6 weeks equates 84 average sized US highschools worth of people dying on the Russian side and twice as many coming back with life altering injuries. I'm not sure how a country can survive that.

It seems to me that the Russian attitude is that life is a cruel joke, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The country has had terrible government and an oppressed population for hundreds of years. Russian influence operations are using their intimate knowledge of destructive attitudes to drag down the competition to their level.

This metric rates very high on my private index Compensation, Obscuring, Paltry, Earnings (COPE)

Same with all tech scams, Even if you magically assume that they could solve their problem with this tech why on earth would they give it to the public, for free or for a price. Alphabet would just become the best quantitative hedgefund in the world.

Since they are currently at war with Ukraine if they make a profit from selling oil Ukraine will just drone strike their ports.

These weird conspiracy theories that the US moves at the behest of Israel and Russia don't hold any water.

They're common because they're probably less weird than reality, which is seemingly "there's no consistent or clear official reason for doing these things"

Why say "will" when Ukraine already is striking the ports?

If conspiracy exists, it's not US, just single person so ewhere at the top. If leverage exists, it might not dictate every move, just enough to help out the strategic direction.

In the long run creating a certificate that guarantees a certain probability of correctness will take much less energy. Right now we can run miller-rabin and show with 1-(1/10^100) certainty that the number is/isn't prime. Similar for hash collisions, after a certain point these can't happen in reality. If Anthropic can get their uptime from 1 9 to 9 9s (software isn't the bottleneck for 9 9s) then we don't need formally checked proofs.

There was little reasons for anybody to buy a Model T either. The reason they did is that the government picked winners, let people drive cars through city roads. Commute times have only gotten longer, GDP growth has been more than offset by cost of roads and road deaths.

Building a clock that uses shapes as numerals

Are dw writers ok? 2000 people died due to the nuclear accident at Fukushima?

"There have been no deaths or cases of radiation sickness from the nuclear accident, but over 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a preventative measure. Official figures show that there have been 2313 disaster-related deaths among evacuees from Fukushima prefecture." https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...

There is a lot of FUD regarding nuclear power in Germany, don't be surprised.

The last one was flagged and removed so why would't this one be?

Political parties, social networks, religions. these are all engineered systems. All of them including AI involve people. For starts nobody is going to do the massive amount of work to train a useless AI that is skeptical and cynical. Imaginination, Agreeability (which causes hallucinations) is a feature, not a bug. In humans and in LLMs.