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binaryblob · 2024-05-02T18:43:46+00:00

Whistleblower goes down, stock goes up.

The real "news" was the the CEO sticks around somewhat longer to train the next guy. Of course, why this would be good news seems odd. A great company should be able to switch CEO weekly without any fuss. If that's not possible, it should be considered a bad thing, so the stock should have gone down. Also a whistleblower dying should be considered a bad thing, because it lowers the reputation of the company regardless of whether they had anything to do with it.

When they change their ticker to HTMN, then perhaps that would be bullish, because they would be saying that indeed they run this world. For now, I think they would be happy if their factories were running.

binaryblob · 2024-05-02T12:35:18+00:00

They claim to have rules, but banning in general is excessive for anything but spamming at a ridiculous ratio.

binaryblob · 2024-04-26T15:23:59+00:00

She does have black hair.

binaryblob · 2024-04-26T15:23:32+00:00

In the humanities?

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T23:16:40+00:00

Society already solved every problem; it's just that said knowledge is not equally distributed.

binaryblob · 2024-04-14T06:30:49+00:00

All of them are slow. Are they all sponsored by McDonald's or something?

binaryblob · 2024-04-09T00:15:06+00:00

From what I understand, when you have $300B, you are not autistic anymore, but excentric.

binaryblob · 2024-05-02T12:34:02+00:00

The only problem with these "reveals" by James O'Keefe is that there are so many. Why would anyone working for the CIA just say that they do?

One could say "Oh, no a democratic leader doesn't get to know all the secrets", but one could also say that it's hardly a surprise that someone chosen by the public is not fit to actually be the Commander in chief.

It some authoritarian regime wants to say that democracy sucks or given the actions of the CIA doesn't actually exist, they are completely right; it's just that authoritarian regimes also suck.

In the US having a shared role for commander in chief and leader of a country is somewhat special in itself. It's probably better when discussing budgets is a role of the political leader and making decisions about troop deployments is left to the pros (without them spilling the beans on secret tech).

binaryblob · 2024-05-02T12:15:42+00:00

The more interesting question is what happened to this guy and how the response is different or the same in different countries. I doubt they like it when you lie about such matters.

binaryblob · 2024-04-30T23:32:13+00:00

Can you show attack stats or if you can't do it publicly, just share them with me? I am very trustworthy.

I just find it hard to imagine that there are actually a lot of bots, because of the few users.

binaryblob · 2024-04-30T23:20:25+00:00

Imagine needing Cloudflare for 12 people. .

binaryblob · 2024-04-30T23:07:31+00:00

Anyone willing to spend that much time and money on plastic bins to cover ULEZ cameras will give up soon enough.

???

binaryblob · 2024-04-29T10:50:52+00:00

There is no place where anyone can say what they want, because free speech is dead. Go to a public square and advocate for killing some group of people and see what happens (most likely said group of people will kill you), if you are not arrested first.

If you want to have the freedom so say what you want, you could go to international waters as a pirate, I think, but there is a chance you will find a billion dollar warship to go up against.

binaryblob · 2024-04-29T10:45:11+00:00

The only relevant matter is when a request to arrest someone (like its PM) from Israel is made, whether it will be enforced and how.

Waging a war without AI is increasingly suicidal and it has been used in war planning operationally for at least 30 years. AI is not a lame attempt, but instrumental to any war effort.

I don't think most people in Israel would see a dead Arab as a mistake, but rather as someone that won't reproduce, which will make future wars easier. Ultimately, it's just an ordinary land grab and the people doing it are genocidal. Whether they keep the military target vs civilian ratios below a certain threshold to not be called genocide according to some lawyers is only because they want to be seen as "the good guys" (until the day comes that they get to dictate all terms).

This Antiwar sub is kind of silly, because it's just an attempt for some countries to weaken other countries. Stopping war is basically impossible, because bashing with a stick is something even apes do.

binaryblob · 2024-04-28T09:16:10+00:00

The whole God and Christianity theme would have fitted better in the 1950s. Not sure how much L'Oréal and filters she needs to look like this, but I'd guess the only reason people follow her, is because they like somewhat young blondes. She is in the intellectual feather weight division. I would expect she is a Russian bought asset by now, because her career seems dead and she likely is poor, making her an ideal target for something which is technically not a bribe; she would just be 'consulting'.

