And grounding for the model. Smaller models with tend to hallucinate a little less (anecdotally).

This just makes it much, much easier for people to build numeric stuff on GPU, which is great.

I'm totally with you that it's better that this took so long, so we have things like PyTorch abstracting most of this away, but I'm looking forward to (in my non-existent free time :/ ) playing with this.

Why not use torch.compile()?

I think the big reason is that there were loads of manufacturing jobs in the mid west, which has a bunch of swing states.

> Countries that actually tried to keep manufacturing beyond its usefulness typically punch beneath their weight, such as the case of Germany.

Can you explain to me how Germany is punching below their weight?

Like, I personally think that having manufacturing in multiple places is good for resiliency reasons at the very least.

> The US lost manufacturing because it was heavily automated and those jobs don't pay really well. They are great for poor countries, because working in a factory sweatshop is better than plowing fields in rural areas, but advanced economies eventually grow beyond that.

This is a complete myth. The US lost manufacturing because capital controls were removed, and capital went looking for new margins. Like, all of Microsoft's English customer service and technical documentation were in Ireland in the 90's. Is that because Irish people have comparative advantage in these fields? No, it's because wages were super super low compared to the US. We used to have a bunch of clothing factories too, because we were cheap.

Fundamentally, stuff actually needs to be made if you want a modern society. You can outsource that to cheaper countries/Asia for a while, but it's not gonna end well. Like, a large proportion of the population are not cut out to be tech or finance professionals, and if you outsource all the factories that they could have worked at, then they'll get really depressed and angry and vote for Brexit/Trump/Le Pen/AfD.

And given that most of the rich west are democracies, you can't just pretend these people don't exist.

So, it'll probably be tarriffing the large US financial institutions first, and excluding them from public procurement.

Honestly not sure what they'll do about tech, but it's not gonna be pretty.

Trade wars are bad for everyone, but we are where we are I guess.

Sounds of guillotine being sharpened...

The US wouldn't as it taxes global income.

More generally, you'd probably get the OECD together and make a deal if you wanted to do this.

Not many billionaires will move to the Congo, regardless of how much they are taxed.

I believe the OP was talking about the fiscal deficit, your chart shows the trade deficit.

Generally people forget to consider replacement and training costs as reasons to be kind to your current employees.

I've basically never seen this happen in my career (although I live in hope).

This is no longer true. Said loophole was eliminated in 2017, and completely closed in 2020.