Even if it were true, you still have distribution. You can’t get goods across a nation, let alone the globe, without significant inputs.

Are you checking the local grocery store and extrapolating globally?

Since you're just being squeezed to get through another day, why not P2V into VMs stripped of domain privileges - sounds like its all Windows - and use something like a remote access product to control and record entry?

Let's assume you're broke and it's just the wild west over there in terms of processes and maturity, uh, you could P2V into Hyper-V or Proxmox, remove domain membership and all other accounts, leaving just the credentials needed to make the app work. You could go down the RD access route (blegh), but I'd probably go for something prebuilt and cheap like Splashtop to auth with MFA and permit a basket of users to connect to the VM(s) while recording all sessions. Hopefully there's some kind of EDR agent compatible with the guest OS in the VM to have some telemetry what's going on in there.

But the root of the problem is that someone failed you, politically.

Any web browser can seem slow vs a native app, though.

GTM is ubiquitous on the business side.

If you read his post, there's significant effort not "catching opossums" but waiting or churning through admin overhead - wasted time, which maybe he can translate into $. This much inefficiency is...common in many businesses.

Nothing's perfect, but the plan differences seem stark. For example, my wife had a crappy marketplace plan and I had a plan through my employer. For her, an MRI was denied, denied, then finally approved with many calls. For me, it was approved immediately. For her, pre-auth to a specialist was denied until her doctor went and tried a different referral strategy. For me...well, I haven't been denied yet. It goes on - same city, same hospital, some of the same referrals, etc.

I've come to think the price discrimination really does mean we have class-based care which seems to allow for the sensationalism. Combine a dire scenario with a working or indigent class American, and they don't have to exaggerate much at all.

It seems all at once, everywhere that many groups that have a vested interest in forcing precedent and compliance of non-anonymous access across the computer world. It smacks of something less-than-organic.

In the local data that the audit examined from three police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.

It’s unfortunate to watch people and entire countries twist themselves in logic pretzels to avoid ever suggesting that immigration has no ills, and we’re just being polite here about it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-casey-r...

https://celina101.substack.com/p/the-uks-rape-gang-inquiry

In personal protective gear, you have ballistic helmets. They don't cover the face. They often have cutouts around your ears. They don't cover your neck. They can generally stop a low velocity handgun round, and anything more energetic except a glancing rifle round is usually going right through. Even if it doesn't penetrate, backface deformation may be lethal. They're still generally worn as the only game in town.

Spending a little as a hedge against anarcho-tyranny and its collateral damage showing up in your (gated) neighborhood seems rational for those who can afford it.

Advancing a case for a precedent-creating decision is a well-known tactic for creating the environment of success you want for a separate goal.

It's possible you can find a genuine belief in the people who advance the cause. Charitably, they're perhaps naive or coincidentally aligned, and uncharitably sometimes useful idiots who are brought in-line directly or indirectly with various powerful donors' causes.

Maybe AGI's arrival is when one day someone is given an AI to supervise instead of a new employee.

Just a user who's followed the whole mess, not a researcher. I wonder if the scaffolding and bolt-ons like reasoning will sufficiently be an asymptote to 'true AGI'. I kept reading about the limits of transformers around GPT-4 and Opus 3 time, and then those seem basic compared to today.

I gave up trying to guess when the diminishing returns will truly hit, if ever, but I do think some threshold has been passed where the frontier models are doing "white collar work as an API" and basic reasoning better than the humans in many cases, and once capital familiarizes themselves with this idea more, it's going to get interesting.

This is the key I think that Altman and Amodei see, but get buried in hype accusations. The frontier models absolutely blow away the majority of people on simple general tasks and reasoning. Run the last 50 decisions I've seen locally through Opus 4.6 or ChatGPT 5.2 and I might conclude I'd rather work with an AI than the human intelligence.

It's a soft threshold where I think people saw it spit out some answers during the chat-to-LLM first hype wave and missed that the majority of white collar work (I mean it all, not just the top software industry architects and senior SWEs) seems to come out better when a human is pushed further out of the loop. Humans are useful for spreading out responsibility and accountability, for now, thankfully.

It feels like an arbitrary bar to perhaps make sure we aren't putting AIs over humans, which they are most certainly in the superhuman category on a rapidly growing number of tasks.

I think a few random samples trivially shows NotebookLM is higher pitched, although if you generalize to "deep male voice with vocal fry" you could lump them together with half the radio and podcast voices.

Then, you could reach out to the Cantons and ask about individual parcels or titles.

We can measure whether they have ownership by testing if they respond to trespass, maybe by constructing a building and seeing they mobilize a response.

Where do you want to move the goalposts next?

The people who clamor for moving there now could simply remake what they imagine liking about it in another area - careful not to erect borders or engender any kind of pride or loyalty to what they build, naturally.

Think this through: If the world likes your real estate, they can just come in and take it over overnight? Borders suddenly don’t matter?

Pop caps can easily be understood as visa or naturalization buffers. Hysteria doesn’t help.

Organic population growth doesn’t have to be criminalized or authoritarian-controlled like China tried.