ericmay

When I mentioned Iran in my mind I was including all of their terrorist proxies (Hamas/Palestine, Hezbollah, Yemen, &c.). I didn't intend to rank order here. I should have been more clea…

I used to believe that too but with more revelations coming out about partnerships with Russia and China, work to support and prop up Venezuela’s dictatorship and the negative effects caused by that (…

Always fun to say, always dangerous to live through the actual repercussions of what may "come after" - though this article wasn't really talking about a post-America. As "bad"…

> Banking application will force you to update even if it isn't security related. This is fine. Not sure how that’s related to the rest of your post. But for the rest of your post I agree with…

> We can see the same situation play out with manufacturing capability. I don't think manufacturing is a great analogy and we should be careful to try and compare these two very closely. But t…

Sorry, I’m not following your point. Could you explain?

> The only reason the USA doesn't flatten Iran with nukes is that the USA fears Russia will view it as an "all bets are off!" action and will do the same to Ukraine et al. Which is p…

> and their government has no qualms with committing war crimes. Safe reminder both Israel and Iran, and arguably Iran more so, commit “war crimes”.

If it’s a question for me I’m not sure. I guess I’d like to ask what prompted this question?

Spot-on and really well written post highlighting the challenges here. Really it just comes down to the US and surrounding sycophants and China. There just isn't any other game in town. For the U…

Yep. We'll steal China's IP as well so all of this really is just no big deal. Everyone is a robber in some way. Though one must ask, why are American models banned in China? Hmmm. > It&#…

Spot-on and you're asking the right questions. And the other problem in these comments is that folks seem to think if China pulls ahead we can't just distill their models, provided that dist…

That's fair, I don't really take a large issue with anything you wrote here. My general point was to shake loose some dogmatic apples hanging on to their naive and unsubstantiated beliefs th…

Sure, but at the end of the day, Apple makes a lot more money not just on device sales but app sales too even though Android phones are allegedly more versatile and inexpensive. You can talk about ope…

> androids and iphones are approximately the same thing Yet... Android holds 70.6% of global active devices to iOS at 28.7%, but iOS captures 64.2% of consumer app spend. [1] > and the tr…

This argument boils down to X is good, therefore more of X is good. But you can see how that breaks down with even trivial examples. Not a great argument. The second piece of this "a moral good i…

Sure and to complete your analogy here, the rich schools realize that the curriculum they develop and put a lot of time and money into creating is just used by the cheap schools, so they stop developi…

That's just like, your opinion.... man....

It depends on how it is applied. You can release open source software that advances knowledge and freedom that results in economic destruction or the loss of life, for example.

No

Prove it

> The problem (right now) is that Open Weight models depend right now on huge companies to spend billion of dollars to train and develop them, all backed up by their incentives and their state to s…

> I have to live in this economy, unfortunately. Sure but that applies to all of us with anything we disagree with. I think taxes are too high. "Blah blah do XYZ" I can just say "I h…

It's more broad but I don't think that changes anything with respect to the destructiveness and need to stamp out the ideology. Nazism is just a flavor of either authoritarianism or maybe ju…

By that logic Iran has lost the war too, because they can't possibly come out of this situation in a better place than before the war started, which really was back in October 2022. Since then Ir…

> Finally, bear in mind that there are more equivalences in beliefs than you think. Mein Kampf didn't speak anything about Jew mass murder (and it still happened), and most (as in, the ones yo…

Well if this is what you believe you're basically going to just end up in a world where you are sacrificing Americans or Europeans to uphold Chinese corporations and then their elites hoard all t…

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. In communist and other leftist authoritarian ideologies and there are of course different degrees and expressions of this, but you typically have to engage…

> That seems like an odd definition for Earth's value. It's not, you're just being argumentative for no reason. It's very normal for someone to value a planet or other celestial…