Why should China care about your laws? Does the USA care about Chinese laws?

I have a few landmines scattered around my house. A burglar robs me on his own risk. /s

And this will alleviate a DDOS attack... how?

A suicidal man, who insisted to take others with him to Davy Jones' locker.

One of the most popular computers of the 1950s, the venerable IBM 650, could perform roughly 600 additions or subtractions per second, and it was an electronic machine, based on vacuum tube logic. Another very popular machine, IBM 610, was even slower.

Efficiency TRUMPs quality, after all.

Kudos to this mathematician for solving this hard problem, which is well above the capabilities of 90 percent of 2nd graders.

"Apps" is the keyword here. Appy apps, which are infinitely appier than LUDDITE Web walled gardens. Apps!

Sorry for my momentary insanity. But this is the future. Want to read NYT? Get NYT's appy app. Want to watch p0rn? Get p0rn appy app. LUDDITE Google AI and LUDDITE web browser users can go pound sand. Apps! Oops, my mind got clouded again. But nvm.

No, it's not likely for Web links to disappear, INHO. Their use case may diminish, but won't die. What will happen, IMHO, is a radical compartmentalization of the Web. And this will indeed be the end of the Open Internet as we know it.

Most of our internet activity will happen in walled garden apps. The WWW will still exist, but it will be smaller and much less people, mostly older geeks, will use it. Your kids and grandkids will probably never use it or even be aware of its existence.

Such is the fate of all open things that commercialize.

Punch cards and punch tape are different things. Hard to say which is older, though.

You're right noticing that the hardware of the human brain is hopelessly weak and outmatched. But perhaps paradoxically, this doesn't speak well of he current "AI"s. These models run on machines billions of times faster than our neurons, have access to gargantuan amounts of memory, and have been trained on almost everything humanity knows so far. And what's the result? Honestly, beyond pathetic. If the LLMs were indeed replicating our capabilities, then right now they would be super-minds dominating human brains as much as the light of the Sun dominates a small asteroid. But they aren't.

This means that LLMs work in quite a different way than a human brain. They're a dead end, with limited practical applicability. We need to stop the hype and invest our dollars in more AI research, which would lead to new technology, hopefully less wasteful and more useful.

Computers are so fast that this evolution should be billions of times faster than biological evolution. Why hasn't this "AI" evolution yielded something worthy so far?

Too bad that these people would have moved to friendly countries by then, outside the reach of Uncle Pu's grubby hands. Sorry for ruining your wet dreams.

Oh appeasing Russia would surely stop them. Just like appeasing Hitler in Munich 1938 prevented the WW2.

How about their invasion of Vietnam in 1979?

No, Ukraine is not an ally. However, USA has obligations to guarantee its security, per conditions of the treaty that was signed when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. Ironically, Russia has the same obligations. This shows the value of Russia's promises.