IMHO (and not just mine, see below) quantum mechanics hit that wall a century ago.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. -- Richard Feynman

I'm not sure how much "the man" (Hegseth?) can do with what was leaked. It appears to be the code for the command-line tool, not the LLM or its trained weights.

Here you go.

Oh, I can understand the private credit markets. I just donâ(TM)t think theyâ(TM)re a good investment. same with bitcoin.

Einstein died in 1955, so I think we do know for a fact that he's not waiting for anything anymore. But I get what you mean. To wit:

I for one won't be shocked to find out Einstein is (well, was) wrong. He was many times during his career. So have many other luminaries in science.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let them do all their code with AI. Please. When it all comes crashing to the ground, they will have to hire real developers for real money to come in and try to fix the slop.

If you want the epoch of the "Clay Age" I suppose it would be about 2900-3100 BCE, in the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia. They started writing in cuneiform script on wet clay tablets that dried and became a hard record.

Investors and shareholders need consumers. Not the other way around. If consumers abandoned a product because they found it annoying, you can be sure investors and shareholders would want to see some changes.

What did he expect? That there wouldn't be ads? That's quite naive. If there is space, and money to be made, and they can do it, you can expect it to be done.

I will never get an appliance with internet connectivity. It's stupidly unnecessary and just a vulnerability. I don't want to be like that Vegas casino that got hacked through their thermometer.

You underestimate how much power consumers have. They can vote with their wallets.

Oh wait, you said Apple consumers. Never mind.

More than a few bits. You can still be lazy by dividing by 2.2 and get a much better answer: 800 kg.

I gather you went to high school somewhere other than the USA. Did you not learn C = (5/9) * (F - 32)? That yields about -267.77 C, or about 5.4 K (by adding 273.15.) In other words, close to as cold as you can possibly get.

And "exactly -half a thousand degrees Fahrenheit" sounds oxymoronic. Just saying.

If only there was an anti-dupe that could annihilate dupes on Slashdot. Then again, the energy released by them could be the death of us.

I think a crucial point is that AI does not need to face consequences for its actions the way humans do. I'm not even sure it can understand what consequences are.

Liked your post. I'd add a mention of the book Empire of AI by Karen Hao, which I just finished reading. It's a fascinating study of the rise of OpenAI and the impact of the needs of the AI industry for data and compute-power.

Sam Altman doesn't fare well in the book. He comes across as a duplicitous Napolean-fanboy, who nevertheless managed to develop a cult following amongst his employees. A following that has eroded over time but is still holding. Many ex-OpenAI employees have gone on to create rival companies, including Anthropic.

As for OpenAI ignoring specific areas of the market where AI can create revenue: they never really had that focus. They began as an altruistic effort to produce AGI for the human race, and bit by bit, their mission was compromised over time. They took on VC funds with some strings attached, and pleased their backers with some relevant products (see Copilot for example.) Now they have shed their altrusitic non-profit ambitions, but they continue to appear to be fixated on achieving AGI no matter what.