ericmay

Ministry for the Future is, in my view, much better.

> Pretty sure the Democrats would not have done either the ridiculous tariffs They may not have gone with that specific approach, but the direction was the same. Instead of tariffs the Biden Admini…

> We might take in more taxes, but when we cut funding for childhood cancer research, and build more missiles... is this really the way we want our money spent? Well we all have our opinions on how…

Maybe, maybe not. And when a vast majority of the population isn't working what do these numbers really tell us? If we have fewer jobs, but then the people doing those jobs are paid more and thus…

I agree, because (and I'm being a bit flippant) I sure as hell am not giving up my gas stove while billionaires fly around in private jets and MAGA guys are coal-rolling in their F-250s... It see…

And let’s also not forget, we all want the climate crises fixed, but nobody is willing to personally make any changes to their lifestyle! All parties are incentivized against fixing this problem.

We have everything and still use antennas for local broadcast: NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Fox. Sports, especially football, are very easy to access over the air.

You're free to disagree with my explanation but it's logical and consistent and I'm happy to continue to stand by that.

No it wasn't a non-sequitur. Instead of repeating myself I'll just link to this good explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197575 …

Well they are up at least in part due to policy such as tariffs and war which unfortunately is imposed upon us in the US (Russia invading Ukraine, Iran destabilizing the Middle East), but I also think…

Well, I guess if the OP was under the mistaken belief that the only reason for high prices was because of an oligopoly, then sure. But that premise is incorrect and it would be a bit bizarre to sugges…

That wasn't what I wrote or communicated.

Well if you care about portion size or the introduction of substitutes then you can change your buying habits. We only eat out for dinner at great restaurants because I can cook better food at home in…

No, markets still function anyway over the long term (monopolies go bankrupt and are disrupted all the time) and if you are worried about oligopoly you want to ensure that communism and state ownershi…

Many people see this as a problem, but I see it as a normal function of market economies. Disruptions, changes in government policy, changes in consumer behavior, and more will over the long term just…

Well if you have 50 employees in Ireland who are unionized or even, say some retail shops but the vast majority of your high-income and irreplaceable workers aren’t in a union and aren’t inclined to j…

> China does lead the frontier. If you're a cybersecurity researcher, a biologist or work in any other censored field, there's nothing that the American models can do for you. The frontie…

> The same way that OpenAI and Anthropic will dig themselves out of the hole; By pawning off the training costs onto taxpaying citizens. Sounds to me like it’s just the same strategy except the US …

> When someone says that you have no experience being a professional baseball player, do you say "errrhhmm ackshually, I brush my teeth every morning just like an MLB player does. I put on my …

Well you still don't seem to understand this general topic haha so ask away! In the US at least and western militaries as far as I'm aware, combined arms operations are coordinated between b…

> I am not sure what you mean by this `Well that's a bad example because a UI isn't a model.`. Sorry I thought you were talking about the actual UIs of the model providers (desktop apps f…

Circling back to where this began... > The claim above is that neither side has experience that's all that relevant to the type of conflict we'd expect in a China/US conflict. This i…

> Uh yes they did Not really > In other words, there are other relevant variables than just combat experience...? Yes? Nobody argued otherwise. > "We're actively learning lessons in…

> No active American servicemember has fought a near-peer adversary lmao You don't need to fight China to get experience fighting. The skills and experience translate. Plus America is getting …

> After all, they had tons and tons of combined arms, counterinsurgency, and standoff experience. Way more combat experience than Ukraine did. They didn't have more combat experience than Ukra…

Don't humans fail in the same way too, broadly speaking? Wouldn't it depend on how you categorize failure? If a Waymo failed because it missed a stop sign, and then another Waymo failed beca…

> 1) The American companies had not run up debts in the $100bn range. How are Chinese companies financing their buildouts of AI infrastructure? > 2) If there was an open source business model th…

Well that's a bad example because a UI isn't a model. But if you hold that it's true that returns compound and that they do so for intelligence/performance for AI models, then havi…

> Your statement was about what you think America can do, but not about what it has proven to do already. Sorry that's nonsense. You can't simultaneously project a hypothetical Chinese ca…

That is factually incorrect then if that's the claim. The US has that experience.