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In general, that term is mostly used outside of the borders of a country looking in. After all, "illegitimate leaders" tend to be authoritarians who take power and quell dissent within the borders.

Not at all arguing that it somehow leads to justification for an illegal invasion.

In this specific case the claim comes down to assertions of a sham election. If this was indeed the case (with the lens of an international survey obviously the US view is suspect considering the attack), then the Venezuelan people themselves do not view him as a legitimate leader, which simplifies the situation.

Entirely different, from an American perspective.

Afghanistan had the context of 9/11. All Americans knew about 9/11, and most cared strongly about it.

I doubt most Americans know anything about Yemen or know anything about any US involvement there, nor do they care.

Military strikes in Yemen aren't seen as the same war. Afghanistan and Iraq were boots on the ground, building up military bases, hearing about the occasional death of US personnel, etc. It's also decades apart.

When it comes to Yemen, the average American is probably entirely unaware of it, and the ones that do know about it are definitely going to place it in the Palestine/Israel context (which has huge mindshare circulation here, All things considered - we usually just ignore things outside of US borders and this is ultra politicized here). Maybe without that element, there would be more truth to what you were saying, but it's definitely in the Israel/Hamas war bucket as of now.

I have seen a very similar example with someone who quit their tech job to pursue th solution to quantum gravity with bizarre likely Ai generated mathematical work, and posted to HN about it. They also lived out of a car, and it sounds like OP is also homeless and could better use their elsewhere to improve their life.

I don't know what to say other than I truly hope OP can get help. If you are stuck in some sort of mental AI vortex, at least converse with some Ai about how this is an abysmal waste of time and poorly thought out. I also work in a field where I do idea generation, and most of the time is spent steel manning why I shouldn't do something. This AI slop should have never passed the filter. It really sounds like you are lacking this key step of the process.

Making a pizza out of food paste and flavor blocks and then showing AI screenshots is quite honestly meme tier, to the extent I was tempted to post these images with the descriptions as a gallery on something like /r/whatsfordinner as a joke, but I feel too bad about this to actually do it...

>If you want to get rich, build roads first; have fewer children, plant more trees

That's funny, because the supposedly widely repeated quote that I heard in the past that stuck with me is the exact opposite message on demographics:

"We have a saying in China to describe this situation –“Wei Fu Xian Lao” that we will get old before we get rich."

At first I had some suspicion that perhaps the findings were partly a result of interpretation of the question. After all, I don't generate a crystal clear image of what I'm thinking about - the image has some amorphous qualities and comes in and out of focus.

But dreams are ultra-visual experiences for me, to the extent where I will occasionally have flashbacks or deja vu to dream images that were exceptionally strong.

So that nullified my suspicion! That said, I do wonder if it's a spectrum, in that some people are more or less visual in their thinking, and on the extremes people may get the capability snipped, as the dim visual hum fades to black and background noise.

That's true to an extent - LLMs are trained on an abstraction of the world (as are we in a way, through our senses, and we necessarily use a sort of narrative in order to make sense of the quadrillions of photons coming up us) - but it's not quite as severe a problem as the simplified view seems to present.

LLMs distill their universe down to trillions of parameters, and approach structure through multi-dimensional relationships between these parameters.

Through doing so, they break through to deeper emergent structure (the "magic" of large models). To some extent, the narrative elements of their universe will be mapped out independently from the other parameters, and since the models are trained on so much narrative, they have a lot of data points on narrative itself. So to some extent they can net it out. Not totally, and what remains after stripping much of it out would be a fuzzy view of reality since a lot of the structured information that we are feeding in has narrative components.

>what should instead happen is the AI try to guide them towards making their lives less shit

There aren't enough guardrails in place for LLMs to safely interact with suicidal people who are possibly an inch from taking their own life.

Severely suicidal/clinically depressed people are beyond looking to improve their lives. They are looking to die. Even worse, and what people who haven't been there can't fully understand is the severe inversion that happens after months of warped reality and extreme pain, where hope and happiness greatly amplify the suicidal thoughts and can make the situation far more dangerous. It's hard to explain, and is a unique emotional space. Almost a physical effect, like colors drain from the world and reality inverts in many dimensions.

It's really a job for a human professional and will be for a while yet.

Agree that "shut down and refer to hotline" doesn't seem effective. But it does reduce liability, which is likely the primary objective...

