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FYI it’s not an Arab country

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Wow, there are no words. You would rather live in Tehran or Tel Aviv?

Preferably neither, but anywhere is better than Israel. Who would want to live in a genocidal apartheid state? Iran was a democracy before US and UK intervention, perhaps they will be again when they win the illegal war against them.

Anywhere? North Korea? Sudan? Houthi’s Yemen? The hyperbole broke the charts…

It's not an Arab country at all. Iranians are Persian, not Arab. Iran is low-key at war with most of the gulf Arab states.

And no where in any of my statements did I call it an Arab country. I was just calling out hypocrisy of the west when realistically Iran regime is as good or bad as any of the Arab countries or even the untouchable Israel.

Not sure why he is being called for this (or maybe he edited his comment?) but I re-read it a couple times and he is not saying Iran is an Arab country but comparing to the other Arab countries.

It's normal. They can't debate the actual statement, so they talk about something irrelevant to derail the conversation.

I'm not interested in whatever it was you were debating. You referred to Arab countries, someone said (correctly) Iran isn't Arab, you said "I understand it's not an Arab monarchy", and I was moved to point out it's not an Arab anything. I'm not a party to whatever other debate you believe is happening here.

Interesting comment from him:

"

SPIEGEL: So you don't consider Collins to be a true scientist?

Venter: Let's just say he's a government administrator.

"

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/craig-venter-venti...


They factorize the distribution in which they are trained on which is essentially generalization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02385


Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if journalist are getting high on their own supply of resentment and fear mongering


Maybe a nitpicky HN comment, but why are we lumping the term automation with very recent grievances about certain kinds of automation


The article literally draws that distinction in the first paragraph.


It does?

" Software brain is powerful stuff. It’s a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. Marc Andreessen, the literal embodiment of software brain, called it in 2011 when he wrote the piece “Why software is eating the world” as an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. But software thinking has been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time. "


I mean, even going back, people had all kinds of problems with all kinds of automations, e.g. Luddites and the subsequent starving in the streets.

I mean, I would think the opposite it the truth.

Other than a few masochist CEOs, most people don't like having to work for a living to ensure they don't starve and are homeless. It's just in the current paradigm it's what we have do to. And because we have to do it, people get really nervous when rich people attempt to replace human work with automation. Not because we won't have to work, but because we will have to starve.


People not wanting their jobs be automated is different from not yearning for automation as a principle. Most people want or (at least don't mind) elevators, tap water, dishwashers, traffic lights, electrical fuses, sliding doors, etc. Its a very general term


People want their bills and chores eliminated. Show them tech that does that and you'll be every working person's favorite human being. They'll be naming their kids after you.

They wouldn't mind their jobs being eliminated, except for that whole bills thing. Eliminate their jobs without eliminating their bills and they'll hate you.


Try refreshing or something, still works for me


I think its endearing


I might be misinterpreting but the LUAR model (which is a transformer) seems to do decently well

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06340-3/figures/2


Yes, the paper itself tells a different story than the bullet points in this article.



> 75%

Wouldn’t an absolute number make more sense to show than a percent. 75% is pretty good in some places in the world (not justifying the discrepancy though)


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