The majority absolutely voted for this war. You're attacking the democracy when you insist that the elected politicians following through on campaign planks are not representing the country. That's exactly how this works.
You mean all those countries that have us troops and massive amounts of us support? That have systematically for decades dismantled any pan-arab or pan-islamic unity?
Come on. Israel might be the most high profile US partner. But they are far from the only one.
The problem in this case is in fact the best part of our military. The civilian control. This isn't a general or admiral going insane. This is a politically motivated and appropriately assigned civilian. And that's the good part.
The bad part is the failure of the citizenry to elect moral and ethical politicians.
But if that new or different because of this event? No it's not, Android has had several initiatives to enable low end devices, from optimizing full fatter Android, to inventing new versions of Android.
Android has been talking about these kinds of things for a long time. But if they're actually meaningfully making progress on them, it's most likely because of real pressure. (He types on his phone with 6GB of ram)
In this case it is explicitly because of the RAMpocalypse. The initiatives have existed forever but they've gotten a lot more funding and a lot more exec attention because of the situation in the hardware market.
I won't belabor all the things that are wrong in this whine post, except to point out that China has in no way won the AI race. At any point any of the western corps could release a lesser model that is equal to (with fewer params) as the sota Chinese models. Openai did as recently as gpt-oss 120b/20b. There is no Chinese company that can release a model as good as the American ones.
Author of the whine post here, feedback is very welcome. I am in no way expert on the topic of AI/LLM, and I'm happy to learn new things and correct myself. My point on the "China has won the AI race", while admittedly provocative, is not meant in the technological sense, but in a broader, social + usability sense: I know that there are good open source models by Western companies, I know Heretic and similar abliteration techniques, and yet all the trending models on HF are Qwen and friends, and sovereign and/or private attempts at personal inference like Euria, Confer, etc use these models under the hood. While you might or not be right that "there is no Chinese company that can release a model as good as the American ones" (and BTW, this statement sounds difficult to prove to me), how do you explain the observable, objective facts above? Thanks.
If you ever get the opportunity to read what people admit, unprompted, during these "conversations" then you'll know why they'll never go away. Stuff like, "yeah i stepped on a kitten's head once, but i was young... No i don't see why anyone would have a problem with that."
Are you sure? Post 9/11 the CIA decided they needed to be in the business of kidnapping and torturing. They didn't seem to have any trouble finding employees to do it.
Soldiers need to kill people, but you don't want sociopathic soldiers - you want the opposite: Someone who can handle their emotions, not someone who hides from them, runs from them, or tries to bury or ignore them. The latter are not stable or reliable under stress.
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