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Nvidia Accuses Rivals of Being A.I. Doomers as US Debates Sale of Chips to China - Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/nvidia-china-chip-sales-ai-doomerism.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #artificialintelligence #lobbyingandlobbyists #nvidiacorporation #banksjim(1979-) #computerchips #huangjen-hsun #altruism #randcorp #senate

#analysis / The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [2015]

Key Findings

Results of Economic Analysis of the Five Scenarios

[...] A return to violence would have profoundly negative economic consequences for both Palestinians and Israelis; per capita gross domestic product would fall by 46 percent in the West Bank and Gaza and by 10 percent in Israel by 2024.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR740z1-1.html

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelHamasWar
#RANDCorp

The move also comes as the #Biden admin & #Congress are grappling w/how to push back on #China w/o tipping the 2 countries into open conflict, & w/how to reduce the risk that #AI is used to magnify #disinformation.

The impact of the Chinese campaign — identified by researchers from #Microsoft, #RecordedFuture, the #RANDCorp, #NewsGuard & the #UofMaryland — is difficult to measure, tho early indications suggest that few social media users engaged w/the most outlandish of the #ConspiracyTheories.

#RandCorp calls the technique that folks like #SamAltman & #SundarPichai are using to promote their companies “#TheFirehoseOfFalsehood”: flood the media
with provably false statements to agitate your targets & energize your base. It’s a denial-of-service attack on fact checking.

From: @emilymbender
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110217781189848621

One Nation Under #MindControl
#RandCorp #Nudge

@thedarktangent Great images.

That first diagram of centralised / decentralised / distributed networks is straight out of Paul Baran's 1964 work detailing the concept of packet-switched networks. You can get the original publications direct from the RAND Corporation, along with all his RAND works:

https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html

Of his other and later works, many concerned issues of privacy, surveillance, and discrimination made possible though computerised systems, showing remarkable prescience:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

The full set was made publicly available free of charge after an inquiry I'd made a few years ago.

#PaulBaran #RandCorp #PacketSwitchedNetworks #Privacy #Surveillance #Networking