Dictators love to use symbolism that links the regime to the country’s ancient roots. It’s part of the nationalistic drive. If it doesn’t exist or doesn’t fit somehow, it’s invented or adjusted.
Our initial need is to evaluate text generation only. Later we will be evaluating the detection of other types of content too (images, videos, and audio). Any input on them will also be very helpful.
Thanks in advance, again.
> Some things that are shipped from the us to foreign lands could be shipped from Canada for similar costs. Food, for example, or minerals or oil. These are things shipped in bulk “elsewhere”. Canada, as far as I can tell, has lots of such stuff.
As of 2025, 90% of Canadian crude and 100% of natural gas goes to the US. <https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/ma...> Carney has talked a lot about new pipelines, but so did Trudeau and absolutely nothing has actually happened, because BC and Ontario are 100% dead-set against them.
>If they can somehow manufacture things of high value (electronics, pharmaceuticals)
Canada has, to a first degree of approximation, no electronics manufacturing. Its COVID vaccines were 100% manufactured elsewhere.
>Australia and New Zealand manage to support technological states.
New Zealand is seeing a brain drain that makes Canada's to the US look like nothing.
Australia is a better example. But stating that another similar resource-based Anglosphere country has not gone bankrupt without a US-like next-door neighbor is not necessarily the compelling counterexample that you think it is.
>Hell, they can join the EU as their products complement European states.
Read again what I wrote about how trade cannot be so easily substituted.
>And you assume the us won’t fracture.
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but Canada is the one with Quebec and Alberta (and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation> in general). Americans see themselves as Americans first and foremost.
I had this thought just the other day. It is not possible for any governing body to completely ignore the governed unless the governed have no issues that that lead to speach/action. There will always be a petition/revolt/exodus which results in the governing body hearing the governed.
I contextualized the "100% AI generated" claim with one specific example finding. Pangram may currently be the best "Not Hotdog" solution in the space, but understand that marketing claims are not reality.
For 30% of transactions with the EU it’s just the US shooting itself in the foot and passing on higher costs to average Americans.
For 70% of transactions maybe possibly hopefully there’s some kind of chance that onshoring might happen, or maybe US consumers
And businesses lower their spend on Europe products.
Either way it’s to the detriment of US soft power. If the US isn’t going to buy stuff from Europe anymore why should they cooperate with the US anymore?
Economic productivity is an interesting perspective. I think you are right. Current AI spends too many resources but gets too few values (real values).
Too much hype in the process of AI development.
If analyzing the basic theory of LLM or AI (second hand data, data conversion, cognitive bias, etc.), this will make it more persuasive.
Almost two decades ago I used a software called Rasterbator to dither an image into dots, blowing it up to multiple A4 pages one could then decorate a whole wall with. Up close it would just be circles of various sizes, but from a distance the image would show up. Super cool. Used it to decorate a wall in my dorm with a picture of the family dog.
But you don't have a service uploading it along with the URLs you visit, which is the creepy part. The ID itself can be useful for your own administration.
This is such an obvious conclusion. To take it a bit further...
Scale matters for these things. If we divide the available chips among 5 competing companies we end up with models that are trained on 1/5 of the resources that they otherwise could've been.
Let the companies take turns training on shared hardware, force them to publish results in the open, and then reward them based on how popular the result ends up being. Meritocracy not monopoly.
Make it about how well you wield the silicon, not how much silicon you wield, and make it a positive-sum game. If the people's data is going in, then the people should benefit from what comes out whether or not they have a subscription.
If capitalism as we know it can't complete, so much the worse for capitalism as we know it.
Without knowing anything about the specifics of the conjectures that are falling, I wonder if this affair highlights an issue with the quality of the "open conjectures" that are out there.
There are a lot of reasons you might make a conjecture. Perhaps you are motivated by a search for structure: "We suspect that these objects behave like this, therefore we naturally imagine that...". But you might make a conjecture out of empirical evidence: "We checked 1 million examples, time to make a conjecture." While empiricism has its place in mathematics, it might not be the best motivation for a conjecture. As Bishop said, "Do not ask whether a statement is true until you know what it means." If you pose a conjecture based on empirical evidence, perhaps you should be thinking more about why you would imagine your statement be true in the first place.
I know some will think that this rings of goalpost moving, but when I hear about all these counterexamples spelling the end of mathematics as we know it, I just wonder how strong those conjectures really were in the first place. Again, I haven't actually dug into the specifics of any of the results so admittedly I could be totally off base, but I do know that not all conjectures are created equal.
Amazon crippled the ADB functionality on FireTV Sticks a while ago. Making it an absolute pain to build and debug TV apps on. Currently, the only way to test is to install a release build every time.
I'm with you on all of that. There is, nevertheless, a strong argument that IP protection (particularly for creative / "culturally significant" works) is too long. Twenty years - interestingly enough, the original time-period in the US - of protection seems like a better (for society) deal than life of the author plus seventy. I think, in fact, most artists would agree: if you went back in time and asked a playwrite or filmmaker in (say) 1940, I'd bet they'd rather someone freely revives their work in 2026 than that it be sat on by a corporation that has forgot it (or they) ever existed.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style and/or taking HN threads on generic-indignant tangents? Your account has been doing it repeatedly, and we're trying for something different here.
Profitable companies. This is incredibly obvious. It is where dividends come from already.
You keep mentioning social security but it isn't comparable as it has a relatively low income cap on payroll taxes and raising this easily makes it solvent.
What is actually frustrating is the wealth of the richest 400 people in the US now equals 20% of GDP. In 1982 it was only 2%. THE MONEY IS THERE!
