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Choices a doctor makes keep you alive: surgery, medicine, that diagnostic scan. The choices you make over 50+ years keep you healthy: reasonable exercise, sleep, and diet; avoiding…

I’m thinking specifically of the US, but I don’t see why the same argument wouldn’t apply to most countries. There’s going to be differences when you get to weird economies like No…

If it’s properly vented, no it wouldn’t. Huge difference between just running an open flame in the middle of your kitchen and HVAC applications.

Go to the library and use their computer: consider it a parallel to walking into a business with a resume and a firm handshake.

Most of those measures, just less significantly compared to the grandfather.

If the hundreds of millions of dollars attached to the outcome doesn’t already create that pressure, tens of thousands connected to the prediction market won’t matter.

Slowing the growth of the country’s debt. Some would argue this gives flexibility to expand that debt during crises like wars, economic events, or pandemics; by “keeping powder dry…

Because unless you really just want to prop up only Manhattan’s statistics at the expense of NJ’s, it’s irrelevant to a discussion about US labor statistics.

What's the alternative? Being deliberately "quirky" or difficult, just to buck societal norms? Society is a set of expectations about behaviors and mannerisms that functions as rei…

The ACA is about a 10 to 20 minute process, once a year, on a website. The average american of working age, employed, watches 120 minutes of TV a day. If one day they only watch 10…

I wonder if that'll be a mistake as LLMs are used for internal LLM R&D. Either Google will not take this approach, use a 3rd party model (weird, data leak risk?), or use a non-publ…

Please tell me you're not so delusional to think that slavery or colonialism is a uniquely "western" trait. Empires, nation-states, and groups all sought to expand; some, for vario…

Is anything you do on your own? You wrote this response in English, but didn't invent your own language. How dilute of a contribution can someone/something have made and still meri…

"The system" isn't setup to make self-destructive, clearly bad decisions. People just choose to make them, and at some point the system can't help them by carrot or stick. Here's t…

An average American makes $60K per person in 40 out of 50 states, so no: they clearly don't have to live in CA/NY/NJ. Furthermore, the German comment is from someone in the top 10%…

I’m assuming you mean you’re in the top 8 percent of income distribution? Ie about 90,000 euros? If so, by my rough math, you’re paying about 25% more in taxes than an equivalent A…

>Your error here, or the missing piece if we're generous, is what people are spending money on. Health care is astronomically more expensive here. Schooling isn't free after high s…

Because the average person also makes a litany of poor financial decisions. $100K student loan balances for an state school arts degree, forgoing health insurance but expecting to …

I’d imagine partly a belief, right or wrong, that protectionism and regulatory capture will reduce China’s models impacts on the US market. Just like automobiles: the big 3 should …

You're missing the point: those small "good enough" models aren't monetizable and haven't been for months already. All of the value in LLMs is going to come from frontier models at…

This reads like a rant by the self-proclaimed best carriage driver around the invention of the automobile.

With OpenAI having released 20 and 120B models a while back, I think they recognized that tiny models were never going to be a defensible income stream. Any value will come from th…

I agree with all those issues. Just for discussion though: Economics don’t necessarily dominate these markets when providers aren’t informed - Uber drivers w/ depreciation for exam…

It’s like how most people on here would want a loaded MacBook Pro or RTX 5090, but chromebooks and iGPUs do volume. There’s absolutely a place for a lifestyle subscription to a son…

Except aren’t these Chinese models having to go big too? While they might not be Mythos/Fable sized, a trillion plus parameters is hardly a local server or even desktop to mainfram…