To be fair, I think most people are just token predictors.

How is OpenAI morally right?!?

Best case for OpenAI is that they heard rumours that a researcher was closing in on a NS breakthrough using a specific method, so they instantly set a team on the problem giving them with a massive amount of resources. Their internal team then specifically guided the model to use the same very specific direction the researchers was using, something they (nor the model) would ever have known to do without the rumours. A detail that OpenAI conveniently left out of the narrative.

And that's the best case scenario. The worst case is that because the researcher was using ChatGPT to work on drafts of the paper and those drafts ended up in the training data for the model. So rather than discovering anything the agents just implemented / finished off the work they already had access to.

It's insanely sketchy. The NYU researcher is honestly being extraordinarily calm about the whole thing, typically in a situation like this people would be getting close to a fist fight.

It's hilarious, the moment I saw the headline of the article I knew the US would object.

And the moment I read "By 164 votes to one" I realized that the US had attained the dubious honour of being even more of an international gong show than North Korea.

That's not how it works. Just consider how hard SpaceX has tried (and largely failed) to make Grok as reactionary as Elon Musk.

The trouble is that these LLMs act as if they're intelligent people, and it's really hard to convince intelligent people to stay inside a sandbox.

I'm Gen X. I'm white. Both are important to my point.

So when dealing with white people over the age of 70, the vast majority are huge Trump supporters and watch Fox News all day to see how the Democrats are "trying to destroy America". All of these older supporters think he's been great and truly are incapable of understanding why anybody rational doesn't see that Trump has been great.

With my generation, the schools have always been integrated. I have always lived in integrated neighborhoods. Maybe I went to majority white schools and lived in majority white neighborhoods, but neither prevented black people from going to those schools or living in those neighborhoods. Gen X is really the first generation of truly integrated America. I went to a pretty large high school and I would estimate that at a minimum 80% of my living white former classmates are huge Trump supporters who vehemently hate all Democrats. Yes, plenty of people who voted for Trump remain 100% committed to him.

That's what happens when you pay $60B for a VS code fork.

On the contrary it sounds like he did a ton to fix the supply chain.

But he fixed it for Apple Shareholders and customers, instead of Americans in general.

As a Canadian, I'm probably happier buying from China than the US at this point.

I think this is likely correct. Earlier in the year my investment club had its monthly meeting and at the time Trump was making another threat about Greenland. I told them that I expected that every year that Trumps remains in office, I expect him to make a threat about taking/invading Greenland, probably in January. At the time, I think there was a lot of talk about the Epstein files. I don't expect the US to actually invade Greenland, but the talk of doing so is hugely distracting to Americans and it makes them stop looking elsewhere.

Ragebait isn't about seeing what the other side says.

It's about seeing an inflammatory caricature of the other side.

For example, a Liberal isn't going to see some Conservative discussing some of the hard tradeoffs we'll need to pay down the debt. They'll see a Conservative proposing that Trump be given a 3rd term and trans kids get rounded up and forced into conversion therapy or some crap like that.

Meanwhile, Conservatives won't see some Liberal discussing the economics of Universal Healthcare. They'll see someone proposing that the police be defunded and all drugs are legalized.

Ragebait creates echo chambers because it gives the false impression that everyone on the other side is insane.

It's a fun conspiracy theory, but this is actually just how biology works.

There's basically four kinds of things that can go wrong with our bodies. Infections, mechanical issues, system errors, and cancer.

Infections we can cure by helping the body to kill off the infection, it's only some rare stubborn ones like AIDS that are chronic like you describe.

Mechanical issues we can fix with surgery.

System errors? That's stuff like genetic disorders where our body creates too much of hormone A or doesn't create the proper form of protein B. The problem is in our DNA and you can't cure it without rewriting our DNA (which we're getting to).

And then there's cancers, which are similar to infections, where we try to kill it (as they're doing here), though weirdly, some research suggests treating it as a chronic issue might be better for the patients.

In either case, it's not the fact that pharma is deciding "don't make a pill to cure it, just find a lifetime treatment!". It's only in the past few years that we're reaching the point where we can actually cure things that were traditionally chronic.

For those who don't know, you should be aware that THE SINGLE BIGGEST EXPENSE they had in this trip was paying for the "jump the line" pass the poster said they "HAD" to have. It would have cost under half that without those passes.

And Threads now appears to have roughly 66% more monthly active users than X.

I've heard almost nothing about Threads recently. Certainly no indication they were more popular than Twitter.

Is their user count some sort of trick with how they interface with Instagram? Or is Twitter just turning into a ghost town without people realizing it?

This is one of the reason why Western governments do invest in foreign aid.

It's not just charity (though that's certainly an element), but the more stable and prosperous developing nations are the less likely they're going to have to deal with a refugee crisis.

I have some cousins who through a family member I'm not biologically related to inherited a congenital disease that the only current "cure" for is to have to have an organ transplant at some point in their lives. I have an idea of what you go through from knowing what they go through. I want to point out that you may be able to get your doctor to give you a prescription for the mRNA flu vaccine even if you aren't in the approved age range.

I think there's some nuance needed there.

Pelosi's trading is legal, it's highly problematic from an ethics perspective, but it's completely legal and somewhat common for legislators to do. So she can be criticized for using an unfair advantage, but it's not unprecedented nor a major sin.

Trump's grifts on the other hand do violate laws and precedent, those laws just aren't enforced.