Regulate the poison first, not the access to it. All this age verification nonsense is an admission that some platforms knowingly harm their users. And instead of fixing the issue by cracking down on the proverbial crack, governments make everybody's life worse.

I remain hopeful that one day, humans will regard the online advertising companies with the same scorn we do the tobacco industry and may they be ashamed and disgusted at our inaction.

That Mark never fails to deliver.

Medicine is so much more than "knowledge, experience, and pattern matching", as any patient ever can attest to. Why is it so hard for some people to understand that humans need other humans and human problems can't be solved with technology?

What I do see in my own work and that of others around me, is that Claude consistently outperforms Gemini and to a lesser extent Codex.

With Claude eating tokens with declining return, concessions have to be made and Codex is a usable middle ground.

I use Kimi in Kagi's Assistant for non-code or generic programming questions and am quite happy with its no-bullshit responses.

The surface area is as large as natural language permits, so basically infinite. To this day I haven't heard of a convincing means of dealing with it, and "the future tech will solve it" is not an answer.

It mostly works. CC's plan mode creates a plan by cleaning up first, then defining narrow, integrated steps. Mentioning "subtractive" and "yagni" appears to be a reliable enough way for an LLM to choose a minimal path.

To my mind these instructions remain incantations and I feel like an alchemist of old.

Its multi buffer and speed sound trivial but using anything else feels wrong now.

Weeks after declaring victory, it remains a strategic blunder with no obvious way out.

The Hormuz quagmire was expected and the vile Iranian regime has a long history of murdering and sacrificing its population for political gains.

Since we're discussing a WoR article:

https://warontherocks.com/tactical-success-strategic-failure...

Facebook provides users with virtual crack. User pays for the high with attention. This attention is sold off to the highest bidder.

The contents of the ad is irrelevant, the data harvested is used to make the crack ever more potent.

As someone a while back put it, Russia lost several Bundeswehrs worth of equipment and keeps on grinding. Neither side is able to mass large forces, in a large part due to drones. And Iran can punish the US despite being comically outgunned.

Modern equivalents of Sherman and T-34 tanks over burdensome Tigers and a population willing to support heavy losses.

We have >3 more years of Trump, that is plenty of time to get a ball rolling. I hope Europe finally does what we should have done in 2016 and gains more independence.

Reads like the script of a hacker scene in CSI. "Quick, their mainframe is adapting faster than I can hack it. They must have a backdoor using AI gifs. Bleep bleep".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448723

https://xcancel.com/javasquip/status/1903480443158298994

> The Olympics is just watching the people who won genetic lotteries.

So? The olympic games should be the pinnacle of human performance (fed by their nation's interests). Of course it is lotteries all the way from the genetics, to what country you're born in, right to the national lottery putting money in to sports.

Your alternatives are either a proliferation of categories or random people assembling every four years to roll dice to determine the winner. Neither is exciting.

I am in no position to judge the procedure on a medical basis but know that it is (or was) near universal for potential recruits and has become a bit of a meme.

Your strong reaction to this procedure is something for you to dwell on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA

No affiliation, just one of my favourite videos.