I mean the logic is simple but people don't want to admit it, you must pay the vig if you want in on the action. Before this type of naked corruption would take the form of boardroom seats/book deals/speaking gigs after you leave office but now it's more open so others will take note.
It also helps if you bust a few kneecaps in the process to show what happens if you go astray.
Each military operation has a cool story in advance and a different cool story afterwards. Neither is ever true and if someone finds out the "truth" it usually isn't even half the story.
Usually if you go back far enough there is some guy with an obviously stupid idea. It then takes effort to keep the stupid idea alive and side shows become the main act.
>Personally, I don't get why people blindly reject any collaboration with the military
If you don't understand don't call it blindly.
If the country doesn't align with your world view at all there is no reason to fight for its military. Let those who like it the way it is do the fighting. If it is the complete opposite of what you would like you should fight against it. Aggression should scale with how offended you are.
Why would you blindly cooperate with some military?
I read some stuff once where the author argued that almost everything takes in values, performs operation on them and gives output. Some things also store things. Then, if everything is doing logic operations there is no telling where intelligent "life" might be hiding. It also is really one giant system.
The toaster has hard coded or configurable weights. It makes a product from heat and time.
You could make toast by heating a brick on a campfire. It would be a clear sign of intelligence.
If we lift one weight out of your brain we wouldn't look at the number and say it is intelligence. It must exist in a chain or matrix multiplication to qualify.
The fun thing is that the timer and feedback mechanism do exist in a chain of events.
It's part of the system and it takes all steps to complete the task.
Our chain of thought that leads to making toast would be abandoned if it wasn't in working order.
I have a vision for an art exposition where common tools and household items are enriched with remote shut down technology. Devices that have no business being smart like a hamer, a tire iron, a lug Wrench and perhaps shoes.
The entrance will feature the obvious candidates that normally use electricity then gradually transition into things like a manual powered citrus juicer for which the battery is only for contract enforcement and planned obsolescence
I wonder to what extent models should figure out which model to forward a query to. Or perhaps the big models could learn the difference between an easy and a hard question and charge accordingly? Perhaps, if it can measure complexity, even generate a quote?
Small models are fine for small coding tasks but I don't see why big ones can't be broken down most of the time.
Many harnesses do this, I've recently dropped all my big subscriptions for using deepseek. Codewhale (formerly deepseek-tui) will use pro for large tasks and route smaller ones to flash. It's pretty good, but I just use pro and everything as the cost is quite low.
This one does not have routing, but reasonix is insane, absolutely insane for saving money. I've used 1.3billion tokens at the cost of 4$. (99-100% cache hit)
> I wonder to what extent models should figure out which model to forward a query to. Or perhaps the big models could learn the difference between an easy and a hard question and charge accordingly?
This sounds like something a harness could do (and might already be doing), with work delegated to subagents running on lower-cost models.
Each job has input and output with each task requiring some level of expertise that has some price tag, some financial and some social value.
I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers are all over the place. Doing it by hand would be a monumental undertaking.
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