Ayn Rand was mentally ill. Just not severely ill. I wonder about those who believe she was a wise philosopher. The USA is #1 in cults for a reason...

A huge number of people meet their partners AT WORK.
Morons are usually pretty shallow people; so looks can be the main determining factor.

He is not a moron, he is smart. Attractive women for him are clearly not airhead teenagers obsessing over their looks to appeal to his base instincts to impregnate every healthy fertile female. The urge to mate with partners you connect with is natural and what is totally artificial, is monogamy. We didn't evolve for that old tradition that rarely gets questioned.

Nvidia did exceptionally well with this CEO... and China plus other nations know the value of getting to hugely influential people. This idiotic government didn't protect it's important people and probably even helped leak (by incompetence) this guy's personal life. Why not haul him before congress and whatever other group of morons to make him miserable as possible so he can quit or migrate to a place that will treat him better... like all those AI researchers who went to China because of the 1st Trump admin... or all the other smart people bailing out of this sinking ship... Turning on the bilge pumps in November after crashing into the iceberg a few years ago is only slowing the inevitable. We didn't even finish repairing the damage from the last disaster and we just went and crashed it again.

The CIA should be helping the man hide his secrets and live his life the way he chooses. A normal wealthy man likely gets away with this and a whole lot more in his failing democracy but when he is a target of foreign assets he doesn't have a chance alone - despite his wealth. Something embarrassing takes him down and having idiots in charge to rub salt in his wounds... possibly give him some more... (perhaps just for some insider trading gains...)

When something is working, you generally should not fuck with it. This man has likely just been removed from the chessboard. His usefulness at this point might not be that great but his replacement has as greater chance of adding to the enshitification.

Russian subversion is their primary weapon of espionage. Putin was in charge of doing that and when he rose to power he pumped more resources into it than they ever did during the cold war (estimated; but certainly there are more spies than the FBI is able to track as disclosed by an agent charged with tracking known spies.)

If you look into the techniques, you'll see them on display for decades now... but has been going on since the cold war; just much more so today and the impacts have been growing since then - even without an increased effort the damage of real cultural warfare is long and deep. You can see it in the declassified report on Facebook ads Russia ran which were not sophisticated yet. The whole point is to get factions infighting and undermine shared institutions that hold society together. They promote the toxic elements of Black Lives Matter and White Traditionalists trying to get them to fight each other by ignoring and corrupting their institutions to help their anti-social goals.

You couldn't purposely find somebody skilled enough to purposely enact the playbook as effectively as Trump has been doing. It's amazing they spotted him as a valuable asset in the 1980s and managed to recruit and promote him; all while being wise enough to be fine with his unstable behavior because regardless, his reverse Midas touch will benefit them in the long term.

NO AI IS NEEDED. People just arrested the nearest black male or the husband or whatever simplistic metric that replaced the work of thinking. Off loading to thoughtless habits is kind of how the brain works and software written by humans has already been used foolishly and it had bugs despite best efforts.

Sure you could make a system that uses many factors to recommend the best decisions; that is not new and obviously when it automates that analysis it will do better than humans under resource constraints most the time... it essentially is slowly and carefully done by humans but then that work is automated. Augmenting humans more and more until the human is just a manager or customer... or more like a dependent who is unable to do anything without it. It is quite fitting that the software industry early on honestly called it's customers, "users" just like the illegal drug industry.

So AI is self programming blindly as it always did; but the leap is how it's data mining existing solutions like it was previously written code. It's as intelligent as a web search... which is just a databank of existing solutions. It may be inferring at a basic level to do language processing because human languages are very complex and that is the breakthru which is possibly opening up huge areas of abilities but so far, it looks to me like it's not doing much... and new abilities are what humans are plugging into the conversational interface.

I frankly am sick of gluing APIs together to get components to talk to each other it's most of what programming is so something that can automate that accurately is very desirable... I just wish they'd focus on that instead of trying to completely replace everything we do.

Not only are the left/right ONE dimensional metaphors grossly over simplistic, but you think there is "a middle" that is correct with no concept of an overton window.

Some people believe their world is FLAT and do not deserve equal time or consideration unless you have the time and energy to WASTE on the infinite amount of stupidity that is possible out there. Your response is immature.

Fools are ingenious because they are the unconstrained infinite monkeys trying to type Shakespeare who sometimes stumble onto things (rarely solutions, but new problems. like more reasons to add safety precautions...and we shouldn't over do it on those as we do.)

Fox is anti-dialog, anti-science, anti-democracy, anti-reason, and really it is propaganda BS that dresses itself up as something else.

Even their entertainment side would set aside ethics for money if even an issue was allowed to be considered in the first place. If consumers didn't reject some things strongly, they'd be pushing smut films, hardcore porn, and pedophilia - humanizing all of it; if there was profit in it. Not that they don't produce some decent stuff; it's that they are AMORAL to which the good side is they don't impose their limitations outside of things undermining their propaganda machine. Like say, "Idiotocracy" a movie that they viewed as damaging their agenda of creating a world of retarded consumers; they all but killed that movie only allowing it to out only to recoup money... and cutting money so it couldn't have become a bigger threat.

true... but it's extremely common to conflate a binary choice of 50/50 with the popularity of each choice. You can have only 1 person on the other side and still refer to it as even sides; imprecision adds to it but also the style of English likely contributes to this conflation and frequent confusion.

They never learn from BERNIE, who is the most popular politician in the world. He got that way by losing almost all the time and almost never passing his own laws. His stuff was never crazy, some of it is so good it is crazy to oppose it.... it makes the others look corrupt and out of touch... or foolish.

They need to fight and lose trying to do what people want or need to have done. Starting with Epstein...

Yeah and I can find an analysis with videos on why the world is flat. They don't deserve any better a reaction than you do.

Sadly, no, not treason. Russia needed to be formally recognized as the enemy without a declaration of war. This is possible; in my opinion, but this would go to the corrupt court in which case, Trump would decide only war or congress can declare enemies. Trump constitutionally is only a traitor if Russia is an enemy of the USA. Outside that, many definitions would apply to him.

You sir, are delusional. Probably Fox... but could be Trump caused delusions...

well, no point in trying to bring somebody suffering a psychotic break back to reality in an online forum.

You can never trust Americans. Trump proves it. The USA finally elected a man who represents the common American man: a selfish ignorant moron.

I've lived in the USA all my life; intelligent mature adults are a minority... we only do well because we import a great number of smart minorities from around the world... and an occasional evil one who becomes a billionaire.

Good work. You nailed it.

The media will do it's best to continue the same stupid we've had for decades; as things get worse, they get worse but not enough will start to think. It's a downward spiral and I think past the point of no return. Plan accordingly. It's 2 steps back 1 step forward; but the last 2 years have been 6 steps back.

Epstein was dead and as the manager of that thing, it was over; the geo-political mess around Epstein wasn't worth it - when the nation is in slow collapse. Israel worked with Epstein for starters... messing with them isn't easy and there are bigger problems. Me, I'd have pulled that thing to the roots regardless of the problems and seen just how deep it went... While also going after extreme corruption and not care if the idiot Americans confused the criminals with the pedophiles with the Israeli government. Call me anti-semite all you want after I show the pedo-blackmail rings they are running lets see if it sticks or not.

GOP=Guardians Of Pedophiles. Admitting you voted for Trump the 3rd time is like fucking for virginity. So foolish you don't even know how idiotic it is to even admit it; beyond moronic.