Absurd is the amount of hypocrisy that is likely loaded in your statement unless everything you have ever bought or used wasn’t knowingly made in some sweatshop.
This is based on the categorically wrong assumption that one has total control over everything they ever consume. - This is not possible.
Yet still, even ignoring this, I consciously make an effort to not support these countries because of the reasons I listed. The same way, I make a conscious effort to not support companies that use business practices that I don't condone.
Does this work 100% of the time? No. But that doesn't make me a hypocrite either. Everyone should do "whatever they can" to express their moral ideals.
The real truth: if you aren't good, there is nothing wrong with that and there are more than enough developers in the world and people who are good with math. What we need is more people creating real and interesting jobs for these skills.
Also most people aren't great with spatial reasoning. Chess requires zero prerequisites yet the average level of chess on chess.com is constant one turn blunders. It took only a year of playing on and off to get to 98th percentile and up to maybe 70th percentile most of it is capitalising on basic mistakes. We need to stop deluding people with feels good content, that's how you get memes like imposter syndrome.
You may have a point that because it is new to the Olympics, the competition at the local level vying to make into to the Olympics wasn't there. But if it sticks around, you won't be seeing the Rayguns of the world keep showing up time and time again. Those with favourable mutations are going to find a way to leverage what they got.
>No need to push out quality anymore. Keep milking the cash cow game series.
The opposite is happening which is the scale, detail and complexity of these games have instead dramatically increased resulting in much larger teams and longer development times. The sequel to Breath of the Wild (one of the best selling games which has no online transactions to milk) took 6 years to develop. We still don't have a new 3D Mario game since 2017 but is supposedly in development.
I'm surprised they don't get held in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and that part of the world. They have the cash and inclination to buy the world cup, F1 races, golf competitions etc - why not buy the olympics too?
> need to hold companies accountable by very transparently disclosing those energy costs.
And if they do, then what? If it is "too high" do we delay research because we need to keep the world how it is for you? What about all the other problems others face that could be solved by doubling down on compute for AI research?
> And if they do, then what? If it is "too high" do we delay research because we need to keep the world how it is for you?
First, it's keeping the world how it is for all of us, not just me.
Second, to answer you question, I think that is a decision for all of us to weigh in on, but before we can do that, we must be informed as best as we can.
Do sacrifices have to be made for the greater good? Absolutely. Do for-profit mega corporations get to make those decisions without consent from the public? No.
Many people don't want to live in the world how it is. They would rather see risks taken for accelerated progress. Stop trying to pretend your take is the humanitarian take.
All I will say is: Learn to read between the lines. Most people in politics are not stupid enough to say anything that crosses the line much further than shown. Especially considering it is illegal to call for violence.
Perplexity is one of the only tools that I think takes great advantage of LLMs strengths (pattern matching, interpolation) while also making up for its weaknesses (hallucinations, lack of ability for novel contribution/thought) by using it for summarisation with search.
Right now the goal is to divide the US into multiple regions to overstretch them. Europe (Ukraine, Russia) where Crimea just got struck using US weapons and harming civilians, Middle East (Yemen, Israel, Palestine, very likely Lebanon soon and if that happens...) And Asia (Taiwan, South China Sea) where we have had an increase in hostilities recently.
Whose goal? Is there some overarching cabal deciding that Russia is going to start a war, manipulating middle eastern politics, and making Chinese military plans?
The Crimean civilian injuries were due to Russia shooting down the missiles and knocking them off course, not using air sirens to warn civilians, not building shelters, and encouraging tourism in an active war zone.
Not sure if it's stupidity on Russia's part or deliberately using civilians as cover in temporality occupied Crimea but it's not the first time Russia has placed military hardware near public beaches:
Also if it wasn't obvious all the dominoes started to fall with Russia and for a country that didn't even have a shot at joining the EU. It is incredible how much US foreign policy has failed.
