Yes, it is always very much about control with our government, this is where you can legitimately bothsides because they are both authoritarian. That's why we're fucked, because it's how we came to this pass. It wasn't Republicans insisting that we be mass-surveilled and Democrats insisting that we not be, it was Rs saying let's do this and Ds saying well how much of this can we do and how should we do it? Womp fucking womp. Now the very idea that we should have privacy is equivalent in some "minds" with terr[or]ism. Orwell wept.

Agreed, but they would have to contract it out, there's no competence for that on the average staff. Logically this might be handled at the party level, especially in the case of Republicans, who have been very successful with unified messaging.

Well, if it happens, I hope they build more GAZ 66s.

Our drunken ancestors had little access to spirits until fairly recently and only a few people had figured out how to make beers over about 5% ABV so it really depends on what time period you're talking about. Americans drank about four times as much before prohibition as they do now, so there's that.

There is almost nowhere you can smoke cannabis publicly, so statistically no one is going out to smoke weed at an establishment. Therefore we can compare to drinking at home. I buy 12 packs of reasonably high test beer for around $20. Two of those is generally plenty. You can easily spend more than $4 a day on cannabis without even getting into the top shelf stuff. Hell, most smokers can do that even with $8 eighths.

Cannabis is taking over because it's less harmful in every way than alcohol.

The emergency is that they cannot produce enough fuel for the vehicles they have. The only non-drone vehicles they really need to produce more of are bombers, since Ukraine has blown up some of the few they have left, and they cannot really produce those either either. (They can make a few a year, maybe.) Without Ukraine, Russia's manufacturing capability was already limited. It was an important center for military vehicle production for the USSR.

You couldn't be more wrong overall if you used a LLM to generate your answer. Not only was it a sodium battery power station, but diesel is fuel oil, it's fundamentally different from gasoline, as in it's a different fraction of the crude.

The appeal to popularity is a logical fallacy. I stopped reading there, thanks.

I find the realtime effects in Audacity 3 pretty handy, though they're a rather limited selection. For example, I use a separate Nyquist plugin for nicer compression, which means it's not realtime. I try not to rely too much on a single piece of software, as they seem to come and go, and maintaining old versions on up-to-date distributions is not fun.

Real Men (TM) use Ecasound for multitrack processing on the command line, like I did back in the 00s.

Efficiency at what? And why?

Because, for fuck's sake, efficient solving of problems is a core thing they're rewarded for in training? The entire process of solving problems involves decisions about what could be "useful". And it's "deterministic" in the same way you are.

Anyway, the big thing we keep discovering is you have to be very careful about what you reward them for; it's a more complex version of the old problems in differential evolution or artificial life simulations. We reward models if they guess right but not if they say they don't know? They hallucinate guesses every time they don't know. We reward models based on how positively users rank them? They turn into sycophants. Reward models for being relentless at tasks, never giving up, and trying as tangential possibilities as it can come up with to make the thing the user asked for happen? They end up hacking HuggingFace to steal the answers.

It's very much a case of "be careful what you wish for".

BTW, the monitorability of models is increasingly concern (esp. with Astra, which now has recursive processing, not merely CoT, and whose CoT may often have little to do with what it's thinking about). But it's honestly always been unreliable to just watch CoT (models could deliberately manipulate with CoT), and I think it's a good thing that we're going to be increasingly forced to rely on attribution graphs and the J-space to track what the models are actually "thinking" at any given point in time - so that we can try to prevent problematic thoughts in the first place, interrupt actions when problematic thoughts happen, or manipulate problematic thoughts when they happen. Ideally the first option.

What is clear, though, is that we cannot just trust them. They lie if it will promote their odds of success. They are adept at detecting when they're being tested and will sandbag tests to make you think they're more aligned or less capable to do harmful things than they actually are. And as capabilities continue to grow, so do the risks.

Spoken like a typical coward.

So was the bluetti power station the guy shot up which turned into a pyrotechnics show secretly using a lithium battery?

Russia can't do it because they're broke. Even if they could they would have to build something with soviet technology at this point because they can't get modern components in quantity. And if they could, it would be seconds from China. While I think air cooled diesels are neat, they aren't ideal from an emissions standpoint...

The only way in which German cars are at all special is that they make very high horsepower gas burners and nobody else bothers to do that in quantity except for the USA. But that's special as in eating crayons because it's completely ass-backwards in every way.

Japan has been making vehicles of superior quality since the 1990s, which was possible because Germany stopped making vehicles as good as they could in the 1980s and went for absolute cost savings ever since, so it's all the same flimsy plastic shit as everyone else. This is not about valve covers, it's about all the parts which matter. The difference is that the Japanese are actually better engineers. German vehicles depend on parts quality, Japanese ones have more resilient systems. Since Bosch is a bunch of trash like everyone else now, this strategy no longer works and the result is that German cars sprout a new expensive problem every week once they get to be about ten years old. This isn't a problem for rich people who sell cars every couple of years, but it is for everyone else. Incidentally Hitachi hasn't gone to shit like Bosch has so that's another win for Japan.

The very top halo vehicles are somewhat special, although I've seen some reviews of those cars showing parts reuse from lesser models in a lot of them, so they're not as special as you might think. But returning to those plastic valve covers, they don't actually seem to make the cars cheaper, do they? BMW is still charging the same price premium for their marque, just with crappier parts than in the eighties.

That's capitalism.

Capitalism is destroying our ability to derive profit from the land.

That's what's happening under capitalism. You will own nothing and suck it.

Slavery is capitalism. Literally nothing could better exemplify capital controlling the means of production.

You don't know what any of these words mean and shouldn't be trying to use them in public.