good luck in 4 years when the only answer they can give about new hardware is "I don't know"

without touching the block, after a while it begins collapsing, which makes it an even better representation of infrastructure

What about daddy porn

Especially when 90% of the population are immigrants having no emotional ties to the ground

Yeah, it'll definitely trigger "why am I here and putting up with this" response in some people, and that's a breaking point for many of them.

Greg Hirsch got paid

Can't make a tomelette...

Iran may be heavily overpowered but they play their cards well. They will lose the war but the economic damage to the gulf is irreparable

They've been preparing for this for 40+ years - this has been the existential threat for Iran since the revolution. You're right they can't win, but I'd expect this to get messy.

Irreparable? That's a big claim.

Long term I think if the regime in Iran changes and better economic cooperation becomes possible everyone will benefit.

> they play their cards well. They will lose the war

so…

so they self-destruct to force better terms of negotiation.

I’ve done some light game theory reading - but this isn’t covered - if they’re gone, who are they getting better terms for?

> I’ve done some light game theory reading - but this isn’t covered - if they’re gone, who are they getting better terms for?

I think the idea can be that they are getting worse terms for America. Saddam Hussein from Iraq lost as well but the war was so messy that so so many americans died in bloodshed and gruesome ways and there was a whole gulf war syndrome within Army with severe PTSD.

This makes the people highly unreceptive of war and the govt should have more pressure from people. So in theory, America should've thought twice before attacking the same region.

I also think, that its hard to ever really remove an ideology. You definitely see ideologies of the past spring up in future and I think that sure they might lose the govt power but they would still have some influence for what its worth.

Also, Ayatollah was killed by these forces. Atleast the highly religious of people of Iran/politicians might spin the story to become religious which does have such ideas of inflicting maximum damage to the opponent at times.

I don't think that game theory can be applicable for religious/personal matters at times

Iran is currently winning the war.

We knew that already from every betting market in the history of betting markets

Good, Trump can now claim victory and shout some words in his third-world-dictator style, and american sailors move out of the region. Stock market is opening tomorrow and it doesnt want to see ugly things

So what about libya, syria, yemen, afghanistan, even venezuela

plus you can't know how Iraq would be today without the invasions

Iraq was ruled by a sociopath that used chemical weapons against his own citizens. I didn’t agree with the invasion, but there is no doubt Iraq is better off today than it would have been without U.S. involvement.

That's an absurd statement. No doubt? Saddam would be pushing 90 now, odds are he would be dead anyway and who knows how that chain of events would have gone.

Such high levels of corruption are not usually called "scam"

The scam part is the fiction perpetrated on the American public that there was a bona fide dispute with Anthropic.

I’ve always heard it called “business as usual”

I still prefer "Scam", "Business as usual" Altman doesnt have the same ring to it...