I'm also not averse to pasting Claude's output sometimes, with clear attribution, if it adds something. It's not that different from pasting a quote from Wikipedia- might bring useful information but there is a chance that it could be wrong.
Yes exactly, when it's clearly attributed you can skip it. It's a tool, it can be used to process and analyse large amounts of information. Not different from Excel.
I think it's more the consistency of product design than the manufacturing process. Everything around me, especially in the software world, seems to change for no good reason on a frequent basis. Companies change products all the time for reasons other than utility/functionality. A consistent specification over 50+ years is an outlier.
Did you even read the article? No, even just the Title? Nothing is ever impressive I guess. Certainly not a 60 years running manufacturing process where your childhood pieces can be passed down and combined seamlessly with a set you just bought for your kid. So trivial and easy to do guys.
The precision in tolerance over the years is truly breathtaking.
It speaks to Ole Kirk Christiansen's impossible standards: "Even the best is not good enough" (Det Bedste Er Ikke For Godt.) (usually translated "Only the best is good enough.")
Much more strenuous in Danish than the usual quoted translation! but I know some Danish, and most of all that's how Kjeld Kirk Christiansen explained it to an American audience at Brickfest 2003 (IIRC the year).
As I commented elsewhere, it's not 60 years. Sure, the outer dimensions have not changed and are very strict metric Lego Units. [1] But there have been continual improvement that render old and new less than wonderful to use together. You don't really want to mix 70s-early 80s bricks.
Conversely, if you're reselling those old sets, you need to find vintage pieces (though also Lego would use up older pieces and begin to use newer ones in that set)
But bricks from the mature design of the 80s even didn't age so well (clutch too hard, walls can warp), and there have been many improvements to the interior of a brick. All for sound engineering reasons. Thinner walls and internal voids to prevent warp, subtle changes to fine-tune clutch power.
It's a story of continual improvement, but it makes the old bricks seem less wonderful.
Weird thing Lego started to advertise in the 2000s: Lego bricks reach the proper clutch power after 7 insertions! I guess you have to stress-work the new plastic...
[1] I've used a micrometer on pieces of various age and can't get a difference from the outside. Doesn't help that they compress under measuring.
Ok, so to see this in the most favourable and futuristic light: there will be an intelligence explosion, of which OpenClaw and Moltbook are just the first hint. Agents will work on behalf of "their humans" creating and maintaining social connections, organising activities, and finally spending real money. This is what social networks have always been about, and the only thing Facebook cares about is that its users can be targeted by ads. Humans or agents, they don't care, and they're right. If each of us will be helped and coached and prodded around by a team of agents, these agents will need to coordinate with other people's agents, and will ultimately be susceptible to ads and marketing, and they will either spend money directly or tell us where and how to do it. It would be stupid for Facebook to miss this social network opportunity because, heh, "that's just a gimmick with autocompletes running in a loop".
Gosh what disappointment to sketch out such a funny sci-fi idea and seeing it downvoted and ignored in a thread full of lazy sarcasm and cynical takes. Zuck, if you're reading this: I get you. Hire me too! :)
Funny though how many are dismissive of trillion-synapses brains that can understand and speak tens of languages, write decent code, discuss history and philosophy, solve math problems...
And then are creeped by 200k neurons that barely find a target when they're told where it is.
You can probably train an ANN with only a few hundred neurons at most to do the same.
> The man would now be the entire system, yet he still would not understand Chinese.
Really, here the only issue is Searle's inability to grasp the concept that the process is what does the understanding, not the person (or machine, or neurons) that performs it.
All the horrible practices employed by the regime of Iran, used to happen in western European countries as well:
- hostage politics: in medieval times, royal families of different kingdoms would exchange family members to live with the other royal family, as a form of hostage politics, supposedly this would prevent or discourage wars. The current regime in Iran rose to power how? by taking hostages. How have they repeatedly responded to spontaneous internal domestic forces towards regime change? Hostage politics. Every time they feel threatened they take hostages in some form or another: by taking a protestor hostage into some torture prison, they are keeping their relatives in line ("behave or your niece will have a bad day in infamous prison X"), it goes both ways they also keep the "free" relatives hostage by threatening say a protestor to harm their families if they don't pretend everything is fine. It's not just internal freedom of speech. I write from Belgium, when the protests surrounding Mahsa Amini's death occured, and the video of her collapse was released it even affected my freedom of speech: from the video it was clear they used hydrogen cyanide, but would I be allowed to share this on international media when "Free" nations are desperately trying to negotiate back their citizens taken hostage by the regime in Iran?
- The wrongs and mistakes made in say Europe during WW1 (lobbing chemicals at each other), were just repeated without learning lessons by Iran. They are a signatory to the chemical weapons ban treaty. Yet the Mahsa Amini video (which even aired on local Iranian national television) subtly leaks the information that she was killed with hydrogen cyanide.
There is no valid defense of the IRGC and the Iranian regime.
> The regime hides next to schools, under hospitals, and in retirement homes
This is the type of excuse that people look for when they want to deflect responsibility. No matter how implausible or unevenly applied.
The fact is, everyone has civilian infrastructure close to military bases. Israel's IDF headquarters is famously located in central Tel Aviv. Do you use the verb "squeal" when the Israelis lament an attack?
In my hometown in Western Europe military barracks are scattered everywhere among houses, schools and hospitals. Is this a hideous plot to make the enemies (Russians, presumably) look bad when they nuke a hospital instead of a military installation?
> excuse that people look for when they want to deflect responsibility
If it's used as an excuse, yes. We should be able to hit military compounds next to schools without hitting the schools as well.
If it's offered as a description, I don't think it's in bad faith. Putting barracks among hospitals and putting them underneath them are different. To my knowledge, Iran hasn't been directly doing the latter. But its proxies have, and we now have allegations rockets are being fired from residential buildings.
All of that combines to make it more likely schools will be bombed. Intentionally, because the other side's behaviour creates a convenient excuse for bombing just about anything. Or even accidentally, because intelligence thought they saw a commander go into the school and assumed it was a clandestine command post.
> if it's offered as a description, I don't think it's in bad faith
It was obviously in bad faith because it was used to paint one side as particularly evil for something that is perfectly normal.
> Putting barracks among hospitals and putting them underneath them are different. ... its proxies have
This, besides being of absolutely no relevance here (and therefore only brought in as a way to paint one side as particularly evil) is another unproven allegation by Israel, that used it repeatedly to strike hospital and destroy most civilian infrastructure in Gaza (even in the already conquered parts- demolished with explosives, exactly like the Nazis did in Warsaw).
There is substantial evidence Hamas stored munitions in hospitals and at schools. One hospital in particular has long been notorious for dual use issues [1].
We don't yet know if Iran is doing this. (There are allegations. But not yet substantiated.) But if a source is confused about whether Hamas waged war from hospitals and schools, it's not a reliable source for this war.
The Wikipedia page you linked is called "Alleged military use.." and the title has a reason: there is no proof whatsoever except for allegations from Israel and the US. Israel has been proven time and again to lie about pretty much everything and the US unfortunately base their "intelligence" on what they're fed by Israel.
> there is no proof whatsoever except for allegations from Israel and the US
For the hospital in the current war, sources are broader than that. When I last looked, German, Indian and Chinese languages sources were concluding similarly to the U.S.
Go back to 2014 and it’s pretty much agreed across the board that hospitals were being used for military purposes. (And torture.) I suspect we’ll see similar clarity once the fog of war burns off, and I say that while acknowledging that it implicate Israel.
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