They are socially conservative, but they have been fairly consistent at asking people not to kill each other for the past decades.

I would think software is even easier to catch up because you don't need as much physical investment and experimenting is way cheaper, especially with LLM helping to learn now. I think DeepSeek is an example.
Innovation is difficult, but simply catching up with all the public research and open source solutions, not as much.

/remindme 3 years
They will most likely catch up like they are doing for electric for electric cars now.

Ecosia and Qwant are building an EU based index. Maybe then they will become actually independent alternatives to American giants. It will take a while.

There's better integration with all sorts of other sources of truth beyond the LLM training, which makes it seem smarter.

Humans are good at using religions to do damage. You can find terrible things from Hinduism and Buddhism too, for example.

I went to Tokyo Gay Pride. First of all it is called Rainbow Pride, because maybe Gay is to risky. Secondly, it was weirdly full of corporate sponsored group marching and you could not enter the march if you had not registered with some group in advance. But that's better than nothing I guess.

It's cool seeing body parts being (occasionally) less taboo in non Abrahamic cultures.

Is there any other useful edtech than the FOSS app Anki?

It already has a social impact on the people's whose intellectual property was pirated, the employees traumatized by nsfw filtering tasks and the reduction of white collar junior recruitment (probably non junior too?). I know some people think it's just a bubble, companies are waiting to see what happens and the job market will recover. I am doubtful of it.
My tech company is pushing us to use it so they provide the top tools. From what I have observed, I have little doubt it will replace a lot of the designing, engineering, coding and communication time. Yes, you will still need some knowledgeable person to guide and review, but less than before. Similarly to how you need less people to build a car today than you did in the 50', and even less for an electric car, because so much more is automated.
So far automation and the internet did create more better paid jobs than it destroyed, maybe it will happen with "AI" too, but I am skeptical.
Finally, in my opinion, UBI and work time reduction with equivalent quality of life is a desirable future.

AI could make sense one day if it comes with UBI to compensate its social impact and if it optimizes enough processes to compensate for its ecological footprint. We are far* from this and there's nowhere enough political pressure to make it happen.

Anyone has a link to the original? Couldn't find it with a basic search.