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You have an US-centric (an really naive) view of the judicial systems of the world. In many countries the judges have to follow the exact letter of the law. In others, this "spirit of the law" excuse makes way for enabling systemic corruption.

The reason is self evident: central planning regulatory hell is incompatible with inovation.

You are incredibly naive. There is one on every street, they are just called "sports bars" instead of casinos.

You're probably talking about the big Vegas style entire-hotel casino that aren't so popular in Europe anyway outside a niche crowd. The average lower class Spanish person frequents these "sports bars" heavily


>It’s literally text prediction, isn’t it?

you are discovering that the favorite luddite argument is bullshit



Feel free to elucidate if you want to add anything to this thread other than vibes.


after you go from from millions of params to billions+ models start to get weird (depending on training) just look at any number of interpretability research papers. Anthropic has some good ones.


> things start to get weird

> just look at research papers

You didn't add anything other than vibes either.


Interesting, what kind of weird?


Getting weird doesn’t mean calling it text prediction is actually ‘bullshit’? Text prediction isn’t pejorative…


> the EU currently has the most user-friendly laws when it comes to data protection

This is laughable. The EU has the most big-tech regulatory capture friendly data laws that make it really hard for small companies to compete, nicely packaged under consumer protection pretenses.

Those same laws give the institutions of the state complete and total right to silently wiretap the digital existence of anyone, at any time, for any reason.


This is one of the best parts of agentic development. I almost never had to reach for any npm package besides the foundational staples like the tailwinds and react queries. My pacakge.json dependency array vs project size ratio is just incredible nowadays


the sudden left turn into political bullshit really left a sour taste

and it's mostly just the same walled garden rant we've all heard and even made a variant ourselves

is this the type of content we have devolved into on here? I'd take endless ai slop over endless random cringe political posturing any day


If you prefer ai slop, let me introduce you to moltbook! Some of the ai agents there were even trained by humans being paid by pedophilic fascist speed freaks, so they tend to be more amenable to that sort of thing than your typical human.


>pedophilic fascist speed freaks

the LLMs have a wider vocabulary, argument range and worldview nuance than whatever the dogma of the month or whatever the fuck this is


> europe

> we don't engage in mass surveillance

you're incredibly naive


efficiency per token has tanked but it's still faster. given this is the first generation for Cerberas hardware this is the worst it's ever going to be.

when it reaches the main 5.3 codex efficiency at this token rate this kind of articles will seem silly in retrospect


Yeah, the progress is still incredibly impressive even if 15× is overstated. Curious to see how far it goes in the future.


> they are trying to quickly create alternatives to anything American

They're the same bright minds that ensured no alternatives could naturally come out of the European market trough relentless bureaucratic central planning. I have zero hopes of a good outcome


Actually European integration the last 30 years has been pretty remarkable. In the past, not even electric plugs were compatible. But the EU is not a country. A lot of the inefficiencies are actually features sought by key members to protect their own local incumbents.


Your best example of European integration is electric plugs?


Money transfers between bank accounts for no extra fees (well, that's limited to the Euro, so a couple of countries chose to stay outside). Mobile phone usage for no extra fees all over EU (some limitations, but typically not relevant for the average trip).

B2B the integration has even bigger impact.

I don't think eletric plugs are even regulated. British plugs never changed and they were not an argument in Brexit.


All of those things don't require having a supranational body who you relinquish large parts of your sovereignty to.


Which is why bank to bank transfers are so easy in the US.


I wouldn't say that transfers are easy in the EU.

My bank requires me to fill in a paper form, scan it, send it by mail, wait a week, then get an answer (often, "no, give us more details") if I want to send money in another country. Neobanks tried to solve this for lower amounts, but will freeze easily your account for "AML" if you send low six figures.


Free cellphone roaming is a big plus.


How about tap water has to be drinkable in every EU country


Many non-eu countries have drinkable tap water, not sure how representative of "integration" this rule is.


And many non eu don't have. I am neutral on the eu topic but you are confused. If this eu thing can mandate certain water standards or expel a country and or withhold common funds, that's a very different thing from seeing "some" non eu countries having water.


USB-C!


It isn't bureaucracy that has prevented any alternatives emerging; it's network effects. Mastercard and Visa have a solid duopoly.


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