For one thing, it's got questionable usability. For another, if I'm interested in AI, Apple isn't the name that immediately comes to mind...

This means current chip design, as well as data center design, will soon be obsolete. Most estimates give it about 5 years at the current pace of development. Then what? All new data centers? Paid for with enormous profits no doubt???

You must be making a big profit, right? Or maybe you have a business plan to monetize those users that will let you pay back your investors and then some? ...? ...?

So-called 'disruptive' businesses represent profit for a few but exploitation for everybody else. The ultimate goal of society shouldn't be whiz-bang gadgets and billionaires, it should be prosperity and opportunity for all.

People quote Altman like they think he's trying to tell the truth. He's not. He's just as mendacious as Musk. You'll learn a lot more if you ignore his words and watch his actions.

Or live in a poor school district, you ain't gonna be gettin no $1000 tablet

Training your employees may help your company in the long run, but training costs money, which will impact your quarterly profits. Executives have famously short attention spans. And the AI hype bubble has your shareholders insisting on immediate implementation. What do?

Agreed. This seems hopelessly idealistic at this point in time.

"I don't know the answer to this problem, but we're working hard on making it worse."

Let's just make the desktop as confusing and distracting as possible. What could go wrong?

Wake me up when we get to the moon.

Exactly. You have the "right of portability" as long as you don't port it somewhere we don't like.

I took a lot of psychedelics when I was younger -- LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT. Then none for a few decades. These days I microdose on psilocybin.

To me, psychedlics are like watching a travelogue about a beautiful tropical island. It's a lovely vision, but it doesn't take you there -- you still have to do the traveling yourself. But it does plant the idea that such a place exists, which can be a great comfort, and inspire further efforts to get thete on your own.

Yup, mellowed me out so much I turned into a hippie

Not a problem for the water, just for the people.