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  > A society with no freedom of speech? Where people are arbitrarily jailed if they voice an opinion against the government? Where the government places citizens in concentration and re-education camps

You are describing the current climate in the US. Try typing "from the rver to the sa" in any of the major social media networks. You will get banned and in some cases the DHS will come to your door.

Just this past week, an American citizen returned to the US from abroad, and was taken aside by border patrol who asked him about comments he had posted about Israeli minister Ben-Gvir. He had said nothing about the US government or its leadership. He had said nothing that leading figures in Europe have said. France has banned Ben-Gvir from its nation.

Yet for some reason, the US government wants to investigate its own citizen for remarks made about an official in a foreign government.

China does not do anything like that all.

  > runs over them with tanks

This is long-standing (and effective) US propaganda that the Chinese government ran over people with tanks at Tienanmen Square in 1989. Do a Google search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

  > it's not like china they making cars or batteries or chips by hand

That was true a while back but less so now. Chinese companies are moving to "dark factories", which can function autonomously without humans (hence no need for lighting).

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1jci...

I read the memo. Maybe just me, but I don't see any indication that it was tongue in cheek.

Question #1 was on the model's ability to handle arithmetic. The answer to question seems to be unrelated, at least to me: "you can enable or disable tool use in most APIs".

The original question still stands: do recent LLMs have an inherent knowledge of arithmetic, or do they have to offload the calculation to some other non-LLM system?

Discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957307

Mostly true but the exception is K-Pop, which as I understand was the creation of a project by the South eKorean government. There was a severe financial crisis in the late 1990s where the country almost went bankrupt. Desperately seeking sources of revenue, the government funded K-Pop groups which eventually become a global phenomenon (BTS et al). At least that is what some Koreans have told me.

I think it will be a temporary phenomenon. Tiktok people arrived on RedNote last week and were jaw-droppingly amazed at videos of flashy modern Chinese cities, natural wonders (Guilin mountains), beautifully dressed young men and women, tasty food, Luigi fandom, and cute cats.

For many it was a revelation that the US government/media complex has been systematically lying to them about China. They are arriving at an acceptance that the US is a shabby declining empire dominated by a corrupt elite and heartless broligarchs. Always a good thing to bump up against reality, imho.

However I think that the US-based population of Tiktok refugees will subside once the novelty effect has worn off. Probably shrink by half in a month. Hopefully there will remain a positive lingering effect.

Does DOGE (Dept of Govt Efficiency) post exclusively on Twitter? Just wondering