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Major power computations I think are harder. I agree the US is falling, but I don't think I've seen a serious analysis claiming that the US will become merely a power amongst a few dozen others anytime in the next few decades? We're about to become much poorer and less diplomatically influential, but still nukes, still the huge military spending, still capitalists with hands in other economies?

And I guess I'm specifically reporting on my circle of american's, who are both aware that we've burned a lot of goodwill and trust (though tbh, I'd hoped the trust was lost already after trump 1...).

The checks and balances held for Trump 1 relatively, and held for previous abuses before that (at least, sufficiently that folks would let the US say such things). I don't think it's obvious that they are irrepairable/irreplaceable: we could have a revolution and rebuild from scratch, as an extreme example. It is obvious that systems must change to do so; reorganizing the supreme court, changing campaign finance, etc. If they change, and how much, idk what to expect. But I think ~half the country knows it'll take serious reforms, and it still wont put the US back where it was. Trust != systems.

While I had similar concerns, I do think about this a fair bit now. A nontrivial math problem was proved by Aristotle (in Lean, a proof assistant, so we're relatively sure it's correct). Alpha Evolve then generalized. GPT pro did some writing and visualization work.

It's basically the quality of work I aspire to. Slightly cheaper, and substantially faster. Not the strongest PhD, but a solid graduate student.

At least in my circles, I think we're aware? People are looking real hard at ways to leave. We've also got a higher than usual chance of reforming/refurbishing some of those broken guard rails. Fingers crossed.

The folks supporting Trump, on the other hand, already believed that these relationships were dead and bad. They'll scapegoat somebody else for the decay; I do not see the avenue for this to be a learning experience.

I do have a favorite for video game characters of the other gender. But I didn't pick it until quite late in life, and I'm not sure it's a good name for gender-bent me irl.

Parents had a name for a AFAB child iirc; though I've forgotten it.

You get a good number of data hoarders after a picture provider goes down/enshittifies. Yes, they'll lose at least one large collection of photos. But I suspect many folks realize they could be banned, lose their account, etc, and take some effort to save things that matter.

important repository of similar content here. Thank you University of Utah.

As already indicated; energy and water use is not so big. It costs substantially more data center time to store and stream high def film then to generate even hundreds of images. Generation itself is very resource cheap compared to human actors and a film crew.

I welcome learning where the 2 arguments separate. The more I think on it, the less I suspect there's a good one.

Note that this is also the argument in favor of giving all the kids malaria. Everyone gets it without intervention, so it must be useful. Sure some people have a really really bad time, but....

I guess my confusion is that some things in this thread are definitely not healthcare (blue eyes), and some definitely are (prevent sickle cell). I'd like the things that are to be available to all.

I was under the impression that we still see UK folks flying across the world to skip queues, personalize medicine, and/or get treatments that haven't yet moved across the pond? Apologies for my ignorance.