Another form of payday loans pushed onto digital consumers.

The people can't have the welfare if the corporations take all the government money all to build the rockets to Mars, AI Data centers and nuclear reactors to power the data centers. He's right about that for sure.

I don't think any of those technolgies you mentioned had nearly the investment or interest of such a wide variety of people. From health care, to government, to coding, to any company with a terrible chatbot, all of them have people interested in trying to replace system X with a LLM guessing machine.

The crash from this hype train will be large indeed. Even if it does 1/10th of what they say it can (which I doubt since people are claiming that it will replace most workers and do all the thinking for us, thank you AGI boosters), it will have a profound impact on how we do information work.

if someone winning the lotto is theft, then all wins are theft cause it's not like a 'normal' winner is taking the lotto jackpot and spending it ONLY in Texas (or wherever the lotto is for) and on Texas goods and services. All lottos do (in the best case) is consolidate wealth to a single individual.

Holy crap, that wasn't something I looked forward to reading this morning...

They just sold them over-clocked out of the box. I sure hope they can recover from this scandal. Like all the top end CPUs are being pushed as far as they can go to be as fast as possible, but they're not supposed to be sold in a state where they will damage themselves.

If you ask it nicely it will also answer your homework questions, generate rust code, or whatever else is in the dataset they used to train it. Sometimes it rejects your query, but you can query hack it to generate the answer you want.

You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?