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In a year it may not be legal to run that GPT-4 on your desktop. Every nation sees the writing on the wall.
How do you suppose this is enforced now ? Lol
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If you don't have the courage to voice your opinions in person, you're just a coward that knows very well has socially unacceptable opinions :)
That people don't have to be miserable with greed and envy of people who have more than they do? It's a very common and socially acceptable opinion actually.
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They want investments with short term returns… and basic science isn't that.
But that's exactly because they're being stupid . Only basic science or medicine has any chance of making any significant impact on their lives. And most of the potential basic science impact will do so via medicine. Being a billionaire won't protect you from cancer and multi resistant bacteria. They are missing an opportunity to increase their life span and life quality and do the same for their children. Only very…
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In my experience that bit is more forgotten in protestant countries rather than catholic ones. As in, in catholic ones rich people aren't seen as model of virtue and everybody knows that "hard work" won't get you there.
> In my experience that bit is more forgotten in protestant countries rather than catholic ones. I think you're misunderstanding the "hard work" part. Unlike (perhaps) in the US, the work ethic part of northern/Germanic countries is not about working super hard to get rich, but rather to do the job with the integrity and effort that is reasonable, given your health and abilities. The typical reward is not to get supe…
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That people don't have to be miserable with greed and envy of people who have more than they do? It's a very common and socially acceptable opinion actually.
Ah so you're a troll, because that's NOT what you previously wrote.
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But that's exactly because they're being stupid . Only basic science or medicine has any chance of making any significant impact on their lives. And most of the potential basic science impact will do so via medicine. Being a billionaire won't protect you from cancer and multi resistant bacteria. They are missing an opportunity to increase their life span and life quality and do the same for their children. Only very…
Bill Gates is a lot of talk but I suspect he's using his funds to push microsoft onto poor countries that would otherwise default to linux.