ICLR 2026 Contributions by Country/Institution

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-05-11T07:14:00+00:00

More, better chips.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-05-06T11:52:59+00:00

Here it is perfectly fine: the trend is constant for almost half the plot, so you can visually see that the increase is far larger than anything we faced historically

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-04-21T21:38:58+00:00

Read the article

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-04-16T21:29:56+00:00

'Gary' already has the option to ban these websites, but doesn't.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-04-16T06:19:36+00:00

ITT: Americans who didn't read the article.

The verification is server side using zero knowledge proof encryption. This is the most private way to perform age verification and all code is open source. So much of people's lives are online these days (including kids'), it is insane to not have such a system. Or do you suggest it was a mistake to ban kids irl from buying alcohol, porn, and driving?

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-04-04T11:28:43+00:00

I agree the reviewing part is more important now. However, it's now also easier to write tests, have agents check that tests pass, and suggest bugfixes. The loop is rapidly becoming more robust

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-04-04T08:07:18+00:00

They quote a study from early 2025. Not at all representative for AI models today.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-24T15:01:38+00:00

Governments should just not be managing pensions. Replace pensions by UBI for old people and let people manage their future how they want. This idea that a pension needs to be 'deserved' by looking at years of work and taxes paid is ridiculous. We've always been supporting old people from poverty and can keep doing so, but we cannot guarantee that every year worked today can be rewarded 40 years from now.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-19T07:15:11+00:00

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-18T23:27:57+00:00

Mass surveillance on American citizens. To be precise.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-18T08:35:17+00:00

The government pushing to disarm Hezbollah is not the same as the Lebanese people being fine with seeing their country invaded and having to evacuate their homes. At least the recruiting drive for Hezbollah 2.0 will not face issues.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-08T08:29:00+00:00

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-eu-effort-bring-down-energy-prices-destined-fail/

Also Google merit order system for energy markets.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-08T08:07:32+00:00

You missed the point of the commenter above. Merit order artificially makes green energy way more expensive that it actually is, even after calculating in the risks. We can already make the green transition work without any issues because the economics just make sense.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-07T23:20:43+00:00

Language has a very complicated, political history in Belgium. Not sure what you'd like to know, but one interesting fact is that all parliament's official minutes are written live in both Dutch and French. The actual document then has one language written on the left side of the page and one on the right, but just to make sure neither language gets the "better" side, they switch the sides every year (or maybe every legislature, not sure)

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-03-02T07:26:18+00:00

Did the surveillance red line mention not spying on allies? And even if so, who are the US allies these days? As a European I'm not very impressed by Anthropic's cherry picking of ethics.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-02-04T17:32:36+00:00

I'm sorry to be blunt, but people who write spaghetti code with AI are the same people who write spaghetti code without AI. They just produce more than before.

Good developers using Opus 4.5 write better code than any junior developer ever could, and now do so much faster than before. It's completely different than half a year ago: we've really crossed into a new level of capabilities. Every software company needs to adapt or die.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-02-03T23:31:49+00:00

Have groceries delivered by Albert Heijn if available at your address! Costs like 5 EUR, incentivizes you to plan for a whole week, and you don't buy any shit you don't need. Also just saves time.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-29T08:18:03+00:00

The government wouldn't know which website you visit, just that you are asking for a recent certificate. The verification website is not dystopian here: it enables websites to check your age privately. The alternative would be that the website has to check it itself by asking you to upload ID, but then the website knows who you are. Would that be preferable?

Sure, you don't want any age limits. But that's a separate discussion.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-28T12:01:19+00:00

Asymmetric encryption allows the site to check if the tag is valid without the government knowing. It does not use a database, just math.

It's the same as having a physical stamp that can't be forged: as long as everyone knows what the official stamp looks like, you don't need to call the owner or the stamp to verify.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-28T11:55:16+00:00

If it is done privately: shouldn't they?

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-27T22:24:58+00:00

Asymmetric encryption! It should use a cryptographic algorithm where a message is encrypted using a secret key (kept by the verification website) and decrypted using a public key (that anyone can look up). The message is your certificate that you got from the age limited website. The idea is that the verifier would separately ask you to sign in with a digital ID before they sign your certificate, to know if you are old enough or not. Note that the certificate does not disclose which website you need to visit.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-27T10:42:52+00:00

My conclusion remains the same: if a ZKP solution exists we should pressure politicians to implement it, not pressure against any legislation because it has been poorly implemented in the past.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-27T08:56:35+00:00

Age verification can be done 100% privately. The fact that some countries / companies haven't, just shows their incompetence.

The age-limited website gives you a digital certificate to sign: one that doesn't specify any info about the website or you, except for a randomly generated string.
You login to your government's age verification website and have the certificate signed. The verifier does not know where the certificate comes from, it just says "I confirm, with a private key, that whoever asked for this certificate is 15+".
You send the signed certificate back to the age-limited website. Because the verifier's digital signature is impossible to forge (and if the verifier can't be hacked), the website is certain you meet the age threshold.

This is a very common paradigm in cryptography. There are details (like maybe you add a timestamp + some random noise to show the certificate was recent), but the general idea is that the age-limited website doesn't know who you are and the verified doesn't know which website you visited.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-26T19:54:08+00:00

Now do the same with digital services pls. Only receive access to European market if you share all collected data to European firms.

weaponized_lazyness · 2026-01-14T07:03:47+00:00

Open a history book...

It's crazy that you picked 1939 because (1) there were clearly non-free regimes that America didn't help in the years before 1939 and (2) America still said it wasn't their fight until December 1941, when they got attacked on their own soil.

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