> As the US declines, it’s not that a new leader will come in.
What's about EU? EU is bigger than the USA in total population and it has comparable if not larger total GDP. Why did not they step in where USA failed?
The US has about a 50% higher gdp, while having 30% less population. Not only this, but the EU can barely fund it's military obligations, let alone others. You frame it as the US failing, but I think it's more the US winning since they didn't really lose anything. I would argue they gained, since now the EU and it's competitors are having to spend money to solve things like this, and the EU and Asia are far closer to Ebola outbreaks and spreading due to population movements than the US is.
Why should the US fund some people in Africa who can't control the outbreak of a very easily contained disease, instead of it's own people.
> the EU can barely fund it's military obligations
The EU funds it's military just fine. You're upset because of the EU's obligations, which are non-binding and demanded by the US (who isn't in the EU).
> Why should the US fund some people in Africa
Because it's cheap, and the knock-on effects save American lives? It worked during the last Ebola outbreak, why do you think it would stop working now?
> > For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 megawatts, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays.
Clueless journalist conflates power (megawatts) with energy. They need physics 101. For electrical energy common unit is megawattHour (megawatt drawn for entire hour). A smaller unit would be megaJoule (megawatt drawn for 1 second).
UX in my Audi Q5 (2024) is terrible. With two phones in the car you never know which one is connected and whose google maps is being currently displayed. And then come the buttons designed with a contempt for a driver. I recently had to change a flat tire which is a story in itself. German engineering is soooo different these days.
I really wish that cars were legislated to have documented APIs/canbus. It would be great to be able to load an app that set my car up the way I like it, instead of having to change a bunch of settings every time I start it (EV mode on above 10% battery, eco mode accelerator mapping, single pedal driving all the way off. Every. Single. Time.)
Re Germans: I’m not sure it’s a new thing. I can remember trying to uninstall a seat in a 90s BMW and wondering how they had managed to make something that could be accomplished with 4 bolts into something so complex.
Yeah, it was probably patched. It could reason novel problems only of you ask it to pay attention to some particular detail a.k.a. handholding..
Same would happen with the the sheep and the wolf and the cabbage puzzle. If you l formulated similarly, there is a wolf and a cabbage without mentioning the sheep, it would summon up the sheep into existence at a random step. It was patched shortly after.
I’m not sure ‘patched’ is the right word here. Are you suggesting they edited the LLM weights to fix cabbage transportation and car wash question answering?
Absolutely not my area of expertise but giving it a few examples of what should be the expected answer in a fine-tuning step seems like a reasonable thing and I would expect it would "fix" it as in less likely to fall into the trap.
At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these would be "patched" via simply prompt rewrite, e.g. for the strawberry one they might just recognize the question and add some clarifying sentence to your prompt (or the system prompt) before letting it go to the inference step?
But I'm just thinking out loud, don't take it too seriously.
There was a Tacker Carlson interview with Sam Altman where Tacker probed him on Balaji's murder and Sam quickly got confused and disoriented. Make your own conclusions.
Saying he got confused and disoriented is and interesting conclusion to make of that interview. He was defensive from the onset and even went combative when Carlson continued down a specific line of questioning, which he allegedly did at the request of the victim's family.
What's about EU? EU is bigger than the USA in total population and it has comparable if not larger total GDP. Why did not they step in where USA failed?
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