The subtext is that nobody, including national cyber security experts, have any idea what's going to happen a year from now. These staging programs reek of "we have no idea what we're doing" and is literally "please just slow down until we figure it out" ...but it's not going to.

Anthropic suggests creating a massive demand for Chinese home-grown CPU and GPU development, and preventing American chip companies from selling and catering to it, in order to prevent China from catching up to US AI tech company level capabilities. That sounds like it will never backfire...

100% right. These news outlets have their own markets they cater to. They aren't "trusted" by those that choose not to watch them, or ground their reporting against other sources and channels, so giving them preferential treatment is 100% censorship and should be utterly disgusting and reprehensible to any free democracy. Similarly, it should be completely rejected by all Slashdotters. The top comment which is equivocating and apologizing may be well intentioned, but when it comes to defending freedom of speech, you can't give one single inch to the vested interested, they will _never_ give it back.

Anthropic is making the argument that the ratio of human to useful code committed is decreasing rapidly over time, while anthropic continues to meet milestones and beat competitors and ship product: real world indicators that prevent their engineers from committing broken slop code, which means the human-to-code ratio is a real improvement, and looked at on the whole, does irrefutably offer evidence of a feedback loop system where the AI is self-improving, but slowly draining humans from its learn-improve feedback loop, while still meeting/exceeding all objecting real world metrics for successful improvement. It's a thoughtful way of framing self improvement, and yeah partly marketing hype, but also not wrong. It can be an observation that makes them look good, and be correct, two things can be true.

Good for you. Try out new stuff, and be open minded to new possibilities, and have fun along the way. That's the best way to go about all this business right now.

The NSF/administration said they made a list of high priority high impact oceanic research they want to fund, and the sensors didn't make the cut. The admin gave the entire oceanic observatory program a steep budget reduction, to allocate remaining funds to other more important initiatives, and this was how that group decided to meet the new requirement: https://www.newsweek.com/ocean... Since it is financially motivated, removing the sensors is likely simply cheaper than leaving them in place derelict, which in turn is likely cheaper than continuing to run them.

Your point is that if you spend all your time ensuring your ship is in perfect condition, and is well cared for, you will never have time to sail it anywhere interesting. While that is true in theory, in practice, try to find an accomplished sailor who does not obsess over the condition and seaworthiness of their vessel.

Honestly, exercise feels great, it's exhilarating. _Boring_ exercise (like running alone) is less fun. Some people dig it, but (A) its hard on the knees and (B) it depends on your personality type, e.g., I never liked running alone, I like exercising with other people. Exercise for me has to be social.