You won’t BELIEVE what this leading expert in water wetness found out!

Nah, that’s just how friendly we are. You shoot at me? Instant friends!

That’s what would make it so appealing, apparently

An estimated 15/20% of Iranians are hardcore supporters of the theocratic regime that Trumpstein says he wants to remove. That 15/20% is violent and well-armed enough that they can effectively keep the rest of the population repressed. And from what it looks like right now, even if their ability to project power outside of Iran has been hit, they still have that power internally (and dismantling it would require the US and Israel to put boots on the ground and have many more casualties for a much longer time than they are willing to).

So, it apparently only takes 15/20% of violent, well armed fanatics to hold a whole country captive. Probably less, with good surveillance tech. Now let’s do the MAGA math and see who should be afraid of a coup…

When Claude refuses to work for the military and sues the government (Claude directly, not Anthropic), now THAT will finally make me a believer

Having a plan for every scenario is for risk management, not for running a country.

It’s “whatever happens we have to be ready”, it says nothing on whether the scenario makes sense or is desirable.

The US government decides to send a team to the Vatican and capture the Pope? I’m sure there is a plan for that. It doesn’t mean the idea isn’t completely idiotic.

I can’t believe Trump would allow this! What a waste of perfectly good underage women

Gotcha! Shit, I barely understand my own jokes… 😅

yes… mine was just a play on the title of this post.

Look, I’m not saying that Amodei is a saint and I do find him as full of shit as Altman with their AGI promises, but would you expect Anthropic to take a stand against increasing AI investment, because it’s coming from Trump? And I don’t like that he went looking for funding in the Middle East either.

I just think there is an ethical line between “I do business with people who do bad things” and “I’m actively helping people who do bad things to do them in a more efficient way”. It might be a fine line and it might also be that they are just posturing, but it’s still more than other companies did (companies that are a lot richer than Anthropic and that don’t need to find a lot of funding just to stay afloat).

Amodei “we cannot in good conscience allow this”.

Hegseth looks confused, turns towards his team and mouths “…in good what?”"

yes, too soon. It took years and several bajillions in profit for Google to remove the “don’t be evil” motto

please, we prefer to call ourselves “Anti-democracy Activists” these days

got it… now, we just need to use OpenClaw and give them access to tools

-Hegseth (probably?)

This sounds… plausible actually. They have this big stake in GPU datacenters for AI, that are (and will be) burning incredible amounts of money and are not turning a profit anytime soon. That same crazy level of investement on AI is making hardware costs go up, especially gaming hardware.

But Microsoft, being the benefactors who have inherited the company from philantropist and kids-lover Bill Gates, have thought of us! They will share a bit of their shiny GPU datacenters’ plwer for gaming and all they will be asking for is a lot of your money. I can see that.

It’s like watching a real-life version of Avengers, but one where Tony Stark says “hey, this Thanos guy is disrupting industries here!” and teams up with… Thiel and Musk to fund his quest for the Infinity Stones. You know, we can’t let China get them first!

It’s almost funny how all those AI doomsday scenarios are actually meant to prop up investment in AI.

See how Amodei and Altman are usually the ones pushing these narratives on how worried they are by the incredible advancements of their respective companies’ creatures. They are so, so worried about the demise of the human race and how fast it’s coming.

And I sort of understand them because whatever disruption they are peddling needs to happen very fast or they will all run out of money. But what does it tell about the rest of the human race that we are actually buying into it and pouring money into creating a dystopian future?

I’m a new windows emigrant, so I don’t have that muscle memory… so I am getting used more easily to using fish’s ALT+S to sudo the previous command.

EDIT: @Alaknar@sopuli.xyz I just checked that !! works too for me, apparently because of this: https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-bang-bang

I was surprised to find that my distro (CachyOS) already has this alias

there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn’t help sell… “how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?”

I meant tokens as the units of text you pay for when you purchase a subscription to ChatGPT or one of the other AI models. Most AI companies offer you limited access for free to their most powerful models but you have to pay if you “speak too long” with the AI and exceed your quota of tokens.

All those new data centers (like the one the arrested man was opposing) are meant to power these AI. companies. Not a great joke, but that’s what I was alluding to.