If you want to stop immigrants, the most effective solution is to build health care systems that will be able to clean your grandma's buttocks cheaper than an immigrant can.

binaryblob · 2024-04-25T09:11:54+00:00

One could argue that women sports are like the Special Olympics (because they are assumed to be worse than the males) anyway and that's why nobody should care. This point of view would enrage the planet, but is logically sound. Lower weight divisions in fighting sports are kind of the same; ultimately what matters is whether in a fight one guy wins or another. Adding handicaps just makes it easier.

White people could claim that there should be an all white division too, because they can't ever beat Ethiopians in a marathon.

My personal opinion is that the easiest solution would be to just use the medical sex to group results (that way intersex people would also be able to participate somewhat in yet a separate group), so if one transgender wants to join, they would just win a $5 trophy because they presumably were the only contestant. So, they can still participate, because probably there would also be events like a world championship with more contestants.

The most popular option would probably be an outright ban, however.

I don't really get why you care so much about this topic. It makes me think it's just Russian propaganda.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T10:35:28+00:00

The direct answer to your more specific question would be "I don't know".

However, in New York apparently this has already happened, so it's certainly plausible: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/nyregion/the-homeless-shelter-executive-who-earns-1-million-a-year.html.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T09:02:07+00:00

"UNICEF USA President & CEO Michael J. Nyenhuis' salary, at $620,000, is less than 1% of all funds raised for children. "

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T07:35:28+00:00

Six lines of text is too long for you? Are you six months old or something?

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T07:34:20+00:00

That just tells me that you can't read.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T05:33:54+00:00

Before the CIA got involved with Facebook, it was already popular, just not mass surveillance level of popular.

I never got the whole appeal of sharing personal experiences like pictures through a corporation. The popularity of Facebook only signals to me how incredibly stupid and shallow the average person is. Kind of similar to Reddit in a way, which has no values left from when it was founded; it was fun to be on Reddit, until it became the Chinese misery it is today.

Social media is essentially dead already, because there is no way to figure out what's real and what's fake anymore in the long term; imagine that twenty million trolls have an AI PC in five years with locally running LLMs. There's no way to filter that spam.

If you have real friends, you would actually visit them and show them your vacation pictures on your phone or hook them up to some projector or better yet: take them on said vacation. Shared experiences have value, some shitty picture of you near some place where millions of tourists visit every year is completely worthless.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T05:30:09+00:00

I am not doubting that you believe you met right people; I am saying that there will come a day that they will abandon you if you have some adverse life event. It's a well documented phenomenon and it's also the reason psychologists exist (to explain that people are awful and to come to accept this as a fact).

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T05:11:07+00:00

Yahoo! Answers was an actual addition to the WWW. I don't really see the point of it ever having stopped. Perhaps they should relaunch it today, because spam filters should have improved by now.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T05:06:11+00:00

That's like saying I haven't been touched by God yet. It's an assertion.

binaryblob · 2024-04-23T21:54:44+00:00

I am sorry, but what do you consider important? The fact someone put himself on fire? That happens every year. How is that even remotely interesting? The fact someone did it in the vicinity of Trump (an elderly citizen that should be in a nursing home)? Someone known to attract crazy people? I am sorry, but I don't see anything remotely of interest. Tell us what isn't pointless shit, please. Indulge us.

Almost by definition, if it is on this website, it's pointless shit. That's the real big picture.

How would you even know what I focus on? It's not like I am on this website all day long.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T22:20:25+00:00

Well, how else can you track them all if you can't all label them to be a potential terrorist?

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T22:16:29+00:00

She probably can't write herself.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T22:14:18+00:00

With judges like that, you don't need hybrid warfare from Russia. The UK will just tear itself apart from civil war. Imagine you hear tomorrow that this woman has been found at the bottom of some lake, would the first thought be "good riddance" or would it be "Oh no, this women still had so much potential?". I admit it would suck for her children, but then again who wants to have a mother like that? It's probably better if child protection services would take her children away.

Imagine being asked in a bar to guess someone's age and to have to say "Because of security considerations I cannot ask answer this question".

