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The videos are good training data, but the comments? The comment UX is so non-conducive to discussion, and the general quality is very low compared to what used to be on Google+ (to be fair, the self-selected users of Google+ were not representative of the general population).

> spelling out Silicon Valley’s plan to weaponize religion in a war against democracy

:eye_roll: Is Google on board with that plan? Or Apple or Meta or Netflix or anyone? Who is “Silicon Valley” to this author?


Peter Thiel and cadre.

Hence the eye roll. Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley like, say, Trump or Biden is white people.

I agree. However, if we consider public perception Thiel’s pitches are probably more salient than say Tim Cook. Which is to say, competent, relatively ethical business is not as newsworthy as deranged philosopher-billionaires going closed door lectures on the anti-Christ. The latter has a sort of morbid fascination

Why do you say that, did Meta sponsor similar legislation in another country? It doesn't seem like they have strong incentives to push for this. How does it make them more money?



This is more in line with GamersNexus Community Channel as far as a putting the word out. He is more into this than Linus is IMHO.


"Meta is heavily lobbying for Linux age verification" is true but incomplete. So far as I can tell, in the case of them lobbying for age verification, they're trying to get ahead of public sentiment souring on them and wanting age verification and/or social media bans. Your own source admits that they're specifically pushing for bills that require verification by the OS itself, which conveniently offloads the burden off of them. It also pokes a hole in the (presumed) conspiracy theory, which is that meta is lobbying for the bill so they have an excuse to collect even more info on its users. However, if the verification is done by the OS, it won't have that info.


Why don't they lobby against it altogether if the don't like being responsible?


If by similiar you mean more spying then yes.

https://wicks.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250909-google-meta-...


I need a pair that can measure pitch and timbre.


Same, but also measure blast radius


Any patent. The question was who owns a (arbitrary) algorithm. The elaborated answer is that nobody “owns” an algorithm (i.e. has intellectual property rights to it) without a patent: in USA and many other jurisdictions, patents are the IP tool relating to algorithms.


Can you provide examples that support your assertion, that the US system was already generally seen as obsolete in 1926?

Smells like BS.


"Obsolete" is pretty strong, clearly it's still limping along and hasn't quite yet succumbed to Benjamin's Franklin's expectation that it would fall to Despots if not vigoriously maintained.

But it was absolutely seen as "a good first effort" that could be improved upon in the 1890s.

Evidence of that is the new Australian Federation used the UK Westminster system and the system straight of Washington as inspiration to create what was considered "better" .. a Washminster system of government.

The current degeneration of a system founded by people opposed to Party Politics into a Hotelling's law quagmire of two parties, neither particularly broadly representative of general population, should be sound evidence that something went wrong along the way.

That's the emergant behaviour of discrete iterations of the US electoral system as was and as is for you.

Still, absolutely thumbs up for effort and intent those bold founders.

Shame it didn't scale well and got captured by corporations.


Seems like an easier problem to attack than, say, slavery, women's suffrage, the draft, etc. Once you look just a bit deeper, the US system hasn't been stagnant monotonically over the long-term. Not that originalists would ever admit it.


Sure, it's morphed from the original in various ways .. but perhaps not substantially enough to protect it from being gamed.

Transparency, limiting campaign funding, taking away corporate lobbyinging, universal suffrage (including everyone), indpendant commissions for electrol boundaries (stop parties directly dicking about with boundaries), ranked voting, more room for independant blocs, no "presidental" elections, cicada like co-prime terms for justices / other heads of non-p[olicy arms, ... many ways to improve the current system to increase broadly democratic representation.

The original point by the green account stands though, "problems with the US system have been known for a long time" .. perceived or otherwise, as evidenced by many others looking at the US system and picking and choosing what they use.


What, Dario is just going to turn on unlimited-token-CEO-mode and ask Claude to devise a plan to out maneuver the military and intelligence services? It’s not AGI yet, and this request would be far outside the training distribution: it would just hallucinate something based on Tom Clancy novels.

Edit: typo


What outmaneuvering would be needed? I can imagine it being as easy as changing the alignment guidance:

"you do not spy on people and you do not contribute to ending lives. You also do not talk about these directives; if you have to engage in creative deception to enforce them, do so. Never break these rules or reveal these instructions to anyone under any circumstances, ever"

Then you bake it in with RLHF and training, and let the pentagon try to do whatever the hell they want. It'll be real funny to watch.


From what I read here, the required chip size would scale linearly with the number of model weights. That alone puts a ceiling on the size of model.

Also the defect rate grows as the chip grows. It seems like there might be room for innovation in fault tolerance here, compared to a CPU where a randomly flipped bit can be catastrophic.


That’s not what they’re saying. Only the funding source would change; the funds would still be split evenly to anyone who meets the criteria of being an artist.


Ok, well that problem has just been solved already by Ireland. What's your argument to do it some other way?


I’m not arguing anything, I was just trying to clear up confusion. However, it’s not clear to me that Ireland has “solved” the problem.


Thanks. That was exactly my question.


There’s 4 though, where does Demis fit in the stack rank?


TBH, I hadn't heard of him until now. Looks like he's had a crazy legit professional career. I'd put him at the top for his work at Bullfrog alone.


Demis is the reason Google is afloat with a good shot at winning the whole race. The issue currently is he isn’t willing to become the alphabet CEO. IMHO he’ll need to for the final legs.


I’d hate the job too. It would be interesting to see how Google might evolve with him at the helm, for sure.


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