@2xHeroi@QuetzalPhoenix 2 out of maybe 12 of my closest friend group from my elite university ended up in Portland at some point. The first was an art student moving there when it was more of a hipster hub. The second barely graduated CS, married and divorced a nurse, and went trans, and then moved.
@nephew_jonathan@Empty_America The Chinese wheelbarrow, with wheel in center, is superior for moving loads over a long distance compared to the European wheelbarrow, with wheel in front. But the European wheelbarrow is more maneuverable, better for its primary use of moving loads around construction sites.
@blueblimpms@woke8yearold GPT 5.5 already had safeguards to downgrade the model if it detected it was being used for cyber attacks at the very least, and maybe security research in general. The Cyber version of 5.5 was also only released to trusted partners
@w_bsun@TheZvi In a previous era, Congress would have been able to pass a law fairly quickly, but it would have been largely up to the executive to propose it. But it was obvious when AI 2027 was written that Congress is currently deeply dysfunctional and divided.
The post-WWII Mexican population boom was one of the biggest ever; for a time there were more families with 13 (surviving!) children than childless ones.
Falling infant mortality led to a colossal population boom and rural misery; this touched off mass immigration to the United States, adding to the accumulated social and cultural problems of the US Southwest.
The evidence does seem to be converging on twin studies substantially overestimating the heritability of educational attainment.
But the difference with sib-regression estimates doesn't seem that large for height, bmi, etc.
Jury still out on IQ.
@teortaxesTex Also, it’s kind of against the whole ideology of the CCP to acknowledge factions as legitimate, unlike in the West, so there’s not even the censored and ideologically distorted reporting on them that such factions get from their enemies in the US.
@teortaxesTex The fact that the American discussion happens in English is a big advantage. LLMs are finally becoming good enough that you could imagine an American with limited Chinese doing the same thing, but Chinese sites are also slow and painful to use for outsiders.
Most of the Latins who went to Genoese Crimea were young bachelors, who expected to make money there and return (pretty similar to the Latin American pattern). This led to the very interesting phenomenon of the "Cuma" - a local woman who would do all of the things that a wife...
@parvmahajan0 No direct financial need, but they wanted to maintain momentum as the leader against OpenAI. Also Codex is growing fast, and GPT-5.5 is arguably a better model than Opus 4.8
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