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You're kidding yourself if you don't realize that the US gov can have access to any data they want in any of these US-based products. That's why they consider so important to "win"…

A lawnmower doesn't decide to do something bad by itself. The case with L.E. is much more sinister.

> incredibly sophisticated companies We need to stop thinking that just because they have money they're incredibly sophisticated. We have a few examples like Mark Zuckerberg, who h…

Also, a lot of real estate is owned by the Hollywood investors or their close friends, so this is a circular economy where they get rich, then buy property in that place and get ev…

What will probably happen is that they'll buy the rights to use faces of famous people (actors or not) and use AI (or cheap actors) to do the real scenes.

Yes, but Americans don't have the freedom to experience this. They have to choose between expensive and more expensive.

EVs continue to be expensive in the US. But the trajectory is the opposite in the rest of the world due to the benefit of Chinese exports. In Brazil, for example, new car prices ha…

When you're a foreigner learning a language your experience is mostly from reading. There are words, however, that are much more common at home and in spoken language. So you'll pr…

Yes, it is relatively easy to find any solution to a bug. It is hard to find the root cause and change only what is necessary to fix the bug. AI makes it very efficient to "fix" bu…

Bingo. The issue is not lack of knowledge but prioritization at these companies. Microsoft has the ability to fix Windows bugs, they just think it's secondary compared to adding th…

Panic may only exist in a company that is already lying about its true situation. If managers were telling the truth about what is going on in a company, everyone would be Ok with …

A society that doesn't value honesty deserves to be deceived.

Business schools teach advertising, not business management. In modern business it is a crime to tell the truth about the dire situation a business is in, unless a CEO is starting …

That's nonsense, people pretend that a "frontier model" is the most important technology ever, but we know for sure it cannot be because several companies are doing copycats of one…

Chinese companies are cut out of the market by the US gov restrictions, so making the models open is a survival tactic.

The issue is also social, the average software engineer will treat Lisp code as a liability because most people really don't know what to do with it. In the mind of a professional …

That's an incredibly short sighted way of looking at countries. The US was never the country with highest population growth, and right now is also heading into a demographic collap…

A group having more power has little to do with numbers. If that was the case the rich would be more numerous than the poor, and India would be the most powerful country in the wor…

I did read it and I'm sure a whole generation of people also did, it is a very clear and readable book. Don't underestimate or minimize the impact of Hawking's book when it was rel…

Cursive was and still is a fast way to write by hand. If you want to be illiterate without a computer, then you don't want to learn handwriting. But if you don't want to be illiter…

AGI is religion invented for the stupid. There's no world in which a silly LLM can make intelligent decisions. It's all smoke and mirrors to make insane amounts of money and to mai…

That's one of the reasons why he spent several years to write a single symphony.

Composers were also handwriting masters. Bach also had incredible handwriting, there's a youtube channel about it.

What they're trying to do under the umbrella of "national security" is to legislate how we can use the results we pay for when accessing these models. This way they will control th…

It's easy to control a country when all cybersecurity software used in that country reports to you.