The idea of advertising prescription drugs is absolutely bonkers in and of itself. If I recall correctly, the only reason they say "Ask your doctor about..." was a regulatory compromise that allowed such advertising. Telling the general public to simply "take Procrapin for their constipation" was deemed too extreme: The general public doesn't have the medical training to diagnose themselves or recommend treatment, but instead the manufacturer could urge the general public to nag their doctor about a medicine--that was seen as fine.
Sounds very interesting and useful, I hope you find funding to implement your ideas, both P2P and online voting are top tier capabilities.
> Our question is: does anyone in the P2P community still care about solving these problems?
Sadly, the mainstream is heavily invested in centralization and push from the top. Have you tried pitching you idea on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter? Maybe as part of some gizmo?
eBPF started as a network tool, but (according to the creators of it) targeting the network was just a ploy to get a foot in the door so they could start expanding it to other things. They didn’t think the idea would be accepted if they tried to do it all at once. So now it works on many parts of the system, not just the network.
If I was a student in today’s world I’d probably be tempted to just make my own elaborate surveillance setup to just record myself as I do all the work just in case my school administrators were this boneheaded.
> I like that it begins as Asteroids, turns into a countdown race, borrows ideas from Nintendo, Bomb Jack and Pang, and then actually ends after sixteen waves that can be learnt by heart
The thing about using AI to write articles for you is, because it's tuned to be enthusiastic about everything, it doesn't know what's boring and uninteresting. Shameful.
Recycling is mostly a lie. Plastic can’t really be usefully recycled. Glass would need to be sorted by color, which is infeasible. There is already more paper and cardboard than can be consumed. Clean aluminum and steel containers recycle well, but are not a lot of volume, and don’t burn.
Well of course they should be. You have been brainwashed so much that you can't even conceive of a different world.
For taxes, I favor land value tax. Basic necessities can absolutely be free under it, as the super rich hold plenty of land. We can have a world without much pollution if we switch away from fossil fuels. Note that excesss carbon dioxide is pollution too. Regarding cancer, medical science is working toward it.
i think its cognitive dissonance. everyone is using it pretty frequently and so to criticize it creates this tension like "if its not actually worthwhile then why am i using it so much?" and the most prolific response to that dilemma is to write it off as saying "well of course its useful in many ways" ... with the unspoken second half of that sentence being "it's useful in the ways i use it"
President Clinton tried to improve government contracting through various legislation and executive orders. One of the first things President W Bush did when he got into office was to sign an executive order that effectively negated most of the changes, particularly the one regarding "black listing" contractors who have a history of ripping off the government. The administration's response: the "black listed" contractors have improved; they promise not to rip off the government anymore. Then the Iraq War started and government contractors made billions with basically no oversight. And we all know how that went.
Having a ghostwriter in your ordinary life is absolutely cheating. It's letting someone, or something, else write for you and pass it off as your own. Personally, I'm insulted any time someone sends me LLM-generated media.
> I say China is not starting any wars, you gesture at some vague "not behaving nicely" as if this is equivalent to a war or some damning proof that they will start a war - these are nowhere near the same thing.
Well I just pointed out that just because they haven't started any new wars, and obviously they haven't been in a position to start anything new in recent memory doesn't mean they can't or won't, and we also shouldn't excuse their belligerence toward their neighbors in the South China Sea. Nobody is forcing them to ram their boats into Filipino fishing vessels, for example.
> The US has killed 100,000-250,000 in that time period. There is no amount of rationalization that can reverse the deaths of those people or the cities turned to rubble.
Well if you want to play this kind of numbers game China in the last 100 years has killed tens of millions so really they're the bad guys. You just have a recency bias.
But to engage with your point in a different way, China also has not been a factor on the world stage until recently and they, like other nations, rely on the United States to maintain peace and order to the extent the US is able to. In other words, stop criticizing the man in the arena.
> Same thing with literally kidnapping the president of another country.
Well he's a criminal, drug trafficker, and his actions and the actions of his predecessor resulted in 1/3rd of Venezuelans fleeing the country, a drastic reduction in economic growth, and more. Also just because you're the president of some country doesn't mean you get immunity. Otherwise, nobody can go arrest Vladimir Putin can they?
> I can tell you the prevalence of sports gambling and betting is exploding in Canada
Ok? Go ban the platforms. What does this have to do with anything?
> in that scenario, it's really just saying "yes we suck, but they suck more!" and that doesn't solve anything..
Ok stop criticizing the United States and just say we suck all the time. It doesn't solve anything. Frankly the only real reason my post had anything to do with China is because they're the only other country that currently matters in the AI race - and I specifically have a problem with folks and their arguments about who is "doing better" or "winning" that race. I was criticizing the strategy and criticism of that strategy which seems to only apply to the United States when in fact it does not. In other words they can release open weight models and so can we. They can take the lead and we can just release open weight models like they supposedly do to us.
Thanks, and I have good news on that front actually. I recently factored out a portable Scheme layer and got Jolt to compile against Gambit as a backend. And given that Racket is basically an extension of Chez, it should be trivial to build against it now.
The price wasn't that ridiculous IMO for the quality of the discovery, it generated 31M output tokens which is ~$1500 in API cost if it was on Fable. A new lower bound on the biggest unsolved problem in mathematics for less than a couple day's pay of a prestigious mathematics professor is kind of insane. Obviously this discovery doesn't change anything as it's just moving a lower bound, but that's something many mathematicians have tried and failed to do.
In this context they're not the same thing. Calls from companies legitimately operating in the country need to obey laws or face enforcement (ideally, unless the government is asleep at the wheel) while calls from scammers outside of the country are breaking a bunch of laws anyways so who cares about violating a do not call list.
I consider marketing is a plague on attention and view it highly negatively - but in the case of tools to reduce unwanted phone calls there are some real differences in what's available to legitimate vs. scam callers and a do not call list can only ever be effective against people working within the system.
From my experience, models that drive optimizers in a loop often get stuck in local minima. ofc, this is just correlation, and not truly indicative, but if you look at the first graph, analyzing precision vs cost, all three model-driven optimizers just bounce back and forth between a precision range, not really expanding the horizon or getting too much worse than the orignal. from our analysis on this data, model-driven optimizers typically don't start from scratch again, they just continue down their optimization path.
Not about your app but every and I mean EVERY app implements these social features, and I don't know anyone in my circles actually USING whatever social features - even if we talk about our experiences with common apps. Are you sure you're not just investing programming effort into nothing?
> Trump has greatly stressed the safeguards in our system, but I don't think that he has broken them.
His sentencing for 34 felonies was voided because the justices he personally appointed to run some of those safeguards decided he should be immune to them. Come on.
I was going to comment on that. This is clearly a vibe-coded webpage. It sort of smells like GPT to me, or at least front-end design. But the author clearly went back and forth to make it beautiful. This is not the first output he got.
This is the kind of stuff I point to when people talk about AI slop. AI is just a tool. You're still the person who has to deliver the output and have some taste.
