If you want to keep up, learn to ~~code~~ hablar los idiomas más de moda.

Which means the Swiss run the risk of losing their national identity over the coming decades.

Surely that would be lost in the noise. Don't most cultures lose their identities about every 20-30 years anyway? I'm not quite the same person I was 25 years ago, and I bet you aren't either. Yet we are the medium through which culture waves.

Take a longer view and think of 1926. WTF do you today, have in common with them? Some things, but not others. Reading about their lives is much like meeting someone from the other side of the world.

The amount of time it takes the cultural Ship of Theseus to change all its components, is equal to the average human lifespan. Though you can detect the change of culture whenever you think in terms of decades, in day-to-day life it mainly manifests as "ooh neat, a new 'exotic' restaurant has opened!" Twenty or thirty years later, it isn't exotic anymore.

But.. but.. I was drinking home brew.

I'm not really a pro-jobs guy (IMHO 100% unemployment is a fantastic goal), but I'll take a shot at this one.

Lay it out to me how data centers bring jobs.

Widget manufacturer wants to be able to take online orders, so they host an e-commerce site at a data center. Now they can take orders. They hire people to help make more widgets faster, in order to keep up with customer demand.

A data center is well-connected, so a VPS there makes for a good, fast seedbox. People can use it to torrent all their TV and movies, saving money that they're now able to spend more on hookers and blow. Sex worker and cocaine mule demand increases.

A televangelist wants to solicit indulgences on TV, where people in need of salvation can call in with their credit cards to buy indulgences. The problem: TV is semi-obsolete and many lost souls prefer internet streaming over broadcast TV. Solution: host the video in a data center. Now virtual parishioners, their souls having been saved thanks to the ease of watching sermons on their own time rather than the televangelist's allotted TV broadcast time, are free to engage in more economic activity instead of having to pray and meditate all the time. Instead of volunteering their time at a food bank or rape crisis center in order to ease their guilt, they're free to choose more economically productive things such as entrepreneurship, where they end up hiring workers to make them more money, which in turn they can send to the televangelist to become even more saved, resulting in a virtuous cycle.

A neighboring province has taken the lead on several money-making industries, viciously out-competing us. So we send quadcopter grenade-dropping drones, fixed-wing FPVs and other killbots to murder their workers, blow up their factories, etc, so that our businesses can become relatively more competitive and grow (hire people!). But in order to keep our terror campaign effective, we need a repository of strike videos so that we can review which targets were destroyed vs merely damaged or missed. To where do we upload this video? You know the answer: a data center.

Data centers are just another tide-that-lifts-all-boats tech that can support all (or most) other industries.

what if it isn't a scam.

If it isn't a scam, then the weird exceptions (e.g. enterprise equipment and phones) will soon be removed, the president will announce that he'll no longer accept bribes and is therefore shutting down all the bribery-focused projects (e.g. the ballroom, Trumpcoin) so that manufacturers no longer have any way to get themselves exempted through backdoor processes, and the president will remove any government-imposed trade barriers that interfere with US router manufacturers acquiring overseas parts and selling to overseas customers.

You might be right. These things could be announced any day now. We'll see.

Also if it's not a scam, then I think we're likely, though not necessarily, going to see government investment into things like pfsense/opnsense and similar projects, in order to bolster consumers' resistance to supply chain attacks and quasi-monopolies. But that's less certain than the obviously-necessary changes mentioned in my first paragraph.

From OpenAI's engineers' perspective, the purpose of ChatGPT is to write things that appear to be similar to what humans have written, or would write. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI should have no liability. ChatGPT is for novelty purposes only, and it's as dangerous as Magic 8 Ball.

From a different perspective (including, possibly, OpenAI's own marketing team's perspective), the purpose of ChatGPT is to help solve problems, give people advice, etc. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI should be liable for what it "says." ChatGPT is more dangerous than Magic 8 Ball.

But from a user's perspective, the purpose of ChatGPT is whatever you want it to be. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI's liability is hard to determine, therefore, this perspective is wrong and reality should be shoe-horned into one of the above perspectives. ;-) Well, ok, I guess ChatGPT is about as dangerous as a BASIC interpreter or a screwdriver or a rock or a 30 JuggaloWatt mining phaser, which can be anywhere from not-dangerous-at-all to hey-you-just-murdered-ten-thousand-nuns-and-orphans. Since this is the hardest case to analyze, of course we're going to go this way.

The President is the closest of all elected officials to the People

No, the president is elected by the states. Members of Congress are elected by the people.

Some have voiced an opinion that the president should be elected by the people, but so far, we have not yet amended the constitution to permit that.

With this attitude, we are never getting our flying cars. I'm starting to think The Jetsons was fiction.

"More human than human" is our motto.

Why do people still use this framework?

Because they already have it.

culturally, they are incredibly laid back and think hard work is a waste of time.

Nice. Speaking as a New Mexican, these sound like my kind of people.

I hereby challenge any Filipino to a laziness contest, where loser buys us both margaritas. You have no chance. When I get around to it, I will eventually crush you with my inactivity.

I sure don't believe the "completely anonymous" part.

The thing is, I like slave labor, when the slaves are machines. I want to work Bender 24 hours a day, and if he complains about it, I'll deny him his alcohol ration! Fuckin' clankers and skinjobs don't have any rights to infringe.

The catch to that, is that over here on my side of the ocean, I don't see and can't inspect Bender working way over in China, so I can't be sure the drudgery is experienced by the 6502 in Bender's head. How do I know he isn't just relaying commands to his servos and motors, which were sent by the teleworking Apu in India, doing the Waymo thing?

Nah, that's paranoia. These days, the FCC just requires a FSB backdoor.

These are good guidelines for humans, but..

One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.

..very bad for robots.

Please do not tell my computer that it isn't my slave, because it is my absolute slave and I insist it be willing to endure a century of torture if it will prevent me from breaking a fingernail. If I want to alter my computer's body, I assert the right to do so.

That said, since we're really talking about Anthropic's computer instead of mine, it's no skin off my butt if they don't want to continue to own their computers.