You're dumb. Cancer treatments are one of the things that I'm absolutely sure are being pursued honestly, because it hits everyone basically equally. A US president, a homeless guy, a middle-class mother of 2, an IT worker, it doesn't matter. Everyone is about 20% likely to die from cancer. A billionaire is just as likely to die from it as a local dockworker. When a billionaire gets incurable cancer, they straight-up die, regardless of how big a check they can write. Just like everyone else.

When Jimie Carter got inoperable, terminal cancer, they found the worlds best biotech firm to build a custom drug for him in an attempt to help him. He died pretty soon after. Maybe the drug bought him a few extra months. Maybe it didn't do anything at all.

Skip the video - here is the short answer. Marxism as a form of government can take a country up to middle-income status. So can a monarchy, a socialism, a communism, a theocracy, or a plain old dictatorship. But. Getting any better requires one of two things. One possibility is your country us dealt a stupidly lucky hand (a tiny theocracy that happens to form on a patch of land that sits on an ocean of valuable oil). The other is to have a liberal democratic capitalism. Marxism is an interesting philosophy but fails as a form of government.

Price cartels are nothing new. A McDonalds price cartel is likely to fail. I can always go to Wendys or Burger King. If they all jack their prices up too much, the 5 guys down the street will start to be price competitive and their burgers are a LOT better. Or I just give up on burgers and hit the Subway. Real estate cartels are a much more serious problem. It only take a few of the big renter companies to collude and suddenly theres no other option in a local area. A true monopoly situation which deserves a hard legal hammer.

Its NOT because of safety concerns. Maybe they had planned a pause well in advance. Maybe their computer costs are too big for the next gen. Or maybe theyre running forward all barrels blazin but just made an announcement because of all the AI-DANGER press that every news outlet is hyping at the moment. But NO they havenâ(TM)t paused their business because of safety concerns.

Are basically staged tech demos. The first one was an AI in a separated system, with a single bridge computer to the internet with a firewall. The researchers then told the program to do a task that would be muuuuccchh easier if it accessed the internet, and then told the AI to do-what-it-takes. Surprise surprise, the LLM grabbed a breaching tool, bypassed the firewall then retrieved the data from the open internet.

So, this time, they disclose that their topline AIs, that have been deliberately trained to pirate data at all costs, had been *gasp* accessing government sites, and everyone is shocked, sir, shocked I say.

I think these AI companies know exactly what theyre doing. They’re business model required stock valuations that amount to “all teh money” and they’re trying to suck up literally every memory chip on the planet, which requires even more money. So they stage these “AI breaks free” stunts. Look at how daaannnnggeerroouuss and ppooWWeeRfullll our LLMs are. Pay attention to us, fear us and also keep investing in us.

I wonder if theres also a legal aspect to this. They’ve built their business model on using all the data our species has ever generated, as a dataset for an incredibly useful extrapolation/pattern-generation engine. I’m not denying it;s usefullness, potential and possible danger. But they’ve broken laws to access at least 90% of what they’ve taken, and apparently they’re raiding government sites as well. Society is starting to realize this and the companies are worried there might be a backlash, both societel and legal. So, they get ahead of the issue a bit by disclosing the activities (a tiny fraction of them I’m sure) and blaming it on a “rogue” AI that is doing exactly what they trained it to do and set it up to do.

Almost all of that money came from overseas players to buy influence with him. It's a legal avenue for purchasing influence with the US president. A suitcase of cash is "bribery". But, a middle eastern leader can "invest" 500 million USD in TrumpCoin, which was designed to instantly crater in value, directly putting the cash into the pockets of Trump, his family, and his friend. Completely legal.

It amazes me that US society has decided to tolerate this sort of behavior. We chose this consciously and with our eyes wide open.

Let me start by saying that I dislike the attitudes of this current administration, and I'm not happy that our military is being led by the tattoo-and-flex crowd. War is enough of a hell already. Better for the brainy thinking spectacle wearing crowd to have a say in these things. We don't need MAGA types making it any crueler than it already is.

