Eric Platon
@ic
Interested in Life. Work on (GOF)AI, Biology, Energy, Robotics---all topics climate-aware.
AetherOS: www.aetheros.computer/id/dzzefnmw5...
The JP government announced changes that will authorise selling weapons. So long pacifism.
But I can’t help thinking that selling weapons is also—or more—an economic move. 30 years of sluggish economy addressed only via macroeconomic maneuvers a la quantitative easing, and typical neoliberal recipes like privatisation...
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Perhaps the first time to share an LLM-generated summary, but from a group of people I know personally, serious, devoted and busy. Summaries are like models, wrong and some useful. This one is really good to me as touching on my main hobby project these days: Smart compute and memory allocation:
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In the US DoJ and FBI are hiring thousands, with new, lower standards. Perhaps they now realise DOGEification not only saved nothing, but also went “too far” (this is called a euphemism, right?)
Or perhaps something more pernicious? After all the Nazi regime did something quite similar in the early 30s, by ensuring le...
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Word of the year candidate remains “specious” to me, driven by LLMs and rhetoric like Trump’s.
Looking into razor’s for work and reminded of Hitchens' paraphrased as what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Reading news from three continents daily, it is astounding how far media seem t...
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Strange morning illustrating the mess of high-frequency continuous news feeds.
Trump wants Aoun to speak with Netanyahu. Aoun does not want to talk without ceasefire first. Netanyahu keeps cutting physical bridges. Trump announces a ceasefire for 10 days. News feed report the ceasefire.
No confirmation from actual pa...
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TWIMC: There is no "going back to X".
Many---perhaps more than that---came here when X was known by its former identity, when it was arguably a different space. So now "Farcaster the Promised One" drifts down from escape velocity, it is important for the ones who decide to focus on X that they are not going back. They...
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