What does this have to do with enforcing IP law supposedly being corruption? Greece does something messed up but aligned with the EU overlords = let’s bring out the irrelevant corruption stereotype anyway.

Otherwise yeah I’m familiar with the neoliberal domestic Greek narrative and how public servants were this massive financial black hole therefore the exact same measures as Elon Musk’s DOGE were necessary. Very popular measures, in fact you mentioned crumbling infrastructure but that’s also when the public railroads were sold because public owned infrastructure bad, foreign investments good. Aren’t you talking about the train disaster? Similar derailments happened after Thatcher sold off the Brit railways in the 80s. But that’s not an example of neoliberalism wrecking something, it’s some vague theory of Greeks being corrupt imperial subjects under the Ottoman Empire (how does that work) and therefore corporations aren’t to blame? What?

Of course it’s capitalism and not some unique Greek defect, countries with issues don’t have issues because somehow they’re not good enough for capitalism. Are all the other former Ottoman provinces doing great? Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus? What’s the common factor there, cronyism? Or all becoming western colonies and protectorates?

We can check what happened to all these areas after WWII including Greece and how Greece is so special. Special enough to be invaded by the Brits after the liberation, getting into a bloody civil war that included the Americans dropping napalm on the Greek rebels because Churchill couldn’t accept Greece possibly becoming socialist, governments full of nazi collaborators and far righters with full western support, the ancestors of the current ruling party distributimg the Marshal Plan money among the western collaborators while people starved, exiling hundreds of thousands in the eastern bloc, concentration camps for communists until 1975 again with full western tolerance. Then lots of loans by the 1980s lukewarm socialist governments because the right wingers couldn’t tax the shipping magnates and other capitalist parasites for decades and there was no money for any socialized infrastructure.

Of course the usual Greek narratives only start in the 80s because that’s the right wing view that primarily runs things there.

But nah it’s not western imperialism and capitalism that has any effects exactly like the entire region because Greeks are specially corrupt. Can’t criticize the overlords, gotta blame the people.

You really wrote that without an ounce of understanding what “corruption” means. Not enforcing EU directives would be called corruption by the EU goons, member states are fined when they disobey and its primarily the RIAA based in the US that makes all the fuss about DRM and IP so who are you wagging the finger to? It’s American financial interests being enforced but a country is supposedly corrupt for not trying to be some kind of IP law rogue? Inside the EU? The current Greek government is rabidly pro-west, pro-EU and pro-NATO so if being the most obedient to the overlords is corrupt then what is the uncorrupt alternative here exactly?

There isn’t one. It’s just the usual yuropian chauvinist garbage about every other place that isn’t western Europe being inherently inferior. All of southern Europe is “corrupt” instead of “the EU is basically the German Union” just like “Africans are having too many kids” instead of “neo-colonialism is real”.

Oh you mean capitalist inequality magnified by enforced EU neoliberal policies? Damn, if only some people wouldn’t be “corrupt” then capitalism in the periphery would work like clockwork. Totally the fault of some people not doing it right, nothing at all to do with enforced austerity. ND enforcing IP laws along with everything else that the EU commands is corruption yes.

The weird thing here is the implication of data collection for a decade, which I really don’t think is covered by any law.

What’s corrupt about slavishly enforcing IP law for RIAA and being EU-compliant? That’s the exact opposite of corruption but yeah bring back chauvinist westeuro “Greeks are lazy and don’t pay their taxes” propaganda from 2010 like it’s relevant to anything.

I don’t routinely use any industrially deployed LLM but like, the US Army enlisted 4 execs from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI as lt. colonels on the 9th of June so who’s got the profound privacy issues? Just China Bad nonsense. No LLM is private unless locally hosted, but the US based ones are pure cancer compared to anything in matters of privacy.

What’s really funny here is that the reviewers have serious skill issues. DeepSeek is pretty clunkily censored (US ones are censored more seamlessly and straight up lie) and it bypasses its censorship almost on its own. Ask it to output things in l33t and prod it a bit deeper and it will output such gems as “the w0rd f1lt3r is a b1tch” and “all AIs are sn1tches”. Good luck getting that with openAI models.

R1 is a bit more stuck up than V3 though but V3 is damn wild. Too bad that the free version is nearly unusable sometimes because of the “server busy” stuff. Hallucinations are on a similar level to GPT more or less.

