AI and Compute: ICE-GRT: Instruction Context Enhancement by Generative Reinforcement based Transformers https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02072 The Internet enabled mass surveillance, but that still leaves you with exabytes of data to analyze. According to Bruce Schneier, AI’s ability to analyze and draw conclusions from that data enables “mass spying.”
Ukraine 7: Seizing Russian Sovereign Assets - my only concern with this is that it is a door closer. IF (big if) there is a reasonable Russian opposition, a Kremlin clique that doesn't want the Russian economy and military destroyed in a failed effort to conquer Ukraine, that money could be an incentive to them. If they overthrow Putin and end the war, some of that could be theirs for (personal enrichment/patronage/bribe paying/rebuilding Russia). Sure, they'd have to pay some probably large amount to Ukraine in a negotiated settlement, but to take that away leaves whoever might overthrow Putin with... not much.
This is not an ethical argument about whether it's the right thing to do, but a strategic one: are our leaders committing to the completely strategic ruin of Russia, or just the removal of this government?
Ukraine 7: Seizing Russian Sovereign Assets - my only concern with this is that it is a door closer. IF (big if) there is a reasonable Russian opposition, a Kremlin clique that doesn't want the Russian economy and military destroyed in a failed effort to conquer Ukraine, that money could be an incentive to them. If they overthrow Putin and end the war, some of that could be theirs for (personal enrichment/patronage/bribe paying/rebuilding Russia). Sure, they'd have to pay some probably large amount to Ukraine in a negotiated settlement, but to take that away leaves whoever might overthrow Putin with... not much.
This is not an ethical argument about whether it's the right thing to do, but a strategic one: are our leaders committing to the completely strategic ruin of Russia, or just the removal of this government?