While I concur with your general assessment, I would add that juries have a historical tendency to avoid applying liability to computer programs.

I'm surprised a textile firm would be that exposed to such things. Makes me think the company is trying to get out of some obligation, but I don't know much about German corporate law to speculate.

Addiction leads to bad parenting?!? No way!

Crazy things you learn...

If you drink the bourbon and then play with your kids, that's probably the healthier way to go for your child's development.

Probably not great. They all seem to be very angry about something.

I have a friend who sends me all the dank memes from social media so I am in still in touch with the culture but not exposed to or supporting their general shittiness.

Welcome to the 90s I guess?

My suspicion instead is that we are finding out language is not nearly as complex or related to intelligence as we thought. Intelligence has not been demonstrated in any way by LLMs. Only linguistic patterns that we formerly associated with intelligent thinking.

Imagine a company selling devices to billions of people and then using local laws to stop them from using those devices how they want.

Apple is a scummy company with no regard for capitalist rules of competition. They are just butthurt their homegrown strategies of buying politicians isn't working overseas.

The speculation is necessary to increase the market cap so that the remaining amount in circulation is valuable enough to make transactions.

They were offered significantly higher salaries. And Ford was forced to poach from some of their suppliers, so they also caused a brain drain at the companies they most rely on.

If you can't block Chinese use of your tool, then how the fuck do expect the government to do it?

No, you just don't want your company associated with being anti-Chinese, cause you want that sweet Chinese money when our markets get reconnected.

Now in addition to rising token utilization driving costs through the roof, there will be a Trump bribe you have to pay for to access a frontier model.

It's 2352 CE. Influence, rhinovirus, and coronavirus have all become things of the last. No one gets colds or flu anymore.

Then an archaeological team digs up an old corpse with the common cold.

Within a year, there are 18 billion dead.

"suggesting external input not self generate"

What it actually is suggesting is similar cognitive and sensory structures in the human mind.

Lots of substances can be used to instill a feeling of dread. This does not imply there is some external dreadful presence. It implies that dread is chemically triggered in the brain.