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  • MASSIVE EXODUS!

    single digit change in migration patterns

    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.

  • Bad Boys for Life was fun.

  • Hey, how rich is that 21 year old's parents?

    Hey! I said how rich are your parents?!

  • If an immigrant is paying taxes

    Real Child Holocaust Hours

  • Probably kidnap some more children and starve them to death in concentration camps, while people argue about procedure on national TV.

  • Wild West was a fantastic movie and I'm sad they never mad a sequel.

  • 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).

  • I mean, he's picked plenty of bangers.

    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.

  • Remember how good enemy of the state was

    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.

  • The next general election is in 2028.

    We just had a by election yesterday

  • 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

  • It has a goal - to win, or not to lose.

    Its model doesn't include the long term consequences of a nuclear strike because it's core mission isn't to preserve human life.

    Same reason you don't see AIs constantly interjecting the need to cut carbon emissions or redistribute private wealth or demilitarize as a solution for resolving conflicts.

    This isn't what the machines were built to do.

  • Can't believe a computer model built on the sum total of Internet hot takes would behave like this

  • OP felt like she was recognizing problems that others failed to acknowledge, often with extreme clarity.

    It seemed obvious and urgent to OP, but was difficult to convey to others, leading to OP feeling isolated.

  • Pattern recognition is like a built in feature in humans, but most people have it beat out of them in school

    Like so much else, it's a trained skill. You don't have pattern recognition beaten out. You just aren't so heavily invested in a subject that you get it stamped in.

    It's not as though we're born with the ability to hear Morse Code, for instance. You have to develop an ear for it.

    It's also a double edged sword, especially when you queue in on a pattern without understanding the reason behind it. Plenty of patterns are purely coincidental.

    Picking out a "message" in a series of sounds doesn't mean the dish washer is talking to you.

  • "I see where this is going"

    Goes in a different direction

    "Oh, so this is part of the pattern where everyone is trying to fuck with me"

  • Orwell was a British police officer in Myanmar, breaking up labor organizations and suppressing an independence movement, so...

    Probably he would

  • If you look at what's been released, ignores the redactions, and refuse to engage in any amount of critical thinking, there is absolutely no reason to believe Gates fucked a kid.

    Also, if you take Howard Lutnick at his word, he walked straight out of Epstein's house when he saw that massage table and never said spoke to Jeff again.

    And, of course, Trump was a white hat pedophile who brought Epstein down from the inside. He should be celebrated as a hero.

  • Microsoft wants you to own a computer and pay for their office app on subscription.

    Windows 11 has been pivoting hard into SaaS and Cloud Computing. A lot of the data center build out of driving indie data hosting companies and hardware manufacturers out of business.

    One way or another, we're being pushed onto a fully Walled Garden ecosystem.