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Ben
@ben_d_r
Mostly read only. See nostr. npub16j6mdp0dt86yu77wssfv42lxka86tv05me3jwl5789ycnlmvqzasxlfjqz
Katılım Ekim 2024
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no need to include the rest, first 7 words really sum up Trump's vibe atm
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@rorysutherland Connecting flights from LHR putting a premium on that route?
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What the hell explains this price discrepancy? It cannot be informed preference alone. What informational asymmetry is causing this?
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We have designed semi-sentient tools of unbelievable power and potential that have access to the sum total of human knowledge and they are incapable of formatting their answers in ways that enable basic readability, especially on mobile devices.
@sama please fix this
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Every AI needs a simple toggle that forces it to respond in sentences and paragraphs.
Not like:
- some kind of weird
- william shatner impression
- where every point
- gets a line
And sometimes
the text just
looks like someone
is trying to write haikus
but doesn't know
how
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@Geo_papic "We went right back to our own myths. One American was as good as twenty Germans. This being true, we had only to act in a stern manner to bring the Kaiser to heel. He wouldn’t dare interfere with our trade--but he did." John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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First, love the fashion sense. Great look by PM Barak.
Second, I think that the former PM is correct. For those of you who do not know, a single American division is ~15,000 troops. So, Barak in the video below is calling for AT LEAST 30,000 troops. What is currently headed to the region is nowhere near that, even if the 82nd gets involved. I count around 8,000 right now. That is MAYBE enough for Kharg Island.
But what I am wondering here is this... I want someone to explain to me why Iranians are not like Kevin in Home Alone, getting the Island ready for the Americans? And even if Kharg is taken, how does that prevent Iran from interdicting Hormuz? Kharg is nowhere near Hormuz. Yes, I get it... it is leverage, but Tehran could just double down on its own leverage (Hormuz). The US should be thinking about taking Qeshm Island instead, but that is supposedly a military fortress (and an awesome nature spot!).
Either way, sub-10,000 troops for a military action against a country that has over a million ground troops? That is as far away from the Schwarzkopf Doctrine as it gets. Unless all 8,000 are Chuck Norris (RIP), it does not seem enough to me. But hey, I am not an expert at the Department of War... so what do I know.
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said, “Can the Strait of Hormuz be opened? You need to deploy two American divisions there and prepare to stay for months. That’s how the start of the war in Vietnam looked, the start of the war in Iraq, and the same in Afghanistan. It succeeds at first. By the way, all wars, including this new chapter of ours, one must know: an initiated war starts with a brilliant achievement and impressive damage. Then comes the stage of treading water, which I believe we have entered. And if you don't know how to get out of it and cut it short in time, it ends in negotiations under conditions inferior to what existed before it all started, or in defeat. And America hasn't won a single war. It won almost every battle, but it hasn't won a single war in the last 60 years. All of this needs to be considered, and I very much hope I am wrong.”
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@riemannzeta Curious to hear more about your thinking here. What do you mean by transmission costs and forced synchronization?
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Pitch me on what I should read next. Fiction only. Not about AI.
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One fun upside from all of this: you're going to be able to bore people when you're old about how you grew up with completely unregulated social media, like the people who grew up in the Edwardian era and got Harrods cocaine in their hampers and school lunch boxes.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
One of the biggest stories in the world is the growing push to curb social media, and box out American giants. It's only a matter of time, IMO, before every country has more severe limits. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@visakanv @wanderjegson There's an asymmetry between good and evil. Cartoonishly evil people can do a lot of harm, quickly, to many. Cartoonishly good takes time, patience. Little things that can go unnoticed, like free costume repair. Less scalable than evil, unfortunately.
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I know cartoonish evil people exist in the real world, so i hope, somewhere, there's cartoonish good people too, i never met someone like that in real life, but i really hope they exist
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6yo: “I wish there was a gun that would shoot pressurized air.”
“Boy do I have the book and eventually movie for you. In a few years.”
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@Birdyword there are some great mysteries of the universe for which we’ll never have an answer
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@dieworkwear my man there’s your problem. You shouldn’t be paying more than 50c for a quesadilla
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@LynAldenContact My hiring manager curses Indeed. Within an hour of posting a position she has hundreds of garbage applications. Maybe we need to accept only those applications that are mailed or delivered in-person.
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It’s kind of like proof of work, actually.
An intentional friction to reduce spam and to signal some tiny degree of real world effort.
I think more of that stuff will pop up in various contexts. Physical things standing out as islands amid a digital ocean.
Markets & Mayhem@Mayhem4Markets
I'm hearing that some employers are reverting to paper resumes to .. *checks notes* .. prevent AI. That's funny. As if AI can't write up a resume in a Word document and then a person cannot print out that resume.
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total fertility rates in the west are saved
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.
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