Yes, but we need to be aware that it would get worse temporarily, and a lot of services we’re used to be being free would no longer be free. For example, Youtube would probably become a paid service.

There’s a theory that targeted ads are severely less effective than assumed amongst advertisers, and that traditional “spray and pray” advertisement is just as effective, but a whole lot cheaper. Essentially, targeted ads frequently target people who are already aware of the product, have already decided to buy it, or have already bought it. So, basically, company’s are overpaying for ads, and if they ever stop, the advertisement based internet is in trouble.

Please drink a verification can.

Well, the less money people have, the more of their income they spend. This means that maximum spending would be achieved when all income is equally distributed. Hence, as money concentrates at the top, consumer spending drops, which reduces the number of viable businesses, but at the same makes more capital available, since people tend to invest money they don’t spend.

Since people in general aren’t that good at telling whether an idea will pan out or not, as capital starts concentrating at the top, dumb ideas are more likely to attract a ton of funding. Add to that that spectacular ideas attract more funding, while at the same time tending to be bad ideas.

Essentially, Elon Musk’s businesses are valued so highly because his promises of AGI and space colonization are already being priced in as if they were real, existing things, instead of pipe dreams.

I salute your sacrifice.

It didn’t, though. Idiots who think it’s going to print them money bought all the components and destroyed the market. AI itself had no agency in it.

Does he really look like this? Or was this picture just made to make him look soulless?

Can you provide an example, please.

Suggestion: Deploy anti satellite 🛰 weapon, and extort other nations by threatening their satellites in order to pay off the national debt. Somebody get Donald Trump on the phone.

I’m only half joking. Kessler syndrome is probably going to happen sooner or later anyway. And I do think it would be possible to convince Trump the scheme is a good idea if you had access to him.

Death in combat is neither necessary nor sufficient. It does increase your chances, though.

Nvidia is not selling AI, they sell the hardware the AI runs on. They’re selling shovels in this gold rush, but they forgot the one golden rule: “Cash up front”.

If your population was being hunted for food, would you rather have the hunters eat all of their kill, or only part of it? Keep in mind that in both scenarios, their energy needs are the same.

Well, he was also accused by the goats.

I’ve talked with missionaries before, but never atheist ones.

Height and build alone would narrow it down significantly.

Ah, the good old Swedish Drink.

Those are more tongue in cheek than straight up jokes. There’s an actual explanation in there: Cold stresses the battery, so the self driving car moves somewhere warmer. This is the humorously framed as if it were talking about an animal, rather than a machine.

Only the “find a mate” bit shows that you’re making a joke.

Did they though? Don’t they control Open AI to the point where they could force Open AI to keep Sam Altman as CEO?

The nazis’ economy was a shell game of debt, and they were overextended militarily. Their regime would have fallen even if they had won the war. Secondly, the USSR at first joined forces with the nazis until they were betrayed by them, and after the soviets joined the allies, they received massive aid under the lend-lease act. And even with the aid, they still had to rely on human-wave tactics.