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And if you underbuild it becomes a problem for the users. And if you overbuild... well, let's assume investors won't let you do that. So, once public sector guarantees demand for decades upfront, it becomes more sensible for it to just have the plant older-built and run it itself.

You have it similar in US. I bet a mayor can build sewers, collect garbage and build a lot of roads without asking the governor or president.

Or did you conflate government with public sector?

And then wipe everything, sell servers on ebay, pay employees couple months of wages as apology, pay off lenders, strike the company off the business register and bye.

"But it would be tremendous loss if we cancelled [bigco]!"

Well, maybe, let that be a lesson the all other such companies and their owners I guess?

Yes, and those people are free to visit equivalent of mail order catalog or go to the store or subscribe to consumer goods quality testing journal or to any of the enthusiast magazines about electronics or gardening or whatever where they perform independent testing and benchmarking or look up a video comparing ceiling fans across a century when they feel hot in the summer.

So yes, we should absolutely ban third party advertisements. People will still be able to discover good products.

Although diagnosis relies on observations made while patients are awake, the prevalence of sleep disturbances in individuals with ADHD is reported to be in the range 25–55 % (Corkum et al. 1998; Hodgkins et al. 2013; Owens 2005; Sung et al. 2008). In a recent Australian study, 62 % of children with ADHD had moderate or severe sleep problems and 22 % took sleep medications during the 1-week observation period (Efron et al. 2014). Indeed, high nocturnal activity and disordered sleep were defining characteristics of ‘hyperkinetic reaction in childhood’ or ‘attention deficit disorder’ in earlier versions of the DSM (American Psychiatric Association 1980; Barkley 1990; Sadeh et al. 2006; Spruyt and Gozal 2011).

My hot take is that *a ton* of ADHD cases is primarily lack of restorative sleep due to sleep disordered breathing, that is suffocating in sleep. Brain does not enjoy suffocating so people tend to wake up. Every couple minutes. Whole night. Without actually being aware that they do. They feel tired and brain fogged, lose concentration easily, have poor impulse control and so on. Even "mildly" disordered breathing in sleep causes frequent microarousals that fragment sleep and basically obliterate its restorative quality.

They are buying Huawei accelerators in bulk to serve their local customers. The whole system is currently optimized to deliver a lot of cheap LLMs and hardware for them to run on.

Those do get gamed and might cheat since they'd get kickbacks, but that should result in a reputation loss as other journalists point it out. There are also various cooperative models that work here well as members can just vote kickback-taking staff out.

People used to actually subscribe to magazines (and some still do) in areas they are interested in. And they still go and visit the shops to see if anything interesting pops up and there is word of mouth.

So I believe discoverability is not really a problem. The fact is that polished advertisements take up bandwidth that would be more productively utilized by a benchmark comparison chart with a commentary on differentiators. People would get more performant and/or better fitting products and services and the overall productivity and happiness would increase.

With proprietary hosted weights you can be specifically targeted and you would not be able to reproduce nor prove anything.

Poisoning open models would be of short-term benefit to China only if they could target US (and maybe EU + Commonwealth) specifically. Damaging anyone else would be a net loss and would erode the partnerships and alliances they are trying to build elsewhere. So it's a fire-once weapon with a huge risk of collateral damage.

Much more plausible is simply making the models ideologically biased, but as history teaches us, preferring ideology or religion over science is a well-known path to ruin. It would be weird to simultaneously warn public not to use their own open models, so.

I think the most plausible explanation for open models is simply that Huawei wants more customers and is willing to compete on the hardware front.

Far left would be inciting people to outright hang landlords. Much like far right is labeling anarchists as terrorists in the US.

But I don't think you can just elect Hitler in every nation and then get them to cooperate. They will inevitably want more and when they do they become aggressive. At which point I guess people will reconsider.

Smells like a long-term attempt to break the EU from within TBH.