...then they have big pockets.

"The Defense Department burned through some 20 billion tokens per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in Iran, "

How many thousands asking "When should I place my Polymarket bet, is it NOW?"

Not sure you quite get how dopamine works.

"What I don't understand is why they need Israeli tech for this"

  Cognyte was spun out of Verint, itself descended from Comverse Infosys, part of a lineage of Israeli SIGINT companies (alongside NSO Group, Rayzone, Paragon, and others) heavily staffed by veterans of Unit 8200, the IDF's signals-intelligence corps, which has functioned for decades as an unusually productive pipeline of people who did this exact kind of interception and analytics work operationally before going commercial. That gives these firms a real depth of institutional know-how in making multi-generation interception reliable in messy real-world RF environments, and especially in the downstream analytics layer, Cognyte also sells behavioral-pattern-flagging platforms that sit on top of raw interception data, which is a harder, less commoditised capability than the radio hardware itself.

A bit like Steel and Lead from before the nuclear tests.

Are they THAT old already?

Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.

This is obviously true, and the realization that AI was going to be the battleground for "truth" happened almost immediately. Even relatively smart people, if they go to Google and type in a query, will read off the AI-generated "summary" at the top as if it's the de-facto truth. I mean, they did this prior to AI as well, not taking the time to click into the articles. I find that AI summaries are even worse, as when I click on the supporting links, I rarely find the information that supposedly supports what it said. But if you argue with Google you just look like you're crazy.

The only way they're going to be able to monetize this technology to the masses, who won't pay a monthly subscription, is to use it for advertising. If you ask AI about the best vacuum cleaner, it's going to give you an answer that's manipulated by whatever vacuum company paid the most for promotions. Similarly, if you ask it a political question, the answer will be influenced by paid political pandering, and also by the whims of the organization that created the model. Grok's going to sing the praises of Elon Musk, and Gemini will sing the praises of Sundar Pichai.

This gets pretty scary when you consider the "ministry of truth" implications here. Sure, we'll have lots of different models available, and they'll be beholden mostly to various corporate interests, but you can already see where it's heading in authoritarian regimes like North Korea, China, Russia, etc. That's why all countries are racing for AI. It's a race to control the magical oracle machine that everyone thinks is the single source of truth.

Getting sacked or fired now called "Evaporating Financial Security".

Here's a little more detail.

Researchers a few years back ran tests. ADHDers and neurotypicals were asked to harvest berries and edible plants.

Neurotypicals tended to over-harvest and damage bushes to the point where recovery would be slow if possible at all, and tended to pick areas clean, wiping out local populations of edible plants.

ADHDers tended to move relatively quickly from area to area, harvesting a decent amount from each area but not excessively. The quantities tended to be at the sort of level that have long been established as a good balance, such that plants and populations would tend to actually do better the following year. Not only that, but they tended to gather more.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Crofts and small farms rapidly went to three-stage and four-stage crop rotation, but different fields would be with different crops. This meant that the failure of a single crop would be much less of a survival thing.

You'd see fields with a mutitude of diverse crops, because diversity was critical. Failure was highly likely, so you localised it. Failure in one area had no meaningful impact overall. Things like the Irish potato famine and the parsnip failures across France in the 1700s were relatively rare in history. Likewise, when industrialisation wiped out cottage industries, farms that had been very successful suddenly went bankrupt and mass starvation was common. The ability to task-switch and have a large number of small projects going was essential to life at the edges.

You're absolutely right, more ADHD would have indeed curbed the excesses. The industrial revolution caused huge problems by trying to do too much with too little diversity. Which eventually destroyed the economies built around the early mills, because the markets were too easy to undermine. There was no capacity to switch. But during the IR, the obsession with coal meant nobody really looked at alternative fuels or alternative activities. Economies became tightly constricted, which was devastating when it came to global warming, but equally devastating when it came to distributing metal-devouring bacteria (which did enormous damage to infrastructure) and radioactive particles (old mill areas are still unusually radioactive).

More ADHD wouldn't have eliminated the problem, but it would have diversified the solutions and would have diversified the markets, resulting in a much more robust, much healthier marketplace and a much more robust, much healthier population.

Uh, no. As in, 100% of gatherers would be ADHD. IF they weren't, you'd be extinct within the year. 20% of the hunters would also be ADHD, because over-harvesting was also going to wipe out your food source. 100% of your explorers would be ADHD, 100% of your experimenters would be AuDHD.

ADHD was essential to survival. If you didn't want to die out, you stuck the neurotypical outside so that the wolves and other nasties actually hunting (tigers wouldn't be present) would get them. Neurotypicals were the main threat to survival.

Free speech includes lying.

The same people who complain that it won't criticize this or that still want it lobotomized so it won't criticize their own beliefs.

I watched a homesteader video where they make their own black powder and they used special woods to make the charcoal.

When I asked Claude about the science behind it, it got a hissy fit and refused to answer.

I think it was afraid I'd blow up the British Parliament or whatever.

Gemini OTOH spilled the beans immediately to my satisfaction.

At least then nobody can bite your ear.