Fear of falling back, but there are no EU companies comparable to Intel, AMD, Apple and MS.

Nothing is certainly a must, but a technology allowing you to submit a project plan (not too detailed, like a school essay or something) and receive a working application (I’m still impressed by Claude) after about a few dozens corrections given, - that seems something more valuable that energy spent.

Similar with technologies allowing swarms of autonomous weapons to function, or really anything autonomous.

Need for perpetual connectivity is bad, but companies have to make money and control their product, AI is solving that. Fundamentally it’s possible that models comparable to Claude Sonnet will run locally on smartphones 10-20 years from now.

The EU certainly doesn’t profit from anything here, it’s just that complacency sometimes turns just being slow into being obsolete, and then into being Opium Wars’ China.

It’s not about class, it’s about the EU falling back in tech.

Is there a EU alternative to Anthropic’s Claude?

Because for Facebook, Google and such one can agree that these are not in everything beneficial, but there are also no EU companies like Intel, AMD, or EU companies like MS and Apple.

It just doesn’t seem the EU (yes, taken together) is going a better path, it’s just falling back.

And now a big change is happening, and whether it’s a crash or a jump forward is unclear. Plenty of bets are that it’s the latter.

Pretty of “smart” things could work with a few MCs with only builtin memory.

It’s just that 10 years ago people were complaining how nobody pays for making optimized nice things, using a computer few thousand times more powerful than needed for a job.

Well, now this may change, it’s again profitable to optimize. Or perhaps not yet.

Economic reality always changes. Tools, means, environments, markets, populations, politics, knowledge, and even goals.

So I don’t think it’s killing anything. Some producers will start optimizing. Some will cut on “smart” features nobody needs. Some will raise prices. As it always happens. Then some solutions will work and some not.

I tried Crossover and it kinda sucks.

WDYM? It’s Wine like Wine. With a GUI similar to PlayOnLinux and such.

I suspect Steam lacking Proton is the main reason you don’t like it. That’s easy to get used to, yes.

That might be, eh, sort of a business agreement between Valve and Codeweavers, the latter play a significant role in upstream Wine’s development after all. And Crossover is their paid product.

“Small web” is how usually Gopher, Gemini and such protocols and resources accessible via them are described.

I knew I was right to suspect Kagi, trying to hijack an established name from an important phenomenon is one of the most certain red flags.

In general hijacking of names is one of the dangers very specific to our modern era and not really a problem before the Internet.

And yes, they are doing just that.

Most drones are too cheap to move the needle toward NATO’s gargantuan spending targets.

One way to say it.

But as a general rule, Western militaries tend to give the biggest contracts to established manufacturers.

Another one.

OK. It’s of course important, all things old big foundries are doing, but perhaps producing small drones is also something they should do. Scale should make them more efficient than Ukrainian housewives.

Or, what another commenter mentions, cheaper and more numerous interceptor missiles. Perhaps in certain conditions using lasers in air defense becomes a good idea. That’s something that requires expertise and supply chains above Ukrainian housewives, and something that’d be needed.

I think (no expertise or sanity) that while he’s right to some extent, traditional producers are also overvalued because of the way defense markets work. It’s sort of a closed loop with NATO governments spending a lot on orders to companies from mostly NATO countries, with common projects and established ties, and that’s good for familiarity of processes, but bad for their market value to be used as an indicator.

Nobody’s comparing Rheinmetall to Ukraine’s drone production, I mean, it appears their CEO is doing that now.

Ukrainian housewives are not producing 155mm artillery or jets. But when a drone solves the same problem as a 155mm shell, then perhaps they don’t need to. Similarly with jets.

Western militaries (not all of them, but Americans in Iran now) seem to love solving problems with cool expensive tools, even if not that well fit for the goal. I suppose that’s because they need to maintain experience in operating those tools in real combat, so it’s not really unnecessary expense.

So. He has a point actually. But also Ukraine’s military, including procurement, is trained on real war that still hasn’t ended. His company is trained on what delivers in peacetime coolness and strategic sabre rattling.

You are describing as future what has already happened in the past.

The war has been fought and won.

While these - arrival of these technologies in everything, - are aftershocks and not warnings. There was no warning, or, one can say, the warnings were in classical cyberpunk and didn’t help.

It’s a side quest, yes. It’s also a side quest at populating the world with enough powerful hardware fit for these.

