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Comment · 1 month ago
No, it isn't. Everyone knows exactly what "American" means and it's never a Chilean.
Comment · 1 month ago
The demonym is American, not whatever you wrote. Unless your poor country is New Zealand, that's not the case.
Comment · 4 months ago
Coincidentally, the latter increases the number of the former. Most people are going to avoid confrontation and instead opt for their personal noise cancelation.
Comment · 4 months ago
You're joking, right? Anthropic would never exist in the EU to begin with because of its laws and regulations.
Comment · 4 months ago
You don't need pistachios. General compute is a few orders of magnitude more important to humanity's livelihood than pistachios.
Comment · 4 months ago
>Whereas our coverage of your political system is such that anyone with a passing interest in politics can _really_ get into it on US politics; it's a very asymmmetric experience that is hard to explain.

I don't share your enthusiasm in this being a good thing. In fact, this is a common problem I've noticed over the last decade in that Europeans feel like they know the US and are qualified to comment on issues by virtue of consuming movies and political media of a certain spin (like all media). You are simply consuming someone's opinion with little to no opportunity to validate it against day to day life.

Comment · 4 months ago
You have a literal king, so maybe you shouldn't criticize them lest the coppers show up at your doorstep. Our "king" was democratically elected and has so little power he can't even organize a birthday party as you say, let alone do anything else.
Comment · 4 months ago
The gap is nowhere near that large when controlling for the difference in demographics. Despite that, America is undeniably obese which is easily the largest factor contributing to life expectancy.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's because Mississippi is the second most obese state at 40% of the pop. Healthcare can't fix that.
Comment · 6 months ago
The fact that this comment is still up hours later but my comment below participating in the discussion got flagged should tell one everything they need to know about the intellectual rigor here.
Comment · 6 months ago
Europeans use AI as much as anyone else.
Comment · 6 months ago
Because we're still alive and also have a future and if the goal is to help people, there is no reason to draw the line at "paid it off already" when money is fungible and can still be used to secure a more comfortable future. Having paid off debts doesn't mean you climbed out of the hole, it means you did the responsible thing when you could have easily stashed the money away for your own retirement.
Comment · 6 months ago
They catch up by distilling frontier models. They will eventually figure out how to prevent that from happening. No one has any interest in investing tens of billions if the product can be copied and sold for less.
Comment · 6 months ago
$400B

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