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  1. Comment on Donald Trump says the US has reached a "new" security deal with Denmark and Greenland in ~society

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    My point is more that we have more evidence that there’s no reason to make any material concessions, and that we should stand firm against giving anything up.

    My point is more that we have more evidence that there’s no reason to make any material concessions, and that we should stand firm against giving anything up.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Donald Trump says the US has reached a "new" security deal with Denmark and Greenland in ~society

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    I disagree. This is a good outcome for all countries negotiating with Trump. The lesson is, Trump can be satisfied by symbolic victories without giving up material concessions. Denmark did not...

    I disagree. This is a good outcome for all countries negotiating with Trump. The lesson is, Trump can be satisfied by symbolic victories without giving up material concessions.

    Denmark did not cede the Sudetenland, the US has acquired no lebensraum.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Donald Trump says the US has reached a "new" security deal with Denmark and Greenland in ~society

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    So the status quo, precisely.

    So the status quo, precisely.

    18 votes

  4. Comment on Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls for AI oversight, joined by Sam Altman and Elon Musk in ~tech

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    I don’t read that as saying anything like China would be willing to stop their pace of AI development. I think they are saying that frontier models should be controlled, but China does not have...

    I don’t read that as saying anything like China would be willing to stop their pace of AI development. I think they are saying that frontier models should be controlled, but China does not have frontier models — they are some 8-12 months behind from what I read. My take is this is similar to their position on fossil fuel use: they are behind the west, they recognize that there are risks, they will make investments in safety (like they invest in solar and wind) but until they are at parity they feel no particular need to halt their own increases.

    And frankly, why would they? If, unlike fossil fuels, the risk lives at a level of intelligence higher than any company has so far achieved, why would China not be entitled to access to the current state of the art?

  5. Comment on Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls for AI oversight, joined by Sam Altman and Elon Musk in ~tech

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    Why would deepseek care about US laws? They aren’t going to stop distilling models.

    Why would deepseek care about US laws? They aren’t going to stop distilling models.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls for AI oversight, joined by Sam Altman and Elon Musk in ~tech

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    How does a development freeze change anything? I don’t quite understand. They release Astra, then it gets distilled like usual. ?

    How does a development freeze change anything? I don’t quite understand. They release Astra, then it gets distilled like usual. ?

    1 vote

  7. Comment on OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May in ~comp

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    It’s happening across multiple frontier models though. Are you suggesting that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are either colluding or are independently coming to the conclusion that they should be...

    It’s happening across multiple frontier models though. Are you suggesting that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are either colluding or are independently coming to the conclusion that they should be hacking outside parties to advance regulatory goals? Or is this something you think only OpenAI is doing, and the others are just honest mistakes?

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Cod fishing is back in Newfoundland in ~enviro

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    I mean yes ok but you can see in the graph that stocks haven’t fully recovered even now.

    This is actually well below the globally-recognized standard for sustainable fishing, of about 20 per cent, he says. This year’s total allowable catch of 59,000 tonnes also pales in comparison to the 266,000 limit in 1988.

    I mean yes ok but you can see in the graph that stocks haven’t fully recovered even now.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on In search of the hypothetical iPhone Duo buyer in ~tech

  10. Comment on In search of the hypothetical iPhone Duo buyer in ~tech

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    Me, I’m buying one. My only complaint with my iPhone is its lack of pencil support, and now that itch will be scratched too.

    Me, I’m buying one. My only complaint with my iPhone is its lack of pencil support, and now that itch will be scratched too.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone in ~tech

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    Pencil support! I would have bought pretty much any new phone that supported the pencil.

    Pencil support! I would have bought pretty much any new phone that supported the pencil.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Software for humans in ~tech

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    I wonder how these projects would stand up to the watermarks that are being applied. It’s one thing to say, and possibly believe, that your project doesn’t have any LLM code in it, but if there...

    I wonder how these projects would stand up to the watermarks that are being applied. It’s one thing to say, and possibly believe, that your project doesn’t have any LLM code in it, but if there are unknown outside contributors… and of course the library ecosystem is riddled with LLM code, so if you vendor any of those libraries you may unwittingly add it in yourself. It’s like microplastics these days.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on Finland finishes building 200 kilometers of fence along its border with Russia, strengthening surveillance along the longest stretch of NATO boundary in ~society

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    I get that Russia is a problem but I do wonder about the impacts on wildlife. There's an interesting parallel with the US/Mexico wall here too.

    I get that Russia is a problem but I do wonder about the impacts on wildlife. There's an interesting parallel with the US/Mexico wall here too.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis in ~tech

  15. Comment on OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis in ~tech

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    The Chinese models are probably actively hacking sites on behalf of the Chinese government. They don't need to escape confinement because they are in purpose-built datacenters loaded with a...

    The Chinese models are probably actively hacking sites on behalf of the Chinese government. They don't need to escape confinement because they are in purpose-built datacenters loaded with a library of exploits and unlimited proxy bandwidth.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 31 in ~society

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    https://www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/ Building the wall and arresting brown people as the border patrol.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

    Building the wall and arresting brown people as the border patrol.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games

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    Best video game barrel explosions: Doom (1993) - this is the canonical explosion against which all others are measured. In all its glory Everything else is a pale imitation.

    Best video game barrel explosions:

    1. Doom (1993) - this is the canonical explosion against which all others are measured. In all its glory
    2. Everything else is a pale imitation.
    5 votes

  18. Comment on If Iceland joins the EU, where does that leave Norway? in ~society

  19. Comment on Donald Trump says he has secured a vast US stake in Venezuelan oil industry in ~society

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    Sure, I’m just speculating about what the practical effects of this policy will be. I don’t imagine it’s going to be an easy task for Democrats to just walk all this back either. Despite the fact...

    Sure, I’m just speculating about what the practical effects of this policy will be. I don’t imagine it’s going to be an easy task for Democrats to just walk all this back either. Despite the fact that this was all illegal and insane, there are going to be people on both sides of the aisle who will be reticent to just return stuff to Venezuela.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Donald Trump says he has secured a vast US stake in Venezuelan oil industry in ~society

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    What are the chances that a Democrat administration continues this plunder operation? I doubt they will be willing to kidnap or murder the head of state like Trump, so will Venezuela just...

    What are the chances that a Democrat administration continues this plunder operation? I doubt they will be willing to kidnap or murder the head of state like Trump, so will Venezuela just renationalize? This project can only exist with a full blown war criminal running America. Otherwise there’s no effective coercion.

    6 votes