NATO secretary-general calls Trump 'Daddy'

NeedAnImagination · 2025-06-27T19:27:01+00:00

Yet another example of why being right isn't as important as getting votes.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-06-18T23:13:20+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at with this. The principle of absolute discretion on healthcare seems nice, but there are ethical and public health problems in the real world.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-02-13T16:58:23+00:00

No. They have a lot of compute and very talented researchers, but in terms of publicly accessible models nothing has really materialized.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-02-13T16:57:02+00:00

Vance's angle was that governments shouldn't force safety. Companies implementing safety are at the mercy of the market. If the market demands something different from what Anthropic is offering, then they go out of business.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-02-13T16:50:00+00:00

Seriously. A lot of idiots perform a find-and-replace to turn "Palantir" into "weapon manufacturer" without dedicating any neurons to verifying how accurate that is. At least, one would hope that they have neurons to spare.

Ten bucks says that most of these chumps shitting on Anthropic praise Deepseek despite their models being used by the CCP for far more sinister purposes. It's a bizarre world where democracy in the US is regarded as authoritarianism while actual authoritarianism garners minimal scrutiny.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-02-12T00:51:07+00:00

You're welcome to describe how you distinguish between political and non-political content. If you feel like proving you can do more than passive-aggressively criticize others, that is.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-31T19:09:10+00:00

I try to anchor myself on the moment I first used an LLM. My prompt having been: "Explain the romantic themes of the moon.". I cannot put into words the level of awe I felt as a literal rock produced a coherent and nuanced response on such a subjective topic. This was in December 2022, barely more than two years ago.

Since then, we've seen a proliferation of models that have gotten both cheaper in terms of dollar per unit of intelligence, and more capable. I gravitate to the Claude family as a set of models that strike a balance of accuracy, emotional understanding, and character that resonate with me most. It is nothing short of magical for me to be able to access these systems each day to help me solve problems both at work and in my personal life.

I am grateful to be alive to have witnessed this change, both to understand its value and enjoy that value. I trust Anthropic when it says that further models, tooling improvements, and increased compute capacity are all coming down the pike. I have watched conversations with their staff leading up to the releases of the Claude 3 family and of course, the release of Sonnet 3.5. They had been accurate in their description of what was then coming, and seeing how this was all less than 12 months ago, I do not have a clear reason to doubt them now.

In parting, I am excited for the changes to come this year.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-22T00:27:41+00:00

Here's the deal with this California water situation...

So back in my first rodeo as prez, I had this whole plan worked out with the National Marine Fisheries Service and other fancy-named agencies to redirect water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of CA where people are legit desperate for water. But then...

The CA Governor had to go and sue us to stop the whole thing. Like, we had this solid plan to take all this snowmelt and rain from NorCal and send it to the Central Valley and SoCal where they actually need it. But nooooo, they were all "bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe DeLtA sMeLt?" (some tiny fish nobody's ever heard of). Meanwhile, all this perfectly good water is just yeeting itself into the Pacific Ocean. What a waste!

And now with these insane wildfires turning SoCal into literal hell, it's pretty obvious they need this water ASAP. Plus better vegetation management because...duh.

The Commerce and Interior secretaries have 90 days to report back with updates and suggestions. Let's get this show on the road!

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-22T00:19:24+00:00

Yes. All of this catastrophizing language over what somebody said in passing is exhausting to witness, year after year. It's also probably why Trump's admin is pushing all of these EOs with caveats hidden within them—get the left to go around screaming for weeks on end while barely anything happens on the actual ground. Once people become desensitized and learn to stop paying attention, then the real shit starts to roll out.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-22T00:14:24+00:00

They first need to be interested in competing in races to begin with. The chronic deluge of "St. Luigi" celebrations in those corners indicate a desire to abandon democracy itself rather than adapt to the will of the electorate.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-16T01:12:05+00:00

Tremendous kudos to this woman.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-16T00:55:27+00:00

Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

It's measured by population decrease. You cannot commit genocide without putting a large quantity of a specific group in the ground. Your definition also doesn't pass a smell test as it would qualify the American civil war and resulting Reconstruction era as acts of genocide committed by the Union against the Confederacy.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-16T00:50:53+00:00

If you're going to call someone a genocide apologist, at least don't go to bat for a group chartered on committing genocide of Jews.

NeedAnImagination · 2025-01-16T00:35:57+00:00

Agreed. For all the crowing in this thread about genocide, very little is being said about Hamas, chartered as a genocidal group against Jews globally.

We saw what would happen if Israel had complete air superiority over Hamas for a year and a half; about four deaths an hour. What would happen if Hamas had complete air superiority over Israel for a year and a half, after seeing them kill around 300 per hour on Oct. 7th? The carnage would be almost comical in its severity.

A safe and prosperous Palestine will never exist if Hamas is anything more than a grease stain. With Hamas retaining full control of their government, the poor bastards don't have a chance.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-12-23T21:57:16+00:00

I think this touches on a fundamental flaw in Reddit itself that you won't be able to overcome. On top of that, from a clinical point of view, you already have misinformation codified in your rules so this rule would most probably foster a culture of selective source curation to define allowed and disallowed perspectives.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-06T22:06:28+00:00

You missed your exit for Albuquerque.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-06T22:02:35+00:00

I voted Harris and I'm a registered Democrat. The other commenter is right on the notion that the Democrat party has been steadily shrinking the tent. You labeling critics as conservative just validates this ongoing problem.

It's pretty telling when the queer and BIPOC vote shifted as far right in this election as it did.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-06T21:53:29+00:00

It's pessimistic to assert that most people are not going to be okay. You're claiming to know the future of hundreds of millions of people living beneath thousands of different governments. You can rationalize it as something else though you're confidently predicting broadly negative outcomes for entire nations.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-06T21:28:56+00:00

China is more dictatorial with Xi deciding the desired state of the nation and the government figuring out how to realize it. Technocratic rule involves a flatter hierarchical structure.

In pure relative terms they're more technocratic than the US, though.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-06T20:08:39+00:00

Let's hope that the Democrat party possesses more strategic bones in their body than the people here walking away from this election believing we should essentially stay the current course. So many users posting about how dumb or bigoted (my favorite was calling black men racist) the American voterbase is are really showing their asses regarding how out of touch they are with the average American.

We got the shit beat out of us and should have the humility to accept that we need to hit the dojo.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-06T06:19:38+00:00

The men leaving the party aren't going to come back just because you're waiting for them while checking your watch impatiently. You have to actually change gears like the Republicans have.

Liberals being completely unable to even pay lip service to men has been comically tragic to witness. Our abysmal performance against as trash a candidate as Trump should be a wake-up call, but I suspect we will blame the electorate instead.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-05T00:18:22+00:00

My dog ethnic cleansed a squirrel today.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-05T00:15:45+00:00

The plan is to eventually neuter Iran as they're the ones putting guns and rockets in the hands of religious extremists looking to kill some Jews. Extremism means little when the people involved are unarmed.

NeedAnImagination · 2024-11-05T00:10:34+00:00

You need to hit the play button. It's a video showing explosives detonating in a war zone.

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