> Yes, those religions do have some empathy in their philosophy, and it is the first thing to go when they feel threatened or if they find something of someone else's that they like more than what they have.

Empathy means the ability to see the world from someone else's point of view. It does not mean "giving your country to foreigners."

Empathy tends to lead to inqusitions, pogroms and wars because empathic people can understand the point of view of others and don't imagine that those people are "all the same under the skin." Then they realize they don't like those people much and want them gone.

The left love talking about empathy, but have none. If they did, they wouldn't be the left.

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.

Sir, you are infringing on my trademark of Micro Softwad.

Sorry, but the only person here with Stockholm's Syndrome is you. You are held hostage to your failed beliefs that communism and socialism are the only way forward when history has shown that they simply lead to authoritarianism.

Well they sure as hell aren't when we get so intellectually lazy we dub anything to the right of ghengis khan "COMMUNISM".

Is Keynsianism too "communist" for you? Theres a solid and battle tested set of principles that build wealth while protecting the little guys.

If it is, then maybe just follow Adam Smiths advice and regulate capitalism in the interest of the common man. Is Adam Smith too communist for you?

What IS your baseline here beyond vapid libertarian-ish slogans?

This whole speech of his seems like

"AI isnt profitable, so we'll need you to raise electricity prices on voters so you can give us free power".

Maybe, radical suggestion I know, but maybe they can just fuck off....

The faster the bubble bursts so all these shitbirds lose all their money the happier I will be.

As far as I know, there has never been any proof that dark energy actually exists, only theories only conjectures.

Dark Energy , and Dark Matter, aren't really theories in the sense we usually use in science. They are placeholders to describe missing variables in the math used to describe gravitational behavior as it deviates from the otherwise highly reliable Einsteinian and Newtonian accounts for it.

Dark Matter, because the maths and observations seem to show a *lot* more mass in galaxies than we can account for.

And Dark Energy, because something appears to be accelerating expansion, and basic physics tells us that if something is accelerating, theres a force being applied *somehow*.

But we dont know what that missing mass in galaxies, or the missing energy in expansion, is, so its "Dark". Its not a conjecture, or a theory, its literally scientists saying "We dont know whats going on here".

And you cant disprove that, because your trying to disprove that scientists dont know whats happening. But most assuredly they dont know whats happening, and THAT is what Dark Energy literally is. The giant question mark surrounding a fudge factor in the maths.

After all, they have bills to pay, too.

When the problem is easy credit, adding more easy credit just makes things worse. The only fix is a massive destruction of credit and the malinvestments it created, but that's impossible in a democracy as you'll lose the next election.

Motorola/IBM too, same time period. I talked to the head of their chip division at the time. POWER (not PowerPC) was doing investigation into vertical chips.

Mind you, this guy also told me there would never be a chip faster than 2Ghz due to thermal limits so...yeah.

Ultimately responsibility will be some distribution between Perplexity itself and the 'owner' of the robot.

Think about those lunatics who keep running people over with Tesla autopilot. Who is responsble? Well its not the car, its just an object, not a subject. The driver has some responsibility because he authorized the car to do its autopiliot, and Tesla has some responsibility, because its autopilot is shit.

In this case the customer authorizes perplexity to do this, and perplexity is the one doing it, via a robot. If its a shit purchase, well some of that will be on perplexity, but some of it is also on the customer for being so stupid as to let a robot shop for it. How a court would divide up that responsibility is likely a matter for lawyers and juries.

When I was travelling in the third world about 25 years ago one of the locals was telling me how, unlike developed countries, everyone who could afford it had to buy a generator to produce power when the grid couldn't.

Yeah.

Reliable power is just so 20th century. Probably fascist too.

> They were workers from Hyundai which were setting up a battery plant and EV manufacturing plant in Georgia who were there to oversee the construction and the training of American workers

And presumably didn't bother to get visas?

They seem to have dropped a lot in the UK as well if the Youtube video I watched the other day was showing real numbers.

Though much of the problem may be that most working people there simply can't afford any kind of new car any more. They have to be on welfare to buy one.