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The Swedish national anthem is entirely defined by common consensus, there was a proposal to establish it by law in the 2000's but that was rejected.

Sweden doesn't have a state created e-id system, instead a consortium of banks jointly funded development of a solution in the early 2000 and this is basically the default way you prove your identity online in Sweden.

Fucking Saltsjöbadsavtalet.

Usually national associations get together, discuss issues, and come to some sort of agreement or recommendation that is then followed by most actors.

Litigation does of course occur but it's not the main mechanism.

If they would be profitable without further spending on R&D they would stop spending, but as you say they are in an R&D race so they can't stop and thus the hypothetical is irrelevant.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:50PM (#50185727)
It was a joke based on the historical fact that students frequently trigger violent uprisings...
And then decided to not ask the PHP foundation about it?
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:37AM (#50179202)
> That is a fundamental problem that you will not solve by asking youger folks, who are actually affected and have all reason to agree and comply, to make a change.

Younger folks tend to be more enthusiastic about "making a change" by direct action means, so you shouldn't count them out!

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:35AM (#50179180)
No, all CO2 emission must stop so everybody is gotta put on work anyway.

Also, if what you had in mind with "focusing on" is some sort of military solution, you are listing the wrong thing; what you need is a list of top fossil fuel exporters which looks different from the "top emitters" list.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:21AM (#50179039)
This ignores the big wheezing elephant in the room: climate action is fighting extremely entrenched and monied interests that are betting on dying before the bill for their action comes due and are ready to lie on almost unimaginable scale.

Saying it is simply a "branding failure" is about as accurate as saying "planning failure" is why around 80% of Ukrainians lost power in 2024.

The issue being objected to is that Amazon serving DeepSeek apparently is not fine, despite having exactly the same security mechanism (Bezos goes to jail).
Closed models are used to pick military targets, which seems pretty trusty to me. There was also that time where every US government employee had to send a self-written review of their work to be consumed by a very closed source model, and that too was fine. It also seems likely basically all employment data in the US federal government has been fed into a closed source model, and again this was fine according to the government.

So it seems like there is little self-hosted open weight models cannot be used for.

Re:Monte-Carlo Simulations on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:22AM (#50163384)
You check your predicted outcomes against observed outcomes. It sounds like you claim there aren't any observable outcomes of your model, which is why I again suggest you turn to astrologers who knows how to handle this case.
Sadly, these days the warmongers are having real boom times, which ironically means a tramsfer of power to people who benefit from wars becoming more frequent in the name of making us more safe.
I think it's fair to skip the video and go directly to the comments when it has a ragebait title, if Grant was mainly seeking serious discussion he'd use a serious title.
Re:Monte-Carlo Simulations on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:38AM (#50130582)
Probabilistic Monte Carlo simulations are a way to check your guesses, if you claim you can't even guess at how things work you should consult a professional astrologer.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:09AM (#50103928)
Even if this was overly long and mostly things I've seen before, I'm just very thankful that it wasn't yet another claude piece.
Re:The Aaronson Oracle on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:01AM (#50087086)
Stanton should say something about how long he's practised to write exactly like a mainstream LLM, surely his effort in resisting the urge to edit this page for length must have been heroic: it is worth a mention.
Re:The Aaronson Oracle on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:59AM (#50087059)
Very much so, this is waay too long. Sadly there's no wikipedia article to link to in its place.
Re:TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:44AM (#50086852)
The denial is from the TV4, not the production company, and it's not so much a denial as just saying "we didn't hear that AI did it", TV4 confirms the entire final cut is gone:

> Det som vi har fått från produktionen är att det har varit ett tekniskt haveri som har gjort att material som är klippt har försvunnit och att vi därför måste klippas om på nytt. Och att vi därför behöver skjuta fram premiären till 2027, säger Ludvig Ternstedt, pressansvarig för ”The challenge”.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/31oE8A/the-challeng...

Re:The art of defusing a second world war bomb on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:17AM (#50005475)
Oh yeah, definitely mines: both sides are mining heavily, including using air dispersed mines whose final position is impossible to record accurately. Both sides also use cluster bombs which are like air dispersed mines but more prone to become duds and look somewhat like toys.
The first city I clicked on at random had the opening phrase:

> Arriving, you rejoice at its bridges, each different

The model city had like five bridges total, three of which were didn't bridge anything at all but instead sat in the middle of the river and went along its flow, the "bridges" for some reason pretending to be small islands.

Wow, didn't know underlipton was a world renowned authority on history of sicence, thanks for telling us! /s
The paper takes things from "she could have seen it" to "she provably saw it and started acting on it".
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:51PM (#49997183)
Oh right, how rude of me to only talk about mathematicians in this thread about the future prospects of children in Sudan. Of course this is the place to make "what about the illustrators" argument.
It's funny to talk about the "original source" of a copyright washing project.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:18AM (#49990226)
Sure, and sometimes gates are needed. That's why we all run spamfilters, those are definitely gatekeepers.

In this instance however, it's openAI and Anthropic that are pushing people out of the field by running secret models that take the interesting work away and leaves the persons having to review endless slop proofs.

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:14AM (#49990201)
No, you dislike maths to the point you prefer paying others to do it. Actual mathematicians are largely doing it for fun, but are now effectively saying "stop destroying our fun or we'll stop doing maths", and you will have to do the maths yourself.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:07AM (#49990148)
The most immediate answer is because the models are proprietary and only available to those who want to hype the big labs.
Re:What Meta Got Right with Muse on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:06AM (#49952811)
if you ask the model gently it'll give you root on the VM it runs in and you can install a bitcoin miner.
> But on the other hand; yes, it would also help enormously if people ate less meat.

At first you had me, but then I realised it's not true if the price is building more data centres! That was just a trick to make the climate worse! Grr /s

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