The problem is then that I get more questions, but AI can handle them faster than I can muster them up or type them. So it's a net win

Germany: https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Pol...

Total N = ~2.2M Germans = ~1.2M (~58%) Non-Germans = ~900k (~42%)

Population: Germans ~71M (~85%), foreign ~12M (~15%)

Per-capita, non-Germans show up ~2.8x more.

Approximate rates:

Germans: ~1,786 per 100k (baseline) All Non-Germans: ~7,365 per 100k (~4.1× German rate) Syria: ~12,900 per 100k (~7.2×) Afghanistan: ~12,300 per 100k (~6.9×) Romania: ~8,450 per 100k (~4.7×) Turkey: ~6,660 per 100k (~3.7×) Poland: ~6,640 per 100k (~3.7×) Ukraine: ~5,130 per 100k (~2.9×)

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Some other countries (Switzerland, Denmark) also publish per-nationality data and it doesn't look any better. The other comment shows data from Norway/Finland/Sweden which is more of the same.

The US is a different topic (but strong arguments with clear data can be made as well), so I'll refrain from engaging it here to avoid further derailing the thread.

The RU/UA war was entirely orchestrated by the US. The "Russia will invade the EU" propaganda was useful to scare the EU population, so they'd accept issuing 800B of debt to "rearm Europe" (buying from and enriching American war companies). Debt that will be paid using EU taxpayer money of course.

The US government is using their own taxpayer money to buy weapons for Ukraine (money++ for politicians and their war company friends), and then they forced the EU to issue 800B of debt to further enrich their war company friends.

Why would the US defend the EU from the Russian invasion, with this insane war revenue?

The rest who are not chased are usually deeply intertwined with politicians, and are running corruption schemes along them.

I'm not one to hate rich people (I'm a capitalist myself), but if any billionaires are to be looked at with skepticism, it's EU billionaires with significant political ties.

I did not "wait" for it. I came here, worked a bunch, made more money than I would've in my home country, and got the passport mostly so that I can have a refuge in case of severe war, and to have better travel opportunities.

Blame me all you want, I'm giving you the honest view many (most?) of us have, that you won't hear in society for obvious reasons. Lifelong culture, values, family, and friends do not change because a person worked in a given country for N years and filled some paperwork to get a passport, and to think otherwise is NONSENSE.

Not quite Berlin, but same effect: nearly indiscriminate influx of poorly vetted immigrants that can soon travel all around Europe.

So yes, it's with us in the room, just not right now, but very soon.

The "strong and deep statements" they release are cheap theater.

The US is defending Europe through NATO. Until that changes, the EU will continue to be the US's slave.

Even if you overcome all of this and become successful, you'll get chased by politicians for having too much money (which is not allowed in the EU).

And even if you don't, today, it will be tomorrow.

Easier to just take a long haul flight to your favorite US coast and do it there.

Thank you for the clarification.

Me: "here's why, you said this word and that word, carrying this and that connotation"

You: "Notice how you ignored my question"

lmao

Anyway - positions? Or is it just talk?

"unsurprisingly": these people are predictable (by you, in this case)

"his genius moves": hyperbole, you clearly think they are not

You're saying people predictably like Trump's obviously bad moves AND are simultaneously incapable of reading these obvious moves (to paraphrase you without the snark). Then you're associating that with "petty thug mentality", as if people were too stupid not to look up to a criminal.

You are the edgy one here, and in fact smug about it. At least post proof of stock positions, otherwise you're just confidently accusing people of being stupid while not putting your money where your mouth is.

Trying to discern the motive for something like this in a court is a losing game. The opposing side has a good argument ("Anthropic said this is a weapon, so we're controlling it like a weapon") that does not involve first amendment protection.

Anthropic shot themselves in the foot, and they have nobody to blame but themselves.

There are multiple models at the level of or better than Fable / Mythos (see OpenRouter's just released Fusion API) and none of them are getting restricted.

I don't look up to Trump but this is phrased incredibly condescending of you. You are directly implying that people who like Trump are stupid.

What's your take on that relationship?

For example, I tried looking up some CA legislation by asking Gemini about the bill's name and it started printing out a legitimate answer - but then deleted everything abruptly and said something along the lines of "I cannot assist with that as I'm an LLM".

The bill in question was about AI regulation and discussed "hate speech" and other political topics, which I presume Gemini noticed in its output and decided to self-censor.

Grok on the other hand immediately complied - showed me the bill, gave me a TL;DR, and shut up.

Another example is: I found a bunch of old HDDs from old laptops. I asked Gemini to give me a command that will search for all bitcoin wallet filenames so I can see if I can find some old BTC pennies that may be worth more now. Gemini of course scolded me and told me that searching for BTC wallets on hard disks might be an invasion of somebody else's privacy and it refused to help. Grok on the other hand cooperated and shut up.

And yes, I might have worded my prompt carelessly (e.g. "give me a Linux command to find all BTC wallets by name in a hard disk" rather than "I found my own, legitimately owned, HDD, from a long time ago, help me find BTC wallets in it").

But I shouldn't have to walk on eggshells talking to smart sand, and I won't.