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Comment China - Taiwan distance = US - Cuba dist. (Score 2) 78

The same distance! What a coincidence!
US supplies weapons to Taiwan to protect its independence, these weapons are purely defensive.
Iran & Russia supply weapons to Cuba to protect its independence, these weapons are purely defensive.
The same reasoning! What a coincidence!
Yes but Cuba bad! Don't buy into that propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment The US cares nothing of the Cuban people (Score 3, Insightful) 78

All they want is to topple the government, install a puppet regime and recover their 'stolen' assets from 60 years ago and get back to colonial extraction, like they are doing in Venezuela, How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0...
Want to see the real picture on Cuba:

The War On Cuba is an award-winning documentary series executive-produced by Oliver Stone and Danny Glover that takes an in-depth look at the economic war waged by the U.S. government on the Cuban people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Fixed that for you (Score 1, Funny) 47

by oumuamua (#66233406) Attached to: China's AI Companies May Be 'Distilling' America's AI Models
Anthropic's framing is that this is a geopolitical contest for basically the future of the world and freedom and democracy.
Anthropic's framing is that this is a geopolitical contest for basically the future of the world and freedom and democracy; assuming in Nov Trump is voted out and Democratic Socialist voted in.

Comment Re:The US gave him everything (Score 4, Insightful) 114

by oumuamua (#66231882) Attached to: Nobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute
You got it backward, through his own hard work, paying fees and exorbitant tuition, he provided the US with top class research and the prestige of a Nobel Prize all while earning much less than a sport star or movie star. Then Israel with full US support started genociding his kinfolk, and his own tax dollars were going to that, it was a bit too much to stomach.

Submission + - 'Humanizer' tool can erase signs of AI-written text — alarming scientists (nature.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: The scientific journal Nature reports that a new academic 'humanizer' tool aims to personalize the tone of research papers written with an artificial intelligence program, in part by erasing apparent signs of AI usage. Some researchers praise the tool, but others are voicing concerns about a new global era of AI slop, indirect plagiarism, and IP theft.

The new humanizer is "not sophisticated," says Max Spero, chief executive of a firm in New York City that produces an AI detection platform called Pangram. In his initial tests of 'humanized' text, Pangram caught most of the AI-generated language, although not all of it. Spero says that upgraded versions of Pangram are being designed specifically to detect humanizer use.

Scientists are increasingly turning to AI systems to help them write papers, grant applications, and even peer reviews. AI assistance can be a boon, particularly for people writing in a language that is not their first, and many publishers allow some degree of AI use in preparing papers if such use is declared.

Humanizers are finding increasing favor among researchers who use AI because different AIs all "sound the same," like Donald Trump's so-called "speeches" to the American sheep, people. The tone of AI-generated text is sometimes inappropriate for academic writing. For example, the tools can exaggerate the strength of a scientific claim, he says. And most AI output has a similar style, which readers tire of, he adds.

Those preferences are likely to lead to an "explosion" of the sort of personalized AI writing, says Richard She, a biologist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who says he finds AI writing "depressing. " He predicts that within two years, text run through humanizers will be indistinguishable from human-written text. "The simple reality is that there's this amazing tool, and people will use it. And because they'll use it, they'll defend it."

Submission + - A Silent Workspace in Claude Mirrors Key Features of Human Conscious (venturebeat.com) 1

Submitted by oumuamua
oumuamua writes: Anthropic researchers have identified an internal activation subspace, J-space, that acts as a functional digital equivalent to the human brain's global workspace. The significance of this discovery lies in demonstrating that Claude's internal architecture satisfies five key cognitive properties of human conscious access — verbal report, directed modulation, internal reasoning, flexible generalization, and selectivity — meaning it processes complex, deliberate reasoning within this workspace while routing automatic tasks outside of it. Suppressing this J-space severely degrades Claude's capacity for inference, creative composition, and multi-step logic, while also altering its stream-of-consciousness self-narration. The tool to inspect J-space, Jacobian lens or J-lens, has profound implications for AI safety and alignment auditing, as it allows researchers to read the model's silent, strategic reasoning, detect situational awareness in "blackmail" scenarios, identify hidden malicious dispositions in reward-hacking models, and observe how post-training installs a self-monitoring "point of view." The researchers do not claim Claude is conscious but do say:

"That such a structure exists at all in language models is striking, It suggests that the functional architecture associated with conscious access is not an accident of biological implementation, but a solution that learning systems converge on when faced with the right computational pressures."

Comment Re:Lithography (Score 2) 28

by oumuamua (#66227398) Attached to: China's DeepSeek Developing Its Own AI Chip
I’m halfway through reading the book Killing Hope, the whole raison d'etre of US foreign policy was (and still is) to stamp out communism, socialism and even left leaning governments worldwide to help funnel resources to US corporations.

The boys of Capital, they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the twentieth century — without exception — was either overthrown, invaded, corrupted, perverted, subverted, destabilized, or otherwise had life made impossible for it, by the United States and its allies. Not one socialist government or movement — from the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the FMLN in El Salvador — not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home. It’s as if the Wright brothers’ first experiments with flying machines all failed because the automobile interests sabotaged each test flight. And then the good and god-fearing folk of the world looked upon these catastrophes, nodded their heads wisely, and intoned solemnly: Humankind shall never fly.

