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Let's examine one article to see whether or not this site is intellectually honest:

    ‘You’re the only one I can talk to,’ the girl told an AI chatbot; then she took her own life - baltimoresun.com

First paragraph: "With the nation facing acute mental health provider shortages, Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence chatbots not only for innocuous tasks such as writing resumes or social media posts, but for companionship and therapy."

"LLMDeathCount.com" willfully misrepresents the article and underlying issue. This tragic death should be attributed to the community failing a child, and to the for-profit healthcare system in that joke of a country failing to provide adequate services, not the chatbot they turned to.

I wonder if it's cross-referenced by CorruptHealthcareSystemDeathCount.com

"LLMDeathCount.com" is not trucking with shades of grey.

Just like SEO ruined search, I expect companies to be running these deep researches, looking carefully at the sources, and ensuring they're poisoned. Hopefully with enough cross-referencing and intelligence models will be relatively immune to this and be able to judge the quality of sources, but they will certainly be targeted.

Or the LLM companies will offer "poison as a service", probably a viable business model - hopefully mitigated by open source, local inference, and competing models.

They're right. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and Enshittification have been the core experiences of digital life with corporations in charge of platforms.

My hope is that LLMs will help open source developers provide reasonable alternatives to the gatekeeping and spyware that corporations are now making their bread and butter. Example: Recent tried to use Unity LTS for a small project - the software is a joke now, basic functionality is broken out of the box. A couple of hours with an LLM and I had all the features I needed using a more lightweight library, monogame. Not an operating system, but I'm hoping the pattern will continue as LLMs get more proficient at code - the moat of "this is hard and laborious to do" will be drained.

Replace 'word generator with no intelligence or understanding based on the contents of the internet' with 'for-profit health care system'.

In retrospect, from experience, I'd take the LLM.

There's been a lot of noise about China increasing their influence in the pacific, but now that I follow it up it's more limited than I thought.

China has approximately 250 times the shipbuilding capacity of the US. This infrastructure is integrated with military production. US-allied shipbuilding capacity in Japan and South Korea is within striking range of mainland China. I do not think it is reasonable to think that the US can win a sustained naval war against China, and how else would the US defend Taiwan?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/china-dominates-shipbuilding-i...

Not as corrupt as other countries is true. My rhetoric gets a little passionate, but is rooted in fact. Relative to their extreme wealth and political messaging, will 'very' corrupt do? 'Increasingly' corrupt, certainly. It's not tied to the authoritarianism, the health care system has been an international punchline for decades. The everyday systemic corruption (plus the 2008 bailouts) is in my opinion the cause of authoritarianism, the people were pushed to a populist.

Getting sicker: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6221922/

Getting stupider: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/?age=9

Obamacare is straight up porkbarrelling: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2010/apr/01/barack-oba...

The DoE's policy is to stop educating people unless it's profitable: https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-publ...

I think we're going to see a substantial continual decline in both health and education outcomes as the system continues to be sabotaged, for money.

The most shocking part is qualitative though. As a non-American, having a conversation with an American about their politics is often stepping into a minefield of cognitive dissonance, patriotism, and blindness, from people who are otherwise wealthy and well-intentioned. Truly the most propagandized people. Such is the course of empire.

The Malacca straits will certainly be important, but the US will have to reach past China and Chinese allies to the south to blockade it, and will be sitting ducks for drone and missile attacks (see the black sea fleet for a demonstration). China has heavily invested in submarines to avoid exactly this situation.

Authoritarianism in China has a significantly different flavor to US authoritarianism. The US is serving the goals of their dominant elite industries - finance and tech. China has an engineering culture amongst the elite, and is inclined to solve problems with productivity and megaprojects rather than handing money to purely extractive industries.

For an example of the difference between their flavors of authoritarianism and the outcomes they bring, compare their health care systems - the USA has one of the most expensive in the world at ~$14,500 per capita, and poor outcomes due to privatized corruption, while China's 14th 5-year plan has brought universal health care for approx ~$650 per person. China's average life expectancy is higher than the US's.