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T22:05:18+00:00

I don't get how companies can have a queue lasting years for ordering a plane. I also don't get why people still work in manufacturing, unless they are building/programming the robots/machines. From my understanding there's still actual human labor involved in building planes, which just shows how the industry is ripe for disruption. If you have $30B to invest one could probably crush every other player in the market. I don't give a fuck about planes, but someone should do that.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T22:01:12+00:00

I don't think Trump knows the word honest. The US should just ban old people (anyone over 55 when elected) from Congress and the White House. The GDP would skyrocket.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T21:57:44+00:00

Not sure why you would say that.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T09:16:15+00:00

It would be more appropriate to discuss one particular Russian when discussing bad people.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T09:15:10+00:00

Everyone is an asshole; it's just that for some people it takes years to show their true face.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T09:13:47+00:00

They are friendly to tourists, because they see a walking wallet.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T09:12:51+00:00

This paints you as a bot, because it suggests something that has not been proven in any scientific journal. Reuters and AP both claim this is false information. If you can prove that Reuters is spreading misinformation, you can sue them (because it's in their statutes).

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T09:09:07+00:00

She could travel on public transport just fine. All that parliament needs to do is pass a law that anyone touching her on purpose can be executed. It's just that apparently they don't want to protect her by giving her 24/7 protection.

The government asks her to write a report, she becomes a target, and the government is surprised it has had this effect. Are they stupid? I don't think anyone laying a finger on her would be missed in society.

binaryblob · 2024-04-21T18:38:42+00:00

Obviously, more mining of whatever is currently mined in China comes to the US. There's a full on cold war 2.0 with China going on for a few years already.

binaryblob · 2024-04-21T18:36:23+00:00

I don't think there is any country with a good reputation; that's why they are a country.

binaryblob · 2024-04-21T18:19:30+00:00

So, a country is getting crushed by a bully three times its size and you credit Trump with being a financial genius? Should we all just now clap and awe at your brilliance?

I will tell you what will happen: the debt will get cancelled after the war whenever the Democrats are ever in power again, because the US would want to have a good relationship with a strategically located partner. It's like this guy has never thought a second about geopolitics.

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T20:32:21+00:00

He did?

Not specifying a time frame is a bit weak when predicting anything.

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T16:35:56+00:00

I don't think it's their god. They just want more such that another has less.

binaryblob · 2024-04-19T16:23:19+00:00

Perhaps they do some kind of advanced scan before they deliver the part to the customer.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T14:03:25+00:00

I think people believe planes are made by a bunch of academics smoking pipes in an ivory tower, because the most precious thing in the world flies on them: people (a rather Western point of view when compared to Russia where a human life just exists for the meat grinder for the glory of the empire (or whatever it is that they made up this year)). As such, they think there is some kind of perfection going on (no doubt they believe their sky scrapers are also able to withstand the impact of an airplane (guess that didn't work out either)), which is obviously not the case. Perfection in this world exists, but anything complex made by average people (meaning everything made out of anything that is not fully digital (and any consumer digital product doesn't fall under this)) is going to be very much not perfect.

In short, I think it is not unusual.

Boeing claims to have adopted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS9100, which in 2015 already specifically mentions human factors as something they need to take into account, so somewhere there needs to be a document, which describes what happens when some idiot uses a tool that they should not be using for installation. That means that they have had at least 9 years to fix such issues and they probably have had continuous improvements over that time (they do have QA people and surely they must be doing something, right?). If Boeing was a full on circus, there would probably have been more serious problems.

If you look at the regulations, there should be processes for everything, but perhaps the "process" is that they can jump on some wing and that some machine scans it for problems afterwards. That too is still a "process". It would be a problem, if the process is to use XYZ Corp Screwdriver 5000 to install Magic Part and they didn't have that screwdriver and instead decided to just use the Tarzan method.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T08:09:03+00:00

Are they too stupid to realize any work they do in any country would contribute to the defense industry of that country?

If they think it's not needed, why don't they start a new country in the Pacific without a military (to see how long it would be before pirates or other countries take their assets)?

Is it virtue signalling is it just that these people have no brain, what is it?

