Location data is arguably more important than financial or medical data. Atleast in a context where someone is after you. Thanks to bribery and data brokers, it doesnt have to be anyone in Govt or LE tracking you. Collect certain identifiers from a device or account and you can track almost anyone. Financial and medical data access is certainly bad, but your location data can be used to orchestrate a stalking campaign or a murder in a deniable way.

It is why after the U.S. kills or captures some foreign leader, they brag about figuring out their routes and daily habits. It is not a stretch to say that it could also be done, and probably has before, in the U.S.

Extreme penalities should be put in place for any location data access without a court order... And your location should never be allowed to be sold or shared with any non court approved third party. It really is that serious and if the public had the bandwidth to be concerned over another issue, maybe something would change.

Who knows, maybe all the public needs to take it seriously are some real life examples of location data being used illegally...

Theocratic states based on a concept of superiority with a delusional belief in biblical armageddon should never be allowed to have weapons capable of turning that delusion into reality.

That's a tad selective.

You do know that there are at least two more delusional cults in that general area. Neither of which acknowledge the bible.

Law enforcement should require a subpoena if they want to have location data for anyone. It really isnt a third party loophole issue.

Law enforcement should only be accessing location data if they have probable cause to believe a crime is happening. This invalidates the third party doctrine loophole and becomes an unreasonable search (and seizure of your privacy) under the 4th amendment.

Location data specifically should be treated as the most private data about a person. It should have the highest scrutiny for any access. It is more important than your financial records and medical records.

The real question is what percentage of GDP is directly created (or continues to exist) because of the increased debt. When this metric was created the GDP was more authentic and not debt driven.

It is an open question just how much of "social media" has been similar to moltbook for many years. Or maybe Zuckerberg being an android himself just finally found his home.

I've been hoping someone can make a text based modern version of Lord or TradeWars. Having LLMs generate a lot of the gameplay and text dynamically would be one idea.

I wrote some BBS door games back in the day and was thinking of making a new one today, although not multi-player. It would be in the style of the old games (ANSI-style art and text) but for a single-player and with a daily play limitation as well. You'd only play a few minutes each day and if you died, you'd have to come back the next day. Nothing concrete yet, but I definitely would like to make one just for old time's sake.

Closing the strait of Hormuz is worse for Iran and China than anyone else. Natural gas to Europe but not as big of an issue compared to Russian energy supplies. The Saudis and others have pipelines to bypass the strait. Many countries who sell oil obviously benefit from the increased price. I'd almost see how the U.S., Russia, Saudis and even the current administration in Venezuela would be fine with the oil price increase if Irans supply is taken off the market for a long time.

It's not just oil. It's food for all the states in the area and it's 11% of the global trade: https://theconversation.com/strait-of-hormuz-gulf-states-foo...

Let's assume a nuclear exchange happens at some point during a war. There is a very high chance that this will cause an escalation leading to a nuclear apocalypse.

Since this result is presumably inevitable at increasing frequency, it's more like nukes prevented another major world war and stole a form of peace from the future, temporarily. That peace debt might be repaid with the end of everything.

Funny how the unintentional close calls become more sparse with time. I wonder if that’s because humanity got better at dealing with the responsibility or because the oopsies haven’t been declassified yet.

let's assume the trees rise up and set fire to the ionosphere.

There has been some reporting that Mandarin and languages similar to it provide several advantages over using English. First, the theory is that a language like Mandarin can encode more complex ideas using much less memory than it would take in a language like English.

Some reports, which I can find and post here if necessary, claim this can lead to a 40% or so overall performance difference.

There is also a view that due to the way complex meanings are encoded in a pictograph type language that it improves the inference stage and ultimately greatly reduces hallucinations.

There has been some work from Microsoft and others to compress tokens from the user side. Other papers have suggested the advantages are so great that a new kind of symbol based language should be created to use for all of the training data.

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of LLM optimization? Is Mandarin and similar languages more efficient for LLMs?

I'm not saying the possibility isn't there, but I would want to see a really strong case made that language syntax and grapheme/morpheme influences models this way.

IF that was true, then it's interesting because Chinese is anything but the precise language something like Z or Coq or APL tries to be, words have remarkably fluid meaning, highly contextualised. The opportunity for a mis-walk through the information space seems higher, not lower.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but Honey and Winnie the Pooh have two clear meanings now in China. As does Draco Malfoy. I can't see how this helps an LLM.

(I'm an AI skeptic, and a complete outsider in this space)

> I can't see how this helps an LLM.

Your examples aren’t language specific though. I doubt English doesn’t have words that have twisted meanings now.

It all brings back nightmares from migrating the older style EDI for healthcare data for what was HL7 XML at the time. XML is widely used still for all kinds of stuff. On some level if JSON was allowed to evolve the same way, eventually you would just wind up with something like XML.