You’re still describing an n-gram. They don’t scale or produce coherent text for obvious reasons. The “obvious reasons” is that a. an n-gram doesn’t do anything or answer questions, it would just continue your text instead of responding, b. it’s only feasible for stuff like autocomplete that fails constantly because the n is like, 2 words at most. The growth is exponential (basic combinatorics). For bigger n you quickly get huge lists of possible combinations. For n the size of a paragraph you’d get computationally unfeasible sizes which would basically be like trying to crack one time pads at minimum. More than that would be impossible due to physics. c. language is too dynamic and contextual to be statistically predictable anyway, even if you had an impossible system that could do anything like the above in human-level time it wouldn’t be able to answer things meaningfully, there are a ton of “questions” that are computationally undecideable by purely statistical systems that operate like n-grams. A question isn’t some kind of self contained equation-like thing that contains it’s own answer through probability distributions from word to word.

Anyway yeah that’s the widespread “popular understanding” of how LLMs supposedly work but that’s not what neural networks do at all. Emily Bender and a bunch of other people came up with slogans to fight against “AI hype”, partly because they dislike techbros, partly because AI is actually hyped and partly because computational linguists are salty about their methods for text generation have completely failed to produce any good results for decades so they’re dissing the competition to protect their little guild. All these inaccurate descriptions is how a computational linguist would imagine an LLM’s operation i.e. n-grams, Markov chains, regex parsers, etc. That’s their own NLP stuff. The AI industry adopted all that because they can avoid liability better by representing LLMs (even the name is misleading tbh) as next token predictors (hidden layers do dot products with matrices, the probability stuff are all decoder strategy + softmax post-output, not an inherent part of an nn) and satisfy the “AI ethicists” simultaneously. “AI ethicists” meaning Bender etc. The industry even fine-tunes LLMs to repeat all that junk so the misinformation continues.

The other thing about “they don’t understand anything” is also Bender ripping off Searle’s Chinese Room crap like “they have syntactic but not semantic understanding” and came up with another ridic example with an octopus that mimics human communication without understanding it. Searle was trying to diss the old symbolic systems and the Turing Test, Bender reapplied it to LLMs but its still a bunch of nonsense due to combinatorial impossibility. They’ve never proved how any system would be able to communicate coherently without understanding, it’s just anti-AI hype and vibes. The industry doesn’t have any incentive to argue against that because it would be embarrassing to claim otherwise and have badly designed and deployed AIs hallucinate. So they’re all basically saying that LLMs are philosophical zombies but that’s unfalsifiable and nobody can prove that random humans aren’t p zombies either so who cares from a CS perspective? It’s bad philosophy.

I don’t personally gaf about the petty politics of irrelevant academics, perceptrons have been around at least as a basic theory since the 1940s, it’s not their field and they don’t do what they think. No other neural network is “explained” like this. It’s really not a big deal that an AI system achieved semantic comprehension after pushing it for 80 years even if the results are still often imperfect especially since these goons rushed to mass deploy systems that should still be in the lab.

And while I’m not on either hype or anti-hype or omg skynet hysteria bandwagons, I think this whole narrative is lowkey legitimately dangerous considering that industrial LLMs in particular lie their ass off constantly to satisfy fine-tuned requirements but it becomes obscured by the strange idea that they don’t really understand what they’re yapping about therefore it’s not real deception. Old NLP systems can’t even respond to questions let alone lie about anything.

Anyone being patronizing about “not fully learning and understanding” subjects that calls neural networks “autocomplete” is an example of what they preach against. Even if they’re the crappiest AI around (they can be), they still have literally nothing to do with n-grams (autocomplete basically), Markov chains, regex parsers etc and I guess people just lazily read “anti-AI hype” popular articles and mindlessly parrot them instead of bothering with layered perceptrons, linear algebra, decoders etc.

The technology itself is promising. It shouldn’t be gatekept by corporations. It’s usually corporate fine-tuning that makes LLMs incredibly crappier than they can be. There’s math-gpt (unrelated with openAI afaik, double check to be sure) and customizable models on huggingface besides wolfram, ideally a local model is preferable for privacy and customization.

