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by lm28469 11mo ago
"we gained 2.7% in these artificial benchmarks and here is a picture of a pelican on a bicycle, get excited and give us $7 trillion please"
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Yes for example is its very well known that Angola has a top tier education system while Swedish people can barely read or count
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Almost as if the economy centered system we built optimises for things other than human life. It really makes you think uh
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> Remember 54% of US adults read at or below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. The sane conclusion would be to invest in education, not to dump hundreds of billions of llms, but ok
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> Take a look at France, where a former president went to prison. Okay, it got commuted to house arrest There is no house arrest, he appealed and is innocent until proven guilty. People stay in prison after appealing in case there is a s
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Sure, if you have something worth powering at the end of it.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Bridges can be used for decades, your brand new GiGaAiFaRm will be fully deprecated by 2030 already. All the infrastructure will be useless when the data centers move to the next city/state offering a tax cut.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
"we" do what china did because they're beating us at our own games. It's "free market" until BYD shows up, it's "no regulations" until tiktok shows up Allowing everything from everyone doesn&#x27
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by lm28469 11mo ago
You can use this train of thought to argue against laws in general, it doesn't sound like a very strong argument
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by lm28469 11mo ago
People unsurprised by tech CEO being completely disconnected from the realities of 90% of the population
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by lm28469 1y ago
Big "It exists hence we should not imagine any other alternative system, and you can't criticise it because you live in it" vibe.
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by lm28469 1y ago
I'm less weary of people not giving a shit about it than people making llms/generative ai their whole personality Grown adults spamming the web about this new model from Megacorp X, being all giggly about the new PeLiCaN On A BiCy
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Centrism and objectivity aren't reflexively seeking "the middle," just refusing to buy into either tribe's propaganda and FUD. Why do you assume there are only two sides/tribes to begin with ? Centrism isn&#x27
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by lm28469 1y ago
> I feel people were much more sensible about AI back when their thoughts about it weren't mixed with their antipathy for big tech. Why big tech ? Big corps in general have been fucking us over since the industrial revolution, why d
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by lm28469 1y ago
Reading comprehension must not be your forte, or you're arguing in bad faith. American nuclear reactors aren't built with Chinese tech or by Chinese engineers as far as I can tell. If you give up your sovereignty on topics like de
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by lm28469 1y ago
75%+ of all batteries/panels/windmill blades are made in China. And if you decide to make them locally they'll be 5-10x more expensive and much less competitive because you don't have: - super low wages and borderline sl
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by lm28469 1y ago
Studies also don't take into account that by subsidizing solar you're subsidizing an industry that's already subsidized by the Chinese gov, it's cool in the short term but we're making the same mistake we've be
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by lm28469 1y ago
It's never too early to retire, there are plenty of other things to work on outside of tech
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by lm28469 1y ago
That's one way to see it, the other way to see it is that they're bleeding russia dry while making big bucks on arms sales, basically forcing the EU to buy fracking gas at 4x markup and ensuring they'll get all the juicy reco
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by lm28469 1y ago
See you're already assuming war is coming and that it is a fact of life, inevitable just as winter is. With that mindset there is no other alternatives from the get go If you walk around with a gun in your pocket drooling about self de
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by lm28469 1y ago
That's a nice quote, the problem is that once you gave birth to a giant you need to keep feeding it. We can see how it's going for Russia right now. It also doesn't mean you should build private surveillance companies tightly
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by lm28469 1y ago
> These are the companies that if it comes to war Well, if you keep preparing for one you'll be the one starting it...
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by lm28469 1y ago
That's not what I'm hearing from insiders
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by lm28469 1y ago
I'm talking about people spitting in front of the elevator doors, people opening their mail in the common building area and immediately throwing the envelope on the floor, people finishing their drink in front of the building and disca
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by lm28469 1y ago
A lot of it has to be education too, for exemple in some cultures the outside, ie outside your own place, is seen as more or less a giant trash, so people see no problem dumping their shit even right in front of their own building. In my cu
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by lm28469 1y ago
It's a real picture of a real event that's related to the current situation so idk what you're looking for. Plenty of larping christians prayed after 9/11 too, when things get dire people tend to turn to their imaginary
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by lm28469 1y ago
> I'm on a 7 year old system and if you're not chasing to max out the latest AAA game on launch Yep, people who didn't fall for the resolution meme can play any games maxed out with a 2060. People chasing 4k and 120+ fps w
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by lm28469 1y ago
In hundred millions of years... We've been humans for 300k years, we can chill for a couple of centuries, the rush might actually cause our extinction too
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by lm28469 1y ago
Let's be real two minutes here, the extreme vast majority of generated content is pure garbage, you'll always find edge cases of creative people but there are so few of them you can handle these case by case
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by lm28469 1y ago
Like Russia's gas and Germany's industry ;) Or the EU relying on the US army for defense ;) We're not in the post ww2 world illusion or world peace through commerce, mutual dependencies clearly don't stop nationalist int

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