US tariffs on China have changed the routes through which Chinese-made content reaches the US far more than they have reduced US dependence on China. Examining value-added trade flows through 2024 shows that US reliance on Chinese producers has fallen much less than bilateral trade data suggest. Spurred by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China in his first term, Chinese goods and services…
maybe! there's really two questions here: what advice should bots be giving people, but also how should we be figuring that out? you can put anything in a book or on a website, but is that all bots are, one more source of information among many? because I think their owners want all the authority with none of the responsibility, let alone liability.
Citizenfour is a decent documentary, it’s mostly just long scenes of Edward Snowden talking to Glenn Greenwald in that Hong Kong hotel room but that already makes the stakes clearer than most silly thrillers. Snowden makes a very lonely hero: his moral position is clear but the revolution he hoped to spearhead never really happened, and total surveillance just became normalised. and Barack…
argumate : argumate : watched Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal and all I can say is holy fucking shit, that couple they were harassing should just be given ownership of eBay, they should get to run it now, and those eBay executives never even seeing a courtroom (???) is one of the most blatant examples of corporate injustice I think I’ve ever seen. the security dickhead who was…
argumate : watched Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal and all I can say is holy fucking shit, that couple they were harassing should just be given ownership of eBay, they should get to run it now, and those eBay executives never even seeing a courtroom (???) is one of the most blatant examples of corporate injustice I think I’ve ever seen. the security dickhead who was running the…
watched Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal and all I can say is holy fucking shit, that couple they were harassing should just be given ownership of eBay, they should get to run it now, and those eBay executives never even seeing a courtroom (???) is one of the most blatant examples of corporate injustice I think I’ve ever seen.
thedoctorandclaraforeverandever : tanoraqui : transmechanicus : wizardshark : escuerzoresucitado : being escorted out of town The criminal has been apprehended Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND‼️ GROND‼️ GROND‼️ GROND‼️
I dunno! should the disabled be discouraged from having children? should mothers be obliged to have high paying jobs (and presumably continue working and pay childcare)? this is a cultural or social policy question and if we delegate that to the bots we really have no idea what they might say. aorish : argumate : deadgenerations said: I mean let’s be honest would you as an individual tell a friend…
mercurymusing : nia–san : argumate : I haven’t been following this bizarre story but what is even happening here, why is a building (?) named for one president now named for two, is this a shipping thing it’s a vanity thing, as everything with Trump has been not sure why the Kennedy Center board is changing tack, though Because he purged the board and stuffed it with cronies,…
I dunno! should the disabled be discouraged from having children? should mothers be obliged to have high paying jobs (and presumably continue working and pay childcare)? this is a cultural or social policy question and if we delegate that to the bots we really have no idea what they might say. deadgenerations said: I mean let’s be honest would you as an individual tell a friend in a dire or…
klatchianmist : argumate : baroquepopcorn : kineticpenguin : kineticpenguin : Someone about to say the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard in your life: congratulations your “obviously correct nuclear take” is the cybersecurity equivalent of being a fucking anti-vaxxer I agree this sounds dumb, but we’re also doing the thing of getting mad at them without hearing them out…
I dunno! should the disabled be discouraged from having children? should mothers be obliged to have high paying jobs (and presumably continue working and pay childcare)? this is a cultural or social policy question and if we delegate that to the bots we really have no idea what they might say.
yes, if you interact with a doctor or a teacher or a lawyer or a cop they're not just listening to your words (or sometimes not even listening to your words) but influenced by the "thick context" of what you look like, what you sound like, how you're acting, etc. plus of course they have their own ideas of what they want to do in any given situation. the LLMs don't have any of that, it's words all…
Reports that he talks to Trump “all the time” confirm the fears. Previous Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s working code was always that the proper level of intercourse between the US president and the Fed chairman is “zero”. sternly reminding the fed chairman not to fuck the president
doctorpotatomd : argumate : hear music → somehow interpret this aesthetically → invent dancing lol what a concept dancing is walking and jumping and working, singing is speaking, music is the sounds of you and your family and the world. there was no need to invent dance, dance is as old as humanity and likely older still; any division of movement between dance and not-dance is artificial and false…
Arabic numbers and equivalent numeric notations are so weirdly simple and that’s what makes them smart; if you try and invent a counting system from scratch you invariably start with tally marks and then group them and then invent various mechanisms for grouping and orders of magnitude to make them less annoying to write and you end up adding all this complexity and still end up with…
Simon Willison’s blog is probably the most direct and straightforward coverage by someone who uses them hands on, but honestly these days the difficulty isn’t so much finding AI news it’s escaping it.