I know exactly the feeling you mean. I get a much stronger feeling of that when I talk with friends who frequently take a plane for a 250 mile trip which has a world-class comfortable high-speed train connection with very frequent trains, each taking less than 3 hours. I'm sure you have friends who would do this in this situation - do you feel the same disgust when you hear them talking about such choices?
I still haven't seen a single person who actually cares about the environment and has willingly made significant sacrifices for it, who clamors about the environmental cost of AI. Every time I see someone do it it's someone who never cared about this before, and still doesn't really. Who buys plenty of new clothes and furniture, loves a good burger, has the latest iPhone, flies 4 times per year.
Maybe you're the unicorn in which case fair enough, you've earned the right to feel disgusted.
Yep. Wonder how long they'll wait with removing the 1x models, especially Gemini if it takes a long time, though they might just grab at an overdue reclassification of "preview" to "GA" to push it through.
Funny, but in this case it will be the opposite. If you tell an LLM to find potential regression, it will lean towards "finding" it even where there is none.
It isn't true, at least not as a hard and fast rule. Post-legalization changes in demand differ greatly per country. It completely depends on contemporary cultural factors of the country in question.
Your claim is far too open ended to interpret clearly.
A change in demand post-legalization can absolutely be highly variable across different countries/cultures, but unless you can demonstrate a country that legalized cannabis and saw a decline in demand, then your as of yet unsubstantiated claim does not refute mine.
No, all I need to demonstrate is a country that saw no significant increase, not necessarily a decline.
From everything I know, the US states as well as the Netherlands that all decriminalized it in the 70s didn't see local use increase in significant numbers.
Neither did it in Belgium who did the same in 2003.
And before you go "decriminalization is not the same as legalization", in the "Making drugs illegal does not eliminate demand, but it absolutely curbs it." is clearly about drugs that have not been decriminalized at all.
Ah yes, the Western economic model forcing individual American companies like Amazon , Youtube and Uber to become profitable after.. checks notes _14 years_ for Uber, 9 years for Amazon, many years for Youtube.
That's super interesting, isn't Deepseek in China banned from using Anthropic models? Yet here they're comparing it in terms of internal employee testing.
> That's super interesting, isn't Deepseek in China banned from using Anthropic models? Yet here they're comparing it in terms of internal employee testing.
I don't see why Deepseek would care to respect Anthropic's ToS, even if just to pretend. It's not like Anthropic could file and win a lawsuit in China, nor would the US likely ban Deepseek. And even if the US gov would've considered it, Anthropic is on their shitlist.
They use VPN to access. Even Google Deepmind uses Anthropic. There was a fight within Google as to why only DeepMind is allowed to Claude while rest of the Google can't.
Vibes > Benchmarks. And it's all so task-specific. Gemini 3 has scored very well in benchmarks for very long but is poor at agentic usecases. A lot of people prefering Opus 4.6 to 4.7 for coding despite benchmarks, much more than I've seen before (4.5->4.6, 4->4.5).
Doesn't mean Deepseek v4 isn't great, just benchmarks alone aren't enough to tell.
I still haven't seen a single person who actually cares about the environment and has willingly made significant sacrifices for it, who clamors about the environmental cost of AI. Every time I see someone do it it's someone who never cared about this before, and still doesn't really. Who buys plenty of new clothes and furniture, loves a good burger, has the latest iPhone, flies 4 times per year.
Maybe you're the unicorn in which case fair enough, you've earned the right to feel disgusted.
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