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Lots of EU people are now travelling longer distances due to housing prices and job relocations. My last commute in Germany was 1.5 hr one way and some of my colleagues had 2.5 hr …

True although a big component of the energy prices in Europe are due to policy driven taxation. There is a huge difference in intra EU petrol prices from around 6$/gal to 10$/gal.

I like to say, traders and people you put money on the line are often far more honest about economic policy, than economic influencers like The Economist.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves as extremist.

I completely agree with this, but my banking apps, my broker, my health insurance, my simcard provider all already require my face for identification.

What I do not find plausible is this scenario where AI is so smart it can replace us all, but at the same time somehow still easily controllable and utterly subservient to the owne…

No because public EU compute is adminisered by physicists and although they are very competent in their own domains they are winging it when it comes to AI. It like expecting OakRi…

I don't think using the median lethal dose of toxicity is a good metric to compare pesticides.

Idk, I often felt the opposite. I naturally tend towards working on hard problems but my feeling is that if I chose instead to focus on an easier "thing" I could execute really wel…

Multiple Python based DSLs, just like now with GPU programming.

I would become a patriotic European too, but only after our leaders at the national and EU level stop being transatlanticist sellouts... which won't happen any time soon.

That you need world models to sensibly deploy "thinking" machines in the real world. Else they do stupid shit like drive straight into water. You can bruteforce some semblance of t…

This viewpoint never made sense to me, because you have variation within any culture, and because advantageous strategies win out over time, any culture will evolve. Therefore, it …

LeCun is right.

AI would be able to clue you in on the logical fallacy you're committing.

Why not buy a used one?

Programming languages are not just for ergonomics. They are valuable abstractions that help us reason. And they also help LLMs reason in the same manner.

You jest, but isn't this the logical conclusion? A sufficiently smart AGI has no need for humanity, at all.

Having lived in Germany, the strongest cultural conflict I felt was inflexibility of plans. The German way is to plan something very meticulously and the to follow through with the…

This is surely the future. At some point we will eventually have battles fought entirely by pilot(less) drones? And then war becomes purely economical.

There won't be any well off people because the machines will rule. Humanity will become second to its own creation. There is no future in which a human ruling class will be lording…

This AI risk is the same as with Tesla's Autopilot a couple years back... People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is j…

The NHS is a bit like the NRA in the US. Politicians and rich folk would ideally do away with it, but they cannot, so they have to play lip service to gain favour with the public. …

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Are there any remaining western countries with strong free speech protections? UK and Germany weren't ever good in this department but now worst than ever. US supposedly good but I…