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> People are using AI to convert their bank statements. This works pretty well if you only have a few pages of bank statements to convert. If you have hundreds of pages, then you’ll need to pay for AI to do the conversion.

Or you could have AI write a script to handle the conversion for your specific bank. It'll be faster than any service and free forever.

Groceries and fuel come to mind.

> India is not what even the most casual racist would consider "third world".

I don't follow. India was Third World in the original Cold War sense as a founder and leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and it still fits the term's colloquial sense through low GDP per-capita, poor HDI figures, weak state capacity, corruption and uneven infrastructure.

The label might be offensive, the comment you responded to most certainly is. But excluding India from the Third World is hard to justify.

> Most of the article is a quote

The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.

> US ships

What US ships?

> you could argue that the AI is just a bunch of hired workers that built it for extremely low wages.

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an assertion.

With apologies to Mr. Charles Babbage.

No.

> I think Bregman skirts close to the "Effective Altruism" movement and his work has similar problems of choosing flashy, exciting, elitist projects over boring, uncomfortable, policy changes.

I'm sorry, but what? The most prominent EA projects focus on cost effective interventions that save and improve lives.

Give Well's current top recommendations are medicines and nets to prevent malaria, vitamin A supplements and promoting regular childhood vaccinations. None of them are flashy or elitist.

"Operation succesful, patient dead" is a common saying in India.

> you may run some models locally if only from a cost perspective

I have a hard time believing running a model on a laptop will be cheaper than running it in a datacenter. Why wouldn't economies of scale apply here as with every other computation?

This narrative simply doesn't hold up at the population level.

If you just look at India, richer and more developed states have lower fertility compared to poorer, less developed states.

Within states, richer and more educated couples have fewer children compared to poorer less educated children.

These patterns are pretty much universal.

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