If they end up somehow building strong AI, then the investment will pay off in huge multiples and will absolutely be worth it.

If they don't manage to create strong AI, but manage to create a better search engine that somehow replaces Google, then it will be worth the investment (for comparison, Google profit is on the order of $100 billion per year).

There are a lot of other potential products that could bring heavy revenue, even without strong AI. AirBnB has $2billion a year in net profit, which isn't great but it's conceivable that even with the current crappy AI product, OpenAI could make a reasonable amount of revenue. With billions of potential customers, they don't need to make a lot of money off each person.

Remind me again, which refugee crisis did Europe clean up?

Hint: if someone blames everything bad on Netenyahu, they are ignorant.

Netenyahu's approach lost the support of the Israeli voters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Netenyahu's successor was willing to make a ton of concessions for peace: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...

German Euro bonds are cheaper than US bonds, so you better rethink your economic theory (and stop watching youtube).

That is not clear at all. Russia keeps threatening to nuke UK because they don't ignore European opinion.

Here is how the researchers themselves say it:

Don't conflate the arrogant headline with knowledgeable researchers.

That was sad. It didn't change things. The peace process went forward, and Palestine rejected the two state deal.

On the flip side, I have enjoyed the few Canadian shows that made it to the U.S. (especially during the writer's strike).

You have remarkably strong opinions on a topic you know very little about.

Hard to say, but rember that it was because of similar laws in Canada that we got The Great White North with Bob and Doug McKinzie.

https://www.politico.eu/articl...

I don't know enough about Dutch law to say much more than that, but I'm sure they had lawyers work it out.

America can push Israel to accept a two state solution. The problem is finding a way to convince Palestine to accept it.

On the other hand, If I have an ultralight and realize I need to move over 200 people at once, I know I'd better talk to a domain expert rather than trying to tie 250 ultralights together with kite string.

Here is what you said. You said that it is disputable that rocks can think.

Bask in the stupidity of your comment.

Someone might counterargue that building bombs that do nothing but explode (or worse, destroy assets) is not a benefit to the economy, and that the 90s had an economic boom as the world returned to peace, and anyway government spending doesn't matter (economically) if it's on bombs or on anything else.

It would be interesting if you looked up how much benefit was from war spending and how much was from other effects. I think you will find there is not actually a correlation.