Mini golf is so yesterday! The cool kids play micro-golf with an election microscope.

Barring that, there's always the DIY version using a plastic straw and a tiny ball of paper.

Actual tech articles would be posting AI papers and explaining what's novel, or showing videos about robots built by grad students in a university lab.

That happens here sometimes.

NonActual tech articles would be reporting on doomsday predictions and functioning as a media mouth-piece for AI company CEOs, whenever they are pushing an agenda.

That happens here a lot.

The best analogy I know is from digital media (movies, songs, ebooks...).

An AI model comprises a set of weights (lots of numbers) and an inference engine (the code that creates the tensors, loads the weights, executes the input/output loop, etc). The weights are like a movie/music/book file, and the inference engine is like a player/player/viewer software.

So in this analogy, an open weight model is like a movie MP4 file. You can play it as intended. But if you have a movie editor, you can also extract image stills, cut out some sections, move them around, rearrange the movie scenes, crop the action, etc. What you cannot do is recreate the original movie, because you don't have the actors, the sets, the cameras and the ideas.

But Open Source an Open Weight model is not.

Why does he even care to get out of jail? He's on record telling everyone who'd listen that his risk aversion is close to zero. That literally means he doesn't care what the outcome of his bet is. Well, he made the bet, and being in jail is the outcome.

Also, what could he possibly do out of jail that he can't already do in jail? Clearly he's able to talk to people, which he could do outside too. Nobody will listen to him inside or out, because he's a convicted fraud. Also in jail he gets 3 square meals per day. Outside he would have to get a job just so he could buy the meals to sustain himself.

So it comes down to personal preference. He may prefer to be out of jail to enjoy some personal money and wealth that he's kept for himself. But wait. He's an Effective Altruist. And he's on record having signed the Giving Pledge. Why would he have kept money when he's been trying to give it away to worthy causes?

lol. To *ever* exist? Do you hear yourself? Maybe step back from the bong.

The US is by no means the most powerful country on Earth ever or even today (btw how's the oil price going today?). And rich depends entirely on completely arbitrary units of account: The dollar didn't even exist a few centuries ago, and McDonald's is certainly not an indicator of a high living standard.

What is unquestionably true is that Americans live in a shared delusionary state about how good and important their country is. I generally view this with mild disdain, but you do you.

I'm glad though that you are being confronted with the reality of how people actually perceive the US in the rest of the "1st" world. A small dose of cold water has never done any harm to anyone, and judging by your lunatic outburst, you definitely need someone to tell you.

Nah. I suspect one of the Sony executives vibe coded the whole game himself in an afternoon, and at the board meeting they all agreed that they don't need Kojima any more.

Lol. Do you think 1st world countries have any love for America? We also consider the US to be a social and cultural shit hole. We just tend to be polite about it, at least in public.

Precisely. All confusions in this thread arise from conflating these two companies into one entity.

Roman emperors used to enjoy fitting actual weapons to some guys in the Coliseum. Nobody objected.

Anthropic is pretty clearly winning the product delivery race

Are they, really? I guess you're deliberately ignoring the Chinese models...?

You don't need good timing to make a lot of money on the stock market. All you need is to listen to Trump every Friday, and then every Tuesday. A few dollars(*) gives you a seat in Mar-al-Lago's dining room table.

(*) if you're a retail investor: I'm talking about millions

Duh. The Bezos quote is about making 1 good decision a week. The AI bros claim their AIs can make 100x 1 good decision / week.

Me, I'm eating popcorn.

>I don't buy it. No different from Google pointing people at web sites where things are discussed. And yes, Google has been censoring content for decades. So yes, LLM companies pretending to be advanced search engines will have to censor content too. It's not special, it's the barely minimum viable product expectation.

So what are the chances of some rando learning to make a weapon of mass destruction? About the same chances as in the last 20 years with Google's search engine. Pretty small for uneducated masses, pretty high for highly educated psychopaths, and dependent on what's been posted online.

The real issue is that, if you wait long enough, small chance events will eventually happen. Improving the technologies to reduce the chances of occurrence while also allowing these technologies to stick around longer is a balance. Get it right and you can keep the small chance events in check indefinitely.

You're talking about a Taylor series with alternating signs...

Interestingly, this rules out exponential growth... but not exponential decay.

It's not absurd at all. There's a clear statement of experimentation on human beings without their consent. Doesn't matter what the purpose of the experiment is, and doesn't matter what the unrelated agreement between the humans and the service provider is. The service provider is doing something unethical here, separate from the service contract.

You are confusing doing business experimentation with writing a paper for scientific experimentation.

Secondly, it is clearly tampering with traffic without prior authorization. All they had to do was ask permission from the authorities for an experiment in a time and place, and ask the humans involved to ok experimentation on themselves. Not rocket science, but seemingly beyond googlers.