Middle eastern or North African countries can’t join because the member states don’t want them to join and they need unanimous agreement. See Turkeys failed bid for example. Even a country with positive general public appeal like Ukraine is very unlikely to join in the next 10 years

Yes, unanimous agreement is required once a country has applied, as part of the process of accepting the application.

However Article 49 of the European Union states: "Any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them may apply to become a member of the Union".

So Middle Eastern and North African countries (and Canada) cannot apply in the first place.

I think Turkey is in the grey area that allows some wriggle room as it spans both Europe and Asia.

The Chinese sneakers are made at the same factory out of the same materials and processes

Difficult to have it be the same factor considering the majority of Nike production is in Vietnam, and the majority of the Chinese manufacturing is in China. But even if yes those are still not the same shoes.

Some people were also collecting Jordan’s and everything else under the Sun with their stimulus

They also hiked their prices on things like Jordan’s until they’re in a new price category $200+ and against really quite high quality shoes

Desire doesn’t really matter. Will the paper clip maximizer “desire” something? It’ll decide on a goal with some random heuristic and then pursue that goal. I’m not sure I’d call that desire but again I feel like desire is not important for it to be able to destroy things

I agree the concept isn't really important on the safety front.

I feel the same way about debates whether an AI can be conscious or sentient. Those debates devolve mostly into definitional disagreements.

If you give a monkey a revolver it will be able to destroy things pretty easily too.

Plenty of apes own revolvers, and yes we shoot stuff with them for fun.

I would guess that so far there hasn’t been a lawsuit because HuggingFace and OpenAI are in the same camp

Yes, Nvidia bought Hugging Face and is a major financier + investor in OpenAI.

Convenient, hope an agent hacks my system then I can except a nice offer.

And this is why it should be People of the State of California vs. OpenAI.

We’re all middle managers now

My love for the craft has been slowly dwindling for the last 15 years but since AI it’s totally crashed. I’m still doing it for the paycheck but not much of it is enjoyable at this point

But it’s from 2005! And and it’s used for Linux. Ergo,

Big GPUs