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@FreyaAndHerCats @TanMan1088 @nosoupforgeorge Perhaps it is the fact he didn’t even grow up in the USA, he is a citizen by happenstance. Probably as he got good at football, interested parties started aligning to paperwork. It wasn’t some deep drive to represent a country he doesn’t even really share much culture with?

@TanMan1088 @nosoupforgeorge It’s because they don’t think that Black people can be Americans. Their racism is abhorrent.

TRIGGER WARNING for USA Republicans cheering for Folarin Balogun: Born in Brooklyn. To Nigerian parents. Grew up in England. Plays for #USMNT. That's a lot of diversity, and that's what makes America great. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@s8mb Probably would help to not burn the tax coffers on um you know

This is, perversely, good news for Britain, Australia, Japan, Europe, and other countries being cut off that would once have seen themselves as close allies of the United States. It shows us what the future may hold if AI is the strategically and economically decisive technology of the 21st century and is controlled by the US and China. It is good news because *it may be happening early enough to give us time to act.* I think this will be rescinded pretty soon, but it’s a sign of things to come. In a future where frontier models cannot be used outside the US, our industries and economies will fall behind and American businesses may not be able to operate overseas. We won’t be able to defend ourselves militarily with defence systems built on obsolete software. Europe 2031 is a good scenario of what a future like this could mean: europe2031.ai Some of the things we need to do are ‘no regrets’ measures we should do anyway. But some are genuinely costly and risky. We need cheap electricity – powered by gas, coal (this is costly, coal is very bad), deregulated nuclear fission – whatever can provide *cheap, reliable, 24/7* power. This almost certainly excludes wind power, which is enormously expensive and unreliable. We need projects to be able to connect to the grid in days rather than years by paying for fast-track connections. We need to make it incredibly easy to build data centres, with the property taxes retained locally and hypothecated for local tax cuts so there is some direct benefit for locals. This doesn’t need to be nationwide. We need to create new regulatory regimes for innovative businesses that give them the right to hire and fire staff with ease. The difficulty and cost of firing staff is one of the main reasons Europe has fallen behind so badly. We need to create a parallel employment regime that companies and workers can opt in to: worksinprogress.co/issue/why-euro… Even though I think it will probably fail, I think we should probably try to create a good, non-American frontier AI lab. I am quite pessimistic about this – even extremely well-resourced, innovative software companies are struggling to do this. But the stakes are so high that not trying seems foolish. One thing that might work in our favour is the number of brilliant AI engineers who are not US citizens, who under the current export controls do not have access to Mythos/Fable even if they live and work in the US. What happens to Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, and the many other Europeans, Canadians, etc who are working on AI models in Britain and America who are affected by this? I do not think we should force our own companies to use model, because this would exacerbate their economic weakness – this lab should have to compete on an even playing field. I am deeply sceptical that this can work, but we cannot rule it out. If we do it, it has to be able to pay US salaries, operate without political constraints. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-airb… It is cope to tell yourself that Trump is an aberration or that these export controls are a one-off. To repeat, I think these specific controls will be lifted quickly and it will be easy to move on and forget it happened. But this is a look into a potential future. Every one of us that is not a US citizen is at risk. The standard political divides do not apply here; the question is whether you grasp the enormity of AI as a technology. We have to act!

@hansgurler @antirez There’s probably a middle ground on salary, much higher than Euro standard but not inflated like US.

@antirez You won't easily find a company especially in Germany,that is willing to hire European researchers currently working in the United States while paying them their U.S.-level salaries.!!

What Europe should do right now: 1. Call all the European researchers working on AI and return them back with same salary (or they can stay but switch career). 2. Fill EU places having GPUs with money, and put those people there. 3. AI partnerships with China + India.

@artemtam @antirez But how does the middle age bureaucrat benefit?

Wrong. What Europe should actually do: 1. 0% VAT on GPUs/other infra 2. Copy-paste Delaware corporate law replacing "Delaware" with "EU", call it EU Inc. 3. EU Inc. – 0% profit tax, exempt from ALL labor/privacy/ai/eco/etc. regulations 4. Residence permits for people with >$10M net worth & ex-top AI lab employees & top universities graduates 5. Flat low capital gains tax, no tax on unrealized gains (including stock options!), flat low income tax, no exit tax

@kajzakaj @larsencc Until you want to travel.

@larsencc Absolute figures don't matter . What matters is what you get and how you live for 1000, 2000 or 3000 per month.

But wait, there is more. Imagine getting a “competitive” salary of €4000 gross per month. You get €2435 net and your employer needs to pay a total of €4684. (If you’d rather get €4k net, you need to convince your employer to pay €8262)

@ParkSlopeFlngsm @Steve_Sailer The way to think about this is the US needs to take all the guys who don’t have size freak factor for popular US sports but are super athletes and funnel them into soccer. If you aren’t the right size for the other sports your chance is dismal

Most of these players are too bulky and wouldn’t have the stamina to go 90 mins, to say nothing of the spatial awareness to pass well. Lebron used to overheat all the time from 20 mins of basketball Here’s a lineup of active or recently retired athletes. You need guys who can read the game: point guards, quarterbacks, patient runners G: Kawhi Leonard LB: Tua Tagovailoa LCB: Josh Allen RCB: Lamar Jackson RB: Patrick Mahomes DCM: Tyrese Halliburton LCM: Chris Paul RCM: Trae Young RW: Le’veon Bell LW: Christian Mccaffrey ST: Steph Curry Even this lineup probably wouldnt work. 6’3 with lots of fast twitch muscle simply isn’t the ideal build for a game where you have to run 5 miles Messi is 5’7, Kante 5’6, Yamal 5’10, Cristiano at 6’2 is unusually well built for an attacker The reality is that the players who might have been on the USMNT are guys we’ve never heard of, guys who were very good quarterbacks and point guards in high school but they were 5’10 and thus too undersized to play D1 at a major program. They focused on basketball or football or maybe baseball or lacrosse or hockey because it was the higher status sport in their local community.

