I think everyone realizes it that cares enough to consider it. Most don't bother thinking about it, at least beyond how they can make a buck. You are either a predator or a victim, the only solution is to not allow the game to be played. Sad thing is that most that imagine themselves predators don't realize they are the targets.

There is no post-AI economy, there is only homelessness, poverty and starvation. That's exactly what billionaires intend.

From your first linked article:

"There is no doubt we will see rapid advancements in some of the areas, but for others, like quantization, it is less clear. So while the cost of LLM inference will likely continue to decrease, its rate may slow down."

"Will LLM prices continue to decline at this rate? This is very hard to predict."

But go ahead and an assume massive declines in inferencing costs, we believe you. No doubt Altman and Musk will pass those savings onto the little man.

"or alternatively slows down and drops only two orders of magnitude until 2030"

Wow, so slow!

In your defense, it happened recently. The AI billionaires are too ignorant to realize how stupid this measure is.

World trade was headed to destruction. Now it's just heading there a bit quicker.

Because that will not pacify the poor. Printing money constantly will cause monetary inflation, so only the rich will be able to buy anything of significant value like homes. You'd have to also give away housing. It makes much more sense just to take the money from the rich and give it to the poor, the rich will end up with it again anyway.

It's not wrong to say that America is largely at fault. We got Ukraine to give up nukes in exchange for vague and non-binding promises that we would protect them from Russia. Obviously this is a deal they should not have taken, but it was our sleazy idea.

I buy from AliExpress all the time. (Same business, different storefront.) As a rule they are roughly as responsive as Amazon. Shipping takes longer but prices are much better. Pretty much all the cheap crap on Amazon comes from them and it's much cheaper from the source. So far they have processed all of my complaints gracefully.

I agree that's the main problem in this context, but there are other large ones of course. The nuclear isn't just a problem in construction, it's also a problem in maintenance, and in decommissioning. Nuclear is also not cheaper than fossil fuels if you consider full lifecycle costs of operation. You might say it's cheaper because it's possible to contain the waste and that's not possible for fossil fuels, but fossil fuels shouldn't actually even be in the running.

I dunno about the other guy, but I am currently sitting in a red state hotel, and will be subjected to quite a lot of it tomorrow and Friday when I'm at my aunt & uncle's place for thanksgiving; and it will probably be on every television in every airport on Saturday until I get back to SFO. I don't know how often you have to venture out into the lion's den. But people here treat that shit like it's a 24/7 prayer service or something. It was also on just about every airport TV on the way here once I hit Atlanta. And it was on three different televisions on the hotel's lobby level when I checked in. You can't get away from it here unless you hide in your room by yourself.

I'm actually kind of surprised that they still exist in the first place. What do they even still make or sell anymore besides shitty DRM'd printer ink and the occasional toner cartridge for a 1990s-era Laserjet that just won't die?

MS still has their other businesses to rely upon. The C-Suite is up to their assholes in Office, their cloud crap is still still there, and now business is getting all hot and bothered by AI and MS is right there promising it....whatever business wants AI to be, MS says AI is.

There's not even a point to that anymore. Tapping those cables worked back in the day because everyone thought they were so untouchable that they didn't bother to encrypt the message traffic. Now? Ever since the US Navy demonstrated to the world that the cables CAN be reached and they CAN be tapped; you can take it to the bank that everything, particularly the military and government traffic that would merit tapping them in the first place, is encrypted to a fare-thee-well.

So unless the NSA has a quantum computer at Fort Meade no one knows about that can break all conventional encryption; there's not much point to the taps anymore.

You could use CAPTOR mines, placed along the cable's shallows and reprogrammed to fire if the adjacent cable section is cut. That little ASW torpedo isn't likely to *sink* a full-sized surface combatant. But it should be enough to muck up the prop and rudder such that the cable-cutting vessel will wallow around in one place long enough to round up a Super Hornet or Eurofighter to put a few Harpoons into the stack of crap.

"b. Transfer the US debt to cryptocurrency."

What does that mean? Debt is money owed, the US doesn't get to declare what currency the debt will be paid back "in".

And if the US government needs crypto to pay its loans, why would that crypto tank?

You can make a list, but that doesn't make you smart.

For governments, "reserve currencies" lubricate trade with foreign countries. Crypto "reserves" are nothing but more fraud, it is a deliberate misrepresentation of what the investment is, the "reserve" serves no purpose whatsoever other than to prop up the fake currency and enable private "investors" to take taxpayer money.