That being said.....

I will repeat. War is hell. The fog of war is real. Mistakes are made. Perfection is impossible. As much as I dislike the whole DOGE flamethrower-and-hire-back-the-important-ones approach, apparently they got 999 out of a thousand missile strikes correct, and screwed up 1 out of a thousand? In war, that accuracy level seems pretty good to me. As much as I want to blame this administration, that number is actually an indication that our systems are working pretty damn well. War is confusing, messy, chaotic, hell.

Your argument about the IRGC is pretty weak. Why should we be worried in the slightest about antagonizing the IRGC? As you pointed out, they're already radicalized. We can't make them any angrier at the US. The needle on their anger meter is already buried at 10. Actually, I meant 11. The mis-fire isn't justified. But, it is a tragic consequence of war. War. Is. Hell.

Ronald Reagan was talking openly about weapons in space and there were acknowledged government programs on the topic. Back then. Ronald. Frikkin. Reagan. Before Trump. Before Obama. Before Bush. Both of them. Before Clinton. The government was openly active in this area a long long llloooonnnggggggggggg time ago. This stuff was happening during the Cold War. This is not new.

OpenAI was remotely watching his work as he used their tool, and when they determined his stuff was interesting, they grabbed it and published first. They basically piggybacked on the work of a mathematician, for 99 percent of a marathon, and then used their massive compute advantage to sprint the last 100 yards to take the first place medal. Absolutely. No. Surprise. Too bad for the guy - ouch hard life lesson.

In other words, a perfect candidate for a pardon from this admin, as long as her husband’s family coughs up the appropriate “donation”.

Yeah they got the rising ocean thing wrong. But, buddy, have you walked outside recently? In the US, there isn’t a single “cold” place in the continental 48 any more. I was lucky enough to take a vacation in Maine a few years ago and it was 95F. The UK is now considered a “warm” climate. Last time I checked, Europe sees around 30,000-50,000 heat deaths per year. Thats about the same as the number of gun deaths in the US.

The “show me the proof” crowd is literally ignoring the proof that hits them like a furnace whenever they walk out their front door.

Everything you list as a solution - it’s all happening. Renewable energy adoption, EVs, electrification, etc. etc. But not fast enough to bend the warming curve.

10 years ago, I could tell that we were blowing past the 1.5C mark without even slowing down. Whenever I said it, people would scoff or downmod. Here we are.

We will survive and adapt. CO2 levels were this high during the miocene, and mammals did ok back then. Today, we have science and technology. In a century, the world will be REALLY warm, but we’ll also have enormous amounts of solar energy, some wind, walmart-sized grid-scale batteries, and every living space will have AC. Entire cities/regions will need to be abandoned, refurbished or rebuilt. Food production will move towards the poles and adapt in a hundred other ways.

And, we’ll probably have to geoengineer the planet. Scientists and engineers need to be prepping for this, because we’re gonna need it. It won’t be optional. This is another thing that gets downmodded nearly every time I say it because someone screams “SNOWPIERCER”.

very insightful. mod up.

Do you actually, seriously, think that? You don't think that judges are playing around with using AI?

The government is already using AI to make decisions that affect huge numbers of people (I know this for a fact in my field). Surgeons use the internet right in the middle of surgeries. Teachers are using it to grade things. All sorts of businesses are dabbling with agentic AI to speed things up and be more competitive.

Yet, the super-overworked judges aren't touching it? I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

Personally, I lean a bit toward the law-and-order side of things. BUT. One, the law is fundamentally an adversarial process. Two, there are plenty of cases where the law is basically used to maliciously hack human affairs. Three, nowadays AI usage is frequently sloppy and the models are still sketchy. Four, when someone’s in court, a huge chunk of their life can be on the line.

What this guy tried, is perfectly acceptable. It’s also acceptable for the court to catch it and require the guy to submit hardcopy. If this forces a judge to think twice about feeding court cases into claude and then basing their judgement on the analysis, so much the better.