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Yep, where does your trust lay now? It's been a minute of pretending it'll be okay.


Nothing has changed in decades regarding this. People just like to pretend something new is happening, because they're extremely desperate to proclaim a fundamental turning / ending of the US (which is why every single event brings out those claims: this time is different! America will never recover from this! etc).

US tech companies were previously forced into compliance with PRISM or threatened with destruction (see: escalating fines to infinity against Yahoo, forcing their eventual compliance).

You know what's new? This administration is doing out in the open what used to go on quietly.


The US has already ended. It was destroyed in 9/11/2001. America is a shadow of its former self.


Bin laden really did win


> Nothing has changed

> You know what's new? This administration is doing out in the open what used to go on quietly.

So this administration has got bold and the behaviour has become overt.


You should definitely ask your local homeless veteran of their opinions of other forces. I highly doubt many will have anything but praise to express.

When these things done right you won't hear about it.


Pardon?


It's a response to the "puny" part of your statement. Anzac special forces are renown for their brutal effectiveness (and frequent disregard for the rules of war[1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report


I was sarcastically pointing out the embedded assumption in the humour of the comment I was replying to. If you really must make this case, because it sounds like you've been waiting for the chance, go and make it to GP who was using spies from Canada and New Zealand as figures of absurdity. Perhaps also explain to him why "spies" got switched for "forces" and then "special forces" appropo of nothing


Upvoted because you were genuinely asking a question and don't deserve to be down voted for that.


Thanks, but I guess I understand the sentiment. I probably should have not said that I couldn't think of "a single thing of value" when that is a bit of a judgement along with my question. Anyways, it is interesting hearing what people ask it, I think I've only ever used it like a search engine / bug fixing while it seems some people have much deeper conversations or discussions that are worth remembering.


I'm glad I upvoted. Your perspective and questions are valid, no matter the depth of conversation. You'd be surprised what fresh questions can do for a topic.


I for one might use these chats as an input for switching over to keep the learning process fast. For me it took a while for ChatGPT to get me. I know that other people delete memories because they want a clean slate experience with every chat. I use chatGPT mostly private (use claud code for work for instance) and I prefer that memories travel across chats.


Exactly. Attracting talent is not the same as having talent.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education...

You attract talent for the same reasons china attracts sales; at the cost of your very own rights.

Look at the towns suffering around data centres for a start. The rest of us are happy to pay for what you'll do to yourselves.



Hoorah! shock and awe



>Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

I don't get it. Aren't these the same things that Anthropic was trying to negotiate?

Edit: it was explained elsewhere in this thread:

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47188473#47190614


Redirect every tweet to x-cancel link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xcancelcom-redirect...

Saves you the hastle of visiting that shit-show.


WTF is this garbage site?


It's for people who want to read Twitter/X while trying so hard to convince themselves that they don't.


> It's for people who want to read

individual posts on Twitter/X without requiring JavaScript and without being fed a sidebar full of algorithmic recommendations.


It's for people who want the context of what's going on here who have neither the time nor stupidity to be on X.

I presume you're on X so no offence to you directly.


If you click the '?' link in the upper right it will explain what it does https://xcancel.com/about


it mirrors what is on x.com


I wouldn't call senior AI researchers / scientists laypersons. In fact in this sense politicians are laypersons.

There are already several comments here showing xAIs involvement. Please save clutter and read before posting.


Re: Reading, I don't see any xAI names on the list (currently 643) and only Google and OpenAI are selectable company options. And this page on HN is only calling out xAI.


See here.

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47188473#47188709

They are very much not a part of the initiative. Their involvement is and will be non-existent. Unless of course, you want their lay staff to make some noise?


Piggybacking on deeply integrated information and connectivity within society that was marketed and adopted under the guise of trust and an ethos of not being evil is pathetic.

Build, train, develop and maintain an AI for military if needed. When a government is scared of individuals they've clearly lost their edge.


Do you have any references for this? I'd like to know more.


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