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One could also see it this way: shouldn't the goal of society be to allow more and more people to do things for the beauty of it rather that producing ever more useless stuffs and …

Thats' why you need light EVs. Norway has electric tanks. China has light EVs.

We'll have won politics the day people understand that individual responsibility doesn't work at scale, and that, on average, people just respond to incentives.

You're dead right, it would be the one killer move to remove a lot of perverse incentives, fix the internet, possibly even social media, and all live in a happier world. The whole …

> Developments to the model architecture contribute to the significantly improved performance from previous model families. I wonder how significant this is. DeepMind was always mo…

While "quality of life first" remains true in spirit for a lot of French people, this hasn't been supported politically since 2000 (when legal weekly work time was reduced to 35 ho…

How do you (especially Europeans) understand this move from Russia? Can it really sustain a war against us? Does it want to break NATO by proving the US won't move?

"The World Beyond Your Head" from Matthew Crawford is exactly about this. Definitely recommend reading!

On this, read Daniel Susskind - A world without work (2020). He says exactly this: the new tasks created by AI can in good part themselves be done by AI, if not as soon as they app…

They mention that chronological order increases the amplification of extreme content. They don't seem to have tested only subscribed content though.

Fossil (in particular coal) thermal plants that were planned for shutdown are being kept online or restarted because of AI energy use. Tech had a pretty minor environmental footpri…

An idea I had is organizing week-ends in big houses with maybe 30 strangers of similar age. You make them have a great time, and afterwards you invite them to indicate the people t…

The problem is that fossile fuel companies (and other polluting industries) don't just answer an existing demand but also influence on that demand: they lobby against environmental…

Exactly, every country should urgently have a public debate on how best to use that technology and make sure it's beneficial to society as a whole. Social media are a good example …

It's very hard for parent to resist the insistent demands of their children to get a smartphone when their classmates all have one, and not having one means being or feeling exclud…

Creation is the single most fulfilling human experience after having children (which is also creation). I'm not sure we want to take that away from us.

Why ignore academics?

Very interesting, I've been thinking about this kind of approach but haven't had the time to really work on it. So what kind of business model do you have? Is it a kind of drop-in …

Wow nice, what was the service to attract people so well?

This has indeed been a big blocker, but the article is proof that the market now wants it. And there are plenty of new nuclear startups, as well as interested researchers. What was…

I don't really understand this argument. How are dozens of nuclear power plants a single point of failure? Because of the uranium mining and processing? Then we can invest in fast …

Videos streams from everyday life sound like extremely high quality data for training AI. Videos available on the internet are a very biased sample compared to that.

Not exactly, they use a small but long-context model that has the whole dataset in its context (or a large part of it) to generate the chunks as elements of the reply, before passi…

Maybe I was unclear (not a native speaker) but that's what I meant: good luck designing a social media without those. So yes, I agree with you.