Author Archive: Stephen Green

YET ANOTHER REMINDER THAT LEFTISM HAS NO INHERENT LIMITING PRINCIPLES:

GENOCIDE, EUGENICS… ANYTHING THAT MIGHT GET THE LEFT WHAT IT WANTS:

IT’S (D)IFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT:

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I READ “DEVELOPMENT,” “AID,” OR “NGO,” AND DIDN’T ASSUME “FRAUD”:

IF YOU THINK MISSILE DEFENSE IS EXPENSIVE, TRY LOSING A CITY: U.S. Approves Quadrupled THAAD Interceptor Production to Counter Rising Missile Threats. “U.S. Company Lockheed Martin has signed a landmark framework agreement with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) to expand Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor production from 96 to 400 units per year. This decisive industrial ramp-up responds to advanced missile threats and signals a Pentagon shift toward sustained high-volume strategic defense manufacturing.”

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: His Car Was So Hot… “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how not to get into the cocaine industry, what not to do with a vacuum cleaner, and too much about Louisiana’s not-so-littlest mermaid.”

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Democrats Charge Forward With Shutdown Threat Over ICE Funding. “Republican Sens. Ted Budd of North Carolina, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Ashley Moody and Rick Scott of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama also opposed advancing the funding package. The conservative group of lawmakers contains several leading fiscal hawks and opponents of abortion. Budd told reporters he voted “no” over concerns about ‘abortion funding’ in the package.”

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL A LEFTY ANYTHING THEY DON’T WANT TO KNOW:

WELL, GOOD: Canadians Tell Their Authoritarian Government Where They Can Put Their Gun Confiscation Scheme.

Canadian media is reporting that half of all the provinces, plus the Northwest Territory and Yukon governments are telling Ottawa the country’s massive gun “buyback” scheme is a non-starter, and they will not participate.

“This is a remarkable—and welcome—wake-up call to Canada’s liberal national government, and it is long overdue,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, one of the largest U.S. gun rights organizations. “Gun control in Canada has crossed the line when it pushes a massive ‘buyback,’ which is really nothing more than compensated confiscation. What the governments in those provinces, and the territories are saying on behalf of the citizens is that this massive gun control scheme is a non-starter.”

According to published reports, the Newfoundland and Labrador government is the latest to reject the gun “buyback” proposal, for which Canada’s federal government has reportedly allocated $250 million to compensate gun owners for the firearms they would be required to surrender because they were banned by the stroke of a pen.

Canadians might need a lot more guns before Mark Carney and the Liberals are done with them.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

TO BE FAIR, FAVREAU ISN’T JUST A HACK, HE’S A HAM-FISTED HACK WHO HELPED CREATE THE CURRENT MESS:

More:

We warned the Left for 15 years that they wouldn’t like it when the Right started playing by their new rules, but they didn’t listen.

WHERE’S THE OFF SWITCH? AI’s HAL 9000 Problem, and What It Portends For the Future.

We are repeatedly told that large language models (LLM) will soon “plateau.” Likewise, we were repeatedly warned that “Moore’s Law,” the observation that microchip transistors double approximately every two years, was dying. But both claims miss the point.

Even as raw transistor scaling has dramatically slowed, real computing power has accelerated through architectural specialization, algorithmic efficiency, massive parallelization, and domain-specific hardware. AI supercomputer performance is currently doubling every 9 months, fueled both by increasing the number of AI chips and improving chip efficiency. A new chip from NVIDIA apparently will compress that, at least temporarily, to six or seven months.

Likewise, we will find a way around the LLM plateau. When one scaling regime saturates, engineers invent another. And even at a 9-month doubling, in 10 years the computers will crunch 10,000 times faster and a million times faster in just 15 years. Yet, it was beating us at GO a decade ago.

The implication is simple: AI won’t level off; it will change gears.

And once it changes enough gears, it stops being a tool and becomes a system, widely referred to as “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI.

That matters, because systems do not “obey.” They optimize.

I’m still dubious about AGI, but smarter people like Michael Fumento here insist it’s just a matter of time.

So here’s to hoping we don’t get “optimized.”

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT THEN THE FO COMES ALONG:

TREK’S DEAD, JIM:

And to think I found just the first episode unwatchable.

WELL, GOOD: Meta Restricts ICE Agent Doxing Site Across Facebook, Instagram. “Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told the outlet the decision was tied to the company’s policy prohibiting the sharing of personally identifiable information or content that asks users to provide such information about others.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

BREAKING: Don Lemon Arrested by Federal Agents for His Role in Church Mob.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Plus:

When Trump was indicted it was treated as proof of guilt.