The problem with these kinds of thought-experiments is that reality doesn't really work like that.

Likely, multiple decades of continued, large investments into this subject will be needed. There likely is no fast-path to success there.

AI hasn't received this kind of money for that long. Maybe for the last five years?

I'm primarily interested in my own well-being.

Who wants a tombstone with the engraving "...but he had the right of way!"?

It's a somewhat winded road in the city, with cars around you and a bus-stop in the middle of the road. At the end of the road is a roundabout with backed-up traffic and a gas-station with cross-traffic, sometimes (which I had to find out the hard way).

It's not in the US, of course.

I have been riding a bike since I was four or five years old (I don't remember exactly).
I tried the eBikes at work once (I had an outside-appointment at a place not easily reachable by public transport). The go up to 45km/h.
It's insane. I don't have a motor-cycle license and never ridden one - but I would assume it's not much different.
There's very little margin of error there and no crash crumple-zone like in a car except your own body.

My commute involves a downhill-section (on public road) that I can reach 50-ish km/h when I really want.

I was once overtaken by a guy on an eBike when I was doing 52. I caught up with him a couple of red lights later and asked him how much he was doing. He said "62.5".

Well, I wouldn't call it lying. He's at times overly optimistic.

He's usually right but wrong about the timeframe.

It was massively propped up by government spending.

A practice Trump (said he) wanted to crack down on - but then stopped halfway through because everybody in congress wants to grab as much money as possible before the whole house of cards implodes like a neutron star.

The only one who actually believed in this BS of cutting government spending was Elon.

They did exactly that.

Temu et.al. were splitting up millions and millions of orders into even more millions and millions of parcels to get under the limit.

So, I'd call it a loophole.

Also, most of the stuff is low-value, low-quality that people mostly ordered out of boredom and literally for a dopamine shot.

Of course, it all propped up the economy numbers - but that couldn't go on forever anyway.

I am sure of that.

Most of their big cities don't even have a proper sewer or garbage disposal/collection system, which is why there's shit lying around and the places look derelict.

But of course, the real problem is that the country is not represented correctly on a map.

There's an interesting debate about the Bhagavad Gita in that some of the stories in there apparently describe effects that are in line with a nuclear or even thermo-nuclear explosion and that therefore Oppenheimer would have "known" about the bomb.

I guess after Otto Hahn was able to split Uranium atoms, physicists started to realize the orders of magnitude of power that this could deliver.

The 1930s were wild. In a sense, we're approaching the same social, political and technological climate again. God knows where it will end. Or if it will just end us.

I don't know either - but I know one thing: they'll be very, very thin and without buttons.

That's way too juicy for them to let that drop.

We know that Obama outlawed GoF research - so NIH help shift it to China, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where half the staff had military titles to begin with.

If that research is valuable - why move it outside the US to begin with if not to hide something?

is that you don't actually have to follow through with it. Especially if you know that the plan will leak to the other side sooner than later.

No shit, Sherlock.