No protections? If a company kills people generally those running it are legally protected. If a company goes bankrupt the owners once again are protected from debtors going after their personal savings earned while running that company into the ground. If a company commits fraud once again you can sue the company but not those running it.

This isn't about bailouts. It's not even really about economics. It's about corporatism. No corporation should have more legal power than any citizen. Corporations also don't go to a version of jail, think about that.

Instead of labeling those you don't agree with, use that time to think about what you read.

This. Corporations currently have too much power while having no responsibility. In return for corporate protections the citizens granting them those protections should be half owner. AI is just the latest straw in the corporate-behavior-run-amok.

You don't buy a RAM company, you start one. The existing companies refuse to expand to meet demand, which is the whole reason for this mess.

Maybe they could start by ripping out all the nagging pop-ups that occur when you are actually trying to use the phone or tablet.

The summary leads with 'floating app Bubbles'.

floating . . . app . . . bubbles.

If your phone is so bad you think it needs updating to Android 17, all you will have is a bad phone with Android 17...

In my opinion making kids read an entire book is not the same as making them read a short story then during the second half of that same day's class discussing the content or making them take a quiz on the content. It's about frequently exercising that part of the brain to retain and relate knowledge, not how long you read the material.

You are conflating 'being able to read' with 'reading comprehension'.

Is there no longer time in the school day to teach reading comprehension in high school? Or was it taken up with learning 'on a computer' type of classes.

It keeps minds engaged and searching for a different solution.

It's the Dead Poet Society march of consolidation.

Sort of like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

I did not say anything about whether data centers have a point. The subject is whether having everything in the data center accessible to the entire world is a good idea. IMHO for AI it is not a good idea.

Care to link a citation for that claim?

It's nice to allow anyone to use something so powerful or capable. But then you must remember when people think they are anonymous with no repercussions they really are not nice to each other and revert back to their underlying animal behavior.

A small town can have nice things - a global town can not.

Instead of building out data centers we could be giving everyone a computer capable of local inference. Obviously you need to show proof of citizenship to buy the computer - what could possibly go wrong!

Sometimes you have to prove to the common ignorant class that YES IT CAN BE DONE and we can do it. It's how you gather support from the less educated.

What is practically useless are all the airplanes in the air at any one time, most of which burn more fuel in one flight than it takes to heat a 200 homes for an entire winter. We need electric aircraft - badly.