Listen, I'm also a big fan of balkanizing the US in order to limit its global power. But lets go further. I want nothing less than Six Independent Californias.
Unfortunately, I live in a wretched red state and have most of my life and extremely unfortunately I’ve spent time around the backwater ruroids that I’ve been desperate to escape.
I mean, more power to you. But the "I don't owe anyone anything" mentality gets you right back to the MAGA Libertarianism that's destroying the country.
The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of suppression, OpenAI said.
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The report comes amid a battle between the US and China for supremacy over AI.
The Pentagon is in a standoff with another prominent AI company, Anthropic [a major OpenAI rival], over the use of its AI model. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract.
Because they can afford to escape the bedlam. Nobody wants to be in Minneapolis right now. Nevermind LA, Portland, or Charlotte.
If you've got enough money to put up in a hotel for a month or friendly relatives in another state to crash with, it sounds far preferable to dealing with ICE agents clogging your streets and ramming your car. Doubly so if you're living in the US on a temporary or revocable permit. Who is holding a Student Visa or Green Card that feels safe in any of these cities right now? They're snatching neuroscience students out of Columbia University student dorms, ffs.
It's pure hysterical clickbait. The far more newsworthy headline would be about people declining to immigrate to the US, as the Feds add more and more foreign nations to its shit list. Very obvious that Trump (by way of Steven Miller) wants the US to be Whites Only.
But they idea that people are leaving in droves requires you to believe that's a viable option for anyone.
The casting for Matrix was stellar. Even the mid-tier sequels had some incredible performances on their own merit. Possible Smith recognized he wasn't a good fit and passed on it. Also possible he picked up on the underlying themes too well and got freaked out (there's plenty of speculation that Smith has been in the closet going back decades).
Sometimes there's scheduling conflicts. Sometimes a director casts a wide net, knowing he's going to get a bunch of rejections. Sometimes you get roped into a project as a favor or a quid pro quo (Vin Disel coming back for a cameo in FF: Tokyo Drift to get Chronicles of Riddick made, only to end up making nine more movies and counting) and it changes your career.
Idk if you can compare the dynamic between Smith and Hackman against DiCaprio and Murphy. I don't think DiCaprio needs to steal the scenes the same way Will Smith does.
Also, Smith has done plenty of SciFi that was... mid. I am Legend worked in large part because Will Smith was acting against himself. As a lead in an ensemble cast - like in Suicide Squad - he's not nearly as impressive.
Tactical nuke in this case is a low yield short range bomb
Nobody has used a tactical nuke since Nagasaki. Very big deal that one is ever used
Gemini was the only model that made the deliberate choice of sending a strategic nuclear strike. Which it did in 7% of its games.
The tournament used only 21 games; sufficient to identify major patterns but not to establish robust statistical confidence for all findings.
"We only blew up the planet the one time in 21" isn't a comforting prospect when we're employing a model against an endless historical string of scenarios rather than a discrete and finite set of possible events.
The US hinting at having a nuclear capable submarine outside of Alaska, that’s is a form of signaling. It’s an incredibly low bar. And countries do it all the time.
I think, more importantly, the article concludes
No one proposes that LLMs should make nuclear decisions.
But we're saying this in the context of Pentagon staff which fully disagree with this conclusion.
What these models have demonstrated is a pattern of escalation that AIs can and will recommend, with a further destabilizing characteristic
LLMs introduce a new variable into strategic analysis: preferences that systematically shape behaviour in ways that neither classical rationality nor human cognitive biases capture
Effectively, they can lead to descisions that outside, non-AI observers won't be equiped to understand.
That's a danger in it's own right.
"Nuclear Signaling" that break from historical and recognizable patterns of behavior present real risks that you're dismissing very cavalierly
Yes.