Switzerland rotates their President every year.

First among equals, the president of the Confederation has no powers over and above the other six councillors and continues to head the assigned department. Traditionally the duty rotates among the members in order of seniority; the vice president of the Federal Council assumes the presidency the year after the officeholder's tenure. The president of the Confederation is not the head of state because the entire Federal Council is the collective head of state.

Per wikipedia.

No, it means that the role of the Swiss president cannot be compared to the cases discussed. It requires a different organization of the state, not just a term or age limit.

Wrt to the latter: the Swiss system prefers the elder candidate.

You're mixing up cause and effect - the short term limits cause a different, less people culty, governance.

Opportunity cost. Instead of cheap energy for the local Norwegians, it is being used by the global capitalist elite.

We see this pretty much everywhere now, where resources are extracted and given to the wealthy.

The current USA leadership is hostile to the rest of the world and we need to know what the fuck they are going to do next.

Sort of how the police should keep tabs on violent criminals.

There is no "dehumanising".

That's not true. They are friend with russia.

You inspired a poem (with sincere apologies to Martin Niemöller):

First they came for the oligarchs, and I did not speak out -- because I was not an oligarch.

Then they came for the political cronies, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a political crony.

Then they came for the tech bros, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a tech bro.

Then they came for me -- and actually it was okay because now we live in a civil society, we were able to clear up the misunderstanding and everybody's doing fine.

:)

How do we know these price cuts weren’t simply due to manufacturing of electric cars getting cheaper as the manufacturing process improves?

Ukraine is not Iran.

I love all those things, started coding as a 10 year old(30 years ago).

The stuff I’m building is things I could only dream of before. With LLMs, I can build things in a year that would have taken me a lifetime before.

10/10

That was always a dumb argument.

If the pole is willing to work for a third of the price the local(I'm assuming Englishman), of course it is detrimental to UK labour.

Pretty good for the capital owning class, though.

Speaking of capital owning, Pole and pole are two different words, as are Polish and polish.

No, but someone who has trained their whole life to run fast, surely will be able to coach someone else to run faster than someone who has been on the couch watching television?

I use LLMs to great advantage, solving problems in my domain. I no longer make for loops.

> coach someone else to run faster

my point was that the new future where running faster doesn't matter any more might come, because everyone is driving (and potentially can't run much at all).

But isn't part of the problem that you simply don't have access to the hardware larger organisations do? OpenAI certainly run into the same constraints. but if they have access to terabytes of memory, while when you use the same model it's closer to 32GB, that will surely affect how the model behaves?

So the pain points you and I frequently run into, simply don't exist for a well connected individual(Sam Altman).

bullshit. such a machine would earn a profit no matter its cost, and Sam wouldn't be at the helm of a dog of a company that won't make it to 2030