Chinese car makers aren’t really more subsidized than Europeans and US. Actually we’re only seeing the brands that survived the internal competition of the Chinese car market, where a ton of brands failed and died.

What we’re seeing are the brands that survived that competition through extreme optimization, at a level no other car manufacturer had to reach before. And they did that in a growing market of 1.5 billion people.

Why should they struggle when competing with an aging industry with aging production modes that only address ~600m people? Especially when those companies offer objectively worse products at worse prices?

Except the US economy is already dead, and only AI is keeping it “alive”. If AI companies die, the US economy enters a true recession, and rich people would lose a lot of money

No monologue, no images, no sound. Just… concepts. It’s a bit weird.

Even weirder is that I can actually conjure images while asleep (or about to sleep, or barely just woke up).

I loved books as a kid, but never understood why people preferred them to movies where you could actually picture what is happening on the page. It took me until my mid 20s to figure out my experience was different to other people’s.

I can get lost in my imagination, it’s just not visual or auditory

China literally just put out an open weight model that verifiably beats the unverified Mythos claims in some scenarios; the reality is that they most likely want the US to “win” the AI race (which they cant, closed models will always be beat by open weight, which is what China is doing)

They’re already on shaky finances, having an export ban would just pop the bubble sooner (and what remains of the US economy along with it)

Again, you don’t have to like them, but maybe just shut up about it for a second so we can all focus on the bigger issue. It’s called critical support.

They are scaling up but as with other things they will most likely scale to their inner market first, and then I doubt they’ll subsidize a price depreciation to help westerners when they can get the profits for themselves

But did you think about China Bad™?

I’m sorry that I draw the line at genocide.

I don’t see how editorial content regulations impact a DJ’s catalogue?

Google is still the first thing that I check, it’s just not as consistent as it used to be in delivering any meaningful results

Because search engines have been dogshit for the past 2 years (give or take~); AI need to be steered hard but as long as you’re asking for sources (and don’t just read what they’re saying) you can get an answer out of them.

I only find what I’m searching for on Google if I already know the exact keywords for what I’m specifically looking for (…and even then…); if I don’t know the exact terms of what I’m looking for (like @affenlehrer@feddit.org with his bike brake issue) then google is useless nowadays, which wasn’t always true. So now my process is to google first, ask an AI second, and I end up using AIs way more than I would like.

I use AIs exactly as you’re describing, but I ask for sources, which they’re “ok” for.

They’re bad at it too but in a way that make them useful to then extract the keywords google would expect (i.e, the response doesn’t necessarily make sense, but at least I have some resources to form a question google can answer), while google doesn’t seem to be able to give me proper results when I search by using words other than the exact matching keywords

It matches in what sense? Because google has become nigh useless to me. I’m relying hard on LLMs to provide links because google never gives me any relevant response anymore – and I’m not even talking about sponsored content here, which makes things worse in some cases

Because it’s all made up bullshit. Most of these “secret chinese police stations” end up just being grocery stores that were given the ability to renew Chinese people’s passports and other administrative shit.

It’s not like Xi isn’t also a Nazi

“Fuck the child” safety act

It would be so fun if Apple and Google decided they’d rather not have business in England anymore

I don’t know how true it is for where you live OP, but from my POV in western Europe, capitalism propaganda is non-stop. “Competition is good” is science, not a piece of ideology. “Billionaires are innovators” goes mostly unchallenged. “China is evil” is a fact, and when they do something good it must be because of corrupt intentions behind it all.

I agree that this constant rejection of that propaganda would be weird if you don’t live 24/7 with that glazing of capitalism to begin with (which may or may not exist depending on where you live in Africa)

I don’t know where in africa OP is but this conditioning of perpetual capitalism glazing we experience in the west might not be something they have to live with, so the constant need to reaffirm rejection of that capitalist propaganda might seem weird to them.

That’s not a bad result either. But if they have any growth they will need to hire externally