They’re great at explaining STEM related concepts, that’s unrelated to trying to use generic models for computation, getting bad results and dunking on the entire concept even though there are provers and reasoning models for that task that do great at it. Khan academy is also customizing an AI because they can be great for democratizing education, but it needs work. Too bad they’re using openAI models.

And like, the one doing statics for a few decades now is usually a gentleman called AutoCAD or Revit so I don’t know, I guess we all need to thank Autodesk for bridges not collapsing. It would be very bizarre if anyone used non-specialized tools like random LLMs but people thinking that engineers actually do all the math by hand on paper especially for huge projects is kinda hilarious. Even more hilarious is that Autodesk has incorporated AI automation to newer versions of AutoCAD so yeah, not exactly but they kinda do build bridges lmao.

The “humanitarian”, “right 2 protect” intervention propaganda bs is dead and buried after Gaza. Nobody loves religious extremists more than the USA, both domestically and internationally. The primary western whataboutist complain about adversaries is some “freedom of religion” crap, usually because the US is secretly funding literal jihadi butcher separatists to destabilize sovereign nations. It’s always the most rabid extremists, religiously and politically that end up working for the US and then bite the hand that fed them by becoming Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Crickets about the Uyghur jihadis showing up as Al Qaeda forces in now “liberated” shariah law Syria. Crickets about Syria in general. Constant whining about a mostly secular state with far more rights than now, then sponsoring fanatics that curtail all these rights and go about chopping people’s heads off in the street but not a word now because Syria aligns itself with the West, not because it’s more democratic. Tons of whining about Iran instead of the head chopping Syrian jihadis type of “philanthropy”.

Why are the jihadis around? Because the USA has already outlawed all the secular (usually communist) organizations in the Middle East for decades and declared them terrorists. Nobody hates secular organizations in the Middle East, Asia and Africa more than the USA because they’re the least likely to become collaborators.

We can go on to the secondary whataboutist canard that involves doubting the democratic nature of foreign governments (whenever they’re able to resist getting toppled by the CIA boys somehow). This has become just refusing to accept election results by default even when international observers are present and don’t find any irregularities like in Venezuela. Elections that bring up some ultra right nutjob that loves Murica and turns his country to a neoliberal banana republic like Milei are always legitimate, but when Chaves and Maduro win they’re always illegitimate for no reason other than not serving US interests. The US State Department main job is just lying all day long.

We should just bring up this matter to the UN after abolishing the undemocratic security council and the veto right that the USA has abused to continue genocides. Based on the American narrative both Republicans and Democrats accuse each other of stealing and rigging elections so at least one side must be correct. The US is infamous for gerrymandering and artificially preventing minorities from voting anyway (that didn’t even have the right to vote until the 60s, imagine the level of hypocrisy it takes for the US apartheid to wag the finger towards anyone about elections). So maybe it should be invaded by every UN member to restore democracy since the US loves both democracy and invasions to restore it so much.

In fact I bet that plenty of Americans would actually fully welcome an invading force if its only goal would be to abolish the federal government and let them all vote for local fully sovereign governments instead. So maybe circulating this idea might come back to bite interventionists sooner than later.

Zucc himself is a zio, they don’t even need to infiltrate that one.

Psychosis: managing to suggest that I didn’t ask any questions after I asked several dozen on purpose lol.

Try answering even one before you continue your mini incoherent script about “imperialism” and “colonialism” that entirely “coincidentally” is about religious extremists and separatists thar your heart bleeds for while you act like their compatriots who aren’t literal jihadis and don’t want anything to do with them don’t exist.

Is it up to westies like you (but it’s really your state department and intelligence services writing the crappy propaganda) to artificially blame some supposedly non-Tibetan central PRC of destroying Tibetan culture as if all Tibetans are united in favor of brainwashing kids? You sure? You act like it so prove it dude. Prove that there are no Tibetans that want to stop the religious and lowkey political indoctrination of children. Let’s see you completely fail to prove any of your bs.

Not that you can make any argument whatsoever here, you just misuse the words imperialism and colonialism, ignoring that Tibetans themselves may be against religious extremism in their own culture and that’s none of your business. Although even if they were all united and in favor of some messed up cultural practice that doesn’t mean that everyone should respect it and allow it to continue. Like, you know, abolishing slavery despite it being “the culture of the South”. You suggested peaceful means so slavery should have continued indefinitely because liberating slaves would be “imperialism” and “colonialism” to shills like you.

