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by ericmay 4mo ago
Also folks acquire things "worth" more than them all the time. That's in part why debt exists. There are a lot of folks out there that are overly cynical and so they'll just write things like the OP from time to time whi
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by ericmay 4mo ago
No the AI race hasn’t been reset. Leading American companies maintain 6-12 month advantages and China releasing these models just raises the floor for everyone and provides no real advantage to China from a security perspective but American
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> This isn't really going to achieve much besides incentivizing the growth of non-US models and minimizing market access for US-based models. The Catch-22 here is that the growth of non-US models is something Americans can take adva
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Yes he does. They could ignore the US government, but will likely quickly find themselves in court fighting a fight that they are likely to lose and isn’t worth fighting anyway.
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Any country that developed sufficiently advanced models will pursue the same path. The EU as a regulatory body would pursue the same path, as will/is China. It’s rather straightforward to think through. If China (they’re practically th
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> America is a real physical landmass. Two actually. America refers to the United States of America in virtually all context in the everyday English speaking world. > "American" is to be understood as those ethnicities from
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by ericmay 4mo ago
If you’re following this line of reasoning then even the “native” Americans aren’t actually native because they migrated here too. Further, the concept of “America” referring to what is geographically the United States today isn’t a concept
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Well, if you had never used Amazon before and all you did was drive to the store it kind of could be considered under-appreciated if you didn't give it the proper weight in the convenience factor. It really is under appreciated how muc
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Well it doesn’t matter whether it’s un-rung. Europe can develop payments tech, folks visiting continue to operate like they normally do. The US is increasingly accepting payment mechanisms and cards from other providers too. Continued compe
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Same fraud systems monitor credit cards except in the American case you get at worst 1% cash back so 1% off the purchase price of everything and if something does happen, and regardless of protections fraud still occurs, it’s the bank’s m
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by ericmay 4mo ago
It seems very likely that AI tools like this will end up with citizenship verification whether it’s American, Chinese, or European. Governments are going to want to know when you try and plan an assassination, or develop a novel pathogen,
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by ericmay 4mo ago
I'm not following what this comment is supposed to address from what I wrote. The US government is taking some action (they take all sorts of actions people agree or disagree with, fund or defund various programs or initiatives), and b
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> a) accidentally pushing a foreign competitor into the lead and losing dominant status But then the foreign competitor would stop the proliferation of their model and we would just go back and forth - American companies could "rele
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Perhaps, but it seems unlikely to me that China will release anything substantial to the general global public either, because they, like the US, would want to keep that capability in-country for national security reasons. I suspect that th
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by ericmay 4mo ago
What makes it a risky bet?
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Oh, I didn't read it that way at all which is why I interpreted your flip side comment as I did. You seemed to be defending regulation for no good reason in that context where the OP was pointing out how regulation seemed to (and I hav
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Sure but then I'm not sure why you disagreed with the OP? I don't think they said anything different than what I've written.
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Regulation has not always resulted in better health outcomes than if the product had otherwise been regulated either. We don't need to set up this false dichotomy between markets and regulation and then bash markets over the head with
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by ericmay 4mo ago
...but then the other flip side is the government does things that result in contamination, dangerous chemicals in food, cookware, people dying, whatever. You can't be "not convinced" that things would be better - "we&
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by ericmay 4mo ago
I do as well here where I live. The one battle I will unfortunately always lose because of upfront cost and because people stopped caring about Western civilization is the quality architecture battle. I get it we should build build build, b
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by ericmay 4mo ago
I just tried again and I can load the home pages for both sites without issues from Ohio in a private Safari window. Don't have a way to upload a screenshot.
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by ericmay 4mo ago
The home pages (I don't have accounts) load just fine. Maybe it is already resolved.
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by ericmay 4mo ago
You are generally correct, despite the rebuttals in the reply comments to yours. But I think the challenge here is that we can have great places if we do the following: 1. Focus on transportation and ways of living that focus on walking o
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> If it's just paperwork then surely nothing bad happens not following it Well not filling out the paperwork means you'd be in the country without authorization which you know just subjects you to being deported or fined or to
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by ericmay 4mo ago
If you'd like to concede the debate that's fine, but you can't drop a few comments that are, well, not at all simple, and then when someone points out the flaws in your reasoning or asks clarifying questions you throw your ha
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> The fact that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism I don't believe that this is a fact. How are you demonstrating that this is a fact ? When you talk about things like reparations or "land back" you're
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by ericmay 4mo ago
No that's incorrect. Instead I believe the underlying concepts are debatable and so stating it as a "simple fact" is a bit unfair.
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> Setting aside the simple fact that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism This "simple" fact needs quite a bit of additional context and work. Making grandiose ethical claims like this can be countered with other gr
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> But also note that you are the only one against Spain creating a path for a group of people that live there to gain legal status. Nah I have an issue with it too, conceptually. You're basically rewarding bad actors for breaking ru
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by ericmay 4mo ago
> I mean worst come to worst you can drive Uber full time until the market recovers? And this is certainly not an option for H1B. Why can't the H1B visa holder also just be deported and drive for Uber in their home country full-time

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