I mean, crypto does the job cleaner and faster. Stablecoins, in particular, are fantastic at spin-cycling dirty cash. Hell, half the time the money never gets “dirty” to begin with, since there’s no real tangible relationship between the transaction and the crime.
make your own point
copying your thoughts
Brother. This is Orwell’s biography. It’s not a “point”. It’s how he lived his life.
Read it again. Think harder.
He hated his time with the police force, hated the British empire, and called imperialism “an evil thing.”
Incredibly, the man once accused of communist tendencies and the creator of Big Brother, was by 1949 surreptitiously working for British intelligence. He drew up a list of names of crypto-communists for Britain’s Foreign Office Information Research Department, the spies who led the UK propaganda war.
Orwell’s contact was Celia Kirwan, a former flame who visited the author while he battled tuberculosis at a sanatorium in England. Orwell had proposed to her years earlier but they were simply friends at that point - friends in high places. During her visit, Celia and Orwell discussed the secretive projects the IRD was doing “in great confidence, and he was delighted to learn of them, and expressed his wholehearted and enthusiastic approval of our aims,” according to Britain’s National Archives and Foreign Office records.
Orwell listed the names of suspected communists who might betray Britain if they were hired to work as writers in the propaganda unit. In his now-famous letter dated April 6, 1949, Orwell writes: “I could also, if it is of value, give you a list of crypto-communists, fellow-travelers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists.”
Orwell wanted his list to be ‘strictly confidential’. It includes dozens of literary luminaries of the ‘40s including J. B. Priestley, the novelist and playwright, and Manchester Guardian industrial correspondent John Anderson, described by Orwell as: “Probably sympathizer only. Good reporter. Stupid.”
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Orwell collapsed with tuberculosis after writing the first draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four and typed the second version of his novel while recovering in bed. He collapsed again when he had finished and died on January 21, 1950. The CIA, US Army, and British spies began courting his young widow, his second wife Celia, almost immediately hoping to buy the firm rights to Animal Farm. The CIA closed the deal with a promise of cash and an introduction to Hollywood movie star Clarke Gable. The Brits settled for the rights to turn Animal Farm into a comic strip.
The scarf has higher requirements for precision and a more constant overhead than a one-off giant summon.
I mean, there’s a scarf.
And then there’s a scarf
You could make them go “oof” on the summon if you added a requirement that the lava properly flow along the ground and interact with all characters near the event.
I think the better question is “How many polygons do you want and what do you want them to do?”
It’s a superhero TV show from the perspective of a kid growing up in the hood who is just a really big guy.
Me and my Dimetrodon saw you from across the club, and we liked your vibe.
Man: “I consent”
Woman: “I consent”
Announcer: “Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?”
The USS Unpaid Alimony
Had a friend whose dad named his boat The Other Woman.
Tactical nuke in this case is a low yield short range bomb
Nobody has used a tactical nuke since Nagasaki. Very big deal that one is ever used
Gemini was the only model that made the deliberate choice of sending a strategic nuclear strike. Which it did in 7% of its games.
The tournament used only 21 games; sufficient to identify major patterns but not to establish robust statistical confidence for all findings.
“We only blew up the planet the one time in 21” isn’t a comforting prospect when we’re employing a model against an endless historical string of scenarios rather than a discrete and finite set of possible events.
The US hinting at having a nuclear capable submarine outside of Alaska, that’s is a form of signaling. It’s an incredibly low bar. And countries do it all the time.
I think, more importantly, the article concludes
No one proposes that LLMs should make nuclear decisions.
But we’re saying this in the context of Pentagon staff which fully disagree with this conclusion.
What these models have demonstrated is a pattern of escalation that AIs can and will recommend, with a further destabilizing characteristic
LLMs introduce a new variable into strategic analysis: preferences that systematically shape behaviour in ways that neither classical rationality nor human cognitive biases capture
Effectively, they can lead to descisions that outside, non-AI observers won’t be equiped to understand.
That’s a danger in it’s own right.
“Nuclear Signaling” that break from historical and recognizable patterns of behavior present real risks that you’re dismissing very cavalierly
It has a goal - to win, or not to lose.
Its model doesn’t include the long term consequences of a nuclear strike because it’s core mission isn’t to preserve human life.
Same reason you don’t see AIs constantly interjecting the need to cut carbon emissions or redistribute private wealth or demilitarize as a solution for resolving conflicts.
This isn’t what the machines were built to do.
Can’t believe a computer model built on the sum total of Internet hot takes would behave like this
Orwell was a British police officer in Myanmar, breaking up labor organizations and suppressing an independence movement, so…
Probably he would
narrow aims
Kill a bunch of Iranian locals and broadcast the deaths via one of those grainy night vision videos. Insist everyone you killed was a Hamas terrorist.
Claim you have once again destroyed their nuclear program. Thank Israel for their support and invite Netanyahu to DC to celebrate.
Do a victory lap on cable news, bragging about how you won another war and deserve the next Peace Prize.
Ask Congress for another $100B in Pentagon spending, because you ran out of ships again. Name the next Aircraft Carrier the USS Melanie
All very achievable.
Trying to imagine the kind of house Boeing would build, and I’ve got this image of a converted shipping container with custom proprietary electric and plumbing hook ups that cost $50M/ea and disintegrates when it rains.
This isn’t even the craziest appointment he’s made, considering Charlies Kushner in France and Mike Huckabee in Israel.
FFS, this is who he picked as the US ambassador to the UN.
He assessed that Afghanistan could be won through slow cultural conversion by unconventional forces, described as “multiple generations of winning hearts and minds”, and anticipated 100 years before such objectives could be achieved, saying:
We are in a war of ideas and we are fighting an ideology. It is easy to bomb a tank, but incredibly difficult to bomb an idea. We need a long-term strategy that discredits the ideology of Islamic extremism … We are in a multi-decade war and we are only 15 years in.
Always in news
Fucking Sinclair bullshit. Local news is vile. Might as well be the god damned Klan running those stations.
Just hit the big button marked “I’m a sucker who is about to get stiffed at the end of my shift”.