Refer-to-human directly seems like it would be far more effective, or at least make it easy to get into a chat with a professional (yes/no) prompt, with the chat continuing after a handoff. It would take a lot of resources though. As it stands, most of this happens in silence and very few do something like call a phone number.

So... everything I thought I knew about last week's AWS outage is right?

Aside from a few tangential rants, this seems to match the coverage I had read.

>Widespread issues trend toward DNS because it is just that important to how the entirety of modern computing works today.

This one would be a correction of my understanding though. So problems conferred on DNS because everything uses DNS? I was under the impression it was a bit of an opaque rats nest that is prone to have propagation issues that can seem non-deterministic if the wrong bits are flipped. It has some notoriety. If that's entirely heresy then I suppose that's a slight update to understanding.

It's not uncommon at all to see the cash spent on buyback...

And many CEOs lead because they like the fact that they get paid millions in stock options that are neutralized through buybacks.

>Interest rates only go down to stimulate growth

The Fed targets price stability and employment, not growth.

Of course that is largely correlated with stimulating growth as a derivative of that, but certainly not "only" to stimulate growth. For example, the current cutting cycle has far more to do with inflation that it does growth. The Fed's primary concern currently is growth accelerating into more inflation.

There are other reasons for cutting as well. For example, funding stress. Repo funding stress caused an interest rate pivot not too long ago (and repo funding stress is rising once again, which will be a factor in the current rate decisions.)

>When businesses, governments, and individuals increase their borrowing, as they are now, that means that the cost of borrowing, the interest rate, is too low.

That's not necessarily the case. Credit expansion comes with healthy growth as well.

You know, now that I think about it, I have seen an actual ticket short squeeze before - when the airline is overbooked and has to run a reverse auction to buy back their ticket.

This article downplays the extent of Kramnik's online harassment campaign.

The first thing that it is important to note in articles covering this is that Kramnik's cheating allegations are clearly outright trolling and cyberbullying, and should be labeled as such. For example, in a recorded game where Kramnik doesn't see an easy best-move in an end game, he expectedly loses from the blunder, and immediately reports the opposing player for cheating. He reports hundreds and hundreds of people. There are dozens of proven examples of him weaponizing cheating allegations to protect his fragile ego. The intentional weaponization of false allegations is part of the greater cheating problem.

This is an online troll harassing people. The cheating issue is real, and properly addressing it would actually involve addressing mass cheating allegations weaponized as harassment, not giving it credence.

The second point is that this was clearly a personal vendetta against sort. For example, trolling with a "Don't do drugs" post after a recent video where Danya looked like he was in rough shape. If you're serious about pursuing feeding allegations, you should expect the defendant to defend themselves, not use the simple fact that they are defending themselves as an excuse to step up the harassment campaign to personal attacks.

Lastly, the entire situation begs the question of how online harassment and cyberbullying should be handled in the future. The regulatory body that partly gave Kramnik his outsized influence, as well as the greater chess world, arguably needs to do a better job requiring a higher standard of conduct from its professional members (like many other sports). It's no stretch to say that members of a professional organization should be protected from other members harassing them and threatening their livelihood.

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Moving on from cyberbullying, I do have a feeling that Danya was going through something pretty rough personally. I had a somewhat similar situation a few years ago where something I dedicated my life to was used to hurt my reputation. The hard part is knowing you did something great (help people, didn't cheat, build a community you love), being internally proud of what you have built, and then seeing it misconstrued to represent everything you stand against and tie you to those values.

That delta results in internal tension that builds up endlessly, as well as constant stress and in my case even some emotional trauma (where you just lose control and have to scream, that sort of thing). That is combined with a sense of complete powerlessness, and finally a sense of loss as your "calling" loses its magic, which can then lead to self-doubt and even self-hatred ("What if they're partly right after all? What if all this was just a waste of time? If I thought I was doing something good, but everyone else doesn't see it that way, maybe I'm just alone.") those are all real examples from things I've felt at least, and Danya seems to mirror some of those feelings and frustrations in interviews.

It's very sad to lose the magic in something which brought you joy and meaning since childhood, and even worse to have character assassination tied to that. Having it all take place in the public sphere must be even more severely stressful. In my case (in the past), it led to heavy drinking to deal with the overwhelming stress, and while I won't speculate on his situation, he clearly and publicly stated he had severe sleep issues which I also commiserate with. Pacing back and forth at night in a silent room with high cortisol and self-amplifying repetitive negative thoughts doesn't lead to good sleep ritual.

It's subscription lists that do it for me. Such an improvement.