I'm so glad the West has never hoped for Russia's downfall since the West doesn't have this "loser mentality".
And no, I'm just enjoying the irony of the situation when after so many decades of ignoring the rule of law when it is beneficial for the West, it has found itself on the receiving end and doesn't know what to do and what to say.
And on top of that, the fact that the offender is a part of the West doubles the irony.
The West isn’t a real entity, it’s not coordinated like a state or a nation. I know they teach you from a very young age that the West is your enemy and things could be so much better if it weren’t for the West, but outside of Russia we don’t have the reverse obsession.
Western European countries reached out to you in the 90s and 2000s, tried building economic and cultural ties. I guess you were just playing along for your own benefit?
Besides things could be better if you weren’t governed by a kleptocratic mafia regime, which kills dissidents. But all those years looking at Putin’s portrait in school probably convinced you that he’s on your side.
>The West isn’t a real entity, it’s not coordinated like a state or a nation.
The EU and NATO look with surprise at your statement.
>I know they teach you from a very young age that the West is your enemy and things could be so much better if it weren’t for the West, but outside of Russia we don’t have the reverse obsession.
The fact that you believe in this "they teach you from a very young age" story tells quite clearly that you do have such an obsession.
Do they at least teach you that EU isn’t a state or a nation? Or that NATO has never fought a war against Russia? They should get the facts straight, usually it’s the framing that’s nefarious.
If you think that it's just an imagination, the universe will make you physically feel what it really is. Not all at once, but gradually, drop by drop. And then, you'll learn the true meaning of another "meme" word: ignorance.
This is what they want you to believe. You are useful and convenient when you are malleable (to someone's else agenda aka "their choice"). Ideally, you should not practice any discernment at all, raise no questions, silence any suspicions. As if it's all by sheer coincidence and predefined by external forces ("chance").
It's not the truth. It's an observation, one of many. It does not look neat, it looks horrible. However, I am ok to give it a deeper nuanced appreciation than to just negate it right off the bat.
I agree with this, and I think we're partly conditioned to think this way. We (think we) can change ourselves, but we (believe we) can't change the world. I think it's OK to think bigger.
To make friends, people need a place to meet, to have time and means to be there, and a reason to go there semi-regularly. A lot of the design of society completely ignores these needs. These are solvable problems.
It’s hard to know for sure what’s acceptable when it comes to working conditions in China. The information we get is incredibly limited. Most of what makes it through is propaganda.
That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if he does it all day long, 6 days per week.
Because of how very badly it works in practice. LLM writing is bad, there’s no interactivity (inference delay), it feels soulless, there’s no coherence in the generated text.
There should have been one good game by now. But there isn’t.
The wall is training data. Yes, we can make more and more of post training examples. No, we can never make enough. And there are diminishing returns to that process.
Please don’t get my hopes up. Adaptable people like me will outcompete hard in the post-engineering world. Alas, I don’t believe it’s coming. The tech just doesn’t seem to have what it takes to do the job.
> And the jobs which will remain will be impossible to get.
Exactly my thoughts lately ... Even by yesterday's standards it was already very difficult to land a job and, by tomorrow's standards, it appears as if only the very best of the best will be able to keep their jobs and the ones in a position of decision making power.
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