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LessWrong has been obsessed with AI. They certainly are much further along, but along a road which has diverged with reality long time ago and they relatively overweight AI risks s…

Right about DeepSeek, but with their history of handling data, I would never trust Meta either.

> he's black and something is more common you can come to a conculsion faster Certainly very fast, but is that conclusion correct? Is it really more common for "black" people , and…

> a pretty rough but decent way How, exactly, would we know it's a decent way? I suspect it's not really about "race" which is full of wrong meanings; it's just that "race" in the …

> US and China certainly have the most fossil fuel in their new power plants Don't know about the US (mostly I think it's renewables) but as for China, this statement comes up ofte…

> outside of the US, workers may get paid fairly I don't think that's why there is little tip culture in eg east Asia. It's just... the price the business expects you to pay is mos…

> So should Europe continue on the green path while losing GDP share to US, China and India? So the article is about huge private EV car marketshare in Denmark, but for the whole E…

Depends on the country, as enforcing that falls to the agencies of the member states. At least here in Slovakia it is followed very strictly, but then our restaurant inspectors are…

> EVs are in high demand in the EU because laws have been passed in every country and ICE are getting banned in many cities. Can you give us an example of a city in the EU banning …

Iceland is not in the EU

I remember the time before smartphones. They make many tasks faster, easier, many tasks possible at all and replace specialised devices. You are wrong.

how old are you? smartphones are strictly better than no smartphones or no mobile phones. internet is better than no internet. etc.

Yeah - it's a bit non-intuitive you can change the value of a number. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Disgruntled-Bomb-Java-Editi...

It's quite common in our neck of woods unless the discussion is censored.

I have "experienced" Roma people including having lived close to a large Roma group (same street), going to school with them etc and it's a complete nonsense to blame and persecute…

> All of my friends who work at AI Labs take it seriously. > If AI does pose biological risk, or could destabilize geopolitics, or even just poses economic risks, surely a joint pe…

Thank you for that. tldr: the court ruled that Dian was not in a precarious position but was using begging in Denmark as an additional source of income to support his family in Rom…

> You're looking at the problem from the 5,000 foot view. As they should be. Because the analogy between wolves and Gypsies on the level of predator-prey is clearly completely brok…

> anything remotely referencing Travellers (UK), Roma, Gypsies I imagine (living in a country that's unbelievably racist to Roma people) that "anything" is usually pretty racist th…

The question would be how exactly the laws target Roma people. What I see in the streets of another European city in a country with a long history of discrimination against Roma pe…

No, they are forever captured in that narrative now, they can't jump out, that would kill their carreer.

If they are indeed far above actual costs, then surely price discovery will be done by the overall market in due course.

" it’s _largely_ a thing in the Americas and Africa" " In terms of big countries with a true presidential system, you’re really talking the US, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and Indonesi…

> if Europe immediately stopped using coal, drastically reduced airline usage, quit building gasoline cars we (the EU, not Europe) are indeed phasing out coal (most countries are a…

High saturated fat consumption raises ldl cholesterol which does unhealthy things to your body, yes there is more than enough evidence for that. > Cooking.. frying in high temperat…