn’t Enron, but that doesn’t mean it’s great.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
As time has shown, they just never fucking do when they’re in charge.
Yes, the problem is that USA only has 2 right wing parties.
I’m hoping things are bad enough this time for democrats to actually do something. I’m not holding my breath, though.
That’s what I hoped under Bush, and his 2nd election was already a serious slap in the face. That Obama was elected made me somewhat hopeful, although he too was clearly right wing, and had clearly American exceptionalist viewpoints.
When Trump was elected, all hope was shattered, and now that Trump was elected a second time, I almost don’t care about USA anymore, except that USA is still a significant global power. And trends in USA have a tendency to spread globally. So we can’t ignore USA. But fuck they are the drunk bullying cousin you wish would have stayed home at family gatherings, because whenever he turns up, he ruins everything. - Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
If USA falls completely it may be both a blessing and a curse. But yes USA is falling like an angry giant.
But I wouldn’t underestimate China, they came from next to nothing half a century ago, to now being a global power in many ways equal to USA, leading in production but also many scientific fields and having one of the worlds 3 biggest economies while still growing their economy faster than USA and EU. They have been doing just about all the right things, investing heavily in education and infrastructure, while also improving living conditions and creating a huge middle class.I agree 100% that Russia is no super power, Russia is way worse off than China regarding incompetence and corruption, and they are merely the 4th biggest economy in Europe. IMO The only thing really scary about Russia is that they have nukes.
Best wishes to South America and Africa.
If we could have a world order built around the values of EU, based on the concept of prosperity through cooperation and mutual respect, that would be awesome. If we can agree among the different parts of the world on how to coexist, it doesn’t matter who is at the center of it or has the leadership. But as things are looking now, it can’t be USA. USA is way to disruptive to be a plausible world leader anymore.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 days ago:
I 100% understand what you mean. I just bought a VW ID.4, and IMO they have a reasonable balance. Everything needed for normal driving is handled with buttons, and although some are touch, they do have haptic feedback, and it works OK IMO.
I was looking at the Skoda Enyaq, because it has traditional buttons and more things operated through them.
But it cost about €8000 extra for the same features as is in our fully equipped ID.4 when used and 4 years old. But now I’m happy we chose the ID.4 instead of an Enyaq with fewer features. Because the ID.4 works way better than I expected.
It’s crazy and previously absolutely unheard of that the Skoda version of a similar car to a genuine VW is more expensive. - Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
greece nearly drug down the EU when theirs popped off,
Erh no! Don’t trust the sensationalist stories about the Euro collapsing for this or that reason. Those stories are always without merit, my guess is they serve a purpose for speculation or are just sensationalist stories.
USD is the cornerstone to the entire western financial system
What are you smoking? It doesn’t make a hoot of difference to the rest of the world to trade in another currency. But more likely than not, it won’t be a single currency replacing USD, it will be a basket of currencies where USD will probably be a part.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
You can PM me too if it comes to that.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
USA already has widespread poverty, lacks free healthcare and education, has the lowest life expectancy among economically comparable countries.
So USA is already a shit-hole country, and among shit hole countries, totalitarian countries are the absolute worst.
If you think people have it bad now, especially below middle class, you just wait and see what it will be like if USA becomes a totalitarian country! - Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
Oh I absolutely expected USA to be surpassed by China at some point. And for USA to gradually lose international dominance.
But the shit USA is making for itself is turbocharging that process by at least a factor 10.
Some might say it doesn’t really make much difference because the end result remains the same. But the problem is that this doesn’t give the world the same amount of time to adjust. Disruption is generally bad, and disruption of world power is no exception.
Of course the worst disruption is to USA, and that will have a serious negative impact on American business, and if the US dollar loses the position as the world reserve currency, the significance of the American debt will be way more serious. - Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 days ago:
And then lose control of numerous functions of your car.
It’s simply not an option in modern cars. - Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
I’m a EU citizen.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
Thanks. 👍 💖
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
You know most Americans are descendants of that historical lesson too right?
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
I never expected USA to self destruct like they are now. It’s absolutely insane!
Electing Bush Jr. twice was crazy, but electing Trump twice is insane.
Following the trend of elections for the past few decades, USA is on a path to become a totalitarian country.
The Democrats may win the next presidential election if there is one, but by the looks of things, when the pendulum swings again, that will be the end of democracy for USA. - Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
Paywall.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 3 days ago:
Just watched a “Feinman” video on Youtube I thought was a little off. Especially when one of the examples simply seemed outright wrong.
But I thought it was probably me who misunderstood something. Until I read the description, and it turned out his voice was recreated by AI, and the “lecture” was designed to be in the “spirit” of Feinman!It had Feinmans name all over it, and then in the description they end it with:
No impersonation is intended
That shit should be outright illegal, it is fraud, Feinman had nothing to do with the content, and it even had mistakes!
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 6 days ago:
Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life
I think you skipped and interim there.
I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other diseases or troubles.
There must be a lot of things in life you don’t know. You can be dying of cancer and not be depressed and want to live on. And you can have a serious depression where you just want to die. If you can’t tell the difference between those two conditions, and why one is more detrimental to life quality than the other, I don’t see we can have anything to talk about. That level of ignorance is beyond debatable.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 6 days ago:
No that was a generalization, not specifically related to Latin America.
Regarding that read my other response. - Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 6 days ago:
The article doesn’t seem to show any context to this, are equally poor countries on other continents better or worse?
My guess is the main problems are probably poverty inequality and corruption. Catholicism may also be a problem, as every crime can be absolved by the church, and Catholics are free from the ultimate personal consequences of their crimes.
So the corruption and inequality may create a sense of need for many people to need to balance the injustice, and combined with a lack of perceived ultimate consequence may be a toxic cocktail that stimulate violent crime.This however is pure speculation on my part. But it seems evident there must be some kind of social factor to cause things to be so bad.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 6 days ago:
Life has the same value to every living human.
That’s an extreme oversimplification, and that way of looking at it completely ignores people with depression and people committing suicide.
Obviously a life in suffering is more likely to cause depression, and a life in depression is subjectively worth less. - Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 1 week ago:
He basically just said it looks a lot like the picture could be made by an AI. Which is completely irrelevant since it clearly isn’t, something you could find out in five seconds by looking her up.
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 1 week ago:
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 weeks ago:
Okay. I have that. Now what?
Then you have your evidence, and your previous post is nonsensical.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 weeks ago:
You can’t prove a negative, what you should look for is evidence that it works, without such evidence, there is no reason to believe it does.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 weeks ago:
Having all my data stored with proprietary services is so nice, I don’t have to worry about anything.
/S
But that’s actually how the average idiot think.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
Yes I found out I was wrong, and I thought I had edited most of the wrong posts claiming deepseek is open source.
You are right it isn’t, despite articles claiming it is. - Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
Oh I didn’t detect any snarkiness, just you being to the point, which is a thing I appreciate.
But I’m often considered impolite. I think it’s a culture thing.But I must admit I am annoyed by you contradicting me, but it’s even worse that you were right.
I find that generally offensive.
So I’ll go sulk in corner for a few minutes. 😜 😋 🤣 - Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
The (claimed) source:
github.com/deepseek-aiInvestigating further I can see it is NOT open source. All the articles saying that are lying, probably unknowingly just as I believed the claim, they probably did too, and I’m NOT being sarcastic!
I have no idea why publishing these “weights” is considered open source, it has nothing to do with Open Source as defined by OSI, which I believe has a historical right to the term.I apologize.