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I swear that "think of the children" as the means of getting perverse laws justified has just been switched with "but... China".

Let's not fool ourselves into trying to believe this is anything other than protecting the interests of a few of Donny Tango's mates. He has already proven that he has absolutely no problem throwing the USA, its citizens or its allies under the bus for a couple quid.

The BBC started reporting after the riots were in full swing and social media was already awash with information.

The point at which the BBC started reporting was the same as all other major news outlets: after the point that they just looked daft for not reporting it.

I know this as my videos of the riots took my little blog from 50 - 100 views a day to thousands per minute…

Anyone old enough to remember the London riots should remember the fact that the acting government issued a D notice to all broadcasters, preventing them from reporting the issue.

This is part of what started the death of BBM and proliferation of news via social media. You’d go on Twitter and see all the reports or riots and burning buildings then go to the BBC and… nothing.

All of this is to say that successive British governments, over a span of decades, have been actively destroying freedom of speech and a right to privacy for its citizens.

With AI and the rise of populism combined with the absolute decimation of the average person’s attention span it is going to get a lot worse.

I saw the post and was literally thinking "I have been using these tunnels extensively for a couple years now"

Yeah I was going to say I don’t remember seeing smokers anywhere other than the ‘box of shame’

I think someone has really mislead you on yoghurt. If you get plain, natural yoghurt it’s not ultra processed.

> February 2025: "I will keep writing this stuff until I’m proven wrong." Wrong (Zitron continues to write despite repeatedly being proven wrong)

This did give me a good chuckle

What happens when you compare quality of life? Or workers rights? Pretty sure that your average person cares more about those two data points…

I don’t understand this mentality which I see over and over again on here. It’s not like the US frontier labs are beacons of morality and transparency.

It’s also pretty accepted within this community that a lot of data fed to US tech companies ends up with the Israeli government.

Meanwhile the current US government headed by Donny Tango has done a very thorough job of proving itself to be about as predictable and dependable as a rabid dog on crack.

Throughout the events which have transpired since a certain orange charlatan took office it is objectively true that the Chinese government has portrayed itself as a much more stable and sane entity.

We really need to stop this elitism and recognise the reality.

Out of curiosity why do you want AGI to ‘happen FASTER’?

The whole article boils down to two points:

1. “I’m fine with ‘em, as long as they’re useless”

2. “The only authoritarian regime which can be trusted with such power is the one which benefits my company”

Agreed. An experiment is only as accurate as the methodology is sound.

Testing each lab’s model in its own harness just tells us how well the lab has performed. For the model’s performance we need a control and the only way to get the control is to either test all models in all harnesses or all models in the same harness

I don’t know that the methodology of the experiment is testing what it intends to test. With the current method we’re essentially testing each AI lab’s ability to efficiently extract data from their version of a transformer model.

To objectively test all models the harness would need to be the same and ideally independent. Failing that, all three models should be tested in all three harnesses and the output verified on a model x harness level and on an overall aggregated model x all harnesses level.