Today, only 4 years later, there are two therapies, one RNA based and one CART that would have been usable in her situation. She’d be alive today most likely.

Frankly, you have no idea what you’re talking about as you spew toxic bullshit. 5 year survival would meant being there for her son through high school. That survival rate was 65% in 2022 and closer to 80% now in recent trials.

Normally I’d scroll on, but in these degenerate days it is important to counter bullshit before it becomes policy.

An egregious, non-controversial example of things going poorly is NYC Mayor Adams and Turkey. He basically accepted bribes and favors from the Turkish government and their proxies for specific actions.

A “doing it right” example that wouldn’t have been controversial until recently is Denmark. They mostly focus on direct diplomatic policy lobbying, and leverage consultants to promote mostly tourism. Their affiliations are known and registered. Now they hire K-Street lobbyists to influence policy objectives re: Greenland, etc.

The difference is that when the papers found out about Adams being a crook… that didn’t turn into accusations of racism and fomenting sectarian hatred. In the AIPAC example, there will be a both a legitimate visceral response from Americans and astroturf from lots of prominent people.

I was adjacent to state level politics for a long time. The German, Korean and French economic development organizations would come around every now and again with promotional events coordinated with their embassy to promote partnerships and business opportunities. Sometimes they had lobbyists focused on general relationship building, more often for specific issues.

The Israeli ground game is different. American PACs affiliated with or specifically “not affiliated with, but always talking about” Israeli interests show up at every level of government - a good friend is a town board member of a big suburban town and they call on him, and he refuses the contributions so will likely get primaried.

The real difference is information awareness. There is a CRM somewhere the ground guys have access to, and relationships are cultivated and used. My buddy is being targeted becuase there’s a good chance he’ll be in the state legislature someday. There’s a pipeline to get targeted American politicians to tour Israel for whatever reason. When critical attention is focused on this stuff, the reaction is fast and painful for the media outlet or political actor.

The only thing close to this is China, who does similar stuff with a different playbook. They’ve been caught embedding agents of one sort or another in California and New York governments at a high level, as well as places like Florida or within government contractors with lower level people.

Note that we’ve purged the FBI counterintelligence division, so the brazenness of the “bad” stuff will get worse - nobody is watching.

The reality of Republican free markets were about compounding and growing big business and resource extraction at the expense of everyone else.

The rest is all about convincing suckers that getting kicked in the balls is good for them. The most obvious example being farmers. Most aspects of agriculture have been consolidated into oblivion and the markets are not super functional. 80% of the dairy operations in my state are out of business. 60 companies dominate eggs in the US - there used to be 3 in my city.

They basically bought us for the tech and integrated the rest of the company into various other companies that were spun off. I ended up with stock in several of them.

Or, I can have a drone with an LPR slam a mortar round into your car as you drive.

It was definitely sold as “anthropic IP, thorough your old pals at the hyper scaler”. And it’s turning into something else — I’m having lunch with AWS and this other guy showed up with them.

Say you have some flow that is processing/handling regulated, sensitive or other customer data with the LLM as part of an operational process. An example that I'm thinking of is for a customer who wants to more efficiently resolve or route IT incidents to the right place. The incident data may contain user-provided data has strings attached from a compliance perspective.

If you're using a third party API, your T&Cs are the only protection that you have. Microsoft/Google/Amazon are pretty decent by default. When I worked for the government, we had the leverage to extract much favorable terms from the big vendors like Google, Amazon, Microsoft as well. With Anthropic, and OpenAI, they are in the move fast and break things universe, you need to be bringing alot of money to the table to get terms changes, and you can easily stumble into a situation where they are retaining data in a manner that your customer will not like. So unless the customer is informed and accepting of that risk, proceed with caution.

I've had some success using self-hosted inference for these scenarios.

For development of software, totally different story -- it's your IP and you make the risk call.

You should never use any of the frontier models with operational workloads manipulating or interpreting customer data.

The biggest buyer is the Federal government and by law they are required to get the best deal, the government also restricts the supply of providers. It’s not a capitalist system at all. It’s a weird hybrid command economy with a consolidating cartel of providers and administrators.

Google itself has a good reputation as a facilities operator. SpaceXAI is operating gas turbines emitting exhaust at ground level.

In many parts of the US, soccer is a fall sport that competes with football in school leagues. Football teams require a small army of players and tend to suck out the oxygen. It doesn’t help that there’s no little league equivalent for soccer, so there’s a ton of pay to play BS to a much greater degree than football or baseball.

In my area, you need to commit to a full year travel soccer team that’s often owned by the school coach to get any playtime in high school.

Netanyahu is Trump like - his core constituency is whack job Americans and the Israelis whom they firehose money at.

The commentators and idiots running the government miss the forest for the trees. Iran is radically stronger than they were, even with the destruction rained down. The entire American military supremacy story is toast. The strategy of them and North Korea with respect to ballistic missiles and drones works.

It’s Vietnam with missiles and drone. The US slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, “never lost a battle”, yet got whooped.

Countries don’t have military coups or juntas because they are fundamentally bad or whatever. It happens becuase controls and civil authority is too weak, and we are in a cycle where the US is dismantling all controls and adopting a position of unlimited executive power. So it’s a matter of “when” some general intervenes. Either at the behest of someone or to save the republic.

You don’t really need a lot of people. Maybe a battalion or two.

When people start having 6+, the formulas get weird and vary by state and sometimes county.

Whoever has custody of the kids is fine. The social services benefits scale. They won’t get rich, but they’ll eat. People will be OK. The only people who lose are stupid men who have multiple children with multiple women.

Once you have a little cash, the formula changes completely.

My wife was a city treasurer and had a masters. I was a .gov and later a tech executive.