Because deep subject experts are in fact experts in their subject, not your subject. Just like you have no idea about how to design a modern wide body passenger jet, they have no idea how to properly utilize a database for what they have always done in excel.

Lower classes live the best life they have ever lived in history of humanity. Not only are they not living the normal state of lower class which is starving, in constant pain, infested by large amount of parasites, quite ill, and extremely overworked.

They're living the opposite life: abundance is insane, to the point where poor are fat, parasite infestations are exceedingly rare, they have a wide array of pain mitigation for when they do experience it, and they have actual legal rights in terms of work, rather than normative "work harder slave or the whipping will commence".

The sole reason for this is is technological progress and automation. It has elevated value produced by work of even lower class workers to the point where just short amount of time worked can afford them the kind of food selection kings didn't have half a century ago. The kind of health care kings didn't have twenty years ago. Etc.

This utterly insane myopia of modern Western far left when it comes to grasping that it's in fact those worst off that had the most benefit from modern economic system and its technological progress is probably one of the greatest feats of stupidity humanity has ever managed to create.

Honestly, it never ceases to surprise me how many people never had to manage other people. Because the moment you have to do that, you find out just how incredibly unreliable people are.

>However, it isn't perfect.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Notably, this is also the difference between engineers and scientists. Latter live in the world of perfect abstraction. Former live in real world, where perfect abstraction is exceedingly counter-productive, and good enough is the gold standard.

While the whole "GRU/KGB dealt with it" aspect is real, it's so rare that it makes headlines every time. It's also worth noting that this is rarely if ever for "speech" reasons. Most of it is standard Russian Mafia style "you got our money/you betrayed loyalty" internal fighting. It doesn't really concern general public. They just don't rank high enough to warrant that level of attention.

It's the same thing how Chinese billionaires occasionally vanish for "re-education". Not really relevant for general public.

This is why everyone and their grandmother is all in on AI. It's adoption lags for the sole reason of "people haven't caught up with what it can do, and learned how to let it do it".

Whatever investment is currently in AI is dwarfed by what value it can already technically do, as long as people actually integrate it. It's the "get people to integrate it" part that is the choke point.

Meanwhile AI and robotics advancing rapidly is constantly increasing the amount of work it can perform adequately (about as well or better than typical human worker in that job).

As has been said before, primary problem with AI is no longer model quality, or robotics quality. It's human adaptation to "these tasks can be done by AI as well or better than a human, so we should develop workflow where these tasks are handed off to AI so humans can focus on other things that AI can't do".

Meanwhile models and robotics continue to rapidly advance, so this remains a moving target, making it even harder to hit at any given point in time.

Notably, by far the biggest all in on AI right now is in PRC, where entire factories are going to AI, most of research work is already AI assisted (hence the demand for 4090s and 5090s that have enough VRAM for narrow models commonly used in research), and things like robotics are among top if not the top of the world. Everyone else is behind.

Just so we're clear, they have more arrests for speech, expressed opinions and unexpressed opinions (failure to visibly express a correct opinion in certain settings, i.e. people getting arrested for silently standing alone next to abortion clinics doing absolutely nothing but) than Russia and China for these kinds of offenses COMBINED.

Oh wait, that was previous decade. 2023 numbers suggests it was over five times combined China and Russia, and UK trend is upwards.

Most recent reporting suggests that UK may have climbed to having over 100 times arrests than China for free speech related offenses alone.

Not per capita. Arrests in total. Those two have a combined population that's over twenty times that of UK.

UK is self evidently not a liberal democracy (which I assume is what you refer to when you call it "Western Democracy").

Every computer made in last ten years or so has full inference capability. The "AI support" on the sticker is just marketing.

Bad news. Basically every x64 computer sold in last decade or so is fully capable of doing inference. The main problem is going to be speed, which in turn is mainly about "can model doing inference be fit into RAM?"

A lot of people seem to not realize that windows 11 does in fact officially support all that older hardware. Fully.

The gating isn't hardware support. It's the license. To get officially supported version (that contains all the same driver packages, APIs, and layers), you need to get win11 IOT.

Good luck getting an official license for that instead of going the genocide burial route.

To be fair, they then gave everyone an easy way to continue having access to free updates to 10.

And current price hikes on RAM aren't helping the "hardware sales" part.

Technically a lot of current build out seems to be already pretty circular. Nvidia invests into AI companies, AI companies invest in datacenters, buy hardware to run them from Nvidia.

The expectation is that this will run everything. Including most products by these companies.

Every single one on the list is already all-in on battlefield AI applications. Everything from drones to ISR processing to something as basic as hardening communications against jamming is in process of being moved to AI-based systems.

We've already had some test runs of very early versions of things like AI-based jamming and drone control in Ukraine, and it's clear that it's vastly superior to existing mainly either algorithmic or pre-programmed systems. This experience is in fact one of the main reasons why all four went into AI in these fields hard in spite of likely being massive losers as manufacturers of legacy systems.

That because they don't expect to survive if they don't.

"It's very obvious that this arbitrary line I choose to draw is the objectively correct line".

>To create music now you don't need skill, you don't need talent, you need to put in the absolute bare minimum.

It's funny how times change, but views of elderly hipsters don't. This same line gets recycled every time music generation changes.

"They have to put in less effort than in my day. How dare they?"

Notably, it applies to everything, not just music. Industrial automation is another thing where you can hear versions of this line a lot.