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Maybe they stand out, or maybe the pool of papers just get flooded and nobody new good gets noticed unless they were already preselected by other means.

Why do you need academics then? Just ask the question to the LLM directly.

I am just saying that if your country can be openly evil without having to resort to hypocrisy, the rot in your society is much deeper than if your politicians at least have to pretend to be good.

I'm not saying that justice was served, just that they had to go through that public spectacle of pretending to care, unlike others.

Even the US had big scandals with Abu Ghraib and waterboarding, with big public debates. Even if this was just about public image and hypocritical, not about real values, it shows some capacity for shame.

Though this may be changing now with Trump and the israelification of america.

You just listed some of the most sanctioned countries in the world #1 and #3.

China doesn't have large sanctions because it plays a key role in the economy, but the US had massive regime change intelligence operations against them in the 90s, but they failed and were dismantled.

Because it's the only country allowed get away with stuff that would be an international scandal if a normal country did it.

I completely avoid any haskell package in Arch and just build it with Stack, it's usually simple.

It certainly works for software, but we may be hitting diminishing returns on software. You may argue it's been a social net negative for a decade.

Does it matter which kids is it? Just remove the metrics, apply the punitive measures fairly, and let the dice fall where they may. Or don't and allow the safety of teachers and the quality of public education to keep degrading. We live in a harsh world and sometimes sacrifices have to be made for a higher cause.

It's not rocket science, certain kids showing up as getting impacted by punitive measures looks bad on certain government measures. So they stop getting punished. Problem solved!

Can the users of the software even keep up at that point? We may have reached diminishing returns on software production, and not enough impact on the rest of the process.

That the whole article can be seen as a masterpiece of talking around the obvious while avoiding stepping on the mine. Obvious rules cannot be applied systematically because certain government metrics would look bad. Goodhart's law, any explicit metric will be immediately optimized. And this is people optimizing metrics as best as they can in play. I'll leave the obvious as an exercise for the reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

The current Minister of Defence of the Houthi government is Sunni.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Atifi

The good thing about energy lockdowns is that you get to join all your friends and cook a communal lunch in a big pot.

A lot of that money is printed and handed to some players that recirculate it where they see fit. It's as "needed" as the government paying you to dig and fill curves.

We saw during Covid that many jobs are not needed. And we may be heading to energy lockdowns. Companies could lose a lot of valuation or just use the "AI is doing everything" excuse.

In theory, in practice it caused shortages of GPUs for other uses and the production never caught up to old consumer prices.

All the crypto stuff already felt like it was doing a big push to move computing power away from general consumers, though may have been unintended.

Another thing is the general impoverishment and decline of productive power that can be papered over by centralizing the output of that production to hide the general decline. I don't think anybody is buying that we are richer than 20 years ago anymore.

If energy availability is going down, we are in a negative-sum game, which is even worse, the pie gets smaller and everybody loses.

I think a lot of people are just trying to keep the religion of progress alive without any real material progress and it sort of breaks their mind.

I'm not saying that there's no real technological progress, but it's not a massive material power like it once was, like electric cars are really cool, but they are moving much less people than fossil fuel cars did, and there is no clear path to a future where random 16 year old teenagers are buying electric cars with their summer job in a dinner. So even if there's some technological progress there's a regress in overall capacity.

Or AI can do a lot in the service economy right now, but there's no clear path where AI will get 16 year old teenagers the same mobility as the gas car did. There's still hopes of AGI but that's still more faith than a clear A->B->C path that we are threading. A lot of people just experience it as enshittification, though that was already going on before AI, not trying to blame it.

A setup like this but in phone size would be ideal. The free software mobile world has really been a dumpster fire from the beginning.