/r/brandnewsentence has a mod sticky right now telling people for the love of god stop posting this.

Oh… so it’s kind of like taking something that’s few-to-many and making it many-to-many, and the number of connections is what costs you.

You seem to know more than me so can I ask you a question? I have a general sense of what the context window is / means. But why is it so small when the model is trained on huge, huge amounts of data? Why can the model encompass a whole library of training data but only a very modest context window?

Yes yes, I know you see everything through the lens of the disappearing middle class narrative.

But you’re unarmed with the basics. Agrarian societies run on family farms, where human hands mean more output. Developing countries have absolutely shit standards of living but they have the most kids. This is in direct contradiction to the way you see things.

The reason more developed countries have fewer children is because in a more advanced economy, workers need to be more educated and trained to produce value. They don’t begin contributing to the economy at age 5. More like 18 or 21. That is expensive. Nothing to do with boomers tanking the economy. This is fundamental and true around the world.

Don’t get so attached to a narrative that you become blind to everything else.

I don’t know how European solidarity works, but will people from France pay double for a shirt because it comes from Portugal instead of India?

Actually yeah I was just talking about this in a different post. Renewables are indeed big now and China is a leader.

BUT there is one catch with this. Liquid petroleum has never actually been that big a part of electricity generation. So all of China’s renewables, great as they are, are primarily reducing their usage of coal (which they have domestically in abundance).

Natural gas is also used for electricity, and they may have had to import that before.

But no matter how energy independent they get, it doesn’t free them from oil, which is still incredibly important for plastics and fertilizers.

A China that can’t manufacture cheap plastic crap is a China brought to its knees. A China that can’t feed its people is a China in revolution.

You seem genuinely unaware that countries like Germany legitimately have less than replacement birth rates. I don’t discount your point about paying people more, but I can acknowledge both these realities and you can too. While the class struggle with billionaires rages on, there actually are real demographic challenges.

What’s actually wrong with Indians?

I kind of suspect this is the entire point of this conflict. The US is not immune to global oil supply disruptions, but we are a net exporter now, while China relies very heavily on foreign imports. I would not be at all surprised if this was a way to put the hurt on China and the rest of the world, while blaming Iran for it. Of course Epstein distraction too, but not only that.

It’s actually a lack of care on your part in differentiating between explaining and defending.

I’M BIG IN YA PAN! I’M BIG IN YA PAN!

Stop overthinking it. This is a platform for discussion. Let people ask a damn question.

Maybe if you’d held your tongue instead of making that apparently worthless comment about plastic, we’d all have an example to learn from.

No one’s arguing. You chipped in. It didn’t make sense. You can’t make it make sense, apparently. I guess we really are done here then.

So what? That’s not an answer to my question or a followup to your comment.

When it’s that high for years their hand may be forced. It’s a very slow ship to try to turn around.

Either pitiful delusions or deliberate scaremongering (or both). Rest in dirt, motherfucker.

Power generation is predominantly coal and natural gas. Liquid petroleum, the base material for plastics, is used very little for electrical generation.

So do you want to explain again how using more renewables instead of coal and natural gas is going to drive up plastic production? I think your point is just reflexively pessimistic.

Wow, no exaggerated clickbait here.

And animal cruelty will be totally unaffected.