Well, perhaps you should look at both countries more carefully.

Taiwan would like to have the rest of China back.

Just like mainland China wants the little island back.

The best solution probably is to free the Ryukyu Islands from Japanese tyranny, let Taiwan join them again as main island, then occupy the coastal regions of mainland China, and drive the Han who do not want to surrender into Mongolia or Tibet.

As we are on it, we could involve Germany and reconstruct the axis, and reconquer Qingdao.

Hm, I wonder if XConq has a scenario for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

*Some* self driving cars use ANNs ... aka AI.
*Most* don't.

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.

What hype and exaggeration. By any reasonable definition of AGI we are no where close.

And fair play too. The West doesn't subsidize it's companies to give them an advantage in foreign markets, it invades and bombs the shit out of the entire economy and then sells them "reconstruction services" on interest bearing loans.

So yea. Fuck anyone that whines about Chinese subsidies.

There has been zero meaningful shift to Sodium anywhere on the planet.
Strange.
Are you on the same planet?

I talk about planet earth, milky way, Sagittarius arm, solar system.

Sodium is relegated to a few test products by a couple of start-ups.
CATL is not a start up, but the biggest battery manufacturer on the planet, I mean the planet I mentioned above.
The second biggest is BYD.

Both are selling sodium batteries right now.
https://www.catl.com/en/news/6...
https://www.reddit.com/r/elect...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts...
https://carnewschina.com/2026/... - strictly speaking not Sodium, but poly ion.
https://vision-mobility.de/en/...

Changan announced one model may get sodium cells, but right now ships with LPF cells.
This is a passenger car.
Sodium batteries are at the moment mostly used in trucks (real trucks, as German: LKW) and farming equipment or mining.

See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, it used Diesel (a type of gasoline).

Sorry, what was your point?

We are long past the days of type a sentence, get an answer type agents.
That is called a prompt.

An agent is not a prompt.

You can build a plain english (markdown file) describing exactly what the agent's role and purpose is.
Correct.

Most people on old /. are completely out of the loop what is going on:
a) in the world
b) in high tech
c) in AI

Look at the other story, about car manufacturers wanting to block Chinese cars in USA.

Commentors seriously think that China is paying subsidizes to car manufactures, selling cars under construction cost, using slave labour to build a car - which slave has the education to build something that is relevant for a car? Soldering batteries or what? Batteries are not soldered. They are thin film technologies like Solar cells or computer chips or high tech ceramics.

And as Steve Jobs said: the information is at your fingertips.

How many car companies (EVs of course) does China have? 400 or something, or was it 4000? I forgot.

China's car companies sold approximately 34.4 million vehicles in 2025 inside of China.
Over 16 million where EVs or hybrids.

All sold by a loss, and subsidized by the government: HA HA HA HA.

Only an (US) American could believe such nonsense.

If you aren't afraid to train A) your models on data regardless of copyright or public access, why would you expect agents B) by these companies to take over web pages etc?
Because A and B have nothing to do with each other.

Because it has nothing to do with "Germany" but the fact that it was a wiki, probably known codebase, probably known original password, or easy to make an account on it ... and so on.

It looks like you simply could post some text to the wiki without an account.

The stuff that was going on is actually an interesting read: https://collusion.wiki/ (did not read it completely yet ...)

You've made it perfectly clear everyone is stupid for not doing things your way.

Again no one should be able to read it. For a second there, I thought you were smart enough to understand that but apparently not.

The fact that you don't understand how fundamentals of privacy where one user can see information and another cannot.

Again everyone should do everything your way regardless of things like privacy settings.

It is not readable. Why do you have so much trouble understanding this?

Again it is not readable. Your lack of understanding basics of security is troubling.

I would argue that giving the AI agency is like taking both hands off of the steering wheel and reading a book instead of properly driving.

Not true. Islam forbids the consumption of pork as food and the use of other pig products, such as pigskin, but allows the use of pig organs to save a life if there is no alternative. Jews too may receive pig organs as transplants since Jewish law explicitly permits any commandment other than the ones against murder, idolatry, and forbidden sexual relations (adultery, incest, etc.) to be broken in order to save a life.

I do not have any disdain.

The point is that there are different ways of democracy.

