I don't follow. India was Third World in the original Cold War sense as a founder and leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and it still fits the term's colloquial sense through low GDP per-capita, poor HDI figures, weak state capacity, corruption and uneven infrastructure.

The label might be offensive, the comment you responded to most certainly is. But excluding India from the Third World is hard to justify.

Perhaps the EU Commission could start by stopping the circus on its own website and killing its own cookie banner: https://commission.europa.eu/index_en

The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.

What US ships?

Tone down the indignation.

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an assertion.

With apologies to Mr. Charles Babbage.

I'm sorry, but what? The most prominent EA projects focus on cost effective interventions that save and improve lives.

Give Well's current top recommendations are medicines and nets to prevent malaria, vitamin A supplements and promoting regular childhood vaccinations. None of them are flashy or elitist.

I have a hard time believing running a model on a laptop will be cheaper than running it in a datacenter. Why wouldn't economies of scale apply here as with every other computation?

If you just look at India, richer and more developed states have lower fertility compared to poorer, less developed states.

Within states, richer and more educated couples have fewer children compared to poorer less educated children.

These patterns are pretty much universal.

What are you basing this on? For reference, Anthropic raised ~$70 billion in total and OpenAI ~$190 billion. Why do they need to make 20-40x that?

I'm a few years younger than OP and grew up in a large Indian city, but this matches my earliest experience exactly, right down to having to take our shoes off before entering the computer lab.