I spent years in Singapore and loved it there. Never had to face road rage (which so many of us experience daily several times driving in Texas! NextDoor is full of these stories) or aggressive behavior by anyone in authority including police and immigration officers. I know many people find Singapore boring after a while but it didn't bother me much. On the flip side, the cost of living is high as a foreigner and traveling to the US is very tiring due to the long distance.
Some of that can be solved without leaving the US. Texas is very different from, say, the PNW. Road rage and aggressive police are not in any way a regular occurrence up here.
It's underrated in popular discourse. Businesses are extremely aware of it. Hence their love for Switzerland, Singapore, the Netherlands, or even the US which despite political drama has a fairly predictable business environment (especially in regards to lots of precedents for legal cases).
My physics professor once claimed that imagination is just mental manipulation of past experiences. I never thought it was true for human beings but for LLMs it makes perfect sense.
I know someone who is hosting an academic conference. In the past, this conference used to have about 50% attendees from Europe. This year that number is about 5%.
If it is only to fix grammar and improve conciseness, I find grammarly quite useful. AI goes way beyond these things. Also, while making something concise, AI might make things more difficult for the readers to understand. Worse, it might write something that is totally wrong.
Roger Ebert writing style was so polished. I wish I could write like this. My writing tends to be quite dry to the extent that GPTzero flagged it as written by AI. The reason given was "the lack of a creative use of grammar."
On a separate note, although vastly different, Fight Club was also not very successful on the box office (domestically made losses) but became a hit on DVDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club)
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