And yours is the worst, and you do not even see it. And even worse you do not acknowledge that "different ways" of democracies are possible.

The EU is actually more or less crafted according to the same federal principles as Germany is.

However instead of having "Federal states" like Germany, its members are whole countries.

The rest is more or less, exactly the same.

However a democracy where you have to vote for people and not for topics: is not interesting to me. I do not consider it a democracy. It is a republic. Big difference.

You have two parties. But you do not vote for the party(s). You vote for people. Germany has about 10 parties. People vote for the parties ... so half a dozen or more end up in the parliament.

BIG difference.

When the term democracy was coined, that was in Athens, about 500BC. People voted on: TOPICS.
There were no gerrymandered voting zones. Every free man could vote on topic!

And the same is true in our days for Switzerland, Taiwan and: mainland China.

Fun fact, isn't it? Both Chinas have a direct democracy where people can VOTE ON TOPICS
and not only appoint a representee who can abuse his power as soon as he is in office. Or just lives from his paycheck or gets bribed to do BS.

Do we do this or that? They did not vote people into "office". One of the most famous votes was about:
a) do we build more ships?
b) do we fortify the city?

That was 480BC. In a real democracy a democracy that coined the term "democracy".

So, when debate got more heated, they asked the Oracle of Delphi, "what should we do?" The answer was: you are save behind wooden walls.

Then the voting came, and: they did both. Building more ships and fortified the city, with palisades stretching from Athens to Pyreus.

Yeah: a fucking vote is not necessarily exclusive, and not meant to put a person into office.
It is meant to actually direct the outcome. Where you asked about the Iraq war? Nope you weren't. Were you asked about the Iran war, nope you weren't.
Waging a war at those times without a vote: was impossible.

You know, people take "voting" and "elections" as interchangeable terms. They are not. They are completely different things.

You do not even have "free elections" in the USA, with gerrymandering, and voter suppression and retarded rules around the election booths, and putting election days on work days and putting the voting booths at places where poor people can not go ... because no bus goes there ... and and and

Completely unthinkable in Europe. We vote on weekends. On weekends schools are closed. Every damn school is used for voting. Most schools are primary schools, hardly more than 5minutes away for a walk.

So, how did the vote in 480BC end?
Athens build 300 more ships. Fortified the area around Athens down to the harbour, Pyreus, with palisades.
As the vote was: we do both!
Themistocles was the mastermind behind the ships.

During the quick escalation of the war, however it was decided that the city gets evacuated. Sparta was not ready to fight. And strictly speaking: they were not on friendly terms with Athens anyway. Only some die hard idiots stayed in the city, tried to fortify the Acropolis, and died there.

90% of al Athenians got evacuated to the Cycladic Islands, some to Korinth.

Persia tried to put up a trap with help of Punt/Phoenician ships at Salamis. They basically wanted to trap the Greek ships in the strait of Salamis and attack them from both entrances to the strait.

Failed, as on half of the Persian fleet: vanished. Yes, it simple went of the history books, no one knows what happend to them. They are never ever mentioned again. So half of the Greek fleet circled around the island. Actually, fun fact: under command of a Spartan general. Who was wise enough to say: "dudes, I am just sitting here on the chair, right? You do the signals and run the battler"

In the end the small straight had about 1000 Persian/Phoenician ships, trapped from both sides by Greek ships.

And now, what again do you want to know about democracy? The Persian/Phoenician ships were rowed by slaves. They had about 40 soldiers. After ramming a ship, they would enter it and fight on deck, unless they managed to shoot it into burning with arrows or oil bombs.

So a Bireme (80) or Trireme with 150 rowers ... was not run by slaves. It was run by proud voting free men. Adn had a similar amount of fighters on deck. So: a trireme would ram a Persian ship, and 200 soldiers would enter it, and kill the 40 Persiens.

In those times: voting was about getting a conclusion what the right thing is to do. AND do it.

It is not an election where an old fat woman or a debile old man gets "into an office".

The United States of America: does not have a democracy. Unfortunately, neither has UK, Germany or the EU.

China, Taiwan, Switzerland - and probably a few more I am not aware about: have democracy. People can _vote_ about topics.

Yes. The entire world is like that. It makes it a much safer place. Also a lot richer.