I have a different take.

AI today is basically a mechanical school. AI students are trained to give a specific answer. This is at the heart of how all machine learning works, including generative AI. Even image generators do this.

“Here’s a million examples of what the pixelated representation of a hand looks like; now go and make a derivative copy.”

This is fine for objective facts, like physics and history. It is useless for art.

Merely drawing a hand is not art, it’s an objective truth (do typical humans have 5 or 6 fingers?). But art school is not about objective truths. Art school teaches creativity. Specifically challenging ideas and expression.

AIs can’t fundamentally challenge ideas and express themselves because they lack personal experience, personality and individuality.

Society at large has been fooled into thinking that speech (LLM) and other generative AI lead to AGI. But the reality is that these models have more in common with encyclopedias and stock image libraries than intelligence.

Horses can go places cars cannot. You have completely missed the point.

The US cutting off the rest of the world first does the exact opposite of this. No matter how big the US is, there’s not a chance in hell the US can both compete with China and antagonize the rest of the world at the same time. This is pure fantasy.

Right. The only difference between a tariff and a VAT, is that the VAT applies to all products indiscriminately, where as a tariff only applies to imported goods.

Some of the states are cool. Let MAGA have their own states, so they can find out for themselves how their experiment sucks.

Priced out of circuses? My dude, social media is the new circus, cheaper and more accessible than ever. No need for bread when we can control and distract the masses by pulling on the algorithm levers at no cost.

Cool. Now do the USA next.

Bread and circus. The dial on the circus went up (social media) so the powerful can now steal the bread (goods).

It’s all just more of the same.

I’m sure attacking states is going to make the USA a stronger union, especially as it isolates itself from the world.

They want maximum trade barriers going in and minimal trade barriers going out.

It’s just straight up bullying. Always has been.

This is what happens when people who, at a primal level, think the world is a zero sum game. Who never learned how cooperation results in bigger rewards.

That’s called the free market, you communist pig.

He’s just a snake oil salesman looking to cause a problem to sell the solution. Just the usual conman shit, but at a national level.

Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won’t face political consequences.

I know what you are saying, but consider for a second that the shit we are experiencing today ultimately stems from tribalism. Tribalism existed full well in hunter gatherer societies. In some ways better (no nukes). In other ways, far, far more brutal.

They excluded religious items that didn’t shove oppressive symbolism in people’s faces. Get your facts straight.

After Ukraine, the value of deals offered by the US is less than nothing.

Canada-U.S. relation

This is such a disengenuous way of saying “Trump’s attempts at trying to destroy a perfectly healthy and functioning relationship”. The rest of us Canadians and Americans continue to have good relations.

Post-truth society sucks.

Tried a couple matter devices. Ended up having to create an account with the manufacturer. Was there truly a local option? Who knows. So far I haven’t been impressed.

They say there is no crystal ball in investment, but it’s hard to not have predicted this outcome.