Say more; be specific.

What is missing or broken?

Why isn't EU sponsoring specific features and fixes it needs?

Or assign some of their own developers to submit pull requests.

Or hire *some Europeans* who are unemployed because their war is killing industry.

Let's hear from their project manager instead of faceless wankers and the people responsible for sales.

Correction: When people were only able to read William Randolph Hearst-approved nonsense.

The media moguls of those days, Hearst, Pulitzer, Insull and others would be rolling over in their graves at the thought of plebeians having a voice that they, the elite didn't control. And they controlled the government too. Just try to run a campaign for office during the days of the old media kings and the era of the owners of the new social media. Who provide editorial control in much the same way. Just the new generation of elites that Hearst would be quite comfortable with.

The propagandists say that their competitors confuse people and they won't believe the propaganda anymore.

The Horror, the Horror.

We'd all be trillionaires if we could see that far into the future with sufficient clarity.

Consider whether a Depopulationist psyop is more or less likely than that The End Times have finally come (unlike the previous thousand pronouncements).

People who are anxious and scared are easy to control. Have a look back at Al Gore's slide deck and see how much they really knew.

Though Competitive Advantage should not be discounted as a very real driver of evolutionary fitness.

The poorest people in the world somehow manage to not extinct their 4B-yr old germ line.

Many Westerners have personal preferences greater than familial survival. It's been trained into them but only in times of mass starvation has this ever happened before in history.

I use a bluetooth page turner pedal for sheet music.

I think it was $14 for two buttons. Maybe there's a third, I only ever use forward and back.

$40 is wild.

A 14 year old would have seen this crunch coming. And invested heavily in semiconductor companies like Micron. Thereby making enough money that a 5x or 10x increase in memory prices means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Already feel this way about RAM. Last time I checked a few weeks ago what I spent $2k on three years ago now costs over $24k. At least resale markets are surging which should help for awhile.

It really depends if you are doing a static analysis or a dynamic one.

In the static sense, all costs are always paid by the end purchaser - mining or growing the materials, refining them, processing them, building the item, transportation, distribution, taxes, tariffs, fees, profits (on many sub-levels).

In a dynamic analysis, on the other hand, all of those things are already being paid, and now the allocation is shifting, and maybe the end price is shifting too. To complicate things, end prices are largely set by demand, and not necessarily by the costs. If costs go up, but the market won't pay more, the producer might have to accept less profit or go out of business. For most things, the markets aren't that tight and maybe the purchaser will accept some price increase, but not all of it.

And then there are second order effects. Tariffs are often designed in such a way that producers can evade them by moving production here, so that the wealth is created here, by jobs here.

Interesting people who make these arguments tend to speak in terms of modalities rather than capabilities. It's a pattern matching token predicting statistical glorified autocomplete not even AI.

All the while completely ignoring demonstrated capabilities or excusing them away under mountains of unfalsifiable rhetoric.

So then WTF is this?

"No person may develop, deploy (either internally or externally), acquire, possess, fund, import, or transfer artificial superintelligence or artificial intelligence systems that display one or more superintelligence precursor characteristics, including any elements sufficient to reconstruct the artificial superintelligence or artificial intelligence systemâ(TM)s capabilities."

"No person may deploy (either internally or externally), release, transfer, or import an artificial intelligence system, including any elements sufficient to reconstruct the systemâ(TM)s capabilities, that may be foreseeably modified to produce artificial superintelligence or superintelligence precursor characteristics."

... these records are worth on the dark web market? Or to some foreign adversary's intelligence department?

By the way: Nice Lamborghini, PFC Pyle.

Oh noes! No more toilet paper.

They probably need another trillion dollars and this time they'll do it right!

No accountability, no consequences for failure.