The US is, objectively, extremely corrupt, and is transitioning to authoritarianism to protect that corruption. China's authoritarianism achieves measurable goals, and has broad (though not universal) public support.

The USA will get curb stomped in a war. They just don't have anything but a massive military buildup from decades of pork barrelling unnecessary military contracts. Their population is sick and stupid. They have alienated their allies. They will lose.

Yes, productive capacity can be repurposed to support military goals - with organizations and technicians already in place.

Mexico has about 1/17th of the manufacturing capacity of the US - adds around 5.8%. America has a labor shortage in manufacturing, which is unlikely to be filled with foreign workers given the current crackdown on brown people. They're also annihilating their intellectual capacity by again cracking down on brown people, and defunding universities.

China is already leading the world in manufacturing and expanding rapidly, their universities are world class, and they have almost caught up in technology. Given their investments in education and strong culture of academic achievement, it's unreasonable to think they won't overtake the US in every domain in the next 3-5 years.

America has very little manufacturing capacity, has lost its edge in batteries and power generation, and is soon to be behind on computing. They're politically fractured, losing all their allies, and no longer have a sustainable military advantage. If they decide to flex their aging muscles against China, they will be outproduced, and can't win in a single decisive blow unless they want to initiate a surprise full nuclear war. They're done. Corruption ate the golden goose, and the people cheered.

American, please, wake up. The masked border police are on the streets arresting citizens, the military is being paid as a client of the president, corruption is legal, and a mass surveillance machine unfathomable to prior dictatorships is being/has been established. You're fucked. Listen to the soapbox. It is very, very relevant. Wake up.

So who went to jail?

Save us dang

Significantly easier to detect than create? Not quite NP, but intuitively an AI which can create such an exploit could also detect it.

The economics is more about how much the defender is willing to spend in advance protection vs the expected value of a security failure

I've also thought this for scam perpetration vs mitigation. An AI listening to grandma's call would surely detect most confidence or pig butchering scams (or suggest how to verify), and be able to cast doubt on the caller's intentions or inform a trusted relative before the scammer can build up rapport. Security and surveillance concerns notwithstanding.

Hilarious. 9/11 was used as a false pretense for invading Iraq, killing millions, for geopolitics and oil.

Never let a good crisis go to waste they say

This post is frankly embarrassing. For civilians, does being warned your life is going to be bombed to ashes soften the explosion?

That is literally not what genocide is, it's a legal definition not a creative writing exercise.

'The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. ' [1]

Israel is functionally commiting genocide, after being an apartheid state for decades. Arguably their goal is ethnic cleansing, and mass murder is a means to that end.

[1] https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genoci...

Post your full personal information and medical records, I suspect you of a crime.

Recently scammed out of $800 in fake maintenance claims by a first time host. Support was beyond useless.

But those damnable universities are just left wing brainwashing facilities, very little room for profit there. Cut their funding, educated people don't vote right /s

Last month a first time host confabulated $1200 of maintenance charges. Having left the property already, I was in no position to produce evidence that they were fake. Arbitration was hopeless, I canceled my card and won't be using Airbnb again.

Serious question: do you expect to have to field questions about buying a car from Musk post-seig heil and DOGE?

Rising inequality increases asset prices as the wealthy look for more places to invest and extract rent. Gary's economics on YouTube explains this very well, with credentials.

Getting a job at a major company gave me the self esteem to realize I could do it myself. It's a boost even if you quit.

Has the media or world at large even noticed the $TRUMP scam? I've only heard of it through Voidzilla, is that reflective of my bubble or is 'flood the zone' working?

The sentence is wrong, but the AI should not be regurgitating the first factoid it encounters regardless

I know several autistic adults who check their outgoing messages with AI for unintentional meanings or recommendations to better communicate what they mean. Not getting the ai to write for them mind you. Social coprocessor indeed!

Even after JSTOR declined to press charges in that case. Despicable. The US has dug the hole it's going down.

Interesting, but ambivalent if removing them in the name of science is any more valid than removing them to sell? I'm not sure the occupants would make the distinction .