Sports guys are not elites. They are well paid slaves. Think roman gladiators.

Anyone that cannot quit their job and move to another company is not an elite.

Any profession where drugs that interfere with your professional performance are prevalent, is not elite.

Any profession where the only real contract negotiation is about money is not elite.

In addition, their managers etc. tend to put their own needs above their players. They COULD have negotiated the right to things besides money but the agents only get a portion of the money - not the things besides money.

Musicians are in a similar situation. Low level actors as well, but high paid actors have gotten out of that trap.

This would not surprise me if the entire setup is designed to give people cellphone service without having to pay somebody.

All the things they talked about being 'possible', seem to me like you could do similar things by hacking, for a lot less money and effort.

Wait, it is possible to receive management content that has substance in it? Why didn't anyone tell me this?

Which companies have management that does not provide slop?

Everything else has been shrunk down to microscopic levels.

While we have had significant progress in batteries, battery improvements have been linear, while most of the rest of the components have had exponential improvements.

So the battery grows while everything else shrinks. Now the battery is the largest component. Likely to stay that way, too.

I disagree. Just say:

No AI citations allowed at all.

Any legal AI should be programmed to replace citations with:

"Insert full 1992 Citation here.". Then the lawyer can go through looking for all 1992 citations to find one that fits.

The purpose of legal paperwork is not to make it easy, but to make it accurate. Given AI's total failure to make it accurate, they should be banned from giving a full citation and the real lawyers should do that work.

There are two kinds of innovation - revolutionary and incremental.

You cannot gain an insurmountable advantage in revolutionary tech. You can only do so in incremental tech. Because nobody sees the revolutionary innovation coming.

The main topics they have discussed (solar, wind, batteries) have had consistent incremental advancement for decades.

They talked about the 'failure is our goal' strategy that China uses - and it is very successful. The US uses a similar system, though not to the same scale - in part because we have 1/3 the population.

Many people focus on the US's manufacturing problems - which generally consist of high safety regulations and high salaries demanded by workers. Those exist for GOOD reasons and they are not worth giving away to gain manufacturing jobs.

We do not want the bad jobs that poisons the workers and evey one that lives near the factory. We want better than what they strive for in China, and for the most part we have succeeded. We export a lot of things, including computers, oil, vehicles, etc.

Part of the issue is that the export categories are large and often we export one thing but import another in the same category (We export a lot of oil, but also import a lot for example).

The US's biggest exports are aircraft (including spacecraft) and fuels. A lot of that is military aircraft. It also agricultural and meat.

The largest non-export industry however is finance. Lots of foreigners use American banking services. While some of that is investing in American corporations and property, (many consider it a safer investment than their own country - particularly Chinese investors), it also includes US companies doing the financial services for other countries.

It says remove the button preventing you from benefiting from the AI.

It says nothing about preventing the AI from collecting data in the background and sending it elsewhere.

I'd accept a Fridge that had ads if it were free. Otherwise I can't see it. A fridge can last a decade easily and you can get them for less than 2 grand. 2 grand a decade = 200 a year, and that works out to less than a dollar a day. My time is worth more than that.

So unless the ads paid for the entire fridge I can't see paying cash for it.

I cannot imagine any other reason to WANT that brand.

It is synonymous with fraud, deception, and incompetence.

Either someone wants to change that more than they want to make money, or someone made a deal with the devil and the devil said "OK, you can own a big corporate brand, but is has to be an EVIL one. Ha ha ha ha ha"

Worst take on AI, if only because it is common. Everyone misunderstands how AI works and what it does. AI DOES NOT THINK.

It predicts. It is not getting qualitatively better at all. It is getting quantitatively better. They are adding more computers and algorithms that work more efficiently. They are fixing minor issues, like the ability to understand "not", and encouraging it to say "I do not know".

AI has no reasoning. It predicts. Interns are allowed to not think. All of the significant jobs require reasoning, not prediction. AI will not replace those.

Not saying something else won't replace it. But it will require a paradigm shift. Nothing we are thinking of doing with AI will ever achieve AGI, ASI etc. etc. We have learned how to make something that is like the brain of an insect, not that of a man.

The one thing I left out is portion size. Although I did mention 3x the amount we needed. Was not relevant to what I was saying, but it helps a lot.

Mediterranean diets are anti-diabetic because:

1) They emphasize whole grains - which does help. A 10% decrease is still worth it.
2) They emphasize unprocessed foods so they keep the fiber and avoid the added sugar.
3) They are HUGE on vegetables, which significantly reduces the amount of grains you eat. Of course, it is a problem for super-tasters that find vegetables bitter.
4) They have much smaller portion sizes than American typical diet.

Note, I did not mention alcohol because if you are not an alcoholic it is fairly easy to avoid it entirely. In america, it is hard to avoid carbs and we are given them in huge quantities.

While some fruit (bananas in particular) are bad for diabetics, a lot are good for us - including apricots, raspberries, etc.

The main cause of diabetes is not fruit. Almost every meal in the entire world includes large portions of:

Wheat (including bread, muffins, pancakes, pasta, etc.)
Rice
Potatoes
Corn

Even knowing about diabetes, it can be hard to find a restaurant that does not include one of these in every single meal they serve. Yeah, whole grain versions are better - as in 10%. That's not enough. Most americans eat 3x the amount of carbs they need.

Worst of all, if the food is processed it removes fiber making it bad for you (and worse usually adds sugar). It's why even unsweetened apple sauce is bad for diabetics - loss of fiber is a major issue.

In America, Diabetes is generally caused as much by wheat as it is caused by added sugar. While it's not hard to eliminate added sugar, it's just too hard to go a day without wheat, rice, potatoes and corn.

Note, even diabetics do need some carbs, but that is NEVER a problem getting.

In brightest day and darkest night, we will still be able to see everything. So no evil will escape our sight.

Except of course for evil from the stars, cause we won't see crap.

Seriously, that is still one of the benefits of living in the boonies. There are still places we can go more than 10 m iles from other people and have a nice, clear night sky.

But not in my home.

Because that is the level of our best AI - an intern.

If an intern can do it, an AI can do it.

The good jobs still exist and will likely always exist.

As an American, I an assure you that our ability to totally screw up our health is supreme. We will always find a way to become obese, no matter what they do with the time.