Hey parents of school age children... If you're a member of your kids' school board, you qualify for the discount so this means that parents who chair board committees and whatnot would qualify for the education discount. Not sure how they would verify such a thing, but you could just request an email address from the school and you should be good to go... Cheers

The best model I'm aware of for how self-awareness aka consciousness emerged is that social survival factors led to model making capability for the awareness of the mental states occurring within other individuals (that they are thinking). Eventually that model began to be applied internally and self-awareness was born. There is no analogous process occurring within the LLMs (yet), so there should be no reason to think there's anything aware of itself in them.

The UK has drunk the Marxism kool-aid and everything is non-sense oppressor/oppressed framing now. The UK will quickly become a place for companies to avoid investing if the culture there doesn't change direction. No company is going to invest in a place and hire morons who think "collectivism" is a viable approach. If the youth want to get a slice of the pie (which would be a good thing), it's not going to work to do it with unionization and collective bargaining and strikes. It's only gonna happen via worker equity that incentives efficiency and increases energy in the system.

Socialist approaches will always drain energy and efficiency from the system until it's no longer viable. It's just the mathematics / game theory of human behavior and incentives. This is so well understood and incontrovertible that socialism is essentially a psychological denial syndrome. Advocates are just fooling themselves (and others unfortunately).

It seems a bit convenient that "carbon" is the issue. What about the drop in soil minerals? or the drop in insects? How do we know what role those are playing compared to the increase in carbon dioxide? I suspect we don't and the "researchers" are making bold statements they can't really back up.

Seems like we need legislation that will create a new tier for FISA that is for these kinds of criminal cases rather than terrorism or national security. It should establish some guideline as to the conditions under which a warrant to search location data is justified, such as the types of felonies and above that are in scope (not for misdemeanors, for example), the failure of other measures to generate a lead in a case, etc.. It makes sense for law enforcement to have access to this investigative information, but with controls. When you think about it it's really not different than collecting and analyzing surveillance camera footage for all cameras in the vicinity of a crime... it's collecting and analyzing the cell tower logs, or the Google/Apple/Meta pings for devices in the vicinity. In both cases you're not using probable cause for an identified individual (which is the criticism) but rather you're are doing something more like a forensic analysis of the digital crime scene. That seems perfectly acceptable police work so long as there are controls to prevent abuse of the 'forensic' location data systems.

There are large amounts here because Congress and the Pentagon twiddled their thumbs for too long while adversaries were going all in on the swarm concept. We've known for a very long time we had to turn the very slow ship of the MIC to build much higher volumes of much lower unit cost solutions to adapt to this new reality. Thank God this administration is serious about addressing these issues and transforming the supply chain to deliver what the military needs for frankly the present, let alone the future. Our insane overlords have been intentionally trying to push the West into a "managed decline" and one prong of that was to weaken the US military. That's over at least until they defeat the rebels and retake Congress and the WH. Then they go right back to managed decline and nourishing chaos in the ME and elsewhere. It's existential that they never return to power in the US or they will ensure no populist resistance can ever challenge them again.

The Biden administration would have just ignored the ruling, kept the money and got the NYT to publish articles about how wrong the ruling was and how corrupt and the justices are. Frankly, the administration has a duty to push back and maintain the broadest possible interpretation of tariff authority that it can. The Office of the President must retain this power for foreign policy purposes. The President is the closest of all elected officials to the People so if the People are going to have any chance of reining in a rogue federal government they need the Office of the President to have as much authority to effect change as possible under the Constitution and the law.

It's so ludicrous for commercial entities like Anthropic who can only exist thanks to the stable socio-economic environment made possible by the US hegemonic system, to turn around and tell that hegemon it can't use their technology to maintain that socio-economic environment unless they approve. And it's also just another example of the US/British establishment/cabal/DS trying to embarrass or impede this administration that's kicking them out of their unlawful shadow control of that hegemonic system. To hell with them. Get xAI to build a better model.

You may have forgotten but some of our intell agencies (NSA, CIA, others) are prohibited from conducting operations or surveilling inside the US. When they need to do it because for example the Chinese are using US-based devices to conduct offensive cyber operations, they need FISA to get an exception to that and dive into the US data flows they are vaccuming up (thanks Snowden). Denying them the FISA process will only make them eventually completely ignore the rules rather than bending them sometimes. At the end of the day, FISA is helping to regulate what is otherwise unregulated and unaccountable power. It makes absolutely no sense to get rid of that! OBVIOUSLY!

And if it wasn't for FISA we might not have paper trails from when they abuse these powers! (Obama/Brennen)

They are absolutely correct that the West (specifically the US) has abandoned the responsibilities that came with being the only player capable of effecting global peace and stability by significantly outclassing all other players in military capability. (Instability in this system is actually being caused by China's attempt to catch up to the US in this regard. So long as they are outclassed, they will not be tempted to instigate war. It is when they believe they have a good chance at winning a war with the US that we are in jeopardy.)

What we have seen and learned with the Iran war is that the British/US empire/cabal/whatever doesn't want the stability and prosperity they are fully capable of imposing on the world through the judicious use of their power. Instead they were purposely allowing bad actors like the Russians, IRGC, drug cartels, Syria, ISIS, etc. to create regional chaos and problems because it suited their private interests and goals that to be clear are frequently in conflict with the US govt and public interest (this is why as Chomsky says they have to "manufacture consent" for their policies and actions).

The DJT rebel administration is doing what any common-sense US leadership would do if stability and prosperity were the actual goals -- neuter Iran, depose Maduro, take back the canal and kick China out of Panama, put missile defense in Greenland, make Europe pay more for NATO/protection, get back energy independence, strangle China's oil access to avoid a Taiwan invasion in 2027, strangle the Cuban communist regime, secure US borders and get Europe to do the same, etc..

It's really not so complicated as they want it to appear.

This system will someday be used to verify that you're allowed to purchase food or transportation, etc.. Didn't take your "vaccines"? Deny xyz essential thing to live. Digitally enforced compliance, Prison Planet. This is all part of the depopulation agenda. AI and robots will only accelerate their timeline to getting rid of the useless "sheeple". This is also why they need censorship because it's so obvious what they're doing if people can talk about it, the sheeple might wake up and revolt.

How much of the growth in these upper income households is due to the widespread fraud that's been going on in homeless services, migration services, Medicaid/MediCal, hospice care, autism care, etc., etc. ? Frankly, these are new 'industries' that only showed up in the last 20 years or so so they could, sadly, play a significant role in this otherwise positive trend.

Why are they not running all outbound internet traffic for personnel through domain-whitelisted, ssl-inspecting web proxies? This app wouldn't be able to connect to its cloud services at all if they were doing that. What a reckless network security architecture they've deployed on these military assets. I'm stunned.

The best objection to my scheme is that without some changes to the existing SAML Web Profile 2.0 flow, the bank gets to know the site you're going which needs the age verification. So it leaks to the bank that you're going to p*rn site xyz.

It's only got 8GB or RAM which is not enough for real work any more.