This analysis suggests that the Bolsonaro camp is potentially split - particuarly around BRICS versus Washington alignment. https://russiancouncil.ru/en/news/russian-and-brazilian-expe...
Remember playing this on the spectrum. Does anybody else remember the item that reversed the control ( up becomes down, left becomes right? ). What I found rather amazing about the human brain was, with a little…
What's the evidence for Russian involvement in the Brazil election? As far as I can see it's pretty thin. US interence on the other hand has been open. https://thebostonreport.com/2026/10/11/russia-brazil-electio...
There are too many people in the world currently that think that security is through absolute technical/military dominance, when the reality the thing you really need for security is other people or countries not…
On your second point, that rather assumes those 'unless' people will willing to just 'go away'. That's typically not what happens - you either get bloody revolution or people just ignore the rules that aren't giving…
> Apart from coding..... But let's take the one you've accepted - it can write code. It can translate from intention to code quite effectively - then they can do anything that you can do by writing code. Also while you…
While I agree the numbers don't make any sense, for reasons too numerous to enumerate, what matters for the valuation is not how it works, but what it can do. So if an ML model can do real time language translation or…
Not sure my loose use of the term thinking is the important thing here.
The point is you can justify almost anything on the basis of defining yourself as the 'good guy'. Take the US recent assassinations of Iranian leadership. Objectively unilaterally assassinating other countries leaders…
Indeed. Take the classic NSA encryption logic - if you build some capability with a backdoor only you can exploit then you are building your own future capability - and if you think you are the 'good' guy - what's wrong…
It cost just under 150 million to run the UK 2019 general election: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/costs-of-the-2019... So ~3 pounds per registered voter. I'd say that's good value - I find US data harder to…
> Hand-counting the ballots instead of scanning would be expensive in terms of time and money, and error-prone. Why? It's not that expensive - what price democracy? And in terms of error rate - if there is a very close…
I'd argue ff you have thuggery at that level in public then you have bigger problems than voting systems. And if that's country wide then the country isn't a democracy so the voting system is moot. In terms of voter…
In person, pure paper voting, in local community halls etc, run by volunteers is the best voting system. Incredibly resistant to influencing at scale, resistant to voter coercion, transparent, and invokes a sense of…
Are you treating the LLM output as machine code or are you looking at it? And if you are looking at it - do you insist on certain patterns or structure to allow yourself to more easily navigate it?
So you are telling me Sol can't be used for hacking? Please...
Things can be regulated in sensible countries where the things are pretty much single use - like guns. However, nobody bans cars because somebody has driven one into a crowd, or hammers because of a particularly grusome…
Models like this are in effect dual use - just like computers and computer programmes in general. Ethercap is a very useful debugging tool - and can also be used for exploits. We don't ban Ethercap, we police the use -…
Did the police have the appropriate license to play those disney songs in a public space?
Indeed. The tricky part is that social peer pressure requires a lack of anonymity - not just in terms of detecting whether people are recording without consent at the time - but also the posting of content online.…
It's European countries that are taking this strategy, any Russia sabotage is aimed at deterring this widening of the conflict - not to encourage it. Originally Europe didn't want to supply tanks, then it was only short…
Not sure how MH17 shooting is relevant here. While the consensus is that it's likely a Russia controlled/allied battery shot it down - I'm not sure anybody thinks it was anything other than an accident, not an…
Frankly if I was China, I'd be conflicted about the mid-terms - Trump is currently leading the US to disastrous wars - kinetic and trade, pissing off his closest allies, under-mining the dollar, and making China look a…
For quite a long time, graphics card driver quality and performance has been much better on the PC driven by the larger PC gaming market. Very hard for Apple, or Linux to do much about that - especially when Nvidia…
Blaming the current situation on the actions of China is beyond bizarre.
This analysis suggests that the Bolsonaro camp is potentially split - particuarly around BRICS versus Washington alignment. https://russiancouncil.ru/en/news/russian-and-brazilian-expe...
Remember playing this on the spectrum. Does anybody else remember the item that reversed the control ( up becomes down, left becomes right? ). What I found rather amazing about the human brain was, with a little…
What's the evidence for Russian involvement in the Brazil election? As far as I can see it's pretty thin. US interence on the other hand has been open. https://thebostonreport.com/2026/10/11/russia-brazil-electio...
There are too many people in the world currently that think that security is through absolute technical/military dominance, when the reality the thing you really need for security is other people or countries not…
On your second point, that rather assumes those 'unless' people will willing to just 'go away'. That's typically not what happens - you either get bloody revolution or people just ignore the rules that aren't giving…
> Apart from coding..... But let's take the one you've accepted - it can write code. It can translate from intention to code quite effectively - then they can do anything that you can do by writing code. Also while you…
While I agree the numbers don't make any sense, for reasons too numerous to enumerate, what matters for the valuation is not how it works, but what it can do. So if an ML model can do real time language translation or…
Not sure my loose use of the term thinking is the important thing here.
The point is you can justify almost anything on the basis of defining yourself as the 'good guy'. Take the US recent assassinations of Iranian leadership. Objectively unilaterally assassinating other countries leaders…
Indeed. Take the classic NSA encryption logic - if you build some capability with a backdoor only you can exploit then you are building your own future capability - and if you think you are the 'good' guy - what's wrong…
It cost just under 150 million to run the UK 2019 general election: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/costs-of-the-2019... So ~3 pounds per registered voter. I'd say that's good value - I find US data harder to…
> Hand-counting the ballots instead of scanning would be expensive in terms of time and money, and error-prone. Why? It's not that expensive - what price democracy? And in terms of error rate - if there is a very close…
I'd argue ff you have thuggery at that level in public then you have bigger problems than voting systems. And if that's country wide then the country isn't a democracy so the voting system is moot. In terms of voter…
In person, pure paper voting, in local community halls etc, run by volunteers is the best voting system. Incredibly resistant to influencing at scale, resistant to voter coercion, transparent, and invokes a sense of…
Are you treating the LLM output as machine code or are you looking at it? And if you are looking at it - do you insist on certain patterns or structure to allow yourself to more easily navigate it?
So you are telling me Sol can't be used for hacking? Please...
Things can be regulated in sensible countries where the things are pretty much single use - like guns. However, nobody bans cars because somebody has driven one into a crowd, or hammers because of a particularly grusome…
Models like this are in effect dual use - just like computers and computer programmes in general. Ethercap is a very useful debugging tool - and can also be used for exploits. We don't ban Ethercap, we police the use -…
Did the police have the appropriate license to play those disney songs in a public space?
Indeed. The tricky part is that social peer pressure requires a lack of anonymity - not just in terms of detecting whether people are recording without consent at the time - but also the posting of content online.…
It's European countries that are taking this strategy, any Russia sabotage is aimed at deterring this widening of the conflict - not to encourage it. Originally Europe didn't want to supply tanks, then it was only short…
Not sure how MH17 shooting is relevant here. While the consensus is that it's likely a Russia controlled/allied battery shot it down - I'm not sure anybody thinks it was anything other than an accident, not an…
Frankly if I was China, I'd be conflicted about the mid-terms - Trump is currently leading the US to disastrous wars - kinetic and trade, pissing off his closest allies, under-mining the dollar, and making China look a…
For quite a long time, graphics card driver quality and performance has been much better on the PC driven by the larger PC gaming market. Very hard for Apple, or Linux to do much about that - especially when Nvidia…
Blaming the current situation on the actions of China is beyond bizarre.