• Hits hard right now as I would like to buy my own place but could never afford it in the US, and I think it’s dangerous anyway, but regulations/cost/logistics make buying in Vietnam or China just as unlikely unless I happen to marry a national. I just want to feel like I can be old in my home someday and not get hunted down, preferably won’t get hunted down before then either. Ugh.

    Wish I had that money to just bail to wherever I wanted.

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    Unrelated, but I find it weird that DeepSeek refuses to tell me about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. It will auto-delete / block the message it’s trying to reply with. Does this also happen for you? Like “Can you explain Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for me?”.

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      Could be they try to block explicit politics in general, for “broader audience, pretense of neutrality” reasons. Or it may be they don’t want it providing misinformation on such sensitive topics; language models can easily “hallucinate” (make stuff up with a confidently wrong attitude, either because they don’t know or because of a slight misstep in token probability). Also possible they are trying to catch certain kinds of things that aren’t that and it hit a false positive on your attempt. Hard to say for sure with these models, without knowing their stated intentions (if they have any publicly stated to begin with).

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    You cannot choose how successful you are in what you set out to do, but you can choose what you set out to do in the first place. Do not allow anything to influence what few choices you do get. Do the things that you have a true desire to do, and should you fail know that you atleast tried. Which is more than most can say.

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      That is to say many people choose to do things they think will lead to success. Yet their chances of success are no greater than if they’d simply done what they really loved in the first place, and failure tastes all the more bitter for it.