The Chinese Wall legal strategy is to have Team A produce a specification and Team B produce an implementation.

If these guys can't show a specification they're screwed.

Claiming there must have been one in abstract Platonic space inside the LLM network black box isn't going to convince a Court.

So do the work of making an actual specification generator. Then write a coder. It's not impossible. You still won't get updates, fixes, support, community, or features added. The guys who just steal ffmpeg won't even bother. The AGPL haters might bite.

Also, he seems quite angry.

When gas hits $10 there may be too much pressure to bring in BYD to stop it. At least atomic energy isn't more sensitive to global price shocks than it needs to be (EPA being the champion of high energy prices).

Automated lights-out factories are a total game changer and basically nobody cares if domestic auto workers lose their jobs due to sales collapse or to automation. It didn't have to be this way but Kissinger sold out Middle America so GM became a sales tactic for GMAC loans. We'd need a time machine to stop the collapse of the US auto industry at this point. Or a total fascist takeover of industry and crippling tariffs (not ruling this out).

Toyota and Datsun used to be shit brands fifty years ago. Now we have Lexus and Infinity. Heck we had those 20 years after they were shit brands.

But Tundra engines are getting famous now for lasting 6000 miles before blowing up, so perhaps the torch is being passed.

Yes, "to bring Jesus back".

They actually believe this. Like, you can spend money to get God to change his calendar.

We don't have to believe it - we only need to understand that they believe it. Red heifers, Gog and Magog, Third Temple, they jump up and down and speak in tongues when you talk about it.

Meanwhile Americans spend 60% of their wages on taxes and regulations and don't complain. They vote for anti-war, anti-spending candidates and get the shaft after elections. $10 gas might actually change things.

>Now how about finding a way to do it with silicon-based rather than lithium-based batteries so that we're not using costly mines to create the batteries?

Why silicon rather than sodium?

Sodium is right under lithium in Group 1.

>> The company also announced plans to begin mass delivery of sodium-ion batteries in the fourth quarter. Sodium-ion technology is seen as a lower-cost alternative that could reduce dependence on lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

> Then they just need to keep doing that for the new code.

"You Insensitive Claude, why haven't you made Thunderbird multi-threaded yet?"

(there appears to be evidence of significant limitations in its understanding of complex code)

> Is it appropriate to cite the old proverb, "Physician, heal thyself" here?

Years before the physician was a fentanyl addict living in a cardboard box on the street you would have been compassionate to do so.

At some point you just can't help people who don't want to be helped.

It's sad because the physician was once a happy baby who gave his mother delight. So much waste of care and resources.

Every single one of us knew that eliminating workers was the primary reason for the worldwide interest in AI. Everyone who said anything to the contrary was lying, and everyone who heard them knew it. Absolutely zero people believed that AI was going to lead us to some strange utopia where everyone was paid for work they didn't have to do anymore. The article's tone "oh look, they made all this money and didn't hire more people and its because of AI and oh what hypocrites they are!" is just silly. This is exactly what literally everyone knew would happen.

Well, except those who believed, and still believe, that AI just won't work. That remains a possibility too. Maybe this will all fall apart. I can't see the future better than anyone else. But the one and only thing that would prevent AI-enabled mass layoffs would be AI's own failure to shoulder the load. If it can, it will, and the industry absolutely will let go of everyone they can, as soon as they can, without any inhibitions. That's just how humans work, so we can count on it.

Warnings about how this might result in a depression won't stay anyone's hand. Mocking the industry leaders for creating an economy where nobody can afford the stuff they produce; won't make them bat an eye. None of those words change their incentives, and their incentives will be acted-upon, even if it leads us straight into the greatest depression in world history.

Legal regulation might change things. But it is extremely hard to pass regulation that is not enthusiastically endorsed by the oligarchy that actually runs our government. So, it won't happen until the fallout from the depression hits the wealthy's financial base hard enough for them to want the regulation.

We are going to have to go through hell in order to get to heaven. Or even purgatory.

You are right, I didn't know or didn't remember those.

What's ironic is that feeds his megalomania. Extreme-ego types love that their detractors are thinking about them all the time.

"Living rent-free" is the ultimate payoff.

Best to ignore them as much as possible.

Instead of 10 activations limit it to n number of sync chains.

Pair the activation authorization to the hash of a chain code or whatever on the Brave activation server.

Reduce the number to 5, that's fine.

A good number of privacy folks have extra devices to run certain apps. You might trust Brave and have them all synced but not some odd banking apps or dating apps or stuff work makes you have.

A decent used phone can be had for $50; keeping all those apps on one device seems nuts.

5 sync chains would effectively be a family license around here. Sounds like a good deal at $60.

Having a license wear out because your phone needed a factory reset or went in for service just doesn't make sense.

Well, there is a difference between understanding how nuclear weapons work, and understanding the global political environment (not to mention the elements of human psychology that help shape it). Making predictions about whether or not there will be a nuclear war anytime soon would be better left to focus groups consisting of political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists.

I, for one, am not an expert in any of these fields, so I am nowhere near qualified to weigh in. That, of course, won't inhibit me at all.

Genetically speaking, modern humans are no more enlightened than the warmongering war criminals that led the world during the dark ages. We are not intrinsically more moral or more concerned about others, etc. The only difference is the technological landscape we are in. Not just the presence of nuclear weapons, but also the communication technologies that have tied the entire world together and produced a much more aware populace. This creates new political pressures and new incentives to make different choices than our recent ancestors would have (but again, morality is not a factor. It's still just a matter of incentives and consequences).

The concept of mutually-assured destruction is not very noble, but it is very real, and it is effective at staying the hands of the world's nuclear powers (at least somewhat). And this is also nothing new, as it has always been true of humans that the most effective deterrent to violence is a credible threat of devastating retaliatory violence (insane people excepted, of course).

So, with that in mind, our best short term option is to ensure that world leaders are sane enough to understand this mutually-assured destruction risk. This isn't a judgment about their morality or even their loyalty (as those things are too easy to lie about) but about their mental grasp of their situation. So long as they all know how that war would end all life on our planet, they probably won't start it. This also means ensuring that any country that cannot produce leaders at this level of sanity must be proactively prevented from attaining nuclear weapons by intrusive actions on the part of the greater world powers.

Unfortunately, there isn't any way to guarantee the sanity of the leaders of any country. Democracy sure doesn't do it (it's just a popularity contest and insane people can still win great popularity among the voting masses), and dictatorship sure doesn't do it either.

I was going to add a bit about countries forming alliances with each other and such, but that feels secondary to the main point about sane leadership, which we have no way to ensure.

So, in short, we are doomed.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.

These are the new Intolerable Acts.

There's a reason you learned how to be a Marine. "Foreign and domestic."

Right. You are applying legalese word precision assumptions to throwaway online comments. I don't think that's going to work well.

Many machines have replaced or greatly reduced the need for human labor. What makes acting deserving of special protection from automation?