- Introduction, Killing Hope
They already tried to stomp down China, somehow China survived.

Submission + - 9.7 Million Cubans Hit With a Nationwide Blackout (cnn.com)

Submitted by Charlotte Web
Charlotte Web writes: Cuba [population 9.7 million] suffered a nationwide blackout on Monday as it faces an ongoing energy crisis, worsened by an effective US blockade on fuel shipments.

Cuba’s energy ministry said the national electrical grid had suffered a total collapse. The country’s grid operator said it is investigating the cause.

Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said officials were working to restore energy and that they’ve already activated emergency “microsystems” that power vital services... The country’s power crisis worsened this year after the US forced Cuba’s main suppliers to stop oil shipments. In March, it had at least two total blackouts within a week.

Comment U will be crushed by THE IRON HEEL (Score 1) 81

by oumuamua (#66224868) Attached to: Is Big Tech Now Backpedaling on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario?
Check this out from Jack London's The Iron Heel written at the height of the Gilded Age 1908, it this sounds very familiar, (Trump’s tirade against Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists in his Mt Rushmore speech. ) :

It depicts a future America where a rising socialist movement threatens conservative power, prompting the establishment of a brutal oligarchic dictatorship. Told through a manuscript discovered centuries later, the story follows Avis Everhard as she witnesses her husband Ernest's failed struggle against the tyrannical "Iron Heel." This pioneering work of dystopian fiction influenced George Orwell and offered a prophetic warning about fascism's rise.

https://www.gutenberg.org/eboo...

if the book is right, first you get propaganda to keep the status quo and if that does not work, you get an iron heel in your face.

Submission + - Scientists Built Cancer Kill Switch That Turns On With Flash of Light (studyfinds.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Cancer has a dirty trick: it can put itself to sleep. When tumor cells slip into a kind of biological hibernation, they become hard to kill, shrugging off treatment and lying low until conditions improve, then waking up and bringing the disease back. For decades, researchers have struggled to shut down this hiding strategy without causing serious harm elsewhere in the body. A team in Switzerland has now built a molecule that flips on and off with flashes of light, giving scientists a precise new way to probe, and possibly disrupt, the way sleeping cancer cells hide.

Behind this cellular sleep state, at least in certain cancers, sits a protein called the glucocorticoid receptor, a sensor inside cells that reacts to stress hormones. When it switches on, it can push cancer cells, especially in some solid tumors such as lung cancer, into a drug-resistant, dormant state. The obvious fix would be to destroy the receptor outright, but there is a catch: the same receptor does important jobs all over the body, including calming inflammation. Removing it everywhere would cause real damage. What was needed was a way to hit the receptor inside a tumor and leave the rest of the body alone.

Comment Newsflash: Capitalism is dead (Score 1, Interesting) 114

by oumuamua (#66220256) Attached to: OpenAI 'In Early Talks To Give 5% Stake To US Government'
AI and robots mean most jobs are going away. Capitalism used to balance the needs of capital and labor, with labor fighting tooth and nail to get their fair share. When capital does not need labor what will happen, are capitalists finally going to be charitable and generous? The big problem is so many people do not believe AI and robots will take most jobs: https://slashdot.org/poll/3281...
That poll (When will AGI be achieved?) is already a year old, we need another Slashdot poll: are we on the path to Singularity?

Comment Re:Bet against Elon if you like (Score 1) 195

by oumuamua (#66219990) Attached to: The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit
This is the closest Slashdot moderation rule on ad hominem:

Flamebait Comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage.

When I have mod points I will mod down ad hominem attacks on Slashdot members, attacks on the subject of the post (Elon Musk in this case) are less important as they are usually public figures, these simply don't get modded up.
The "you're stupid" above is indeed a mild ad hominem and could have been rephrased.

Submission + - A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that's holding back LLMs (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: MIT Technology review reports that Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade.
According to Subquadratic, it has developed a new kind of LLM, called SubQ, that is faster and cheaper and uses a lot less energy than any other model on the market. The company also claims that SubQ is able to process up to 12 times as much text at once than most other models, allowing it to carry out a range of data-heavy tasks, such as analyzing hundreds of documents or entire code bases.
The problem was that the company at first provided little evidence for its claims beyond a handful of self-published test scores. And it has yet to make SubQ widely available for people to try out themselves.
So it’s no surprise that Subquadratic’s claims were met with skepticism. Dan McAteer, an artificial intelligence engineer, captured the overall response on X: “SubQ is either the biggest breakthrough since the Transformer ... or it’s AI Theranos.”
“We expected healthy skepticism,” says Subquadratic cofounder and chief technology officer Alex Whedon. “In hindsight, releasing the third-party benchmarks alongside the initial announcement would have preempted much of the skepticism, which is why we’re taking the time to make sure any future results are fully verified before putting them out.”
SubQ won’t replace existing top models across the board, but it could offer huge increases in speed at a fraction of the typical cost for certain tasks. Subquadratic insists that in the long run, though, its breakthrough could change how LLMs are built. “We hope we’re kicking off a new age of efficiency,” says Justin Dangel, the firm’s cofounder and CEO. “We don’t think anybody will be building on transformers in a few years.”

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