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I swear that "think of the children" as the means of getting perverse laws justified has just been switched with "but... China".
Let's not fool ourselves into trying to believe this is anything other than protecting the interests of a few of Donny Tango's mates. He has already proven that he has absolutely no problem throwing the USA, its citizens or its allies under the bus for a couple quid.
The BBC started reporting after the riots were in full swing and social media was already awash with information.
The point at which the BBC started reporting was the same as all other major news outlets: after the point that they just looked daft for not reporting it.
I know this as my videos of the riots took my little blog from 50 - 100 views a day to thousands per minute…
Anyone old enough to remember the London riots should remember the fact that the acting government issued a D notice to all broadcasters, preventing them from reporting the issue.
This is part of what started the death of BBM and proliferation of news via social media. You’d go on Twitter and see all the reports or riots and burning buildings then go to the BBC and… nothing.
All of this is to say that successive British governments, over a span of decades, have been actively destroying freedom of speech and a right to privacy for its citizens.
With AI and the rise of populism combined with the absolute decimation of the average person’s attention span it is going to get a lot worse.
I saw the post and was literally thinking "I have been using these tunnels extensively for a couple years now"
Yeah I was going to say I don’t remember seeing smokers anywhere other than the ‘box of shame’
I think someone has really mislead you on yoghurt. If you get plain, natural yoghurt it’s not ultra processed.
> February 2025: "I will keep writing this stuff until I’m proven wrong."
Wrong (Zitron continues to write despite repeatedly being proven wrong)
This did give me a good chuckle
Yeah the EU is wild for public toilets, In certain areas even McDonald’s charge you a euro for using the toilet. That’s such a foreign concept coming from the UK as most restaurants/pubs/bookies here will let you go to the loo and fill your tap water for free. The latter isn’t even provided in restaurants in the Netherlands when you are a paying customer.
Japan is the beacon in the toilet game. Even some random park has a proper Japanese toilet seat and is spotless more often than not
What happens when you compare quality of life? Or workers rights? Pretty sure that your average person cares more about those two data points…
I don’t understand this mentality which I see over and over again on here. It’s not like the US frontier labs are beacons of morality and transparency.
It’s also pretty accepted within this community that a lot of data fed to US tech companies ends up with the Israeli government.
Meanwhile the current US government headed by Donny Tango has done a very thorough job of proving itself to be about as predictable and dependable as a rabid dog on crack.
Throughout the events which have transpired since a certain orange charlatan took office it is objectively true that the Chinese government has portrayed itself as a much more stable and sane entity.
We really need to stop this elitism and recognise the reality.
Out of curiosity why do you want AGI to ‘happen FASTER’?
The whole article boils down to two points:
1. “I’m fine with ‘em, as long as they’re useless”
2. “The only authoritarian regime which can be trusted with such power is the one which benefits my company”
Agreed. An experiment is only as accurate as the methodology is sound.
Testing each lab’s model in its own harness just tells us how well the lab has performed. For the model’s performance we need a control and the only way to get the control is to either test all models in all harnesses or all models in the same harness
I don’t know that the methodology of the experiment is testing what it intends to test. With the current method we’re essentially testing each AI lab’s ability to efficiently extract data from their version of a transformer model.
To objectively test all models the harness would need to be the same and ideally independent. Failing that, all three models should be tested in all three harnesses and the output verified on a model x harness level and on an overall aggregated model x all harnesses level.
Would a fairer test not be to use the same harness for all three? I’d suspect the harness to massively affect token use and optimisation
I could be tripping but I’m sure that is very similar to the Deepseek one from not long ago. Clearly I am too lazy to go and find it for verification.
There are no egalitarian societies. Societies in the west favour the super rich and believing anything else is simply delusional. Sorry to burst the bubble.
Not sure why the downvotes, it’s a quick tool? Yes it’s a ‘vibe code’ but it’s better than nothing and at least will flag if you need to do anything — verified myself.
They forgot “I’m sorry?” meaning “You can’t have said what I though you said, can you repeat that?”.
This sounds cool and similar to something I’ve been building! I say similar as we have different ideas and target audiences — What I’m building is a niche network specifically targeting people who are travellers or friends that like holidaying together. I don’t want to seem like I’m spamming or self promoting so will keep the link out but will share if people want.
Anyway, I digress, it would be great to connect and exchange ideas if you have the time? I really like the idea of fading connections.
How can there be democracy in an environment where freedom of thought is all but nullified due to social manipulation through mainstream media. Calling something ‘free’ doesn’t make it so.
The reality is that the term democracy in western society has essentially become meaningless due to the swathes of algorithmic manipulation which occurs every second of everyday through every possible digital medium.
It’s seems like there are a lot fishy smells coming from the timing of the mythos announcement and the reports of issues with casual users. Combine that with the mass rejection of 4.7 it kinda seems like they are burning their ‘non research’ users in order to keep the Mythos users warm.
I could be connecting unrelated dots here, but it sure as hell seems quite coincidental to me.
Have you tried stitch.withgoogle.com?
It looks like a drunk pelican rolling downhill on its bicycle
Yeah I think the web is more a tool than anything else nowadays and it being homogeneous is a good thing.
Think of roads. It’s one of few things that humans have managed to agree on across the planet and there’s a good reason for that. The system (regardless of which side you drive on) works. Signs, markings and materials are all pretty much identical wherever you go.
I’d say the only place I’ve experienced McDonald’s to be ‘extremely’ different is in India due to the obvious prevalence of vegetarianism and outlawing of beef.
In other countries the do have a lot of additional meals which are specific to their local taste (rice/fried chicken/different sauces) but the core burgers like a Big Mac, mcChicken and sides such as fries are there.