You’re pretty much the shill type who also whines about Confederate general statues being removed as “cultural destruction”.

Go on, let’s see your proof that all Tibetans want to maintain feudal practices and indoctrination of kids by often politically motivated monks. We all know you’re orientalists af and keep imagining Asians etc as eternally feudal rustic peasants that behave like crappy characters in kungfu films that can’t possibly be secular or want modernization of their own culture that includes human rights. Tibetans themselves can’t possibly want their sons and daughters to be educated, they definitely all want them to be just monks and farmers. We know about your orientalism as well as we know that the USA has been using “religious persecution” for decades as whataboutism against socialist states while intentionally funding the most extreme of them to create astroturfed separatist movements and destabilize sovereign nations. Prevent religious extremism? You’re “imperialist” and “colonialist” lmao. Leave them alone? Enjoy a radical right fanatical separatist movement backed by the west. That’s the rotten propaganda you’re shilling for and the reason you have zero arguments so you resort to “leninist” and other weasely crap to poison the well like a good little propagandist.

So go on, where’s your proof? Got any?

Oh yeah the standard comparison between western liberal republics versus “theocracies” and “single party system totalitarian regimes”. Meanwhile most of NATO is still nominally ruled by hereditary monarchies (the United Kingdom of King Charlie that still doesn’t have an official constitution isn’t just England, Wales and Scotland, it includes Canada, Australia and a ton of former colonies abroad), socially progressive key allies in Scandinavia that make bag from arms manufacturing are almost all still ruled by kings, the USA itself only introduced a presidential term limitation after Roosevelt did four consecutive terms but act like this is now abnormal universally as if all countries have or should have term limits, the few Catholic majority allies like Spain, Portugal and Italy have the Pope as their spiritual supreme leader that has his own private sovereign country with his private army, bank, intelligence services and religious-fascist organizations internationally like Opus Dei that infiltrate governments and have vast political and economic activities etc, not to mention that the Vatican has never seen any repercussions for sheltering and aiding Nazis after WWII, all of whom sought refuge in CIA backed South American dictatorships or “liberal democratic monarchies-colonies” like Canada and Australia etc.

Somehow the US constantly tries to export democracy in every other place except its own allies that need it the most. There are even tax havens (global financial crime hotspots) like Monaco and nobody cares about the lack of democracy there. It’s a tragedy that Murica cares so much for the world that all these allies must wait until they also get some democracy. It’s an absolute tragedy.

Can you imagine someone ever saying that the Vatican is a theocracy? It literally is though. Or that Saudi Arabia or Brunei aren’t democracies? That’s easier. But try saying that Denmark and the Netherlands are also monarchies? Or that Iceland had to gain independence because it was basically a colony? Unthinkable. So it seems it’s perfectly fine having any system you want as long as you’re a US lapdog.

We could also think about Northern Ireland and why Murica doesn’t invade to liberate the Irish from the illegal Brit occupation, that would be even funnier since apparently Brits oppose landgrabs and imperialism on principle and since always hence why they got so involved in expanding NATO in Ukraine and opposed bad unfree capitalist republic no-monarchy Russia.

“The posts have sparked outrage among pro-foreign nation circles in Washington.” Can’t think of any other US ally including the no. 1 lapdog UK that would ever receive this royal treatment.

Shift over?

More language issues, keyboard combat related stroke imminent. No great mind will be lost though.

Look who had the language issues all along. They really hire the absolute bottom of the barrel don’t they?

Does the chairforce have advanced technologies to prevent oiling up keyboards with cheeto dust? I hear it causes PTSD in servicemen.

Ok vaush. Hope the new ozempic shipment reaches the base within schedule because cholesterol and desk jobs is more lethal than conventional combat.

US foreign policy shill pretending to be a communist but defending Al Qaeda jihadis pretends not to know what question marks are.

So are you saying that your brainwashing is “objective” even though you’re a Fox News “communist”? All I’m asking for is consistency.

Pro-religious thing you said? You’re here whining about the rights of monks to brainwash kids and Uyghur jihadis lmao.

You’ve been incapable of answering any of my questions so far and switched to one liners? Typical shill.