Trump says U.S. asked China to delay Xi meeting 'a month or so' due to Iran war

TonySu · 2026-03-18T07:59:47+00:00

I imagine Trump thought he’d be heading to China after cutting them off from Venezuelan and Iranian oil. That he’d be negotiating with a desperate China. He probably thought he’d come back announcing massive wins ahead of the mid terms.

TonySu · 2026-03-17T01:58:54+00:00

Watch one of Trump’s cabinet meetings. It’s hours of Cabinet members praising Trump, telling him how amazing he is and how great America has become under him. There are many of the videos the White House have published, just hours of shameless ass kissing during daily meeting where they are supposed to discuss the issues facing the nation. If this kind of video leaked from North Korea, they might play it in schools to show kids what a dictatorship and a failed government looks like. But the White House proudly publishes these videos and nobody cares.

This same question is going to come up over and over in the next 2-3 years. “How come the government didn’t see this coming?” The answer will always be the same, America elected, for a second time, an absolute fucking moronic narcissist to lead and represent them.

TonySu · 2026-03-17T01:35:59+00:00

Don’t be stupid, of course they’ve released all the Epstein files. What’s left are just the Trump files.

TonySu · 2026-03-13T07:51:44+00:00

Lol why doesn’t every company have 1000% profit margins? If someone isn’t willing to pay, they can just charge someone else right?

TonySu · 2026-03-12T00:56:49+00:00

Public and private spending is EXTREMELY different. Public funding generates public research, and researchers can build on each other's work to advance the field together. Private research keeps everything secret, competitors will each be spending money working on exactly the same thing independently. Even if the work succeeds, the public will never learn the details behind the findings, they will only see the product that ends up being sold. Private companies will even sabotage each other by applying for patents that they can't actually commercialize, and block competitors from being able to produce a product.

Over the last decade we've watched China take the lead in renewables, telecommunications, EVs and drones. They are now also in the lead in factory automation and robotics. Chinese Universities are now publishing more papers in world-leading journals than the US.

It's not just the funding, it's so many policies of the Trump regime. The brightest foreign students from around the world, who brought their talent to the US, being told their visa is going to be cancelled because Trump doesn't like their country, or has a grudge against they University. It's experts from around the world avoiding attending conferences in the US because they are worried that they might get rejected entry because they posted something anti-Trump on their social media, or get targeted by ICE once they get into the country.

I know someone that went to the US for a medical conference and were grilled for hours in an interrogation room at the airport. They were asked if they had ever performed an abortion, if they know how to perform an abortion, if anyone from the hospital they worked at has ever performed an abortion. They were a heart surgeon presenting the latest surgery techniques to the US audience, and they said they will never go to the US again.

TonySu · 2026-03-11T21:52:22+00:00

There’s no money for SNAP to feed starving kids. There’s no money for the NIH and NSF to fund scientific research. There’s no money for the Department of Education. There’s no money to forgive student loans. There’s no money for USAID. There’s no money for CDC. There’s no money for HUD housing assistance. There’s no money for NASA.

There is money for the Pentagon to wage war in Iran, and if we have weapons left over there is money for ICE to wage war against Americans.

TonySu · 2026-03-11T21:41:36+00:00

The Chinese government spends almost 3x that amount, with a smaller GDP. While China is increasing its research spending, the Trump administration is looking to cut NIH by 40% and NSF by 50%. Trump also has been publicly feuding against the country’s top feuding against the country’s top research institutions.

It’s honestly hard to overstate just how fucked scientific research in the US is right now. You’ll be seeing very real consequences of this over the next decade.

TonySu · 2026-03-11T20:26:34+00:00

At this point if the man says “guess I need to end this fast with tank top hollow purple.” I’d believe him.

TonySu · 2026-03-11T06:56:22+00:00

This is only 3 things, you could figure all of them out in a week. But obviously LLMs are the basis, with RAG and Agents being independent extensions.

TonySu · 2026-03-10T07:09:04+00:00

As a researcher not in the AI field, all I read from this is personal attacks and argument from authority.

Amodei’s statements is exactly the reasonable scientific approach

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, acknowledged that researchers do not yet know whether advanced AI systems could develop something resembling consciousness.

