Count of Isnello @CountodIsnello

@AleksandrG78133 sauce?

@elonmusk @PeterDiamandis elon we need better writing skills with grok. This is crucial for its capacity going forward

Why does China keep releasing open-weight models? Well, releasing frontier open-weight models commoditizes the closed-weight models of OpenAI and Anthropic, which challenges their businesses, which ultimately causes the splintering of their most valuable asset, their teams. People will leave and start new companies leveraging open-weight models if the primacy of OpenAI or Anthropic is uncertain. If that splintering is achieved, then Chinese frontier labs will stay ahead -- and eventually, once they're ahead far enough, switch over to closed models. At that point, they win. If they have the best models, then the rest of the world will use them -- whether open or not. At that point, the rest of the world is dependent on their models. And when people ask Kimi, Kimi shapes their thoughts. And once Kimi is strategically important enough, of course the CCP will have a hand in steering it. If AI leadership becomes a test of state capacity, rather than a test of decentralized, free-market innovation, then China is playing on a home field advantage. Releasing best-in-class open-weight models is a reasonable part of that strategy. So to answer the question, it's as simple as: China wants to win, and is more concerned by beating the US than by any AI safety debate. (As an aside, it's worth noting -- and it did not occur to me previously -- that perhaps already the schism of OpenAI into Thinky, Anthropic, etc. may have meaningfully reduced the US advantage in the AI race.)

Tenobrus @tenobrus

2 days ago

registering confusion: i don't really understand why Xi is still allowing Kimi to release such powerful open models. this is something i've publicly said i expect to stop soon. it doesn't make sense to me that the CCP would want open frontier capability easily available to other

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grok randomly got dumber all of sudden. anyone else notice that?

@DanielDiMartino @NY_LBSS not at all how wages are calculated buddy

The Government's trade deal with India will mean that it's cheaper to hire an Indian worker than a British one. And amazingly, they've just made it even worse. Most other countries are perfectly happy to strike trade deals without forcing us to undercut our own workforce. We should have expected India to do the same. Instead, under the terms of our Free Trade Agreement with India, Indian companies will be able to transfer their workers to this country more easily. Once they're here, those workers will be able to avoid National Insurance payments for up to five years. The same is true for employers. Previously, that exemption applied for three years - which was already bad enough. Instead, both employee and employer will pay into the Indian social security system instead. This National Insurance exemption will make it much cheaper to hire Indian workers, in fields like IT and engineering, than to hire domestic talent. Let's imagine a British IT firm, set to hire a computer programmer for £60,000 a year. To hire them, an employer needs to spend £60,000 a year on their salary, plus £8,250 on Employer National Insurance. That's a total of £68,250. An Indian competitor with an office in London, meanwhile, can save money by transferring Indian workers to the UK, even if they pay the same headline salary. They’d still spend £60,000 on the salary - but instead of paying National Insurance, they pay into the Indian Employee Provident Fund instead. Mandatory contributions to the fund are capped at 15,000 rupees a month, or about £120. That means that, across a year, an employer only pays £1,470 into the social security system - for a total of £61,470. So under this Government's deal, it would be at least 10 percent cheaper to hire an Indian worker over a British one for this job. This is absurd. Over five years, it would be nearly £34,000 cheaper for an Indian firm to bring over an Indian worker to London than to hire locally. The reason for this absurd arrangement is that the India deal includes a Double Contribution Convention. DCCs make it easier for international companies to transfer their workforce. They're designed to stop highly-skilled workers from paying into two different social security systems. We already have Double Contribution Conventions with other countries. However, these other countries tend to be either: (1) roughly as developed as the UK - in the case of countries like Canada or Japan, or (2) very small - in the case of countries like Jamaica. India is by far the poorest country on the list, and by far the largest. The net result of this deal will be more Indian workers in fields like IT and engineering, undercutting British workers. Given the relative markets in the UK and in India, we shouldn't expect this to automatically be a like-for-like swap in terms of talent. We've seen this happen in the US already, with Indian consultancies leasing their workers to American companies, who are then able to pay an Indian worker far less than they'd need to pay an American. The result has been a massive expansion in the number of lower-cost Indian workers, at the expense of American workers. We should not be allowing other countries to dictate the terms of our migration system, in exchange for some trade benefits at the margins. If India wants to trade, then we should trade. Migration shouldn't even come into the equation.

Bloomberg @business

4 days ago

India has renegotiated a higher quota for duty-free exports of steel to the UK under a free trade pact the two nations signed last year, according to Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Women sexualizing proper male companionship and hierarchy part 6 million

♡ @Bonmatimessi

2 days ago

Argentina is a team that runs on pure homosexual love for Lionel Messi and there seems to be no tactic that could counter that

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@compositioning weird paintings

>the two most widely supported housing policies are >>rent control >>lower property taxes Freestuffniks are the worst and they're the majority of the population.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray

3 days ago

The funny thing about parking reform is that survey data suggests that it's one of the least popular YIMBY policies among normies, yet it's the one that has been most widely adoped. Speaks to the power of small, passionte, organized movements (Shoupitas) with correct ideas.

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@Andr3jH ah yes one hard penis coming right up

@DGisSERIOUS The constant hate for nepo babies needs to stop. they should and could do cool things.

@cabot_phillips which books are you referring to?

@nikitabier you gotta make the design of x articles more elegant

@LostMemeArchive Everytime I see this video a chill rings down my spine. The COVID-era internet-educed psychosis returns and my sanity is tested

@shirtsthtgohard This is also the type of guy who "thinks about rome everyday" without an ounce of critical thinking

@shirtsthtgohard I hate this. This is the destruction of society. Justifying supremely anti-social and destructive practices with a juvenile conspiracy theory. This is horrendous and a display of our internal destruction.

@teortaxesTex Clav is going to israel because it's attention-grabbing. nothing deeper than that. Not aware of any theological connections between AI research and judaism

There is no way Argentina is beating England next week. More skilled/internally aligned than england but the gap isnt that big. What is big is the difference in size

@transferfeedcom I can see him doing well in the Bundesliga

@FOXSports Definitely the two big energies in the locker room. Kane probably serves as a neutral unifier of the team but not the starter of discussions/activities on the team