i only mention this because of a few replies i see written as if the problem is the trump admin being too lazy or incompetent to bother coming up with a good plan: there is no possible good plan. "don't provoke iran into closing the strait" is the plan, if you're past that you're fucked

what exactly would you say you do here @centcom

I think about this post every day and get progressively more angry

What never thinking that Dr. Pepper could be a woman does to a mfer

I HATE SLOPULISM TAX CUTS

ok reverse engineering simple apps just got super easy a year or so ago i couldn’t get an LLM to do it with substantial effort today i just pointed claude to the app name and an mcp eventually suggested looking for a better mcp it did the rest

As the PEAK devs said in that one interview, three dollars is five dollars, but seven dollars is also five dollars, and whatnot.

“how about we send the kurds to de-mine the strait” - the greatest thread in the history of CENTCOM, locked by C/NAVCENT after 12,239 pages of heated debate

chat sends

can only fire that gun once

getting claude to write a prompt for my other claude

grok how do you open the strait of hormuz grok how do you clear mines no grok I don’t mean the game

The 2023 time stamp on this canon post is incredible. This is a 2014 weird twitter post. It’s like discovering the living coelacanth

hi i’m johnny knoxville and this is stand up paddle boarding the straight of hormuz

one downside of how big training-time and server-inference context lengths have gotten is that they dont bother training the models to understand the concept that their context length is finite and they need to heed the desperate "please close some files im begging you" warnings

they thought Venezuela meant they were invincible and could do whatever they wanted and don’t understand that different countries are different and have agency and might not go along with your plans

Frankly unfair that yall had two dumb agriprimitivist takes to dunk on when im occupied by my eldest child's birthday

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preference falsification. the norm against using ai becomes increasingly fragile as people end up needing to do this.

The ADL? The same ADL who repeatedly refused to condemn Elon Musk? The same ADL who vehemently defended Musk for doing a goddamn nazi salute? The same ADL who says if you criticize Israel's malicious warmongering and genocide that you're antisemitic? That ADL? Because they're fucking nuts.

how is this level of illiteracy possible? surely senior officers in the US military either know from self-education or learn from on-the-job training that ethnic identity, religious affiliation, and language fluency are different? who thinks every Christian speaks Aramaic like Jesus did?

It’s just hitting me now that this almost certainly got back burnered because it’s not ‘lethality’

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

Maybe a cold take but it doesn't actually seem like being a world power and being staffed from top to bottom with intelligent and curious apparatchiki are compatible things

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

guys i've got a plan to demine hormuz. we fly b52s over it and have them carpet bomb the strait. this will set off all the mines i am strategic genius

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

This is dope

everyone with higher decoupling than me is an insulated quokka tech bro with no conscience everyone with lower decoupling than me shamefully outsourced their worldview-forming to the zuckerberg recsys braindemon

Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error

the Forever Wars are still underused for tragicomedy, honestly, but 'Arabic interpreter gets deployed to Afghanistan' is a good starting premise

if you don't think that the strange ffmpeg-rendered cc videos are good art you have no soul

this is *particularly* fucking stupid when republicans are all saying that gas prices rising isn’t a big deal and it’ll all be over any day now. unbelievably bad political instincts from kelly and blumenthal here.

this is so important. there is no reason (other than all the incentives and pressures in the world) that LLM-assisted code should be worse. it should be much better: verified and checked 50 different ways, better factored, better explained, better presented

you want to see a murder

a jury of my peers should include Claude and Gemini

--dangerously-skip-a-nights-sleep

Most westerners don’t know this, but in Iranian culture killing someone’s family is considered a grave insult.

ah yeah, China, famously not using AI or facial recognition for any kind of surveillance

the post proves its point; people are reacting to this as if it’s some outrageous claim instead of just a literally accurate description of how large deep learning models work, one repeated by every researcher and scientist, including both the 2024 chemistry and physics nobel winners

doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice

i got weird and legal with it anyway this is a ubi bill. we should just pass it.

Undefeated champion of bait titles

The aussies love committing war crimes on behalf of the US, they can't get enough of that shit, extremely rude of the US to not let them get their licks in.

Centcom’s primary existence was preventing things like the mining of Hormuz and well

Me: (commenting on geopolitics) Brent Crude would be a good name for a gym teacher in a 1980s sitcom

People love the first amendment right up until it has a fully intended consequence that they find personally distasteful and this is fine it's fine I'm fine I'm completely normal about this.

Disagree. The development lifecycle of these models involves numerous rich editorial decisions developers make that influence the outputs. Viewing outputs as only implicating listener rights cuts out the expressive choices devs make. And yes, this means 1A limits some lawmaking. That's the point.

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