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Where did you learn that history?

What do you mean by "better"?

I had a European peasant in the 1600-1700s in mind when I wrote about the amount of work. During the season, they worked all day; off-season, they had "free time" that went into taking care of the household, inventory, etc., so it's still work. Can't quickly find a reliable source in English I could link, so I can be wrong here.

"Better" was referring to what OP wrote in the top comment. I guess 10x faster, 10x longer context, and 100x less prone to hallucinations would make a good "10k x better" than GPT-4.

Sorry, I can't fit that with what you wrote earlier: "12 hrs/7 days per week to not die from hunger".

Those peasants payed taxes, i.e. some of their work was exploited by an army or a priest rather than hunger, and as you mention, they did not work "12 hrs/7 days per week".

Do you have a better example?

This entire line of argument is just pointless.

You probably placed this wrong? I'm not driving a line of argument here.

I mean 6mian. He hand-waved non-data (badly) disguised as historical facts to make a point. Then you came around and asked for actual facts. It's clear you won't get them, because he got nothing to begin with.

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