"That is very close to the Elon Musk template."

Whaaaat ??

Surely not the Elon Musk who is blasting more into space than the world governments combined ?

Surely you are not saying Schmitt pulled off anything like that

And by the same token :

It's not skin off my nose if Europe gets left behind

The people taking over Europe will not make the same mistake

Is Richard Dawkins going to come on stage now and talk about his "overwhelming feeling" that bees have consciousness ?

(Altho I think it's pretty cool he invented the word "meme")

There is something to what you say here.

Keep in mind though, the ocean of money is going into frontier models.

If these companies just did inference, some would be profitable.

Critics do not make good artists ... or content creators

Imagine Simon Cowell making music ...

Sounds like your city's economy is just too good and it's too easy to make money.

That's fine because our city could really use the funds.

And these articles never so much as mention ethical concerns

shocking how much people think ... "oh age discrimination doesn't happen since there's a law against it" :(

is slashdot now the Weekly World News ?

also, I see that people want to feel intellecutally superior, but do we need to be sprinkling "ontological" all over the place ?

Did you mean to say science "can't" do something for you there ?

"Substantial" is not a scientific concept.

Just like science can't talk about meaning or integrity or spirituality.

Anime : Vivy, Kaiju No. 8, Spy X Family

Book : Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle

Movie : Superman by James Gunn

Christians like me disagree with every religion that doesn't center around Jesus.

This isn't some kind of thing against people with Indian skin colors.

I'm sick of this "join this activist mob or die" mentality.

YouTube decides what you can and cannot watch.

Those AI makers are tiny ants compared to that.

"Sounds to me like you're saying because of his use of one word "thrive" we shouldn't talk about climate change"

The OP uses the word "catastrophic" ... which is far from "thriving".

I'm not on the team saying what we can and can't talk about. Those're the Stalinists.