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Yes, of course I review everything.

I treat it like hiring a consultant. They do a lot of work, but I still review the output before making a decision or passing it on.

Sending something with errors to my boss or peers makes me look stupid. Saying it was caused by unrevised AI makes me look stupider.


how did you implement human in the loop?

It’s not invading, yet. Just buying or psyopping is more likely than fighting NATO.


If I threatened someone until they sold me something that they made very clear they did not want to sell noone would call it "Buying" and we shouldn't either. It would be extorting. Under no circumstances are we buying Greenland at this point, anything that happens is something else.


Extortion is the right word here.

The problem is that virtually the entire new world and much of the old world was acquired by force and threats of force that has been legitimized over time. So yes, I think this is clearly extortion and any sale that takes would be coerced.

But ever was it thus.


You are also, for sure, the product of some rape down the line of your ancestors, as we are all. This doesn't make rape justifiable.


For sure in the future I'm sure the US will teach that it was a fair deal and nato was corrupt anyway but I hate to see the whitewashing of it going on already like it's a casual land purchase offer


Extorting is more accurate. But definitely not invading.


> It’s not invading, yet. Just buying or psyopping is more likely than fighting NATO.

Threatening to invade (which the Trump administration has been explicitly doing) is about as damaging as invading in the long run, either way we have sent the message loud and clear that the US is no longer a reliable ally and everyone has to shift away from the post-WW2 world order.


I think that’s harder than just buying/hypnotizing/invading/whatever.

If we exit the Antarctic treaty, then so will everyone else and there’s multiple competing claims.


The US is on the verge of becoming a pariah within NATO. The Antarctica treaty ain't nothing compared to that.


I think the recent Canadian trade agreement with china is a pretty clear sign of where things are going.

Reliance on the US in any way is a liability.


It’s definitely easier to mine in Australia.

But you can do both. It’s about marginal profitability, not absolute.

Do people think we must pick just one place to mine?


You can do both, but why would you? It's not like we've tapped out Australia. And until we have, why bother with Greenland if the same money invested in Australia, or Sweden, or Canada would yield more profit?


You’d do both because up can. Why mine in Australia when you have the US or Canada, etc etc.

The idea would mine in all places where it’s marginally profitable until your capital is fully committed.


Because those places are close enough in profitability that it doesn't make a massive difference.

Greenland is real hard to mine in, needs infrastructure from scratch, and nowhere near enough of a local population.


Maybe, people previously thought it was not worth it to mine in greenland and thats why there is no noticable mining operation. But what do i know about cost-ratio or thinking.


Look at the volume of gift cards given. It’s the same concept, right?

You care enough to do something, but have other time priorities.

I’d rather get an ai thank you note than nothing. I’d rather get a thoughtful gift than a gift card, but prefer the card over nothing.


I'd rather get nothing, because a thoughtless blob of text being pushed on me is insulting. Nothing, otoh, is just peace and quiet.


I’d much rather get nothing. An AI letter isn’t worth the notification bubble it triggers.


“I collected tons of money from Hitler and think Stalin is, like, super bad.” [sips Champagne]

Of course, the scale is different but the sentiment is why I roll my eyes at these hypocrites.

If you want to make ethical statements then you have to be pretty pure.


Are any of us better? We’re all sellouts here, making money off sleazy apps and products.

I’m sorry but comparing Google to Stalin or Hitler makes me completely dismiss your opinion. It’s a middle school point of view.


He was paid by Google with money made through Google’s shady practices.

It’s like saying that it’s cool because you worked on some non-evil parts of a terrible company.

I don’t think it’s right to work for an unethical company and then complain about others being unethical. I mean, of course you can, but words are hollow.


We had elections during the civil war, 0.000001% chance the 2028 elections get changes.


That was the civil war, maybe in 2026 the uncivil one begins. (But I think it will just be a more general unravelling.)


My mom sends me AI videos of cute cats doing the impossible (flying around the room, washing raccoons, etc). When I told her they were AI, she said “so what, they’re cute”


Say more.


Brave has about 300 employees and don’t break out engineers [0]. One of them is Brandon Eich so that counts for a bunch.

Their revenue is only $52M so kinda what Mozilla would earn off their endowment.

[0] https://getlatka.com/companies/brave.com


That's all b.s. of the ripest kind.


Latka are not reliable. And you assumed Brave were profitable?

Brave make a Chromium fork and a search engine. Does a search engine or a web browser engine require more people?


Brave doesn't make their own browser engine.


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