The worst part about LLMs is that people ascribe some sort of intelligence or agency to them simply because the output they produce looks coherent. People need to understand that these are nothing more than Markov chains on steroids.

Indeed, and I’d argue most of actual useful industry exists outside the west at this point.

UBI is the wrong solution in general in my opinion. The proper approach is to have universal basic services. People should have access to all the basic needs provided unconditionally. I think it will be interesting to see how China will handle automation as it will definitively show whether it is moving towards communism or not. In a capitalist society, rapid automation would mean mass unemployment and economic strife. However, in a socialist society automation can simply translate into having a shorter work week.

If you read the article, you’ll see that these are being used in combination with traditional automation. The advantage of humanoid robots is versatility and ability to work in spaces designed for humans. As a side note, I always find it amusing how people always assume that nobody bothered to think of these obvious arguments before going ahead and building these robots.

This indeed would be a big problem in a capitalist society where people have to work for the sake of working.

There’s some truth to that, but realistically speaking I think the window of opportunity on that has closed now. The US has lost every one of their own war games against China in South China Sea. So, if China decided to take military action there’s little the US can do short of starting a nuclear war.

TSMC doesn’t care about preserving anything. The chips being made in Taiwan is their ace card in getting western support. If they ever started making cutting edge fabs elsewhere then their importance to the west would fizzle.

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle

true

indeed, it’s basically a spyware company at this point

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That’s likely what’s going to happen in short to medium term, but it’s quite possible it’ll diverge eventually. We can look at Huawei forking Android as an example here, they kept it largely compatible for a few years, and then started taking things in a new direction that broke compatibility. Between Russia and China alone there’s a huge pool of talented developers who can rival anything developers in the west can do.

whichever one NSA tells you to use

Wait US is also forking Linux?

It’s almost certain that they will be doing it and that Chinese will join in because they’re the obvious next target.

this is a problem of planned obsolescence since the mouse becomes unusable once the battery runs down

I love how the cages have now become standard for every military after the west derided them initially.

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until your battery runs down that is

That’s right, US publications are doing Russian propaganda.