Since I like the parallel between that and Star Wars holocrons - perhaps there should be separate dedicated devices. Without networking capability, but with ability to add “layers” of the model in the form of memory cards or optical discs as media, containing database files. It helps that hardware to efficiently run an LLM is different than what’s fit for general-purpose applications. People use GPUs for that, but these can be purely dedicated computers of a particular kind.

The downside is that they’d not be usable for other things. The upside is that you can both have something very convenient and not fear what everyone fears. Display a QR code if you want to copy-paste an answer. Something like that.

This can also apply to spam e-mails. We can acknowledge that the problem doesn’t depend on whether we want to have it.

instead I’m here boning up on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

I mean, Ferengistan is Europe and in wider sense the West in Farsi, so - pretty logical.

(Which is why I don’t subscribe to the theory that Ferengi are an antisemitic trope. They are a subversive futurist trope, “seeing ourselves through the eyes of others the same way we often see them”.)

Everyone likes to see themselves as the heroes of some universe.

It’s also true for some Soviet science fiction, like things by Strugatsky brothers communicate that deep painful wish for “us” to be that society of scientific workers and doctors, and the barbaric and lost people they visit and help to be “them”, but that’s not how the world is. Even the “approved” Ivan Yefremov with his “Bull’s Hour” shows a space colony which is supposedly a remnant of the “capitalist and imperialist” world, yet surprisingly reminisces USSR, while that team of heroes from heaven that comes trying to fix them doesn’t seem like anything from USSR.

which uses statistical likelihood to determine correctness is that historical datasets are likely to contain old information in larger quantities than updated information.

They should make some kind of layered models, where the user sets weight to layers.

But in any case, this is not what I necessarily meant, just that a big project relying upon unpaid maintainers is flawed, especially when somebody makes real buck on it.

There have been plenty of cases of state actors putting in backdoors. Those were human, most likely, and not some bots.

To expose places where people work thanklessly guaranteeing someone’s pretty thankful bottom lines? Working for free isn’t altruism, it’s hurting other workers. For example.

You know, sometimes this capitalism thing seems wiser looking from a pretty marxist standpoint, than other not very well thought through schemes.

In what world do you imagine there wouldn’t be 87 forks that went in a different direction.

In every world. Linux is not just the codebase, it’s all the developer work going into it daily. Hundreds of forks and downstreams can pick whichever direction they want, most of that work will still be directed one way.

Because a gun like that is considered a “garage gun” and those are legal under federal law because it’s essentially impossible to stop somebody from gluing together a pipe and a nail to strike the bullet with and fire it down the pipe barrel

I live in Russia and here this is very illegal. It can suddenly become where you live too.

Which perhaps means that it shouldn’t be thankless and the technology, since it exists, should be used to screen contributions.

They have to choose their battles.

It’s good for humans. It’s like using a fuzzer in testing software, except in human interactions. It’ll break things more vulnerable and leave be things less vulnerable.

I hope.

That said, it’s pretty hard to build a responsive web app without at least a little bit of JavaScript.

And then the question comes up, why would you need responsiveness. Auto-completion of search results? Hate that crap. Endless scroll with loading additional contents? Hate that crap. Everything blinking and whistling? I suppose JS in that case is possible, but purely for stylistic purposes and not functionality.

Seems too 1984esque even for Trump, and like it would require actual competence.

Not that much competence. Mostly power to keep applying it.

OK, I think I’ve lost track of what I was arguing. F-35 is fine.

It’s just that strategic reliance upon such a complex system intuitively seems bad without some Russian\Iranian style main scalable cheap body, which is also what Ukraine has, Turkey has and what USA is building. Basically everyone with a pretense at having self-sufficient military.

What would EU countries do if right now a mass of cheap drones, cruise missiles and stormtroopers started moving their way?

Because it’s all trade and balance, so it’s probable that such a window into the world (which will have its own censorship) might be allowed. Probably throttled. Probably allowed and throttled depending on some kind of social rating and individual permissions.

Unlike Tor, it’s not escaping censorship, it’s one portal (it’s in the name) somehow allowing access to a few select “free speech” (quotes mandatory no matter how you feel about actual free speech) directions.

USSR had tourist permissions and allowed directions, and friendly socialist countries for which it was easier to get such a permission, and unfriendly capitalist countries for which it was pretty rare and involved state security following you, and so on.

This might be similar.

If you don’t see how something can be divided into levels of access for different citizens, then that’s just lack of imagination. They will think of a way.

Honestly calling a country that can afford even a single F-35 small seems strange. And having only one doesn’t make sense. You need to rotate them for maintenance, have a few up at once (at least 2) for basic tactics, so it seems having less than 8 fighters is just not enough. And then you need jet fuel, missiles, ground systems, avionics, radars, all up-to-date.

In a world with tightly regulated Internet this might start making sense. Tor and its traffic won’t make it through AI-assisted censorship systems like China’s GFW and Russia’s whatever-it’s-called-but-they’ve-started-breaking-everything-here. While a portal managed by foreign superpower’s government might be allowed simply because of diplomatic pressure.

Not too different from how radio became regulated all over the world.

It’s a shame, but what can you do. We are not demiurges, we are grains of sand flying with the wind and floating with the current. Sometimes we get melted, sometimes split, sometimes wet, cold, hot.

I’m not ashamed of dreaming of a different future and arguing in favor of it many years ago. But I’m also not ashamed to admit I was likely wrong.

We’re not dealing with people in possession of any type of rationality, here.

It seems they are rationally putting pressure upon those willing to own guns or 3d printers.

Like most of rifle shots fired in WWI didn’t kill anyone and were meant for suppression.

Making you afraid of everything that can be a legal trap. Thus possibly dropping the thought of even owning this or that thing.

Do Netherlands need a stealth jet at all? Perhaps a fleet of cheap drones is better.

I mean, in some “global power projection” context like USA or thinking of readiness for total war like Israel, those jets are not optional.

But the threat model of Netherlands is which? Considering it doesn’t even have mandatory military training.

With F-35’s costs, is it really the best equipment? I suspect the real reason is that replacing it is a gigantic undertaking that might be far more expensive short-term.

The components dependency part in fighter jets, though, is something they really should be able to solve. Those are very complex systems, but designed with integration and customization in mind. That’s one of the reasons they are so expensive. Slowly replacing everything in them with components from more reliable producers is normal for militaries. Well, for militaries with actual RnD and production, of course Uzbekistan or Colombia can’t do that, but Netherlands can.

Cowardice in general has become way too socially acceptable. Actually the norm. If you G-d forbid act so that you can be unambiguously determined as not a coward, then G-d help you.

And cowards understand each other very well. You can even expose them all as cowards, they’ll accept the shame and admit you’re right and all such, and then they’ll still feel victorious, because in a society of cowards cowardice always wins in all ways but one.

Living like “Hagakure” for real is perhaps the only way to preserve your humanity in some life situations, but that won’t lead to happiness. And the author of “Hagakure” refused to commit seppuku when his suzerain died, because “times have changed”.

And meeting people who live by those principles, you damn hard wish they hid or cowered or stepped back that one time that led them to pain for their remaining lives from those not worth their breath.

I’m thinking of a woman, by the way. Men of that quality are far more rare.