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Corruption is rife in the West. Wealth managers wine and dine with governments and essentially order policies that nobody voted for that continue to be developed regardless of which party won the elections. Same faces meet with new cohorts of politicians and continue to get their way whilst security services supposed to protect democracy hide their heads in the sand.

See things like Digital ID, censorship, surveillance - nobody voted for this, but certain wealth managers want this to happen and so it takes priority over issues that actually people would want to be resolved (housing, healthcare to name a few).


I am in Germany. Apparently very democratic place. However nothing happens what people voted for. There is always few groups advertising affordable living in Munich. Never happened. Every year the rent climbs to new never seen high. The system very obviously does not work as advertised. The conspiracist in me however thinks, that the system works as intended.

That's not what you voted for. Homeowners, on the other hand, did vote for it. In most countries they're the majority, and they're better at mobilizing politically. Autocracies are probably less likely to have the same issue because the leaders are petrified of a revolt from the lower classes. In a democracy, the majority (homeowners) will vote away your money.

i.o.w. the system works as intended

The politicians enacted the policies requested. The problem is that the policies don't work and even have the opposite of the intended effect at times. Democracy divides power to (try to) prevent autocracy. It doesn't make most people smart so doing dumb things is still on the table and still has bad consequences.

> There is always few groups advertising affordable living in Munich. Never happened. Every year the rent climbs to new never seen high. The system very obviously does not work as advertised.

Or the problem is harder then to be solved with just wanting to solve it?


> There is always few groups advertising affordable living in Munich. Never happened. Every year the rent climbs to new never seen high.

Well your population grows trough migration, your land does not and your construction doesn't match either in a long term inflationary environment with every incentive pointing in the continuation of that path.

See also Canada, Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Australia, etc, etc


Germany is a place of dense housing, so it's about construction more than land

The purpose of a system is what it does.

"As intended" is something that doesn't exist at all.


Imagine what this could be used for when a fascist/communist/genocidal maniac gets elected and make full use of such data to single out groups of people for persecution.

Mere proposals of such a thing should be illegal and people engaged in development imprisoned and banned from holding public office.


+1, democracies really need to start establishing some serious red lines that are not to be crossed. Mass surveillance of citizens by any means (including purchasing it from corporations or obtaining it from other governments). Corporations should not have the rights of citizens, monopolies should be dismantled, and politicians should be able to be ejected and tried for crimes when they're committing them in office (qualified immunity should not only not be an excuse - but we should hold anyone working for the government to a HIGHER STANDARD, not a lower one!). As a start!

You mean when Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of protesters? It's not even something you have to imagine, it already happened in Canada.

> in a lot of the identity verification and age gating

This won't change anything. Likely will just open a market for trading verified accounts and spam will continue.


I think that could get shot down real quick though.

Accounts/identities that are known to have been shared could be flagged as stolen and now anyone who tries to use it gets burned.

Then the question is, what happens to the poor guy whose identity was stolen? As it is I already can't view half the sites on the internet due to endless captcha loops.


Not necessarily stolen. People desperate for money could be "fronting" the accounts.

yes that too. recently there was a post on the red site saying that they thought the invite tree system worked well.

https://abyss.fish/tree-style_invite_systems_reduce_AI_slop


Many of those are self-reporting, anyway. It's not there to stop bots.

Why people run these? What does it do and what could be the use?

I install it and then what?


1) install nanoclaw in docker 2) ??? 3) profit

More seriously, set it up as you would a junior employee with a high quality getting started guide, guardrails, and clear feedback loops that it's doing tasks correctly (otherwise it will just suck). Then delegate tasks to it, start simple and grow in complexity as it demonstrates it does a good job on the simple tasks.

What role it does for you depends on your business, and what is best fit for automation. Purely digital roles with good feedback loops are the ones I focus on.


Does it make any sense? I tried few models at 128GB and it's all pretty much rubbish. Yes they do give coherent answers, sometimes they are even correct, but most of the time it is just plain wrong. I find it massive waste of time.

I'm not sure how long ago you tried it, but look at Qwen 3.5 32b on a fast machine. Usually best to shut off thinking if you're not doing tool use.

Apparently there is a whole science behind running models. I have seen the instructions that unsloth publishes for their quants and depending on the model they'll tweak things like the temperature, top k, etc.

The size of the quantization you chose also makes a difference.

The GPU driver also plays an important role.

What was your approach? What software did you use to run the models?


Probably Whatsapp is next, if it isn't quietly already.

I doubt it, E2E isba huge part of Whatsapp's selling point considering it's exclusively a messaging app. Instagram is primarily a social app with messaging features.

Normal people don't choose a messaging app based on E2EE but based on whether their friends use it.

"Your security code with X changed"

"What's a security code?"


> Probably Whatsapp is next, if it isn't quietly already.

And I will be pushing to remove WhatsApp if that’s the case.


How these protections are working when I get served literal porn every couple of shorts on Instagram?

Hard to say other than usually the feed is tailored to the user's interests, or so they say ;)

> as no one can write code for memory training to bring up the chip

Surely someone can do it, but it's probably too niche to do. The licensing fee is probably cheaper than corporation spinning the board and reverse engineer it and for hobbyists lower tier memory likely was fine.

That said given that such technology has become so much more accessible (you can certainly create FPGA board and wire it up to DDR4 using free tools and then get board made in China), it's probably a matter of time someone will figure this out.


I think it is a matter of a year or two where companies will be able to vibe-clone services like Atlassian provides easily.

If you can fit it on a thumb drive, it's not Big Data.

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