It will happen. The question is "Will it continue to be legal?".

Why would I want a workalike of Windows? (I haven't used it for over two decades now, so I'm not sure. Linux is superior to the MSWindows that I remember...and it doesn't force updates at their convenience rather than mine.)

You don't have a solid sphere, you have collectors in multiple orbits differing not only in height, but also in angle WRT the plane of rotation of the star. You build it piece by piece, and it's working from the time the first piece is put into orbit. But I really prefer topopolis, which is also built piece by piece, and is easier to get around in. (In the Dyson sphere variation all the pieces need to be separate...which is a real problem. Of course, one could do a cross between the two, and have multiple topopolis instances in slightly different orbits and at slightly different angles.)

In both cases the trick is to use a design where you can start with just one piece, and expand from there.

The answer is obvious: the manufacturer of the US's expensive missiles.

Billions for Drones is a good investment - as long as we are getting millions of them. If that is the cost of 1 drone, then no.

But it should also involve a decrease elsewhere. Cut the ridiculously stupid battleship and replace it with a Drone carrier.

What's the population size that these 10 are extracted from? In an above post it's claimed that one was a guy that studies meteorites, and another was a nuclear physicist, so if the that's the range, it implies a pretty large population size.

Given the current government, I don't find that evidence of anything except that somebody in government doesn't like them. Perhaps evidence will show up at the trial, if they actually follow through.

They aren't bullshit concepts, but they also aren't even nearly practical now. Give it time. The Dyson sphere (practical variation) would need at least several centuries to be practical, and even then I think topopolis is a better approach, but it's not a bullshit concept. The "space AI" probably needs sustained space-based industry to become practical, and that, itself, has a few problems to overcome, but it's reasonable eventually.

On the plus side, once the AI bubble bursts and 75% of the AI companies go under, there's likely to be a lot of electrical capacity (and GPUs and RAM) suddenly available at fire-sale prices, at least for a while.

I don't think that's accurate -- the only people who "prefer to use coal" are in the Trump administration. China, like the rest of the rational world, prefers to use whatever energy source is cheapest and most effective, which might be coal in some situations, or it might be solar, or nuclear, or hydro, or something else.

But the company providing the technology also has some agency in the matter. How much it's reasonable to argue about,

It's worse than the halting problem, because different cpus will have different errors and error handling.

The chatGPT makers are NOT among the smartest people, you have fallen victim to propaganda.

The technology behind ChatGPT was invented by:
  Dznuret Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho and Yoshua Bengi in
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473/ in May of 2016.

Everyone else just copied their work with minor improvements and adding immense amount of memory and processing.

Most of the guys who currently are in charge of the Large Language Models are more interested in money than in science. They are above average intelligence but are in no way the smartest people on the planet.

there is a difference between a scientist that invents and/or discovers science, the engineers that figure out how to implement the science, and both are different than the money men that keep the gravy train rolling.

The guy at the top makes business decisions and never ever invents stuff. The scientists are lucky if they get paid anything for inventing it. The engineers always get paid - but not as much as the money guy on top.

You mean just like lawyers and programmers?

Where do you live where they still make phone books?
I have not seen one for a decade at least.