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JD Vance defended Trump's controversial tariffs by stating, "We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants produce."

China's Foreign Ministry called the comment "ignorant" and "disrespectful."

Trump:

Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World's Markets [...]

They didn't say thank you. /s

Fine, whatever... all I want is that sweet computer interface

evil play-through in a video game

This reminds me of the case of a parent who let his 6 year old play GTA. It's a notoriously "crime based" game, rated 18+... yet the kid kept progressing by just doing ambulance, firefighter, and police missions. I'd call that quite an indicator of their disposition 😉

AI isn't quite the same as a fictional setting, but it's potentially closer to that than it is to dealing with a real person.

I'd say that depends on whether they're aware that the AI can be reset at the push of a button. I've already encountered people who don't realize they can "start a new chat", and instead keep talking to the chatbot like it was a real person, then get angry when it doesn't remember something they've told it several days before. Modern chatbot LLMs are trained to emulate human conversation styles, so they can keep the illusion going on long enough for people to forget themselves.

Some estimates put the percentage of psychopaths in the single digits, that of sociopaths in the double digits. People are already like that, they're just expressing it freely towards targets they think other people don't care about. Let's not forget the fate of Tay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

What these people don't realize, is that modern LLMs are trained on human interactions, get tuned and/or limited to "positive" interactions, and interacting with them like kicking a rock, will give them zero results. And honestly... I'm fine with that. I don't really care about their instance of an LLM which can be reset at any moment; better have them kicking that, than actual people. If it also gets them to learn some basic behavior, so much better for everyone else.

It's called "training" and "context window" for a reason. You aren't supposed to use a chatbot "as is", you're supposed to train it, give it context, and use it as an agent.

Some people understand that, others will bet their business on imaginary workers. That's their problem, and the new paradigm-shift culling of unfit businesses.

It's just fancy Google that elaborates, but you can't trust the results it gives you, because it lies

That's a contradiction: either it's "fancy Google", or "it lies". Can't have both at the same time.

Farooq Ahmed, an 18-year-old scrap dealer

Without proper safety measures, workers handle toxic materials such as lead, mercury, and cadmium daily. “I cough a lot,” Ahmed admits with a sheepish grin. “But what can I do? This work feeds my family.”

Food for today, death for tomorrow.

On one hand, it's criminal what companies like Apple do to hinder repairability. On the other, these people are killing themselves pretty quickly; instead of in a landfill, all those heavy metals are going to end up in the air after they get cremated.

fall in crime observed in some countries in the 20th century. Additional explanations are needed.

There's internet use... and porn 🤷

Add these two to the graphs:

https://www.russellwebster.com/murder-through-the-ages-and-across-the-world/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046222000667

Fair point. Guess these are better examples:

...and so on.

It's still there as of 05.05.2023, in the "negligible value", "non-commercial", and "for trade promotion" categories:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=legissum%3Al11002

VAT is only applied to goods sold to customers, but for e-commerce "marketplaces and platforms" they replaced the exclusion of "under 22€" with a "simplified declaration under 150€":

https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/customs-4/customs-procedures-import-and-export/customs-procedures/customs-formalities-low-value-consignments_en

Selling on AliExpress and declaring stuff as gift/sample, is a gamble, that's why AliExpress set up the bulk import to local distribution centers. You should still be able to get samples... but only directly from a manufacturer.

When and where? In civilized countries, violent crime rates have been pretty steady until the introduction of TVs, and have a better correlation to leaded gasoline usage.