It's almost as if allowing emissions to ramp up with little meaningful effort to control them is having the inevitable consequences predicted decades ago. But let's not deal with that, because it's hard. Instead let's have the President of the United States demand Canada hold back the tides.

I wouldn't say pragmatic, no. He's tried it, found it works, and now won't listen to the people pointing out the numerous problems with it.

He has pointed out AI's flaws and limitations. He has also said the beneft is it gets him to the starting point more quickly to either figure out a bug or how to do something, or even how to rewrite something he's already done. He is not blindly accepting what it says.

Trust, but verify would be closer to his thinking.

Why is it all these earth like worlds exist, but no signs of life ?

We don't know that. There could be organisms living on one or more of these planets, but we can't detect them. Maybe it's a type of moss or simply bacteria.

Until we visit these planets, we cannot say with any certainty life doesn't exist on these worlds.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

Why more people are buying DVDs/blu-ray. They have the movie. They own it. It can't be taken from them. It won't change.

The same with books. No worrying that your digital copy will mysteriously disappear one night. You have the book. You bought it. It's yours. The words won't change.

Errr, hearing aids are significantly larger with standard hearing aid batteries being larger than airpods themselves,

No, they're not. My dad has hearing aids and they are about the same size as an airpod.

For reference, this is close to, but not the same as, what he has. This shows the size of the various airpod models. They are not "significantly larger" than a hearing aid, and in fact are nearly identical in size.

Like seriously that is an insanely ignorant example. Cheese also contains calcium so what excuse does chalk have for not being used as a sandwich topping?

Yes, your example is insanely ignorant. Cheese is a food. Chalk is not.

It's not just up to them, it's up to copyright law.
And why do you think you speak for all book authors over all time?

People like you think libraries should be shut down, fair use removed, and no one allowed to resell a book they read.
Literally the logical conclusion to your post.

I suppose I need to pay you every time I point someone to you works to?
Do I have to pay you when I finish you book and give it to someone else?

Did they ever mention copyrights on Star Trek???

Why would that even come up?
We would absolutely have a form of copyright post scarcity. Because post scarcity one of the thing that differentiate people is what they created.

Any you got your law degree from...? and you have read all the contracts.. when? and where in these contract violation in the contract?

Don't tell me you are some ignorant blowhard spewing nonsense that fits your bias?

Yes, it does in America. Please read US copyright code. fair use is a things. I can give you a used book for free, and you can read it and give it to someone else for free and so on. No copyright violation. Yu can access works for free through Libraries.
Copyright expires.

"It is not a court case you'd win; the details taken from the Disney version are beyond excessive."
We have decades of court cases that show you are wrong. STFU.

"beyond excessive."
based on what?

"f downloading massive torrents of pirated copies of books and processing them."
Downloading isn't piracy, please read copyright code.

" to generate new content, "
What a misleading phrase.

" much of which non-factual in nature,"
It's called Fiction. Your library has a whole section.

"and often very arguably explicitly creatively derivative."
Not really.. or no more then people who write.

prompt: "Make a story like sleeping beauty" ... 2 seconds later we have "The Moonlit Princess" and we'll just self-publish that on Amazon... boom I'm an author!

Make a story based on open content. that's bad.. why?

" just self-publish that on Amazon"
And that's bad, why?

"boom I'm an author!"
correct. and? also, you are the author of a work that can't be copyrighted.

"You seriously telling me this is NOT copyright infringement? "
It is not. Not be any definition is the infringement. It's a different telling. You are letting your hate of AI suppress your critical thinking.

"the prose above is a pretty blatant Disney ripoff."
No, it isn't. but guess what? people write is style similar all the time. It's not copyright infringement.

People are trained by reading all the time. People saying otherwise is just simply dumb.

" LLMs are doing everything that humans do, "
I don't think people say that' however when it comes to speech patterns, AI are like humans because its based on Zipf's law. Which shows people speak in a very predictable manner.

"LLMs need real thought,"
define "real thought" in a meaningful way. In fact, write a book to be celebrated as the first person to do that. In the mean time, stow your Scotsman.

" It's not because we're force-fed them in order to regurgitate them later. "
Well, we are as children. IF your parent give a damn, you are read books as a child.

No AI regurgitates a work. There is no example of AI repeating any work outside of fair use.