You do understand that Ukraine regularly hits Moscow and has even hit the Kremlin?

With drones. A balistic missile strike is different from a nuclear missile strike only in the warhead in the missile. Firing missiles that could potentially be nukes (from the Russian perspective) from a nucelar power (the USA) at their capital is one of the few things that might actually trigger a nuclear war. Not the idiotic Russia bluster about Ukraine being given access to slightly better weapons, but a genuine possibility.

If we tell people in as many numbers to coffee a pro EU party as we tell people about tactical voting then I bet the electoral calculus would be a lot different.

I honestly cant parse that sentence. For most people whether or not we join the EU is not the be all and end all of how they vote, and for large parts of England in particular +80% of the voters choose Labour or the Tories. In one of those places trying to persuade people that they should vote for a candidate who clearly doesnt have a chance based on your hobby horse issue isnt going to get very far.

Rather than that it would be far better to put your efforts into voting reform so that small parties with diffuse support actually get the representation they should. Which practically means pushing Labour towards accepting it, and trying to get parliament in a position where Labour need Lib Dem MPs to form a government.

How does allowing the Tories (who are almost entriely against joining the EU) to win a seat instead over Labour (who are terrified to being painted as wanting to rejoin, but who’s members and voters and strongly in favour) help us rejoin?

If you live in a seat where the LDs or Greens have a chance by all means vote for them, but for a very large number of seats the next winner will be one of the Tories or Labour and refusing to engage with that is equivalent to not bothering to turn up.

Even if it were true (which I’m pretty sure it isnt) so what? The whole benefit of free software is people can fork it and make their own version if they dont like where it is headded.

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Excellent article on why the tech companies profiting from the work of creatives is ultimately a labour rights issue not a copyright one. It’s sad to see it being reflexively downvoted by people only reading the title.

Empty sequences being false goes back a lot further than perl, it was already a thing in the first lisp (in fact the empty list was the cannonical false).

This is still only being rolled out to copilot+ pcs isnt it? I know its shit for a bunch of reasons but Im mostly concerned with it ending up on the windows pcs I have to maintain that process sensitive information.

We also didnt understand how the internet would change the world, still went ahead with it. We didnt understand how computers would change the world, still went ahead with it, we didnt understand how the steam engine would change the world… etc etc.

No one can know how a new invention will change things, but you are not going to be able to crush human’s innate creativity and drive to try new things. Sometimes those things are going to be a net negative and that’s bad, but the alternative is to insist nothing new is tried and thats A bad and B not possible.

I don’t think that’s really a fair comparison, babies exist with images and sounds for over a year before they begin to learn language, so it would make sense that they begin to understand the world in non-linguistic terms and then apply language to that. LLMs only exist in relation to language so couldnt understand a concept separately to language, it would be like asking a person to conceptualise radio waves prior to having heard about them.

Probably, given that LLMs only exist in the domain of language, still interesting that they seem to have a “conceptual” systems that is commonly shared between languages.

Compared to a human who forms an abstract thought and then translates that thought into words. Which words I use has little to do with which other words I’ve used except to make sure I’m following the rules of grammar.

Interesting that…

Anthropic also found, among other things, that Claude “sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of universal ‘language of thought’.”

Translations apps would be the main one for LLM tech, LLMs largely came out of google’s research into machine translation.

No you’re not going crazy, you just understand economics and trade more the the President of the USA.

I wouldnt trust the words of a Palantir exec if they said the sky was blue, but even accepting what they say, its just that the hamas attacks gave the ban impetus to move forwards. By his own words the ban already had bipartesan support and executive approval before that.

The headline that it was “about” Isreal rather than China is a massive reach.

Have they? Where?

Its a very difficult subject, both sides have merit. I can see the “CSAM created without abuse could be used in treatment/management of people with these horrible urges” but I can also see “Allowing people to create CSAM could normalise it and lead to more actual abuse”.

Sadly its incredibly difficult for academics to study this subject and see which of those two is more prevalent.

Similar but not quite as bad, Watson and Crick who did the analysis that figured out the structure got the Nobel, but Rosalind Franklin who did the xray diffraction that got them the data that allowed them to figure out the double helix structure got left out.

Still pretty bad, but not as bad as giving the prize to someone who did no work for it and actively argued against Bell’s conclusions.

I think they also ruled out a wealth tax, but the other two for sure could be done. Now is the prefect time to raise a tax as well with the argument that we need to raise more money for defence as it turns out the USA is selling the rest of NATO down the river.

If the article is to be believed

Aye, there’s the rub. Contending that reliability of electricity generation isnt an important fact is wishful thinking at best (and boosterism of something you’re invested in at worst). There is nowhere bigger than an isolated town or so that manages a grid without either reliable generation or power exchanges with another location that does have reliable generation.