It seems we are getting into the "x, but in space" era of "innovation".

Sure solar panels are more efficient in space, but all of the energy captured by them also has to be gotten rid of as heat after it's done it's job. AI is some of the biggest power consumer tech we have, and space is the most difficult place to cool something in. Down here on Earth, basically all of our cooling works by using either the atmosphere or a body of water as a heatsink. In space, all you have is radiation cooling, which really is the short straw, and a big limiting factor in most endeavours there.

The infernal engine is a Baldurs Gate 3 reference, a far cry from religion.

Cheney was a murderous bastard who pushed for the Iraq War and made bank off of it. Up to a million people died in a pointless war based on lies. Whether one believes in hell or not, Cheney lived a life deserving of it.

There will be plenty of hellfire available where he is going.

Let me put it this way. The "might have" in my post is doing a lot of work.

But people outside campuses are also told what they are allowed to think, though, and most graduate their classes of that. The partisan and patriotic indoctrination in the US is heavy. The same selection of vetted thoughts and talking points are constantly hammered into people, and they go on and internalize them, and live them, and congratulate themselves on their good grip on matters. And it starts from early age, too. The pledge of allegiance is just about the most blatant 20th century youth wing stuff, and everyone thinks this brainwashing of the kids is normal, and a good thing...

And in that sense it's not so much about college anymore. It's just that the US is changing, and the indoctrination is changing. Change is both inevitable and long overdue, with almost 50 years of bipartisan neoliberal rule having driven the country into an ungovernable dead end. But with any actual change unworkable in the political landscape, the US is not getting the change it needs, but the change it deserves. Now that the Democratic party has imploded in it's own incompetence and disconnect from the daily reality of the American life, the Republicans are taking advantage of their impotence, and ushering in a new era of a technofascist downspiral. With Palantir being a mayor player in the surveillance part of that, I would expect even traditionally indoctrinated Americans to have problems working for them, if they over time figure out what their daily work actually is. So it is in Palantirs interest to seek minds that would not at best adopt the dark, but those that would be born into it, and molded by it.

The AI company /is/ selling the result. Via a monthly fee, but still.

The AI user is also selling the result. Probably via YouTube or social media monetization, but still.

And the media platform is also selling the result, by auctioning ads around the slop.

It's turtles all the way down, and none of them give a rats ass about the IP holder. So there is merit to the complaints. If the IP holders manage to get a leg up, this is most probably going to result in some sort of ContentID system, with takedowns and copyright claim abuses and the whole lot of it.

I don't even know where I would stand in this. I honestly don't give a rats ass about any media companies nor theri precious IP, with exactly the one exception of Ghibli. Slopping them seems to be if not sacrilegious, then at least hopelessly bad taste and tone deaf... But nobody is going to ask me anyway, it's going play out like any other one money against another money battle.

People who have graduated college might have independent thinking skills, and recognize Palantir for the evil it is. Better set up a youth wing.

Here's a video of the actual exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dunno how much the laugh should be read as politeness, but seeing the two leaders in each others company in a rather laid back manner does not bode well for US ambitions in SEA.

Reviving a once household dead name in hopes of profit.

I don't think replacing the children is quite the solution they are looking for...

I mean the combination of Taylor Swift and AI is the perfect storm of contemporary pointlessness... It's hairdressers and telephone sanitisers all over again.

Financial, legal, and engineering advice are thee fields I know of in the US where you are legally limited in your right ability to voice your opinion.

Slashdot's all time favourite IANAL is a product of that.

First it was the 12vhpwr kerfuffle, too small to handle the power. Now its this thing, again too small to handle the power.

Nvidia seems to have caught a case of Appleitis, and is pushing style over engineering. Funny thing is, they absolutely have no need to do that. Their stuff could look like what the cat threw up, and they would still sell like hot cakes.

Freedom is slavery.

You're a culture mismatch, I'm afraid we'll have to let you go.

The idea was good, but being the first mover is always brings it's problems. Competition is now eating AWS' lunch with regard to usability. Maybe it starts to shine when you are running huge deployments, but if the first impression sucks and a client goes elsewhere because of it, they will not be coming back, and you lost your chance.