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Yes, of course this is the real reason. This and regulatory capture. Anybody believing a single word those CEOs say must have been living under a rock for the past 20 years.

Agree fully. Also, using another VPN is simple and possible. Using another mobile platform than iOS or Android is virtually impossible or only possible with a lot of real limitations in your daily life.

And to reply to the parent of this comment: I also wouldn't judge others just because they are a Mullvad customer or whatever.

Are you arguing that the reason that the public transportation system in SF sucks is because of drug addicts? LOL

I think many people have absolutely stopped giving money to US corporations that are run by fascists like Musk or DHH. Of course, this is and will never be the majority (many people don't care or don't know), but I am certain it's a non-trivial number of people.

The boy who cried wolf but the wolf never comes

Not saying that the current civilizations will never end or be shattered to pieces. Looking at history, many civilizations did. But saying LLMs are the highest risk factor for this is just insanity, based on all what we have seen so far (and based on these AI companies crying wolf, I mean, remember just a few months ago that Anthropic saying that Fable is too powerful to be released?)

Sure, the chance of this happening is non-zero, but in my opinion a far cry from this doom scenarios that are propagated by people have a stake in making the public think that LLMs are the most important and dangerous thing in the world.

It's not like an LLM can accidentally hack the US government, trigger a nuke on Europe and then make all dams break and nuclear power plants explode in the US.

Sure, and this has nothing to do with hyping up AI so that Anthropic can raise more money.

OpenAI has been saying since the first version of ChatGPT that it's too dangerous to release because it will end humanity. Yes, LLMs are an impressive technology, but let's be real: the improvements in the recent months have been slowing down, and it's clear that we are nearing a plateau of what this particular tech can do. Sure, tooling and harnesses etc. is improving, but clearly this dude has drank too much of the Kool-Aid.

Watched one too many second-tier disaster movies?

Somebody tell Larry David about this

Some reasons: - Smaller models will always be cheaper - Smaller models will always use less energy, therefore better for the environment

It's a bit like saying you always want the fastest and best car; Sure, you can have it if you keep paying for it. But a small car will also get you from A to B, will use less gas and will be much cheaper.

Story of my life haha

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. His post literally ends with those words: https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

> Define healthier, and link the studies.

Well, why are people who are afraid of a long ingredient lists (without understanding what the ingredients actually are) and just blurt out that vegan meats are unhealthier not asked the same?

In any case, the sister comment linked to some studies. Have a look.

Also, a simple web search will show you that many animal-based meats (such as red meat) are linked to many cancers, this is not even disputed.

Thanks for the comment, means a lot and speaks for you to be open minded and try out new things and update your assumptions <3.

Certainly, the offering of plant-based meat and cheese alternatives have improved significantly in the past 5 years, and they keep improving.

Hmm not sure. Depends on how well it is prepared. But yes, I said, there are much better brands. But the question was specifically about what's availabe in India, which I have no cllue about.

This just proves you don't have a lot of knowledge about food.

First of all, there are many studies that show that plant-based meat alternatives are healthier than their meat counterparts. Just because a food is processed doesn't mean it's unhealthy. Or are you under the impresssion your sausage and burger patty are health foods?

Second, just like with non-vegan foods, there is a variety of plant-based meat alternatives: Some companies include much healthier ingredients than others.

Finally, even if it weren't for my two first points, the main goal of replacing animal meat with plant-based meat is not health, but ethics and environmental concerns (but again, it's not unhealthier).

I'm only familar with the brands in Germany unfortunately. You might have Beyond Burger available in India — not my favorite vegan burger patty, but I think it's good enough.

> Waiting for good lab grown meat to become cheap.

This is a cop out. There are plenty of excellent plant-based meat alternatives that I'm sure you couldn't tell the difference in a blind test.

This is insane. I have following the PPWR for years now and it one of the most lobbied regulations in EU history (I was told by people on the ground in Brussels).

My company provides reusable ecommerce packaging to online shops. And in the last draft, they introduced an exception for the re-usable packaging for eecommerce for cardbaord. Like, really? Why do we have that paragraph at all if it excludes cardboard?

It's just the same VCs moving money from one pocket to the other.

> I've been saying this for a while, but I really wish Linear would swoop in and become the unified platform for software development.

And then, 5 years later, we are back at square one when everybody uses Linear and they start going the fate of GitHub. Self-hostable, standardized alternatives are the only real sustainable solution.

70%? Are we just making up numbers now?

Yes, I'm sure it's possible to get LLMs to respond more like an average human would.

A lot of basic research (including medicinal) is funded by governments who are not in it to make a lot of money. Sure, medical companies who then develop drugs based on this decades of knowledge and research are profit-oriented, but that's only one part of the equation.

Can it? I feel like I instantly recognize if I am chatting with an LLM or a human

Fundamentally, housing should not be a free market area that is profit-driven. Housing, like energy, food, healthcare and public transport is a basic need.

Therefore, government policies making sure people with lower income can still get housing in a city they grew up in, where they work, live and have family, is important.

Yes, one part of this is also building new housing and making sure that housing is built efficiently in terms of cost (but not throwing them on the free market, but making sure a certain % of it is desginated as social housing).

> High rents are created by high local productivity.

Wrong. High rents have many reasons and also good policies to get them down and have affordable housing for more people, also in otherwise expensive and popular cities.

No we shouldn't. Nuclear waste is not and will never be solved. Nuclear meltdowns are real. Also, nuclear is more expensive than wind and solar.