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Cannot happen, these days. The US taxpayer will be glad to bail them all out (again).

You forget the times with an overproduction of electrical energy in Germany. Then they sell it for a negative price to the neighbor countries. Later, when they need more energy they buy it back at a premium. It is good business for neighbor countries with enough storage (pumping hydro, etc.).

I wonder if AI is one means to overcome the natural limits of human knowledge aggregation [0].

On the other hand, in the very long run, what does it mean if a talented human being does not have enough years of life to fully analyze and understand an extremely advanced proof created by AI?

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/


Perhaps it will become like those cathedrals that took centuries and many generations of humans to build.

Yes, but you (as a human) can still understand the cathedral (the building). This is not guaranteed for advanced AI work in mathematics in the future. If so, are we/they are really still adding to human knowledge, at this stage?

Mathematics as an aggregate already is that cathedral. It is grander and more beautiful than any earthly cathedral.

EU trap? How far do you think Poland would have come economically without access to the EU common market and without EU subsidies?

Not far, but the EU trap is about the ceiling, it's about how far Poland can potentially go.

If there is such a ceiling (clearly, I doubt it, seeing many of the main German industry leaders going down or offshore, so there is plenty space to grow), it is not of the EU's doing. It it about money and the advantages large incumbents have in our version of market capitalism.

DE still collects checks from global champions offshoring. Offshoring "fine" as long as money flows back to HQ. Allowing peripheral competitors to take your rent on the other hand less fine. The ceiling is EU's doing - it's EU legislation which does not allow member states to adopt the tier of subsidies/industrial policies to build competitors that can rival EU incumbents. Which can lose out to competitors with greater leverage (i.e. US), but unlikely to Poland. Of course cannot say it's impossible, but we have not seen case in modern economic history where global strategic champions arise without massive subsidies/protectionism, the type EU blocks within bloc to lock in existing hierarchy.

> Chrome would end up being spun off from Google.

You mean, with reasonable administrations, caring for antitrust laws.


Well, he did a good job of freeing Hungary from Orban. So, cut him some slack.

/s


Paradoxically they are so stupid they thought they are actually helping Orban not realizing Europeans consider them idiots.

Vance is far shrewder than many of the surrounding idiots. My guess is that he went because someone like Trump thought it a good idea, and kissing arse is Vance’s current strategy.

Have you listened to that guy say anything about anything? He's about as shrewd as a turnip or any invertebrate

Well its the only winning strategy currently, thats for sure.

But good for us, more visits of these folks who have very negative image in rest of the world. Any corrupt entrenched a-hole would be nice, what about Fico in Slovakia? Orban's best buddy in mindset and methodologies. Next one is Babis in Czech republic. With that done, EU would be free from corrupt russian double agents, for now at least.


After seeing how meeting the pope went, I’m surprised Orban was keen for a visit. He was lucky it was just his political death.

When will the C levels of the "allin on AI" companies realize that? Or is the Nvidia exec mistaken?


That is not how responsibility works anywhere. If you are stealing a gun and murder someone with that gun, you are still responsible, even if it is not your gun.


> The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor.

A scary image, if we consider agents to develop anything like a conscience at some point in time. Of course, with the current approach they never might, but are we so sure?


It is worse. The code changes are mostly random, only surviving the tests of fitness nature is applying (on various levels though; immediately catastrophic changes on level of cell biology are sorted out). And at least the high-level tests are also random and unreliable.


So basically it's a codebase mostly composed of bugs, and the features mysteriously work because they're based on bugs that happen to be mitigated by other bugs. :)


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