Well it’s now illegal to make cars that don’t spy on you

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Properly_Paranoid

There are situations where you don’t care about government spying but care about random criminals And there are situations that are the opposite

> If people really cared, they’d choose browsers that have better control

If people really cared, they’d chose reputable suppliers that sell non toxic food. If they are eating food with lead, they don’t care.

Don’t force your wordview on people through regulation

> Don’t force your wordview on people through regulation

As opposed to enforcing your worldview with a lack of regulation?

Because that's precisely what's happening, with the advertisement industry enforcing their worldview through lack of compliance.

That was suppose to be a reductio ad absurdum, not a genuine argument

Poe's law strikes again! My fault here, sorry for the misunderstanding!

Does this sentence have any meaning at all? There are 30 Active military conflicts right now.

> The main actors threatening (and delivering) a hot war are China

China is actually the adult in the room.

Since 1979, 45 years ago, China has not dropped a single bomb on foreign land. That’s two generations peace.

In that timeframe, USA has attacked 37 countries, France 22, Britain 10, and Italy has attacked 6.

What determines if a country is a threat? Simple test - would they arrest Eipstein and execute him?

More politically correct phrasing - “do they respect American economic elites.” ?

If the answer is no, the country is ‘a threat to the west’

You don’t believe me? Name 2 countries that don’t fit this model.

That’s fine too, in that case Open Weight models made by China are doing humanity a favour

I strongly believe that's the case. That's even the case with the recent OpenAI hack of HuggingFace.

The censorship of US models is so bad (read: guardrails), that they had to use GLM 5.2 on their own hardware to do the analysis. That's how locked down, restrictive, and closed source American models are. They're basically for-profit piracy by way of selling tokens.

Whereas the Chinese models are just "here you go, download and run".

I know what I run. Qwen3.5 and 3.6 and GLM5.2 . USA token vendors are incentivised in doing worse to sell more slot machine tokens.

Has anyone had any luck in writing drivers using LLMs? It’s one of those areas of software that is very niche and no one wants to do it. And it’s also relatively testable

Drivers live at a nasty intersection of kernel land code, hardware-coupled code, poorly documented interfaces and undocumented interactions that have to be trialed-and-errored on real HW.

Modern LLMs kick ass, but they aren't magic.

Fully vibe coding a driver for things more complex than, perhaps, a well documented CMOS sensor (that's a small part of what's covered in the article) is still a no-no.

But an LLM does wonders at emitting boilerplate, "vibe checking" your implementations, suggesting how to implement certain things, helping debug some of the things, etc. You can get the LLM to do a lot, but you still need a lot of understanding, and a lot of applied handholding.

Yes this was done with Opus 4.8 and it was very effective. I ran a local harness on the phone itself so it could probe around and experiment. You do have to reboot into a newly compiled kernel occasionally if a module reload is not sufficient.

Obviously this work was mainly porting downstream code and information so the scope was fairly limited but the diagnostics it could do were very impressive.

> we have to speak of the policy of the Chinese government as the policy of China

This does not even have meaning in English.

Policy of US government is not policy of US? When Trump decided to bomb Iran it was just a suggestion?

> They want to… watch the US AI labs crash and burn.

I don’t think dozens of large independent companies and thousands of researchers are working just to spite Sam Altman. Ad much as I don’t like him, I have other things to do and I am sure so do they.

Agreed, but the Chinese government has much more of a say in what their companies do than is common in the West. It seems perfectly plausible to me that the Chinese government wants US AI labs to fail, and might direct some/all of their own AI companies to release their model weights.