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She’s Katy Perry’s replacement.

You also have the case where the a lot of places in the global south got a generational pause where they could develop in the kind of peaceful environment that developed countries are able to.

Sure. Russian oligarchs need support for their system without trying to provide for a better life for their citizens.

I didn’t say AI, I said LLM.

A combination of personal vetting via analyzing output and the vetting of others. For instance, the Pentium calculation error was in the news. Otherwise, calculation by computer processor is understood and the technology is acceptable to be used for cases involving human lives.

In contrast, there are several documented cases where LLM’s have been incorrect in the news to a point where I don’t need personal vetting. No one is anywhere close to stating that LLM’s can be used in cases involving human lives.

Yeah, I figure this isn’t going to be an American only problem.

How are other countries different?

How are other countries handling it? I can’t imagine AI being an American only education issue.

If you want to compare a calculator to an LLM, you could at least reasonably expect the calculator result to be accurate.

And if India officially changes its name to Bharat internationally, Pakistan will totally change its name to India.

Meta is paying to make its bots, Reddit gets it for free!

Hollywood is also running into an issue where streaming has killed the profit model for a lot of movies & TV shows and no one knows what the replacement will look like.

And Hollywood doesn’t have a problem getting talent for cheap. That’s part of the reason why so many productions are across North America.

Employees like this usually cost the company at least double their salary in support and benefits, so you’re probably talking about half that at most.

Along with that, there is probably a lot of R&D expenses as well.

Finally, Meta seems to be subsidizing the consumer hardware, so that’s probably hurting the bottom line even more.

The development of standards doesn’t have to be seen as capitalist, though. There are benefits for non-capitalist economies to define standards as a way to achieve interoperability across different devices. For instance, I don’t see why a communist country wouldn’t standardize a power plug.

But you’re going to get a lot of people who don’t want to be around Glassholes as all AR includes a camera.

You can?

S**t!

I mentioned increased density as a reason why landowners may choose vacation rental over housing. The total habitable building supply can’t increase and it becomes more profitable to be a hotel than an apartment building.

I feel a problem for Europe is that most of their tourism centers are centered in old cultural centers. For instance, Amsterdam became a major party city in its historic downtown. In contrast, American cities like Miami and Las Vegas were built from scratch to serve that function.

Out of curiosity, are holiday rentals the major issue?

They can be, especially in Europe where a lot of the hotspots for tourism are in our near the historic cores of cities. It gets made worse as historic ordinances limit construction of taller buildings which could accommodate increased tourism or there is rent control for housing but no equivalent limit for hotel stays.

Overtourism is a documented problem which can drastically change the character of a place.

That seems to be SOP for Uber. They flat out say that you may be recorded on rides, presumably for safety reasons.

Yeah, I wouldn’t consider this a sign of recession. Instead, it is the confluence of various structural changes in the industry.

1. Because the industry was forced to work in a distributed manner, it has removed the location premium in a lot of salaries. Companies are firing high cost of living areas and hiring in lower cost of living areas.

2. Outside of cost of living, total supply for developers has increased significantly.

3. The return on investment for software development has either dropped or are starting to be included in more decisions. This is leading to development budgets getting slashed.