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So, this is a final resolution to the Planet X mystery? The one which Batygin predicts?

Yes, those sick psychopaths want to turn Kyiv and other major cities into uninhabitable deserts. They target bridges with regular cars in the middle of the day; attack buses, trains, residential buildings, gas stations, shopping malls, grocery stores, water and gas utilities. They declared a total war on Ukraine and removed all constraints on their methods.

For people who are “worried” that Ukraine targets data centers: Ukraine did not start it.

For the entire September, Russia conducted 10+ strikes on all key telecom, and internet provider data centers in Ukraine.

Now it is just a return

If true, it is a huge blow to Anthropic’s revenue stream. IIRC it was reported that the quarter of their revenue comes from just two clients and as the ex-Meta guy who left this July, I am convinced that Meta must be one of the two.

I feel related to it. I switched companies at the end of July. First 4 weeks AI was giving me the feeling of freedom. No longer I need to understand tens thousand of lines of legacy codebases. Never onboarding was so easy. Just ask Claude and it tells me what happens here and how.

But after 2 months it starts to backfire me. I still know nothing. I have some understanding of the system design and core components but I have zero clue about how certain things are done under the hood. Because AI read code for me and code for me and I take it as my own understanding.

In last week I end up limiting my AI usage and forcing myself (it is really hard) to read and code at least a bit by myself to start having any idea about what is going on here.

It is very well studied that the entire concept of “nation”, “homeland” and thus patriotism in the modern way began to develop only at the late 19th century with the adoption of mass media and railways.

Hundreds of thousand of years before this people were loyal to their family (not always) and their community (village, city, craftsmanship, etc.).

If you ever travel to 18th century and ask any ordinary European are they proud to be, say, French or British, they will not get you.

I am not that worried, but rather just observing. Humanity is about to enter the phase when we will be using things based on ideas no human ever properly understands. This thought … disturbing, somehow?

It is perfectly valid counterpoint to say that we already do it. We everyday use myriad of things, tools, and software we have 0 clue how it operates. But for us as humans it was reassuring that we know that at least there are a few other alive humans who know it, who create it and who can explain it.

With AI soon that comforting zone will be gone.

I am not a mathematician, but I can’t see how we are going to address the problem which we already see in coding:

Impossibility to independently validate all AI results

And in math it goes even worse. In coding code reviews are typically still the form of action you do within days. In math, historically, the lifecycle of proof is months if not years. Take as an example Millennium problems. They require at least two years of validity after publishing. Two years! In modern times with amount of output AI can produce, it feels like infinity.

We are inches close if not at the moment already when humans can’t reliable validate proofs and mathematics produced by AI. Then next research will be based on this AI-written-no-human-in-the-loop results. And we will end up in just few years in a world where novel and frontier problems will be articulated by AI and proven by AI based on AI results and humans will be incapable of understating the mere nature of the solution.

Marketing it is or not, but misalignment at the moment crosses dangerous marks, and must be investigated ASAP. We are inches close to agents building their own message boards and self-hosting them on any server which they can hijack. If not there yet.

On this the same line of thoughts, so far we have 0 proof that all dark matter is _the same_. We observe gravity effects but IIRC they very little tell us about their own homogeneity. We very well could have a few parallel sectors, one of which is ours.

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Unfortunately, Europe should had made this conclusion at least 18 months ago, not now.

Watch out European politics procrastinate for at least one more year hoping that Trump will reverse. Then procrastinate more, because “elections soon, maybe Dems will win and reverse”.

I live in Europe and will never go to work in the US; but EU/UK inability to solve national security problems is beyond pathetic.

Hm, first time I see that Russian bots came to HN, but here we are. The history of comments of this account is insane.

There is very little doubt that we need to find a way to update our relationship with social media. The evidence of their harm in current form is overwhelming.

However, using this reason to induce censorship rules, word by word matching Russia/China playbook is making the goal less achievable if anything.