Might as well strip away the “intelligence” part

The next step seems obvious: they’ll take a page from the tobacco, gun, and meat industries and instead create fake think tanks or associations to funnel political money semi-anonymously.

The headline is way too charitable towards Meta

Maybe awareness of recent history

HackerNews commenters noted a few issues with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179706

No doubt Microsoft bribed the right people to achieve this outcome

A lot of free software has silly names, it’s part of the 80s/90s nerdy computing culture

Doesn’t look like we’ll ever see the source code of this thing either

Bruh if I was Ukrainian I’d be seething at this headline

The more desperate for money they get, the more dangerous the models get

Point is AI is still misaligned. This is relevant because these systems will be used for life-and-death situations more and more (we’re already seeing it in the Iran War and Ukraine War)

Lettuce remains undefeated

Easier said than done when all your friends and family use WhatsApp and Instagram

I’ve recently taken to reinstalling NoScript. The web has become too hostile.

It’s especially tragic because Brazil is highly dependent on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook

This seems to be the proximate cause:

The sell-off came after US data on Wednesday showed stateside inflation jumped to a higher-than-expected 3.7% in September, marking the fastest increase in prices since the consumer price index (CPI) rate hit a three-year peak of 4.2% in May.

Fresh data on Thursday showing US producers increased their prices by 6.3% year on year in September – the sharpest rise since December 2022 – added to inflationary jitters.

The figures have rattled investors who are now expecting fresh interest rate increases by the US Federal Reserve, with some punters pricing in another increase as soon as the end of the month.

It seems that investors are worried AI debt will be even more difficult to pay off once the Fed jacks up interest rates

Would’ve heard a “RTFM” real quick

The one good thing here is he’s made it clear who’s his boss (and it isn’t the people)

“Thank you very much. If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,” she said. The room erupted in laughter.

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