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They know it’s fishermen, they just don’t care.


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Let’s say for a minute these are drug or terrorist boats.

Wouldn’t it be in the US best interest to capture these, gather proof, gather further intel?

I’m not making an outrageous claim. They are making outrageous claims and destroying the evidence.


People that mold some fiberglass and put some engines in it do not usually put a flag on their thing.

Also, plenty of planes do not fill flight plans, even in international flights.


Not all boats fly a flag. A national flag is not required in may cases. Not all planes file flight plans.


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Please avoid demeaning swipes like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're aiming for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


You might be right, but does anyone have data to support that hypothesis?


Well based on the amount of shit I dig out even if I floss after, and it’s effect on my breath, ima keep doing it.


Yes, that's exactly my reasoning. Even if it doesn't help for anything, it just feels satisfying and more clean. Kind of like picking your nails.


At least you get to prompt the llm, as opposed to consuming content where you don’t know what the prompt was and could have been intended to misinform.

At least the response doesn’t have an ad injected between each paragraph and is intentionally padded out so you scroll past more ads…

…yet.


> At least the response doesn’t have an ad injected between each paragraph and is intentionally padded out so you scroll past more ads…

Wouldn't know about this thanks to old.reddit.com - once that's gone I don't see much reason to use Reddit.


There are ads on the internet? Do you mean in that short window between installing a browser and installing the extensions?


An ad blocker won't stop ads embedded into the content. You can get free fries at McDonalds on Fridays with any $1 purchase if you install their app!


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-ad-rem...

Works on firefox mobile too, just have to go to extensions for all firefox (as opposed to the default mobile firefox extensions page), and add it from there.


I was generalizing to more sites than just reddit.

Mostly I see a ton of ai slop that pollutes google search results, you’ll see an intro paragraph that looks vaguely coherent, but the more you scroll, the more apparent you’re reading ai slop.


I’m sorry but I feel you missed the point.

Couldn’t someone else just give him a bunch of cash to blow on the test, to spoil the result?

Couldn’t he give away his last dollar but pretend he’s just going to another casino?

Observing someone’s behavior in Vegas is a just looking at a proxy for wealth, not the actual wealth.


>> Couldn’t someone else just give him a bunch of cash to blow on the test, to spoil the result?

Isn't this what most major AI companies are doing anyway?


>Couldn’t someone else just give him a bunch of cash to blow on the test, to spoil the result?

If you still need a rich person to pass the test, then the test is working as intended. Person A is rich or person A is backed by a rich sponsor is not a material difference for the test. You are hinging too much on minute details of the analogy.

In the real word, your riches can be sponsored by someone else, but for whatever intelligence task we envision, if the machine is taking it then the machine is taking it.

>Couldn’t he give away his last dollar but pretend he’s just going to another casino?

Again, if you have $10,000 you can just withdraw today and give away, last dollar or not, the vast majority of people on this planet would call you wealthy. You have to understand that this is just not something most humans can actually do, even on their deathbed.


>> Again, if you have $10,000 you can just withdraw today and give away, last dollar or not, the vast majority of people on this planet would call you wealthy. You have to understand that this is just not something most humans can actually do, even on their deathbed.

So, most people can't get $1 Trillion to build a machine that fools people into thinking it's intelligent. That's probably also not a trick that will ever be repeated.


When your arguments fall apart, it's fine to admit it or to just not respond.


> Observing someone’s behavior in Vegas is a just looking at a proxy for wealth, not the actual wealth.


Did you pay for that AI to work for you? How much would you be willing to pay for it?

Tractors undoubtedly increase farmer efficiency, the evidence is clear to see, even when accounting for all costs necessary to design and produce tractors. There’s even room for farmers and tractor manufacturers to generate economic profit.

That remains to be seen of AI.


> Tractors undoubtedly increase farmer efficiency, the evidence is clear to see, even when accounting for all costs necessary to design and produce tractors. There’s even room for farmers and tractor manufacturers to generate economic profit.

Aren’t small independent farms struggling because of debt loads are really small returns?

Is this what AI will do as well? Enable large players consolidate while anything bigger than hobby work becomes very difficult and expensive for individuals.


Sample size of one, but I pay $20 a month for ChatGPT and I feel I get much more than that of value from it.

I would honestly probably be willing to pay $75-100 for ChatGPT if it came down to it. I feel it makes some tedious jobs a lot less horrible and in turn pays for itself.


I’m sorry but big tech doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.


The benefit of the doubt... that corps _don't_ write clunky, slow software?


When the supposed to bug happens to conveniently cause issues for adblocker users, yeah.


Possible, but still just an assumption.


Google does - Google search and maps have gotten objectively worse over the past 2 years. At least in Canada.

I have 38 locations in my (huge) city saved in Google maps and it breaks when I ask it to find a way from point A to point B. Works fine when logged out.

Maps also put traffic signals where there are none, and while finding shortest path it stopped putting weights to traffic signals. So you could have it route you via a city's main street instead of the freeway because it's 2km shorter but it ignores the 9 traffic signals that wastes 15 mins. Apple maps works fine.

Google search on web has adopted bad UX, and clicking a map or a shopping item has a noticeable delay between. Also right click "Open in new tab" options are gone.

Are you saying all these "enshittification" changes are deliberate?


Have you told them yet?


This is extremely out of touch.

Don’t you remember post 9/11 war mongering? Jingoistic country songs?

Was the Supreme Court not almost fully captured in the early 2020s?

Was the majority of news media on television and radio not extremely right leaning?


Have you not read the news that abc was pressured by the fcc wrt a pending merger?

Isn’t that the federal govt “abridging the freedom of the press” ?


To play devil's advocate, ABC doesn't have a right to execute a corporate merger and this is what was threatened by the FCC. I don't know what the courts would think of this kind of argument and unfortunately we will probably not find out.

Regardless of that, it certainly seems like some kind of corruption.


Any limitation on their right to merger should be spelled out in a law passed by congress and not from pressure from an executive appointee.


   "this is what was threatened by the FCC"
For clarity, as parent points out, specific comment from FCC exists. The general sense of threat Disney felt is not the same as a specific FCC comment


If you can see it you can also almost safely assume it’s broken in some way.


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