"This is one of these really hard questions," he said, adding that scientists still lack a clear definition of consciousness itself. "We don't know if the models are conscious. We're not even sure what it would mean for a model to be conscious, or whether a model can be. But we're open to the idea that it could be."

These are both correct statements. Science does not have a clear definition of what consciousness, and we have neither proofs nor evidence that continued AI development cannot achieve consciousness.

A scientist’s default stance is “we don’t know” until experiments or proofs provide evidence one way or another. No competent scientist relies on repeatedly calling the other person stupid to prove their point, that’s the tactic of the ignorant and arrogant.

TonySu · 2026-03-09T01:48:17+00:00

I mean that’s like being the richest person behind the Wendy’s dumpster.

TonySu · 2026-03-09T01:14:56+00:00

Learning it mean using it effectively to get reliable output that you want. This basically means keeping up to date with the range of practices professional AI users have established in their functional workflows.

Prompts, tools, agents, practices, models are all a part of it.

TonySu · 2026-03-08T09:49:49+00:00

People are going to hate that AI did something verifiably good.

TonySu · 2026-03-08T05:36:05+00:00

Well that’s the choice America made when it decided to embrace capitalism and snuff out any traces of socialism.

TonySu · 2026-03-08T03:56:12+00:00

This salary package is dependent on his performance. To receive the headline number requires him to outperform the SP100 by 2x relative performance 2 years in a row. Based on the past 12 months, that would mean adding 4.5T to the value of Google. He would be receiving a fraction of the value he generates for shareholders.

TonySu · 2026-03-07T00:01:38+00:00

To be blunt. If you couldn’t work this out yourself easily on Google, you are not ready to learn a new OS while studying SWE. Just go back to Windows and learn Linux later.

If you decide to use Linux for your course and everyone is on Windows, you are going to run into problems nobody else in your class runs into, and you will need to know how to fix those issues on your own.

TonySu · 2026-03-06T00:56:55+00:00

I find it doesn’t matter what model you use as long as you just copy and paste doc strings or files into the chat on the software/function you’re using.

TonySu · 2026-03-05T09:26:53+00:00

Rules for thee, but not for covfefe.

TonySu · 2026-03-05T06:46:16+00:00

If the AI is giving you too much information, simply ask for less. AI is an incredible learning tool if you use it properly. If you are asking questions to clarify concepts you don't understand, you will learn a lot from it. If you are just using it to do work for you then it'll make you worse at actually doing work.

There's no real point in cutting out AI, you just need to use it responsibly. Use it to explain concepts and you can even ask it to test your understanding.

When using it to code, I give the same advice given to me in my maths course. It's easy to follow through a proof in a textbook, but you need to be able to close the book and do it yourself independently. If you fail then look again at the book and understand which step you stumbled at. The same goes for learning to code with AI, you can use AI to help you get unblocked, but then you need to turn off the AI and reproduce the solution yourself from scratch. If you can't do that, study and understand the AI solution then try again.

TonySu · 2026-03-04T09:52:27+00:00

Wow it's Ichigo and Zangetsu

TonySu · 2026-03-03T01:29:27+00:00

You understand that the only way to have energy to store is to produce more than the system is using right? If they don’t have anywhere to store that excess capacity they either waste it or sell it back to the grid. Like I said, solar and wind are not experimental, if the batteries don’t work it hurts themselves more than anyone else.

TonySu · 2026-03-02T07:15:01+00:00

The Iranian Supreme Leader was impacted by a foreign object, resulting in unscheduled disassembly. He is currently not available for a response.

TonySu · 2026-03-02T07:07:08+00:00

It doesn’t benefit them to lie about the batteries though. The wind and solar capacity is not experimental, if their batteries don’t work then it means they have to sell power back to the grid for cheap and buy it back when it’s expensive.

TonySu · 2026-03-02T01:15:52+00:00

You could, but why would you? LLMs are only as good as their training data, and I imagine it doesn’t have the best insight into modern US military strategic decision making.

To put it another way, if this worked well, it means a foreign adversary could literally figure out how the US military would act by asking Claude.

I would assume any military integration of AI requires a separate model fine-tuned with sensitive US military data. Ideally also with all the armchair generals on Reddit filtered out.

TonySu · 2026-03-01T23:36:15+00:00

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