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snakeboy
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Have you ever seen transplants to a colder climate trying to navigate icy road conditions?

This is a valid point that self-driving cars solving the issue once and losslessly deploying the solution to it's fleet is a massive improvement over humans each individually applying the "live and learn" strategy.
snakeboy
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> Reform wasn't passed, it was forced via a technicality after riots made it politically unpalatable, and it has put France in a governing crisis ever since.

You can call it a technicality if you'd like, but, the article 49.3 mechanism is a legitimate tool for the government under the French constitution. It is arguably designed to allow the government to pass pragmatic, but politically unpalatable projects like retirement reforms.

As for the governing crisis, it is simply a matter of Macron having used up the rest of his political capital on this reform, and he will conclude his term next year.

You are giving the impression that France is some kind of failed state unable to correct its course, where in actuality, the democratic process literally worked as intended:

  1. Macron proposes a necessary welfare reform to start reigning in the budget
  2. People go out and protest (unsurprising, as welfare cuts are universally unpopular)
  3. Macron's government uses an unpopular mechanism to pass the reform into law, which contributes to his government becoming a lame duck.
> Also, retirement in North, West and Central EU is 67+, not 64.

This is simply moving the goalposts of our discussion, so I will not respond. France's reforms under Macron are real, and directionally-correct.
snakeboy
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> Any attempt to change those results in the country being taken hostage by rioters, thus nothing changes.

Your theory doesn't actually match with reality, given that Macron's retirement reform was passed into law despite protests. As currently enacted, the age of retirement in France will progressively increase from 62 until reaching 64 in 2030.
snakeboy
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I usually use free archived versions to read mainstream journalism pieces. Seeing this convinced me to subscribe. I've always loved The New Yorker, and am happy to support serious longform journalism (and I know that Ronan is one of the best).

However, it's a shame that the only way to subscribe to the print version is to pay $260 upfront for the yearly subscription. Meanwhile the digital version is $1/week ($52 upfront) for one year, or even just $10 for one month.
snakeboy
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I don't need any of these statements to be true to want to divest from a US monopoly on essential software.

It's about decentralization, always has been.
snakeboy
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I fail to understand why you cited ChatGPT in the first comment instead of just linking the sources in the first place. That was obviously the critique of your comment, and it seems bad-faith to claim it was because they "just don't like the numbers".
snakeboy
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
The whole pitch of AI is that the model is going to be able to make exploit general knowledge outside of the local scope of the problem, just like a human would do. So I would also expect that it would be able to transfer his knowledge of classical music learned in language training, and apply that to the Spotify database.
snakeboy
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
> All of this capability emerging from a company (Anthropic) that’s just five years old. Imagine what Claude will be capable of in 2030.

I don't believe VC-backed companies see monotonic user-facing improvement as a general rule. The nature of VC means you have to do a lot of unmaintainable cool things for cheap, and then slowly heat the water to boil. See google, reddit, facebook, etc...

For all we know, Claude today is the best it will ever be.
snakeboy
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> I wonder if it will reduce risk-taking

I understand this argument in engineering and medical fields, but in clothing industry, does incentivising risk and innovation really matter that much?
snakeboy
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
It's the name of a french-developed open video conferencing software[0]. See the 1st prize result in TFA...

[0] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/visio
snakeboy
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Well, nobody needs Google-level money...
snakeboy
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> Installation Process Enhanced by AI

Proceeds to use requirements.txt in 2026...

Old habits die hard for our LLM overlords. But at least it sure knows how to market itself!
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I think it's more likely that Chinese EVs are banned in the US because they would absolutely obliterate the domestic car manufacturing industry.
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I feel like the normal reaction is to see it in both and maintain a distinction between these two entirely different contexts without ignoring the crimes of the lesser.
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
It's some utopian dream to think the death of the EU would decentralize power. It's currently a necessary evil to put pressure on the already centralized power of the US global hegemony. Without the EU, the world is controlled by the US and China.
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
If you can't reason about the concept of 'price sensitivity' without a slippery-slope invocation of slavery, then I think capitalism isn't for you.
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
It works if you know the person and have a baseline for how much confidence you give their opinions. If it's just a random person on the internet, they need to support their argument.
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
The post is just about doctors, but I hear similar arguments about professors (in the US, at least). These two fields attract the greatest minds and most dedicated souls to do actually important work for society (compared to those great minds going to Silicon Valley or Wall Street), and we pile all kinds of extra busy-work on to their plates that could be done by any replacable wage employee.

It enrages me to think that a single second of Terry Tao's ~80 years on our planet is wasted to bureaucratic nonsense rather than teaching and researching.
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Makes sense, but how does this explain the fact that this problem seems recent, or at least to have worsened recently ?
snakeboy
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I personally prefer some grammatical errors or awkward phrasing over AI-assisted writing. It's a blog post, not a diplomatic transcript.