giacomoforte

You can call it a subculture or philosophy or movement, but social movement to me implies something with broad appeal.

I do not think you can call it a social movement because it does not have any significant mass of people behind it and by its nature, never will.

It's a reflection of the demand from people who want to live in Berlin.

Used to be in every AI/ML job advert, that they preferred those who had previously published in the top 3.

Ironically now it has become a bit of a meme and I see it less often as one of the "nice to have".

Even with AI you'd want the AI to be writing python scripts instead of following an analysis.md.

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 commutes. Hybrid hours though.

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 ownership class.

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 OakRidge to train LLMs...

They already tried training LLMs.

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 well and be overall more successful.

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 thinking by training on literally all knowledge that can be digitized but even that is proving to not be quite enough.

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 never made sense to me to consider culture a static immutable group of homogeneous people. To me it is pretty obvious that some systematic challenges must exist that keep what we consider to be successful strategies from succeeding in those environments.

Your examples of Russia and Japan are easily explained by geopolitics. Indeed, Japanese individuals don't tend to excel out of Japan while many Russians do.

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 plan no matter what.

I am however of the persuasion of not planning too much beforehand especially when the input is lacking. But also to be flexible and reactive during execution.

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 it over superhuman machine intelligence. I mean look at the clowns who run the world today. They won't be able to keep the machines from taking over.

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 just legalese.

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.

So its not propaganda in the way you are thinking of.

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 wouldn't risk it in practice.

Australia I hear is also quite bad.

Canada and NZ I don't know.

I expect Denmark and Sweden to have somewhat weak free speech laws too.

Norway and Finland I expect to be good.

France I expect to be just slightly better than Germany.

Netherlands and Switzerland, I have no idea.

Czech Republic I think has strong protections.

Italy and Spain and Ireland, I heard mixed reports about.

Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal and other unnamed countries I don't know at all.

The problem is all the AI slop that people are publishing to bolster their CVs.