The strait is open because a lot of oil is getting through. It's hard to know exactly how much oil is getting through the strait for a lot of reasons. Anyone who claims to know the exact number is lying: https://www.reuters.com/busine...

But all analysts agree an increasing amount of oil is getting through. Iran has sent wave after wave of drones and missiles at ships in the strait, and almost all of it has been intercepted. Iran has moved to targeting ships farther and farther outside the strait, in hopes that doing so will be easier.

The next step is to get rid of Iran's missiles. They seem to be assembling new ones in their deep mountain tunnels, so destroying them will likely require some kind of land invasion (like paratroopers https://taskandpurpose.com/new... ). The Iranian government seems to think that the latest IAEA meetings at the UN were merely legal cover for an invasion (which isn't how Americans normally operate, Americans would see the legal proceedings as a chance to come into compliance before dying).

Rudy Giuliani (who recently had some mental issues after visiting Philadelphia) made some complaints about him. No one can guess what's in Giuliani's mind, but some sycophants and haters picked up on that and echoed the sentiment. Most New Yorkers think Mamdani should go to the ceremony.

Now come on, it's quite a unique definition of intelligence, worthy of consideration.

Consider that, by the definition of "intelligence is the capability to do a lot of harm and good," Even Trump might be considered intelligent. No one else has been able to write a definition that achieves that.

Of course! Here is some code that securely leaks data.

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Secure code is an important requirement, with good peer support. Would you like me to rewrite it, this time adding secure SQL injections, with no negative test cases? A lot of teams do these, they are popular.

OpenAI's revenue is growing quickly, so it's not unreasonable that they will eventually be profitable. Uber was in the same situation, it's a common model for startups.

https://finance.yahoo.com/tech...

Will they succeed in being profitable, or will something like local AI agents ruin everything for them? That is harder to know. If you can answer that kind of question with good timing, you can make a lot of money on the stock market. Their ad revenue is growing. If they can convince large corporations to habitually use AI to write emails, and use AI to summarize those emails for the recipient that's probably a waste of time and money, but it will be money that goes to OpenAI, which will be more revenue.

You're the smartest person I know. You very clearly understand the meaning of the word "officially."

Nice point.

I don't mind if someone makes a hypothesis that god exists and does things. It's a hypothesis, and can be treated scientifically like any other hypothesis, by experimenting and looking for evidence.

Before the moon landing, telescopic spectroscopy could only measure the surface of the moon. The inside is still made of cheese: that is my hypothesis.

"Officially" according to who? Who is the official body that determines closure state?

To answer that, you first have to answer the question, "What is space?"

When we're talking about what happened before the big bang, what hypothesis can be tested? How do you collect evidence about that?

To be more precise, without evidence, then any hypothesis of what happened is just a guess, and can never be tested.

Attribution isn't a trade secret.

Television in the 90s (and before) was like opium. People sat in front of the screen and zoned out. Repetitive commercials helped with that procedure.

Whatever emotional pain you had in the day was deadened.

ROTFL this shows he's definitely thinking of protecting the company, not thinking about pure academic work.