Command detonated mines don’t fall under Ottawa treaty, so you might have had them (these are both claymore-type and OZM72-type)

Neither Ukraine or Russia are on that list, and a couple of countries that do have a possible defensive war against Russia in mind withdrew from that treaty. That and Ottawa treaty (banning AP victim-triggered landmines)

oh no what will we do, the open source leaded gasoline was released. the genie is out of the bottle, even if you ban it you’ll still have people using it locally

You don’t read books for that though. Does this person think books are just sequences of facts you’re supposed to memorise?

I think i have something shaped like counterexample. Large literature reviews and compilations of data tables and such can work like this, and grepping them will get you a feel what is possible and a single practical example per, but even then you’re supposed to read them in order to get not only what is possible, but also what is not (or at least what wasn’t tested) and what fails and how and why. Actually reading through also gives you a bigger picture and allows for drawing your own conclusions ofc like you notice

Don’t you ever read something and go “oh, I never even thought about this”, “I didn’t know this was a problem”, “I wouldn’t have thought of this myself”. If not then what the fuck are you reading??

even then feeding them to chatbot is valleybrain nonsense because grep will be more than enough and much faster, and you naturally know what’s inside only after reading it

even then, just having right snippet is not enough because presumably result would be only apparent after testing irl, or perhaps building a model or simulation or what have you. even then, getting to the point where you need to do any of that requires degree of curiosity and ability to put information from different sources together that would exclude promptfondlers. it’s like these people try on purpose to think as little as possible

solzhenitsyn is pretty sus too, with all that him being orthodox fundamentalist, fan of tsar, panslavic antisemite, 2000s putin fan (died three days into russian invasion of georgia), proponent of enlargement of russia to include “sufficiently russified” parts of belarus, ukraine and kazakhstan and therefore opponent of ukranian independence; also

Solzhenitsyn made a speaking tour after Francisco Franco’s death, and “told liberals not to push too hard for changes because Spain had more freedoms now than the Soviet Union had ever known.”

In 1983 he met Margaret Thatcher and told her “the German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hitler was stupid and did not use this weapon”

Regarding Ukraine he wrote “All the talk of a separate Ukrainian people existing since something like the ninth century and possessing its own non-Russian language is recently invented falsehood” and “we all sprang from precious Kiev”.

Solzhenitsyn was a supporter of the Vietnam War and referred to the Paris Peace Accords as ‘shortsighted’ and a ‘hasty capitulation’.

Solzhenitsyn was critical of NATO’s eastward expansion towards Russia’s borders and described the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as “cruel” […] Solzhenitsyn accused NATO of trying to bring Russia under its control; he stated that this was visible because of its “ideological support for the ‘colour revolutions’ and the paradoxical forcing of North Atlantic interests on Central Asia”

(all from wikipedia entry on him)

it’s a little wonder that american altright embraced his writings

chatbots really are leaded gasoline for zoomers

it is some global anomaly that couple of biggest companies are essentially running on ad revenue (especially facebook and google)

wouldn’t it make more sense if that title went to company that is, idk, in food or construction or energy or mining business

though he’s correct in saying the ethics of language models aren’t a self-solving issue, even though he expresses it in critihype-laden terms.

the subtext is always that he also says that knows how to solve it and throw money at cfar pleaseeee or basilisk will torture your vending machine business for seven quintillion years

is the evil funding man going to eat the gimp pepper

iirc L-aminoacids and D-sugars, that is these observed in nature, are very slightly more stable than the opposite because of weak interaction

probably it’s just down to a specific piece of quartz or soot that got lucky and chiral amplification gets you from there

also it’s not physics, or more precisely it’s a very physicy subbranch of chemistry, and it’s done by chemists because physicists suck at doing chemistry for some reason (i’ve seen it firsthand)

deserved tbh

that watermark makes it look a bit like album cover

internet funeral material

i mean while there’s a lot of pretend-work (promptfondlers) and pretending that chatbots work (managers pushing for use of chatbots, entire openai and their vcs) the people who do that to my understanding are on the highly paid side. until the bubble collapses, that is

Assuming this is the case, I wonder if it’s possible to weaponize it by identifying tokens with low overall reference counts that could be expanded with minimal investment of time. Sort of like Google bombing.

bet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda_network their approach seems to be less directional, initially was supposed to be doing something else (targeting human brains directly) and might have turned out to be a happy accident of sorts for them, but also they ramped up activities around end of 2022

sounds suspiciously like something a rabbit would say

millions of promptfondlers stopping in their tracks because some random dc burned down, lol, lmao even

i wonder what is state of openai infra, from what i gleaned from ed zitron it might be not great because it overheats and lots of budget already goes to hardware replacement

“we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”

i’ve seen it in contexts where pay is shit so pace of work is shit as well but i think that lots of corporate promptfondlers are rather high in the pecking order? it’s management that seems to be charmed by spicy autocomplete, maybe not interns

there are people who get paid to facebook and twitter

Can’t wait to pay metaverse™ rent with libra®

if these two recently damaged A50s were operational, then they’re down to 4 from 6 before (per Budanov, as announced after two A50s were shot down by first Patriot, then S200)