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a landmark antitrust case that started yesterday


Airchat operates by using Fldigi (a program that uses your computers sound card as a two way data modem)


Sal Khan has done it again. Thank god for him and schoolhouse.world and khanacademy.org and everything else he has done for this world.


That man has literally taught millions of people. A hero.


August 25 marks 11 years since the mission.

This is a good read by Edward C. Stone


Um, 11 years ago would be 2012. The Voyager missions launched in 1977.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program>

And the article you're linking appears to have been published in 2008 based on <https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12675/chapter/24>:

Specifically: Edward C. Stone, "Voyager’s Journey to the Edge of Interstellar Space", Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. April 14, 2008.

Edward C. Stone, Professor of Physics, Caltech; Voyager Project Scientist, JPL National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2010. Forging the Future of Space Science: The Next 50 Years. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12675.

The submission title also doesn't seem to match the article's title, noted above.

How do you arrive at 11 years ago, and what specific mission or mission-element are you referencing?


Luna-Glob lander and Luna 25 refer to the same lunar landar.


Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy at Meta said this

"We have decided not to make Llama 2 available for defense use, as we believe that the risks of misuse outweigh the benefits. We are committed to ensuring that our technology is used in a responsible and ethical manner, and we believe that this decision is in line with that commitment."

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/metas-adversarial-threat-r...


Where did he state this? I looked at the link and linked reports, but not seeing this direct quote. Thanks!


They actually took the contract involving 'project maven' as soon as meta pulled out.


I saw this tweet from someone at the DoD discussing how stupid it was that the USA governement cannot use Llama2 technology but the CCP can. I searched up the use policy and it seems correct. What do you all think??


The US can absolutely use it, if they want. US law permits them to violate the license; Facebook can sue to be paid costs ("recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture") afterwards, but they can't really prevent its use.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1498


It broadly prohibits "military, warfare, nuclear industries or applications, espionage, use for materials or activities that are subject to the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) maintained by the United States Department of State." There is no other specific mention of the DoD.


I think you're interpreting this wrong. What line in this policy prohibits the DoD but doesn't prohibit all other militaries?


Believe it or not the differences between the CCP and DOD are not nall black and white.

Take for instance the CCP nuclear policy.

China deliberately has zero nukes ready for launch. Retaliation will ultimately take up to a week as nuclear warheads need to placed on missiles as they are deliberately not attached. This is 100 percent by design giving china time to prevent global obliteration via mistaken retaliation. Additionally

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use

Meanwhile the US has nukes fully ready and armed with deliberate intention to deliver retaliation before enemy nukes even hit their targets. There is no <no first use policy> here.

It's definitely a different and more complicated story for other things outside of war. But Facebook is simply stopping usage related to war.

This makes sense to me. The CCP can't legally be stopped from not using it anyway.


Llama2 is... not amazing. It's good for small things and it's great that you can do those small things locally. But this honestly feels like an attempt at publicity. "It's so good, DoD shouldn't use it!"


Based on what exactly? The linked article prohibits activities, not entities. Unless the CCP doesn’t use it for spying and military uses and the DoD wants to, this makes no sense.


Andrej Karpathy and Lex Fridman


A good Big Think video that I found


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