Yes, I can’t stress how terrifying this is. Still all people.

All people.

I meant the books, which are not very detailed and focus on his genius at predicting whole societies, but not separate people, yadda-yadda, the author might have liked that specific detail, except it’s wrong, a society consists of all its members, and predicting one person is still easier. I suspect that’s because Foundation is actually a utopia, something showing how science and genius are always ultimately on the side of the good. IRL that’s not true.

Mobsters (and other organized businessmen) prefer for their goals and means to be impregnable for outside spectators. Meaning we don’t know what’s happening. Also a much better job for their own ends, not yours.

Computation supply chains cracking are a problem, yes.

You know what else is a problem? Those who have a lot of reserve resources and reserve supply chains.

I would expect for USA to start playing Hitler in a decade or so, and it won’t be the “inefficient Hitler” trope usually ascribed to USA. It’ll be the “Hitler having listed all possible targets and eliminated them in under an hour when the global boogaloo starts” trope, the “Hitler having predicted all his possible opponents, as in separate people, down to every decision 10 years forward” kind of trope, the “evil Hari Seldon” kind of trope. The point is clear I hope.

All delivered to us by computation which most of the world uses inefficiently, but with proper understanding much more powerful. Anyway. I suppose it’s too late to change anything.

EDIT: And also “when the global boogaloo starts” kinda omits the fact that it has probably already ended.

In olden days of W2K I would just assume malware is everywhere, and while trying to be as clean as possible, I always have some malware and shouldn’t do anything personal with computers that I can’t accept being possibly compromised.

I was a kid, too.

Then that idea that you can be safe has gotten to me, both through switching to Linux and through stupidity.

OK, a bit before that porn and historical military music became too interesting.

So. Malware is everywhere. Some guy from India’s malware is in a browser extension and a Google Play v2ray client, some guy from China’s malware is in an ebook reader, and some government’s malware is in the operating system you use, and some government’s deep state’s malware is in algorithms and protocols, as a backdoor hidden in the open.

Perhaps the Internet is one big compute cluster operated via such, providing free computation for US deep state, who the hell knows.

But even without conspiracy theories - IRL crooks hide traps in far simpler things.

The whole trust that most of what you use doesn’t have backdoors stealing everything possible, that trust is reminiscent of Soviet people literate in the first generation, who blindly trusted everything printed in a typography. Well, the generation having such has naturally left us. I think that will also happen for attitude to working with computers in some 60 years or so.

But they are powerful. Saying that you don’t like it doesn’t change anything.

Those machines are not in the likeness of a human mind anyway.

Non human soldiers will not got to war. That’s not how war is made.

Wha-ha-ha?.. t.

Almost certainly will. A human soldier is expensive.

Well, say, in VAEs confusion is one of the reasons it even works. I mean, it’s the mathematical confusion and not what we mean in language, but there might be a parallel.

Good and bad. Just like having language standards.

Bad - it’s already been said why.

Good - because uniformity does help understanding each other, and because conversational interfaces are more efficient and less error-prone with less diversity.

There were a few years of war communism during, well, the Civil War, but due to all the hunger deaths it might not be what your usual USSR fan wants to think about.

Your comment only works for those who don’t live in ex-Soviet countries. Because it’s western rose-tinted glasses of how USSR just had problems, but was generally fine.

Distribution of labor, distribution of misery. Both labor and misery are inherent, but ability to change the kinds of labor and misery is what makes our time more like heaven than something in XV century.

Still, sometimes this also seems to be sliding back as it’s harder and harder to control your movement in that stream.

People seek bland fantasies when they are lost (the poor bastard), other people seek some broken solutions when they are lost (the performer), other people use some way of keeping to exist when they are lost (the tech bro), and other people feel how something they do kinda more normal and honest than the previous variants still feels like a cardboard shape of a person (the unnamed underpaid worker).

I just thought that someone should really make a “moderate modern cyberpunk” movie\story out of this. There’s really no need to show brain chips and holographic UIs in that story. The mood will do, something between Neuromancer, Vacuum Flowers and Blade Runner, but around this picture and even without violence.

“Someone should” might be an indication that I should, except I’ve never done writing, for real. Only descriptions of nature. There’s a person who writes plays sometimes. I’m not sure that person wants to have anything in common with me, though.