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The cheap money, as in Oligarchy backed petrodollar slush funds, is residing mainly in the US. The 'defacto' second language of the world is English. Combine th
by PeterStuer 6y ago
The cheap money, as in Oligarchy backed petrodollar slush funds, is residing mainly in the US. The 'defacto' second language of the world is English. Combine those two and it is not hard to see why English NLP is so dominant.
I'm not yet sure whether that is a good or a bad thing for non-English-as-a-first-languege regions.
- ShamelessC 6y agoI don't have a horse in this race, but surely it could only be bad for those regions, right? There's a whole world of applications involving NLP which non-English speakers don't have access to.
- PeterStuer 6y agoOn the other hand, a huge amount of those applications target consumers to get them to misspend more money, so not having them might be a benefit? Surveillance capitalism relies on getting ever more info about you, and exploiting it or selling it on to all that want to exploit it. NLP is one vector to extract that info from raw data.