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It created the stories and had a good laugh the way it started one of the stories:

Arthur Perkins, a man who considered himself a connoisseur of routine, was having a particularly peculiar Tuesday. It all started with a misplaced set of dentures...

Seems you recently checked into 2024.

There are things called 'Open Weight' language models, a lot of which (those with between 8b to 34b parameters anyway) are considerably cheaper to run any of OpenAI's models.

BYD, XPeng, and even Huawei say 'Hi'

People like you said the exact same thing a few years ago about Chinese EVs.

The OP wrote about Moderns seeing "humility as a virtue, thanks to Christianity, and [the] secularization of Christianity" as opposed to the pre-christian Pagans who [rightly] saw personal pride and associated traits as being virtues.

A case in point being [from my possibly wrong point of view] the pre-Christian Romans whose list of principal virtues included: Dignitas, Severitas, & Gravitas, very roughly translated: Dignity, Sternness, and Self-Importance.

The OP's views on this particular topic are held by most serious historians of Early Europe. And yet, you lazily jumped into attacking his [presumed] religion instead of calmly stating your reasons why his views are wrong (if your mental capability is enough for you to formulate any such reason, a possibility I strongly doubt).

Within the specific context of the modern secularized world appropriating some of the more compassionate traits of Christianity (namely an appreciation for Humility, Care for the Weak, and a concern for the welfare of others even if they are not members of one's tribe/nationality, etc), I agree with the OP's viewpoint even if I do have some personal antipathy (which I mostly keep to myself) towards Monotheistic religious systems due to the rigid intolerance they tend to breed.

And since I am obviously not against any of the specific points the OP wrote on, what exactly would I be writing the counter-point to?

Try countering the OP's arguments instead of resorting to writing self-serving nonsense simply because you don't have the intellectual capacity to make a single well-reasoned counter-point.

I write this as someone who despises significant portions of Christianity and indeed all Monotheistic religions, and yet even I see some value in what the OP wrote.

Apparently you're in an extremely tiny (so tiny it's negligible) minority,

The buyers who have made the car the best-selling car on Earth obviously couldn't care less about the opinions of virtue signallers.

The OP is being sarcastic. He's basically mocking the US Government's seemingly compulsive habit of trying to sanction China in any field it seems China might be dominating, pulling ahead, or able to dominate in the near or distant future.

5 eyes - US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

France not a member.

If I could give you a million upvotes I would. Heck I could somehow give you a billion upvotes, I would, even if would cost me my account.

Comments like yours restore my hope in HN whenever I start feeling like the community is being taken over by people whose thought processes are flirting on the edge of lunacy.

Imagine someone saying some diseases shouldn't be cured. I'm sure the millions of people all over the world who right now are suffering heart-rending pain from those "shouldn't be cured" diseases would be just thrilled to read the parent comment.

Jeez!

I sincerely doubt that. At the very least, he'll ask for the board (of the OpenAI non-profit that controls the For-profit LLC) to be significantly expanded so as to dilute the power of be board members who ousted him.

Alternately, he might demand the resignation of the entire board as a condition of him returning.

It takes far greater effort to refute nonsense than to spout nonsense. So I won't bother refuting the unhinged rubbish you posted earlier.

Fact is: you're a fool. End of discussion.