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It's also the fun path! Although I think we should acknowledge that most don't have the means to do this. For engineers with a high salary I would advise saving as much as possible so you have more agency.

This is a point in time for the US and there are institutional paths to change. The comparisons to China forget that China does not have the same mechanisms for change. China is an immutable state outside of revolution or the administration just deciding to transfer power.

If they are successful in destroying democracy, I will reevaluate my view. We don't know what's going to happen in the midterms or 2028.

> If they are successful in destroying democracy, I will reevaluate my view. We don't know what's going to happen in the midterms or 2028.

But again, and I say that as a European, we don't really care: what we see is the position of the US no matter if it is coming from your congress, president, secretary or whatever.

Look up the build back better act that Biden proposed and tell me if you think that was centrist. It originally proposed extending the child tax credit (basically basic income for people with kids).

The Inflation Reduction Act, the negotiated paired down version was still the biggest climate bill in history.

He also attempted to cancel 10 to 20k each of student debt, a progressive priority. That was blocked by the Supreme court.

The list goes on.

If the electorate had given Biden a bigger majority in Congress he would have passed much more progressive legislation.

How are you finding lemmy community compared to reddit?

what community? There's almost nobody there! (it's nice)

I always wonder if the general sentiment toward genai would be positive if we had wealth redistribution mechanisms in place, so everyone would benefit. Obviously that's not the case, but if you consider the theoretical, do you think your view would be different?

To be honest, I'm not even sure I'm fully on board with the labor theft argument. But I certainly don't think generative AI is such an unambiguous boon for humankind that we should ignore any possible negative externalities just to advance it.

That's a much easier stance to take for people who are not facing loss of income. If we had wealth redistribution mechanisms in place, I think more people would be pro ai.

Thanks for this comment. I've been trying to find anything about the huge error bars. Do you have any sources you can share for further reading?

How do you know?

This is similar to how Anthropic has treated sonnet/opus as well. At least pre opus 4.5.

To me it seems like the big model has been "look what we can do", and the smaller model is "actually use this one though".