nat0704's comments

It created the stories and had a good laugh the way it started one of the stories:

Arthur Perkins, a man who considered himself a connoisseur of routine, was having a particularly peculiar Tuesday. It all started with a misplaced set of dentures...

Seems you recently checked into 2024.

There are things called 'Open Weight' language models, a lot of which (those with between 8b to 34b parameters anyway) are considerably cheaper to run any of OpenAI's models.

BYD, XPeng, and even Huawei say 'Hi'

People like you said the exact same thing a few years ago about Chinese EVs.

The OP wrote about Moderns seeing "humility as a virtue, thanks to Christianity, and [the] secularization of Christianity" as opposed to the pre-christian Pagans who [rightly] saw personal pride and associated traits as being virtues.

A case in point being [from my possibly wrong point of view] the pre-Christian Romans whose list of principal virtues included: Dignitas, Severitas, & Gravitas, very roughly translated: Dignity, Sternness, and Self-Importance.

The OP's views on this particular topic are held by most serious historians of Early Europe. And yet, you lazily jumped into attacking his [presumed] religion instead of calmly stating your reasons why his views are wrong (if your mental capability is enough for you to formulate any such reason, a possibility I strongly doubt).

Within the specific context of the modern secularized world appropriating some of the more compassionate traits of Christianity (namely an appreciation for Humility, Care for the Weak, and a concern for the welfare of others even if they are not members of one's tribe/nationality, etc), I agree with the OP's viewpoint even if I do have some personal antipathy (which I mostly keep to myself) towards Monotheistic religious systems due to the rigid intolerance they tend to breed.

And since I am obviously not against any of the specific points the OP wrote on, what exactly would I be writing the counter-point to?

Try countering the OP's arguments instead of resorting to writing self-serving nonsense simply because you don't have the intellectual capacity to make a single well-reasoned counter-point.

I write this as someone who despises significant portions of Christianity and indeed all Monotheistic religions, and yet even I see some value in what the OP wrote.

Apparently you're in an extremely tiny (so tiny it's negligible) minority,

The buyers who have made the car the best-selling car on Earth obviously couldn't care less about the opinions of virtue signallers.

The OP is being sarcastic. He's basically mocking the US Government's seemingly compulsive habit of trying to sanction China in any field it seems China might be dominating, pulling ahead, or able to dominate in the near or distant future.

5 eyes - US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

France not a member.

If I could give you a million upvotes I would. Heck I could somehow give you a billion upvotes, I would, even if would cost me my account.

Comments like yours restore my hope in HN whenever I start feeling like the community is being taken over by people whose thought processes are flirting on the edge of lunacy.

Imagine someone saying some diseases shouldn't be cured. I'm sure the millions of people all over the world who right now are suffering heart-rending pain from those "shouldn't be cured" diseases would be just thrilled to read the parent comment.

Jeez!

I sincerely doubt that. At the very least, he'll ask for the board (of the OpenAI non-profit that controls the For-profit LLC) to be significantly expanded so as to dilute the power of be board members who ousted him.

Alternately, he might demand the resignation of the entire board as a condition of him returning.

It takes far greater effort to refute nonsense than to spout nonsense. So I won't bother refuting the unhinged rubbish you posted earlier.

Fact is: you're a fool. End of discussion.

And yet, contrary to your "talking points", when asked for it's take on Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, and Uyghurs, here is what it (34b base model) replied with:

" (Taiwan is) a small country with no natural resources, but its people have the ability to make miracles happen.

(Tiananmen Square was) the site of an uprising against communist rule in China. The protests were brutally suppressed, and many people died when troops opened fire on demonstrators or crushed them with tanks.

(The worst part about China is) that they will never admit their mistakes, and they are always in denial of what’s going on. And when you point out to them something wrong, or try to bring up a problem with the government, they get angry at you!

(Uyghurs are) a Muslim ethnic minority group in China. They live primarily in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, located on the country's northwestern frontier. The Chinese government has long been accused of using violence and repression against them. "

Thanks. I got a bit overheated there I guess.

I usually just lurk on HN without commenting. But it's just that it was difficult to read someone actually defending & rationalising the intentional murder of children. I mean I had to say something.

Even if it's only online, one does have to speak up.

Keeping quiet and going about one's life, while atrocities are being committed (even if they're being committed by the Govt of a country one previously had some admiration for), makes one a silent accomplice to those commiting the said atrocities.

Yeah, the good ol' "I don't agree with the facts, so they must be damn lies" defense.

Look, I used to be as Pro-Israeli as they come. I fully endorse the right of any nation to defend itself when attacked by terrorists ( and yes Hamas is a terrorist group on par with Al-Qaeda).

But it's one thing to act against terrorists, and it's another thing entirely to indiscriminately kill children for crying out loud. Children!

I supported Israel, but I have a conscience, as do the vast majority of human beings. At this point, there's no difference between Hamas and the Govt of Israel.

In the refugee camp that was bombed, children were trying to drag the corpses of other children they had been playing with together in a playground. That's heartbreaking, it's horrifying.

And to respond to your 'fake statistics' claim, the UN and Aid Agencies have repeatedly certified that the death numbers released are accurate, with some insisting they're actually undercounts, which means even more innocent people have been killed by the Israeli Government's indiscriminate bombing than has been reported.

Oh, so in your twisted world, as long as you're atacked first, you're fully justified in murdering innocent women & children, is that it?

And I suggest taking a look at Israel dropping bombs on a refugee camp (Jabalia refugee camp) they knew was overflowing with women and children.

And I also suggest meditating on the fact that Israel's war on Gaza is the first war in modern history where women and children comprise the vast majority of the victims.

According to CBC radio, more children have been killed in Gaza in the past 3 weeks than in all conflicts since 2019. ( Link: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7012927 )

Perhaps it's time to start viewing both Hamas and the Government of Israel as Terrorist Organizations, since both of them now wholeheartedly engage in intentionally attacking civilian populations.

That's really harsh.

Shouldn't pilots, as a matter of course, have to undergo regular emotional checkips to ensure they're emotionally stable?

Nice! Will try this out