If the argument is just that they don't want to contribute, but they are OK with others doing it, they are just being hypocrites.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T07:25:43+00:00

That by itself doesn't really mean anything, if the parts are supposed to be able to handle such stresses. I can certainly imagine there is regulation, which would prescribe for every part of an airplane how installation should happen, but since some planes have millions of parts that seems unlikely.

A full argument would be as simple as "Part A should be installed via procedure X and it was instead installed multiple times via the procedure Y with X not equal to Y". That way you don't need a long court case.

One guy claimed that the body was not aligned correctly and indeed that would likely be a big issue, but the only way to know that is to calculate whether that's the case and no plane has actually crashed from that, AFAIK. Who says that the engineers didn't account for a bunch of idiots working on planes in the factories (that's what I would do and which happens in construction as well)? I'd expect in the case of body alignment that there would be some kind of sensor that would record that alignment is OK and put in some system for automated review. Indeed, if such systems are not available Boeing might just be a shitty company, except that such technology has been in use for decades in other industries, so they would have to be absolutely retarded for that to be the case.

binaryblob · 2024-04-18T07:04:24+00:00

Jones has no money, anymore. How can he sue? According to the video, the CIA just wanted to make him poor such that he couldn't do anything anymore.

binaryblob · 2024-04-17T09:21:14+00:00

Certainly a possibility, although more videos have been shown in this format and there was at least a core of truth in those cases. Everything depends on context. It seems that someone working for the CIA would never actually say they do, unless behind closed doors in a secure room. If your enemies know you have a particular role, then can get leverage on you. It's an operational security risk, but at the same time a lot of people are fucking stupid.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T22:41:24+00:00

Is there any chance of a fair trial in any Western country? It seems to me that any judge seeing this would award a hundred million dollars to Alex Jones for doing this as well as criminal charges for the agents involved.

There's one thing to say "educate", but by the time he said "targeting" any court case would be lost by the government, assuming this is all real.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T22:17:00+00:00

Why not?

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:42:27+00:00

If it's really 99%, the US should just drop massive amounts of weapons over Iran from space such that a civil war breaks out and new leadership will appear.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:40:04+00:00

I miss unmoderated forums (without spam or posts by bots) with a more sophisticated type of user. Another problem is that I am much more sophisticated now, so the amount of people that don't bore me, is approaching zero real fast.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:34:33+00:00

A better question would be why anyone can vote at all. Ultimately, one is forced to accept the opinion of someone else via lethal force.

Democracy is a ridiculously stupid idea (autocracy even more so).

The fact democracy/autocracy even is popular shows what an extremely retarded world we live in. I think way too many people never consider alternatives even exist; if 1:1000 would even have read any literature of alternative systems in even their lifetime, it's probably a lot.

binaryblob · 2024-04-14T06:19:44+00:00

Denying racism isn't real, is about the silliest position one can possibly have. It's the same mechanism as rich people defending other rich people. It's just comparing traits and if there is no common attribute other than skin color, they just pick that to determine their political position.

The only reason she is blasted, is because someone wants her job.

Since OJ Simpson it was clear the black people were keeping score (and perhaps white people also were). Every popular cartoon basically made fun of the verdict. A multi-race society is a security risk when racism in the small is tolerated; once a real internal conflict starts, people will revert to their default setting of comparing skin color to determine friend or foe.

binaryblob · 2024-04-14T06:04:45+00:00

I think it's pathetic to attack another country when you don't know beforehand total annihilation will happen. In this case a state without nuclear weapons (a weapon theorized to exist for almost 90 years) attacks one that has enough to destroy the entire Middle East a few times over. Did they want to give a fireworks show? Do you need to be a Muslim to be that stupid?

What's next? Invasion by war elephants?

binaryblob · 2024-04-13T21:29:55+00:00

I could do it without Indians.

binaryblob · 2024-04-13T21:29:25+00:00

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240221213839.htm claims Russia as a whole doesn't benefit from climate change. Who really benefits from denying climate change? Just some oil and gas people? If the world is on fire and they are universally hated, what do they want to do with their money when they can't visit Venice anymore (because it is under water), visit the Rocky Mountains (because of extreme winds), or ski (because there is no snow anymore)?

