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I don't disagree, I only mention it to clarify that "available in Mexico but not the US" isn't limited to Chinese EVs. The article's tone in my opinion implies some kind of conspiracy to deprive the US of cool EVs, when in fact there is a much broader conspiracy to deprive us of Hiluxes (Hiluxi?)!

The Hilux issue is a bit more complicated as a result of the "chicken tax" of 25% on imported light-duty trucks. Toyota made the Tacoma for the US market and built it here to avoid that tax, and now the economics of the Hilux don't make sense for them to import even if it met safety/emissions standards. It would certainly kill the market for the Tacoma.

Edit: My poor phrasing certainly did read that way though, I should have been more clear.

Claude reports that this is called "model collapse" and assures me Anthropic is on top of it

As the percentage of LLM-generated stuff in the world increases relative to natural stuff, I don't see how it's possible to continue to train new models indefinitely. At some point, won't LLMs be trained on a corpus that is majority LLM-generated data, with everything that entails both good and bad? Seems to me that singularity is just going to kick off a self-reinforcing spiral... Bigger minds than me have to have considered this, is this a legitimate concern?

How is this not purely Anthropic's fault?

Broadly, the downgrading is still way too heavy-handed and clumsy. As of yesterday “How easy to crack is WPA2” downgraded to opus 4.8. Granted I could probably have phrased it differently and gotten a response, but the point is I shouldn’t have to. It can’t simultaneously be smart enough to reverse the ECDSA curve seed and not smart enough not to destroy the world by answering a trivial question with a scary word in it.

I think elimination is a little broad, but I also think the majority of school zones aren't necessary, in my midwestern area of the US at least. Most schools I pass are set well back from the road, have a schoolyard that is entirely fenced, there's a bus/pickup circle off the street, and there's no sidewalk along or crosswalk across the school zoned street. There is little chance a student is going to be anywhere near the street.

This is where my mind goes too. They're not even outright blaming Russia here either, just planting the seed by referring to intelligence assessments that are for some reason made public. I hesitate to use the term because of the connotations, but considering the ever-increasing ease by which such cyberattacks can be conducted and the actors' identity obscured, this and similar incidents seem ripe for some kind of a false flag type deal. Some non-zero number of these incidents have to be exactly that.

This isn't to excuse Russia's abhorrent conduct elsewhere either, I'm just not entirely convinced by the boogeyman lazy journalists seem perfectly content to keep trotting out.

Assuming the Russia speculation is correct, what is their motivation? General chaos in Europe? It seems pretty reckless knowing this would be ascribed to them, and I don't see how they benefit here.

Lockdown Mode on iOS also disables 2G

I believe "sterilization" is a bit of a misnomer when it comes to prions, as they can't be reliably destroyed without also destroying the object. Neurosurgical instruments are routinely discarded and incinerated rather than reused due to this risk.

I'd like to know the author's light bulb preferences