Both the Saudis and the Chinese have such a clear incentive structure to help prevent the problem. Everyone knows that there is a line, and bad things happen if the line is crossed. But the exact location of the line is not known. This causes a chilling effect and cautious behaviour automatically.

I'm not sure that a profits tax is a good lever for your purpose. A much simpler, more powerful answer is a wealth tax. Money is power. Entities and People who have Money are therefore dangerous and should be cut down to size by slicing away their power automatically. Profits alone are once removed from the power, and depend on an arbitrary accounting mechanism which interferes with enforcement.

Lovely! Two Brits pretending to be Americans who are outraged at the State of the States, warbling away in melodious language for the secret entertainment of their compatriots. Meanwhile everyone awaits for the Colonials to wake up and stomp in :)

The rich people are stable geniuses. They don't need no sycofefe, it's all dynamite in a barrel.

In Donald Rumsfeld's sense.

You're not addressing the fact that the bill for AI startups is coming due very soon. Being more expensive than India outsourcing is irrelevant when the investors want their gazillion returns that they were promised only a couple of years ago.

Maybe change the language to xx-bork?

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Being born as a British Colony, they learned from the best... ahem... East India Company.

Just use DeepSeek. As long as you don't mention Madison Square it will do all you ask, no problem.

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The reason is Ed Zitron has been making the rounds of business media lately pointing out that their (OpenAI, Anthropic) accounting doesn't add up at all. It's very enlightening to business types, who don't really understand our technical discussions about the mathematical limitations of LLMs, but understand very well when "profitability" is an accounting trick, and when sufficiently large markets simply don't exist for the implied returns from stratospheric valuations. The Emperor's New Clothes And All That.

The latest domino is Meta/Facebook who, like ElonCo, have announced that they have no use for all the GPUs that they bought previously, and are hoping to rent them out to customers instead.

Presumably, these customers will be able to do the kind of "Great Things"(TM) which the AI scientists on staff at Meta aren't able to do themselves. I'm talking about those AI scientists that Meta hired for $100m with great fanfare last year.

Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing World Hunger and Cancer solved in the third quarter this year by Meta's customers accessing NVDA chippies at a fraction of the price that Elon intends to charge, or failing that finding a way out of the continuing Hormuz Crisis by asking Google Gemini to make a plan and emailing it to the White House.

They are now talking about delaying their IPO until next year after all...

The copyright statute of Slashdot's home country defines a "copy" as a physical object in which a work is embodied, such as a book, ROM cartridge, or optical disc. The statutory license associated with ownership of a copy of a computer program includes making intermediate copies "as an essential step" in the use of the program. Title 17, United States Code, section 117. Historically, console makers and game publishers have lacked power to revoke this license with respect to a particular copy of a game that isn't online-only. With the end of video game distribution on optical disc, this license becomes revocable, and that's the problem.

you have to suspend your disbelief a bit. None of it makes sense from a physics point of view, any more than most of Star Trek

Agreed. Make it so, Number One.

It's not a bad idea to put some pressure on kids, even if they crack. In engineering, it's important to test materials until breaking point. In human occupations where stress is an important day to day component (eg medical ER or brain surgery) it's best to see the kids fail *before* they enter university, spend 7 years studying, and find that they can't cope with the pressure after they become interns.

People need to know themselves before they can pick a path, and society needs to know they can handle the path before it invests in someone's education.