It's a scientific fact that lowering CO2 concentrations is good for people (or more specifically higher concentrations are bad for concentration). As such, who can possibly be against that? Whether or not it heats up the planet (spoiler alert from the 1890s: it does), is not even relevant.

binaryblob · 2024-04-08T05:54:08+00:00

I don't disagree with the overall point he's making here

Same.

< can be overcome by conscious effort

By someone with sufficient intelligence. Not sure how often you get outside, but the world is full of stupid people that do not have the capability to modify their system configuration in non-trivial ways, unless they have someone doing it for them. What percentage of Windows users ever bothered to setup a custom system service? Even many Linux professionals would hate doing that.

binaryblob · 2024-04-08T05:39:37+00:00

You should learn to articulate your ideas better and you should understand that I am not merely a "developer". You still have not provided an equation for what is required to happen before a locally running LLM is going to crush Google Search + a big tech implementation of LLMs. Let's say all uses of Google Search are done by LLM agents, then do you not think Google will simply start charging for API access? So, whoever implements an LLM still needs an API for rank based search, if alone to be able to verify sources.

I think you are literally incapable of providing a multi-agent differential equation describing the economics surrounding LLMs.

If you want to do another attempt, you should just assume that I am much smarter than you will have be or have been in your life and have more experience. Just describe an actual vision of the future (also specify how many years in the future you are describing) based on actual plausible physics.

binaryblob · 2024-04-07T09:26:25+00:00

How would every single individual defend against misinformation? They can't. All Google needs to do is push a main stream narrative, because otherwise they won't have eyeballs anymore. You seem to assume this magical anti-misinformation technology is going to be available open-source .

I think full text regular expression search for the web or some subset of the web would be interesting to have, but even that requires tremendous resources. Searching without any index is just not realistic.

binaryblob · 2024-04-07T09:20:30+00:00

Google uses neural networks in their ranking function since a long time. You can't go and search the entire Internet for every single query, because it would cost $10000/query (or whatever big number it is). So, you still need an index somewhere. An agent would still take the action "find in some index" and that index needs to be created and paid for by someone. In your world, everyone has their own index or there is some shared index (that could work, but is very much not popular). There are all kinds of reasons why this is not going to work, but I asked you how it is going to work and you have not said anything specific. It's almost as if you are a LLM.

binaryblob · 2024-04-06T13:23:06+00:00

I am looking for an answer based on the economics of the operation. You are not making any sense. A LLM would still need an index for high performance, because otherwise you would have a search engine that is behind all the time.

If I were to stand on the street with a free computer with a Google interface builtin (but not depending on Google), people would still not want to have it, because "they can just use Google".

It was possible at least a decade ago already to run a distributed search engine node locally and even share resources for free. I know, because I did. I would say the key enabling technology for fast big indices is fast and large SSDs.

The thing is that even if it is relatively cheap, the utilization of the hardware would be so low that it would be an economic waste for the 99.5% of the time you aren't using the search engine (Google just serves another customer).

I think you are severely overestimating human intelligence; unless it's built into Windows it's not going to happen at a mass scale (and I am saying that as a Linux user). Surely, perhaps a million people will do it, but we have billions of people.

If there is a killer app, then perhaps it will happen.

binaryblob · 2024-04-06T08:42:27+00:00

Don't you sometimes think the rest of the population must be a real asshole considering that an instant death penalty for anyone doing something like that would make the world much nicer to live in, but yet we don't have that (instead, we have parking tickets (instead of abundant flying cars(!)))? Attacking a girl to a coma is not some "Oops, I did it by accident"-thing. It's malicious behavior and should be removed from the gene pool.

If I could set the fitness function, I feel like 0.01% would be fit. Honestly, I am amazed that 80+% of people don't just only want to kill themselves, but not actually do it. If your function in life is to be a guy writing parking tickets, why would you not think to end it immediately?

Why do I need to verify that I am a human for every single message I write instead of once per browser-session while being logged in(!)

binaryblob · 2024-04-06T08:24:36+00:00

The future of search is AI powered private web crawlers, and millions of independent repositories

Can you substantiate that claim? The first version of Google Search could run on hardware that's weaker than a current workstation level laptop. Why isn't local search for more than 5% of users a thing? Why is there no iSearch Apple product running locally to destroy Google?

Your vision of the future would hold true if people were 1) wealthy 2) not stupid 3) not lazy.

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