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Citation needed.

This is a very western centric view, tofu is entirely unrelated to meat, and billions of people love tofu. Nobody needs to switch, it's just its own thing. It's like saying beef is tastier than kidney beans. Ok? Theyre not related at all.

What are you talking about? Maybe for throwaway mobile games. Serious game dev is full of novel challenges. New graphics techniques are constantly being researched and discovered. There are critical resource constraints unique to every game, and each one needs bespoke solutions. There aren't one size fits all solutions to most high fidelity games.

Reading the sum of all writing by art critics is worth less than one random human's earnest attempt to make art.

That's what web devs assume. There is a lot of novel difficult work to be done in other industries.

So the moats now favor incumbents, large corporations, middlemen, and bureaucrats, instead of innovation, craftsmanship, and agility. Sounds disastrous to me.

Depends on what "decision" means. If I say, "Claude, compile a list of 1000 buildings to blow up," and then skim the output briefly and then press the red button, I wouldn't say Claude "decided" anything.

Some reason this kind of argument always by default assumes the US will be the good guys.

Hoping everyone chooses to do the right thing is not an effective strategy for mitigating bad things.

This assumes that children's learning is solely about correctness and obtaining information. There is a whole universe of other considerations, like interacting with other people, with adults, with fallible authority figures. Having a conversation with a teacher and getting the wrong answer teaches you far more about being a human being and living in a human society, than getting facts back from a screen. Yes, teachers being incorrect is something that should be improved, but reducing human interaction is not an improvement.

Is it actually that hard to make good models or is it just about the amount of resources you have to do training? (This is an actual question, I really don't know.) I'm sure it's not trivial but does it really take world class secret knowledge to build off of the known existing techniques? I feel like there's tons of low hanging fruit still to explore, and time and resources are the limiting factor.

Maybe a really lightweight fast LLM could moderate messages in realtime. Not sure how pricey that would get though.

Well I'm sure someone will tell it to.

I guess I don't understand which are the features Messenger has that Signal doesn't that requires a billion dollars a year to maintain.

But a messaging program like Signal is fairly similar in scope, but only has like a couple dozen of devs, compared to Messenger's thousands(?).