@jeffcafe_ @sporadica Is also guess whatever exploit was found shows poor security by the organization getting hacked more than model capability.

@sporadica Fair, but my prediction is the specific jailbreak will turn out to be minimal in scope…

Anthropic: “Mythos without safeguards is a massive national security risk!!!” *someone gets by the safeguards* *govt blocks it as a result* Anthropic: “wait guys this is a misunderstanding 🥺”

@gsiskind Does he have any stake in America besides living in the country a few months as a baby?

A reminder that Flo Balogun would not be on the US Men's National Team if Trump's birthright citizenship order was in place when he was born in NY. The first US man to score more than one goal in a World Cup match since the very first World Cup in 1930.

@igitino @mookiealexander For Americans all sports are just about being a “beast” .

@mookiealexander 6'1" its a tall player, very rare its 6'2" . Best players in history are 5'7" its a game of speed, change of direction, and equilibrium, plus aerobic endurance. Maybe Vick or Hill can play Tennis so u win again a GS since 2003. Or run a marathon under 2hs. See its nonesense

I’m begging American people to realize how much the average soccer player weighs.

@JosephUcuzoglu @MatthewBerman This is bad for an IPO, terrible even. Public and private businesses have to sell something and a huge portion of the market has been removed. They can make much less money. This is their false AI doom rhetorical coming back to haunt them. Reap what you sow.

@MatthewBerman If I was going to IPO soon and wanted to hype it up id have my friends in the government do the same. I don’t blame them.

Wtfffff

@Che_repaxa @phl43 They seeded AI doom and risk. Anthropic has to be careful not to torpedo their IPO. Their play is regulatory capture with the next admin (who they hope is a dem admin) but it might not matter if they blow up their company in the meantime.

@phl43 quelle erreur ont ils commise ? j'ai pas suivi (fable était génial...)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

@FredLambert Maybe it will not be possible for him to achieve things if society deteriorates due to putting head in sand.

He is about to raise $75 billion at a pure fantasy valuation. Literally getting the money he has been aiming to get for 20 years to supposedly achieve his dream of making life multi-planetary, and instead of celebrating, he is spending his time tweeting racist shit non-stop. The fact that people are not only OK with that but they are like "take my money" will forever be cringe. I have no respect for anyone who ignores his racist diatribe to try to make a few bucks speculating.

@JohnCrookes7 Think longer term than the brief moments you see of happy people.

What on earth is going on in this country of ours. I walk round my city & see happy couples of mixed race, white girls with black friends, groups of young people some brown some black some white all relating happily to each other. Reform is focused on destroying this harmony. Why

@BreitbartNews Just how many kings and queens were there in Africa?

Podcaster Larry Reid calls for a "mass exodus" of black Americans to Africa in response to the Karmelo Anthony verdict. "I want you to begin to think about this America and the white people problem that we have... As a collective, let's drain this place of its benefits and make our mass exodus and go home and build." "Civil rights did not make white people that are infected with whiteness stop being racist. They still raised racist children that run this country to this day." "You come from a land that flows with milk and honey. They pulled you out of that land ancestrally and brought you to a place to where your royalty was not recognized. Used your black power, your black mysticism, your African spirituality, and your physiological superiority to build this country and give everybody reparations except you."

@sleepy_devo “There’s a lot of” “It’s a lot of..” is retarded incorrect and ambiguous speech.

democrats legit need to ditch the anti-white racism, it's not quirky, it's not funny, it's not tongue-in-cheek, it's one of the major drivers of moderates/normies away from their camp you can dislike that, you can think they're too thin skinned or whatever, but it is what it is.

@sassybreaches @bronzeagemantis Why is « Saturday is for the boys » worship but coal burning is a thing?

@bronzeagemantis Coal burning is frowned upon to put it mildly and will result in expulsion from your sorority and friend group. We’re talking about sorority girls right? Idk about every girl in the world but of the girls in the original post, nope.

SEC are big sports schools? Is that what “SEC” stands for? Are the athletes everyone cheers for also seen as gay, boring and isolating? Do they jerk off alone

@owenjonesjourno @michellerose86_ @ZackPolanski Man bites dog

@michellerose86_ @ZackPolanski Can you explain why there weren't riots in these cases please

You see these scenes from Belfast? That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way. Except this will be on a much bigger scale. We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

@AyoCaesar Stats

Crime is now being viewed through an entirely racialised lens – but only when the perpetrators aren't white. When Chas Corrigan stabbed a Saudi student to death, or Paul Doyle mowed down Liverpool fans, white people didn't have to fear being a target of collective retaliation.

@1968RFK @BNODesk Just an ethnic headcount ?

@BNODesk Peru is one of the few countries on earth that persuasion could actually influence elections. The margins are just so thin. Yet both sides don’t seem to be able to persuade the other side’s voters to switch their vote.

Update on Peru’s presidential election, with 94% of the votes counted

@DrunkRepub They like them fat?

European soccer fans seeing women in the American South for the first time