Without evidence, the idea that there’s a hidden camera in the exam room is just paranoid speculation. By contrast, this was an actual visible camera in the exam room, and a camera that was obviously the doctor’s own personal device. It makes sense to worry more about the camera you know is real.

Where I am in Canada we do have problems with wait times, and many people can’t find a family doctor. But it wasn’t always like this. Successive Conservative provincial governments have cut healthcare funding again and again, trying to force people into private for-profit healthcare. It’s the same story in the UK: public healthcare has been undermined by every government since Thatcher’s in the 1980s, and the NHS is not what it was.

Both are still better than the US system though, even after all the cuts. I usually have to wait about 2 weeks to see my doctor unless it’s an emergency. Emergencies can mean an hours-long wait at the hospital. I was recently admitted after an emergency and needed surgery and follow-up examinations including MRI, EKG, ECG, and a whole bunch of other tests with specialists. The care has been very thorough and the doctors excellent, and I have not had to worry once about costs.

Many are convinced you can’t have freedom and an affordable doctor at the same time. Americans are subjected to extraordinary levels of propaganda.

Companies always say they are forced to pass their increased costs on to consumers. Oddly, they don’t feel any such obligation when it comes to their reduced costs.

As I understand it, you’re right that you need a good length of output to be able to detect the watermark, because only then can you see the statistical effect with confidence. And in code there are usually various options for how you get something done, and they could watermark generated code by adding a distinctive pattern to its preferences for certain constructs over others. But again, it would have to be subtle, so you’d need a large enough sample of its output before you could see the effect.

You can’t enforce that with text though, because people will just delete the words. They use a subtle statistical signal because people can’t just spot it and delete it. Unfortunately it raises a problem: either they have to make the signal a secret, in which case only Anthropic and those contracted to keep the secret could detect it, or it’s not, in which case people can use a detector and some other AI to discover how to eliminate the signal. I expect Anthropic would try to keep control over the detection secrets and provide a detection API for third-party software to use.

The Trump regime has a habit of not monitoring things that would make them look bad. I wonder how much of this difference is real, and how much is due to one country trying to track cases while the other tries not to.

Ah right, thanks, I understand now.

There is no logical reason to keep blaming the DNC for anything prior to February 2025.

Do you mean after February 2025?

https://archive.is/Ai1lr

I know it’s a dodgy archive site and all, but it works.

Here’s a link with more details of that attack:

https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/claude-ai-just-cracked-post-quantum.html?m=1

I have been enjoying Qobuz, since quitting Spotify a couple of years ago. Everything’s better quality, they have proper credits and PDF CD booklets, the classical music metadata is much better, it encourages you to listen more deliberately to music you choose, and I don’t feel dirty for funding scumbags.

Dr. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent more than 100 times last week, as Republicans accused him of funding research in China that started the coronavirus pandemic, and lying about it to Congress — accusations he vigorously denies.

Thursday’s vote addressed a different question: Did Dr. Fauci fail to comply with a congressional subpoena, a federal misdemeanor that carries a prison sentence up to 12 months? The panel adopted a resolution concluding that he did.

Fauci is a good man who has acted responsibly throughout this craziness, but fascists are not interested in truth, reason or justice, only hatred and vengeance.

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It is better at producing relevant information, but it may never be great, or even as good, at producing reliable information.

It’s not like the USA would otherwise be any help.

Crazy thing is, up until 2024, Canada was proud to be socialist.

Huh? Canada has not been socialist at any time I can remember.

OK, but the point still stands if you allow that: It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are often not, in fact, helpful.

Carney was voted in because otherwise we would have got Pierre Poilievre, the Nazi-courting, MAGA-wannabe dweeb. It was strategic voting, not enthusiasm for Carney or the Liberals. If we weren’t stuck with first-past-the-post elections we wouldn’t be stuck with a choice between Neoliberal bankers and maple MAGA.

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: if all the corporate leaders believe it will change everything and, in a fit of FOMO, force it into every corner of our lives, then everything will be changed. But not so much because of what AI can do, as because of a mass delusion among the LinkedIn types.