I am always surprised at how cheap it would be to save the world - for example decarbonize to stop global warming. $10 trillion is 1/4th the US national debt. That kind of stuff is payable, if we want to.

It could very well be that Iran gave Trump a personal present - as in literally put $1b into Trump’s bank account.

Trump would accept that. And Iran would happily do that, since it only delegitimizes Trump and America. So it seems surprisingly plausible…

But another 20% will still vote for the next Republican who is not Trump. Even though the systemic Republican incompetence that led Bush II into the Iraq War is exactly the same systemic Republican incompetence that led Trump into Iran War.

RAM used to be ~$4/GB. So 300*4=$1200. A price increase of $1200 is actually pretty darn affordable to get self driving, surely?

Sure, there are other components than RAM needed. But the RAM alone is not what would make it unaffordable.

I wonder how he resisted titling it “Trump continues tilting at windmills”

The world is not that simple. There are too many combinations to try. And you risk hitting local maxima, even if doing the gradient thing.

Cluster bombs hitting civilians is good news to you, I guess?

I were simply unable to convince Codex to split a patch into separate git commits in a meaningful way. There are things that just doesn’t work.

Still useful for lots of stuff. Just don’t use it blind.

If used by an expect developer, then the combinations are not just random “lucky” choices.

One common fertilizer is literally shit. So I guess I did worry more about the Iranians hitting literal shit, than the Iranians hitting US Marines… /s

Well, yes, that is a central point.

I am a senior programmer. LLMs are amazing - I know exactly what I want, and I can ask for it and review it. My productivity has gone up at least 3-fold, with no decrease in quality, by using LLMs responsibly.

But it seems to me that some people on social media just can’t imagine using LLMs in this way. They just imagine that all LLM usage is vibe coding, using the output without understanding or review. Obviously you are very unlikely to create any fundamentally new solutions if you only use LLMs that way.

only to find out you didn’t provide adequate requirements for your config.

Senior programmer. I know exactly what I want. My requirement communicated to the LLM are precise and adequate.

So fuck the US, but this is not good. This can create a huge economic crisis and food instability, which would create untold suffering among innocent poor people across the world.

You are allowed to rightfully criticize the US for this war, without applauding Iran sinking ships with fertilizer the world desperately needs to not starve.

The database was an arbitrary example. A more relevant example would be tenserflow layers in a neural network. As I understand it, you can in some cases get a novel solution to a problem just by choosing a smart enough combination, with the right data.

ChatGPT absolutely knows how to help doing the grunt work setting up the tenserflow configuration, following your directions.

But seriously, what were the arguments given? Inconvenient objective reality is surely not a permitted reason, as you say.

Even novel solutions are usually built out of smaller common building blocks. E.g. many novel solutions surely use a database. You can make the LLM help you set up and use the database, that your novel solution uses.

As I read it, they are scared of the Chinese Communist Party having an “official” back door built in. Not run-of-the-mill criminal bot-nets.

How about neither?

And it has gotta be pretty obvious which trades are likely insider trading. So SEC could likely trivially prosecute them - and I assume it is blatantly illegal.

But I assume that Trump has also corrupted the SEC.

if Iran hit it, it’s because they got a tip Israel or the US’ dickhead billionaires were involved,

Iran’s proxy the Houthis made a promise to also only hit enemy ships. And then shot at everything that moved - ships were sunk where people could see no connection.

It is quite reasonable to doubt how precise Iran is here…

You know that Hamas entered Israel and took lots of innocent civilian hostages, right? Which Israel enetered Gaza to get back. Hence, Israel had an extremely good reason to enter Gaza.