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sharikous commented on China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world   economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/miohtama
hearsathought · 6 months ago
> The "official" data reported by China can't be attempted to be believed. Most of it is highly manipulated. Attempts at independent verification are punished, or blocked by making the raw data a state secret.

If that's the case, then you should be able to provide tons of evidence. It's difficult to "hide" or "manipulate" data in a country the size of china that is tied to the global trading system.

> But there's a enormous difference between China and democratic countries.

"Democratic countries". Like russia? Or venezuela? Oh, let me guess, democratic countries you don't like are not "democratic countries". Right.

You are just repeating the standard anti-china propaganda. It's the same of nonsense over and over again.

"None of china's data can be trusted. They are lying and they are about to collapse". Followed by, "Oh my god china is an existential threat. They are going to overtake us. Deep seek, rare earth minerals blah blah blah".

Make up your mind.

sharikous · 6 months ago
> If that's the case, then you should be able to provide tons of evidence. It's difficult to "hide" or "manipulate" data in a country the size of china that is tied to the global trading system.

not very tied, actually, precisely because of heavy government interventions

> "Democratic countries". Like russia? Or venezuela? Oh, let me guess, democratic countries you don't like are not "democratic countries". Right.

I think that we can agree that democratic countries are countries where there is a choice and you see changes of government caused by free elections. That's not the case for Russia or Venezuela but it is (still) the case for most of the Western world

> You are just repeating the standard anti-china propaganda. It's the same of nonsense over and over again. > "None of china's data can be trusted. They are lying and they are about to collapse". Followed by, "Oh my god china is an existential threat. They are going to overtake us. Deep seek, rare earth minerals blah blah blah". > Make up your mind.

Who said that? Only you

sharikous commented on Four Fallacies of Modern AI   blog.apiad.net/p/the-four... · Posted by u/13years
theturtlemoves · 6 months ago
I've always had the feeling that AI researchers want to build their own human without having to change diapers being part of the process. Just skip to adulthood please, and learn to drive a car without having experience in bumping into things and hurting yourself.

> Language doesn't just describe reality; it creates it.

I wonder if this is a statement from the discussed paper or from the blog author. Haven't found the original paper yet, but this blog post very much makes me want to read it.

sharikous · 6 months ago
> I've always had the feeling that AI researchers want to build their own human without having to change diapers being part of the process. Just skip to adulthood please, and learn to drive a car without having experience in bumping into things and hurting yourself.

I partially agree, but the idea about AI is that you need to bump into things and hurt yourself only once. Then you have a good driver you can replicate at will

sharikous commented on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML   mistral.ai/news/mistral-a... · Posted by u/TechTechTech
kaashif · 6 months ago
This is something the Chinese government is actively trying to do, it's not theory. I'm interested to see what the results are, because they are absolutely not competing for the same talent pool as ASML, they're attempting to create an entirely Chinese supply chain and talent pool.

I don't know enough about chips to say whether any of these numbers make sense.

sharikous · 6 months ago
China is decades behind the West in EUV technology. The attempt to create an independent supply chain is also a forced choice since all the EUV supply chain and knowledge pool are heavily protected by the West and are so complex and big that China cannot sidestep it even with a lot of resources.

Those numbers are realistic. EUV is the most complex machine ever built by humans

sharikous commented on It might be possible to detect gravitons after all   quantamagazine.org/it-mig... · Posted by u/elsewhen
whatshisface · a year ago
I'm with the debaters on this one, the energy levels of a bound quantum system are predetermined to change in quantized intervals irrespective of if they are coupled to a classical or quantum field. What theory of gravity is this experiment intended to falsify?

It would be great to have an independent gravitational wave detector though.

sharikous · a year ago
the statistics would be different. Check out Rabi oscillations (classical EM) vs Jaynes-Cummings model (quantized EM) and phenomena like quantum antibunching (only possible for quantized EM)
sharikous commented on MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS   macrelix.org/... · Posted by u/Lammy
sharikous · 2 years ago
Why does it need an internet connection?
sharikous commented on Living human brain images of "unrivaled clarity" from new 11.7 teslas MRI   cea.fr/english/Pages/News... · Posted by u/fdeage
huytersd · 2 years ago
Is not radiation. It’s just strong magnetic fields.
sharikous · 2 years ago
Still the question remains, are they dangerous?

I guess some materials in the body have some response to magnetic fields

sharikous commented on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU   macrumors.com/2024/03/12/... · Posted by u/Hamuko
aaomidi · 2 years ago
Mobile OSes are not the same as windows or even Mac.
sharikous · 2 years ago
With typical usage they contain more sensitive data and people are less aware of what happens in them than PCs.

And mobile phones are perfect spying devices too. So the security question is more delicate

sharikous commented on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account   9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/ep... · Posted by u/Despegar
spacedcowboy · 2 years ago
According to the article it was because Epic met with Apple and gave better assurances that they'd play ball rather than deliberately break their contract like they did last time.

Regulators don't seem to have had anything to do with it.

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So what changed? Apple tells 9to5Mac that it has held further discussions with Epic. The result is that Apple has received proper commitment that Epic will play by the rules as legally defined.

“Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”

sharikous · 2 years ago
Honestly what you describe seems to be an attempt by Apple PR to save face.

They fear the spotlight on the fact that even on alternate stores only accounts controlled by Apple can publish apps, which might become the focus of new regulations

sharikous commented on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war   cpj.org/2024/03/journalis... · Posted by u/Qem
moogly · 2 years ago
> Israel did demand that the entirety of Northern Gaza be evacuated from civilians (including those "camps" you mention, more below, and including all those hospitals)

Evacuated to where, exactly?

sharikous · 2 years ago
Southern Gaza, Israel considers a part of Southern Gaza an humanitarian zone and dropped fliers explaining that.
sharikous commented on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war   cpj.org/2024/03/journalis... · Posted by u/Qem
someotherperson · 2 years ago
Much as I asked the other commenter, how many school shooters would need to be in the school before we believe it's valid?

Let's change the analogy: ISIS terrorists take over the MIT campus. Inside the university are 50 armed terrorists. Is it valid to now bomb the university? What if there are 100 terrorists?

There is no issue with scale here. No matter how much it scales, you won't reach a point where there is an ethical position that argues for the mass murder of people that we actually view as people. It only becomes ethical when we dehumanize the people affected.

sharikous · 2 years ago
So what do you think would happen if terrorists took over the MIT campus, students sympathized with them, rockets were launched from it, and the US police had no presence there and very sparse intelligence?

u/sharikous

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