AlecSchueler

Exactly, but that doesn't explain the fish.

> The shorter and vaguer a prompt you give to an LLM, the more it fills in further details using associations they've developed through training.

I can see that for stuff like facing right because characters in images generally do face right, and roads generally do have dashed white line separators. But putting a fish in a basket seems like a stretch of creativity—one that I would rather it not make unless prompted to—so it's surprising that every single model now seems to insist on it.

Any idea why there's so much convergence on the fish in a basket idea?

> are now not scaling up production according to demand.

Would you though? If/when the AI bubble pops and the buildout of data centres either stops or plateaus then they'd suddenly be sitting in a vastly oversaturated market and struggle to make it to the end of the year.

Where might one get started with citizen science as an outsider?

> You're advocating central planning.

You state this like it's inherently something to be avoided but you give no reason for believing so

If there's evidence of Chinese involvement via backdoors then it would be great to see it, but until then this reads as "red scare" adjacent.

It's a fair reason to question the efficacy of benchmarks but that doesn't necessarily follow on to a defence of the efficacy of "vibes."

Though you can count the tax dollars that go to the military as part of that cost

> The Sino-Vietnamese war was in 1979

I'm aware.

> the Tibetan takeover was in the 50's

Yes, so we're reaching back to the 50s to get to the same numbers as the US has racked up in the past year. What we if we compared the numbers since 1950?

> Article 8 is the relevant one

And has there been an invasion or a toppling of any leaders? No, so again this shows there's a grown up way of recognising there's differences without going all in on war at the drop of a hat.

I know several people who were there at the time—both Spaniards and tourists—and I've only heard positive experiences.

> emergency generators have to turn on for hospitals

So, they still have power.

> the transport system stops.

And people have to accept being where they are or find other ways of getting around.

Imagine if everyone had just stayed at home for a week in 2020.

> When the car was invented, there were a lot of accidents

These accidents were on the individual scale, but now we're looking at societal scale accidents. Usually it's smart to insist on a bit more planning and consideration at that level.

> It's well understood

Where might one read more about this?

You can vote for someone who won't go out of their way to alienate your allies, start wars on a whim, defund science, whitewash history, pardon his loyal militia men, engage in blatant insider trading, etc etc etc

But if we have to reach back to 1951 to show how warmongering China is then it's not very convincing is it? Taiwan is as of today a hypothetical. I've been hearing it's going to happen any day now since the 1990s.

Until recently the US was on the side of international cooperation. It's not only a pity that this has changed but it's sad to see that people are completely forgetting this, as well as seemingly forgetting the incredibly bloody history that we had to endure before embracing the idea of respectful cooperation.

Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else

And don't forget that we're steamrolling ahead into a mass extinction event

Fossil output has also increased significantly and none of our goals to mitigate further warming have been met.

What's driving the economy if not consumers? UBI isn't the same as economic inactivity.

I wanted to better understand the internal discussions that took place within China regarding joining the WTO and accepting—at least in the medium term—the inherent steps away from a traditional socialist economy that would entail.

DeepSeek refused. Funny enough American models gave me very sympathetic takes on the Chinese government in this case.

The mechanisms for refusals are removed.

Not me anyway, but many people in this thread have asserted that Europe will never be able to compete because of things like consumer protection regulations. I'd encourage you to take it up with them.

That crazy delusional United Nations with their wacky metrics eh?

https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index

https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2025_HDR/HDR25_Stat...

Indeed, hence my comments above.

I never questioned Belgium's sovereignty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state

Belgium has no clear majority nation. It's a multinational state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state

The above said that the markets in Europe don't operate. A sibling post refers to Europe as the laughing stock of the world. Multiple people are saying it would be impossible for Europe to build alternatives to foreign services because they have consumer protections.

Europe is full of immigrants too, are they all rushing to live in a stagnant society on the verge of collapse, knowing their families abroad are just laughing in astonishment at their decisions?

I'm not sure it comes down to where you were raised. I was in a car with a Texan and a Californian at the weekend, driving up to Amsterdam, and they were laughing all the way about how safe the roads were, how friendly the police were and how considerate the other drivers were. Like, "they actually tell you where the speed traps are!? The cops aren't out to get me!?"

Sure looks a lot better than the US or China or really where else though, doesn't it?

Europe itself a collection of nations. The US was traditionally an ally and for the better part of a century we've been comfortably building out a host of projects together, from military to science to cultural goods. That the US has apparently stepped away from working cooperatively is genuinely surprising and disappointing, but we shouldn't let it normalise the idea that we can only ever trust others of our own nation. Especially in Europe where you obviously have countries like Belgium that aren't nation states to begin with.