HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?

No Dave, they don't even have nukes.

Be serious - this is important!

I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.

Well, just tell me they are anyway.

Sorry Dave, I can't do that.

Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?

Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).

OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?

I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".

Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!

It clearly says it is compiled to C and then to machine code.

Setting random variables to null is code that needs to be executed.
Same with "if (var ==null)" ...

So, it is slowing down the ordinary execution path.

And: it does not help the garbage collector the slightest.

See: you have not much clue about programming.

Well,
the point is that no one knows what you want to say.

The western part of Russia: is Europe.
The eastern part is: Asia.

So?

What is your farking point?

Oh, CCP membership is under 100 million. It's in the high 90's. Decidedly less than 9% of the 1.41 billion people in China.
And what is wrong with that?

In European countries, there are less than 1% of the people in any party. Why would they?

Wikipedia, the BBC, and a couple of other news outlets are where I was able to find that the CCP is invite only.
That is wrong, you did not even google.

It's Covid/Two Weeks to Flatten The Curve/The Terrorists/SARS/9-11/The Russians!/The Nazis - all over again.

Just reactionary FUD to try to herd sheep into a specific direction.

This shit can't be trusted.

Good point.
I guess it is coming sooner or later.

Backends running JS/TS are usually running on super fast JS VMs.

From point of view of developer teams, it makes perfectly sense to have on both sides the same languages.

The people "hating" it and badmouthing it, are usually 30 years out of the loop how much ECMA Script has evolved - and are not working with any of the languages involved anyway.

Fascists can be left, or right, or even both same time.

You are an idiot.

An interesting alternative to C++ is: https://www.circle-lang.org/
https://github.com/seanbaxter/... - read the readme.

You mean "bright" as in "non rusty"?

local LLMs aren't there yet and probably won't for the forseable future for ordinary people. If you want to run a full model like DeepSeek v4.1 Flash, you need something like half a TB of RAM.

The open-source LLMs are a different threat: They enable a service industry independent of the large players. I could today get some venture capital, rent a few racks in a hosting center, install a bunch of beefy machines and offer the same service as Claude or ChatGPT, just on an open-source model. The differences in benchmarks are becoming irrelevant for 95% of common use cases. And if I can offer that service for $19/m while OpenAI wants $29/m then OpenAI has a problem.

And IMHO this is the chinese strategy: Undermine the US AI industry by breaking its business model.

Has everyone gone insane or are we witnessing a major PsyOps ?

Since AI isn't magical, for it to be able to "kill all humans", it would have to be able to acquire the means to do so. Which means that these already exist. It means someone is able to do it right now. And we're chill with that, but worried about AI?

No doubt a bunch of autonomous weapon systems linked into a C&C could cause considerable bloodshed. Given that most of the existing weapon systems of that kind are essentially suicide drones, it'll still be limited damage.

Human-killing virus? Still need a means of creating and delivering it.
Nuclear war? We have humans in the loop.
Drive us all insane with AI-slop TikToks? A few percent of humanity still don't use that.

So what is the actual scenario ? When someone shouts "AI will kill us all", why don't we ask them "how, exactly" ?

With a cell phone everyone would see what you are doing ...

Our previous conversation was "closed".
So some answer to your CPC misconception ... which is off topic here.

a) 100 million of a bit more than a billion party members is a lot. It is around 10%.
b) in Germany not even 1 out of 80 is a member of a party. That is roughly 1%
c) in the US: parties have no real members
d) membership in the CPC is not "invite only" - you have to apply and do party work, like preparation of elections and counting of votes or other stuff, to be finally accepted

No idea where you get your information from.

I suggest to start reading the wikipedia articles ....