Taiwan IS independent of China and has been for decades. It’s not something I have to support. It’s already true.

It’s only in the mind of Chinese communist party officials that Taiwan is part of China.

And no, China is a politically backwards, authoritarian, communist regime. Yes, I’m sure they have all kinds of “statistics” showing citizens love their government. Who collected those statistics? Right the government. Those aren’t reliable. Neither are they based on truth. Chinese people tell the government what they want to hear.

China has done well economically since the 1990s because they partially moved away from strict communism to a more market-based economy and partially because American business moved their factories to China. Either way, it was help and influence from America that improved the lives of the Chinese.

India is a democracy. It's neither communist or fascist, unlike China where these phones used to be made. China is also increasingly hostile to the US due to it's support of Taiwan. As an American, I'm much happier supporting production in India than China.

American companies view extroverted personality traits as "management material." They're sociable, talkative, outgoing, confident, positive, friendly, and open. Managers are extroverted. Extroversion tends to increase as you look at managers higher in an organization. Your C-level executives all tend to be the most extroverted people in the company.

Education matters when looking for a managerial position. But, hiring managers downplay education all the time. What matters most of all are things like "company fit," aka personality. Do you act like a manager? In the US, that often means: are you extroverted?

Companies would rather promote an extroverted employee with some job experience over any introverted MBA regardless of the MBA's job experience. That extroverted employee just has "management material" written all over him.

Hell, it could be LLMs from different companies all using the site for training data.

One of the interesting features of mRNA technology is that new vaccines can be made on the existing production lines with minimal changes. So, the cost of ramping up a new mRNA vaccine is minimal since the existing factory can be used to produce the new vaccine, unlike with other pharmaceuticals.

Bigoted asshole or not, he's got a point. You've both got points. Corporations adopted DEI policies across all industries starting about 2018. The problem is that it wasn't enough to push diversity in casting. The industry also pushed diversity in the writer's room. Companies brought in writers that primarily ticked boxes with a goal toward racial, sex, and sexual orientation variety. Writing skill and experience was a distant, secondary concern. As a result, we've all seen a marked decrease in writing quality across the board. Audiences have noticed too and have reacted by doing things like cutting back on theater attendance.

Exactly. This was the same industry that was lecturing everyone on intellectual property law not that long ago. Fucking hypocrites.

That's great to say. Tell it to the food companies. The average American doesn't have a choice in the matter when they're adding it to all the food.

It's a weekly injection, not a pill. And yes, the injection also curbs addictive behavior such as gambling and alcoholism.

First off, this isn't some academic forum where we back up every single claim with evidence.

Second, I'm a progressive liberal and happen to agree with his statement, which wasn't presented in an overtly political manner. Facts don't have a political preference. There certainly are preferential admissions and hiring for women. I've seen them repeatedly over my time in school and over my 20 year career in tech. I've been told repeatedly that "everything men can do women can do better." That statement wasn't created in this thread.

Trump is gutting the EPA and other agencies that would enforce our environmental law. Business has nothing to fear. IF Trumps allows a legitimate election AND a Democrat ever wins the presidency again, they're going to first need to rebuild the entire government and the entire economy before enforcing any laws against businesses, let alone enforcing the environmental laws.

Maybe it'll start working without errors aka "hallucinations." The problem is that the technology is fundamentally disconnected from reality. It reads the writing that we've bothered to put online. But, AI has no means of independently verifying that writing. It has no independent means of verifying the truth or falsehood of a section of text. I don't see a good means for it to get that data without first changing the way in which it interacts with the real world.

These tools generate more hallucinations (aka errors) the more complex the models get. Sure, they can generate a lot of shitty output very fast. My output comes slower, but itâ(TM)s correct. And given that I generate the output myself, I can actually talk about it authoritatively in meetings.

Exactly this. The folks using AI outsource their thinking to a machine. The more they use AI, the less thinking they perform for themselves. And, the more of their own skills they lose. I can still do my job without AI. I can perform just as well as you because you're using AI as a crutch to make up for your own inadequacies. You'll become more dependent on AI over time. I'll continue to perform without it.

In many ways, it doesn't matter how many engineers the US trains because we attract engineers from other countries. That includes China. The US has a long line of engineers that want to work in the country even with Trump as President. That's unlike China. China's not a big destination for foreign tech workers. Engineers want to work for the top tech companies, which are all American. Those American companies offer the top worldwide salaries and benefits in the industry.

So sure, let China train engineers. America will take them.