He was also wrong about Big Brother having to threaten or force people to adopt telescreens.

"I'm too busy to research this and form an educated opinion, but I do have time to tell everyone my uninformed opinion."

Signature checks out, at least.

In this world, AI will have a massively-negative carbon footprint, as it eliminates the need for billions of vehicle trips per year.

Berlin to Warsaw in one tank!

... is that regardless of how you personally feel about AI and LLMs, one consequences of their arrival on the scene is that there is no longer any need to be afraid to try a new operating system. Even the most arcane Linux command lines, utilities, and operating procedures have been mastered by agentic LLMs at this point. Tell the LLM what you want your computer to do, and it will happen.

In fact, the choice of operating system really doesn't matter anymore, as long as what little legacy software you still need to run is available.

This will turn out to be a bigger deal than it looks like at first. If you're a kid (or anyone else) who wants to use a computer without mandatory accounts or age verification, go ahead and ditch Windows and MacOS in favor of whatever Linux or BSD variant looks good to you.

That's pretty much exactly what the NYT article, which was probably leaked by Vance, describes in detail.

Because they're not going to build 100,000,000 Raspberry Pi 4s?

Translation: You're in a knife fight. Someone hands you a gun. You peer down the barrel and go, "Why do I need this?"

I would LOVE a .PDF reader with AI. Being able to highlight passages on web pages and click "Explain this" in Firefox has been great. It's annoying that the same feature isn't as handy when reading .PDF articles and scientific papers. For added bonus points, give me the option to have the AI modify the .PDF itself with clarifying notes and references.

Try using a model less than 2 years old.

When you have government-granted monopolies in the form of copyright and patent law, the rules should be very different from the ones your neighborhood grocery store is subject to.

Maybe that'll help

True, this does make it seem pretty terrible at 32 bits as well. I hadn't realized that "TF32" was really a 19-bit format, and that's the biggest data type that actually runs well.

Eh, I wouldn't say it's "mostly dedicated" to FP4. It still works fine with everything up to FP32. Only FP64 gets thrown under the bus, via emulation.

They have had enough of paying filthy peons and being dependent on them.

Eh... hard to blame 'em

Were you dropped?

Yes, it's how they would describe Democrats... but after all, as Trump says, they're the "poorly-educated," whom he "loves."