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Comment Re:Well it was inevitable (Score 1) 138

It is unlike it is done by distilling. The critical thing for model quality is training data clean-up. The Chinese can just steal the whole Internet, same as the US AI companies did. And the Chinese have a lot of manpower to do the cleanup and do it, except probably for some political topics, way better.

Comment Re:Who has the most energy and engineers? (Score 1) 138

The major advantage is the energy. But what do you do when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining?

The Chinese have a lot of dessert. And they are putting storage-backed solar in it. That the sun doesn't shine in the dessert for longer than the night is basically not happening. The Chinese also have a lot of experience with really long HVDC transmission.

Comment Re:That is called "being competent".... (Score 1) 146

And no, the US cannot reasonably occupy Iran. It would break the US military and economy

You are vastly underestimating the power of the US military. An occupation would be easier than Iraq OR Afghanistan, because there won't be outside funding for an insurgency, and because the vast majority of Iranians already hate their government.

Hahahaha, no. But the US military capability is routinely vastly overestimated. The reason for all those bombing campaigns? Because that is essentially the only thing it can really do.

Comment Re:1926 unions or 2026 union? (Score 1) 19

in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Comment Re:Even an idiot can be right (Score 2) 90

That is a massive problem. If you trade speed for quality, you will build up technological debt. Tech debt is a silent, slow killer. At some point it cannot be fixed anymore, you can just throw away the thing. And that may kill you.

But there are uses where speed is king, like malware creation. We have seen malware created from patches very fast with LLMs. The malware will be low quality code, but that does not matter for malware. Because once you are in the target, you install a (very much not LLM created) root kit to take over.

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