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Comment Faster Horses (Score 2) 15

There's a semi-famous but probably misattributed quote involving Henry Ford, "If I'd asked my clients what they wanted they'd have said 'faster horses'".

Koomen is making the same point 100+ years later. The transformative AI solution will probably not be faster horses, or faster humans. It will be some new construct that goes well beyond what's currently possible in ways that we almost certainly haven't posited yet. We're still in the late 19th Century horseless carriage mode of AI design nobody has a clue about fuel injection, anti-lock brakes, air bags, automatic transmissions, etc type advancements yet.

It will be blindingly obvious what the ultimate winning design is but not till probably 3 or 5 or more years after the fact, claims until then are mostly marketing FUD.

Comment Re:Just rewarding Apple for $500B investment in US (Score 4, Insightful) 303

This sounds suspiciously like a plan to wait until the dust settles and then, whatever the result, state 'that was the plan all along', every step of the way so far I've heard folks like yourself cheer the first moves and explain why it's great and then cheer the back pedal and explain why it too is part of some great strategy and then cheer the re-instatement and the escalation. Literally anything he does is correct.

So quick question, your comment about 'lifelong history of exaggerated opening positions' implies you've bought into the whole 'Trump is a great negotiator' trope. Care to explain his near perfect failure record as a business owner and 6 bankruptcies ? Was that also part of a grand strategy ? When he bankrupts the US economy will that also be part of some grand strategy ?

Comment Re:Yay (Score 0) 320

Absolutely, if in turn you agree to admit you were the asshole when you discover everybody but Trump and his closest BJ givers are wrong and don't have the first damn clue how economies actually work.

When the US is in a recession coupled with inflation will you admit you and Trump are idiots or will you blame the democrats for somehow undermining his brilliance. Not sure if you were around for the 70s but economically they pretty much sucked.

Comment Re:Accurately (Score 5, Insightful) 126

I'm not entirely sure I agree with the sentiment about the average US Citizen being concerned about increased non-combatant incidents.

Just look at Gaza and Yemen, in many cases folks are either oblivious to the occurrences or feel its ok in an 'ends justify the means' sort of way.

As long as US soldiers aren't getting killed the citizenry is, for the most part, pretty ok with whatever.

Comment Re:Responsibility (Score 2) 81

I'm curious , is there a point at which you would actually blame Trump for something ?

This is Trump's actual statement yesterday on the topic.

"I said, release, we even released Social Security numbers. I didn't want anything deleted,"

He's the president, he's in charge and he's made it very clear that everybody will do what he or his deputies say. So do you still feel that his administration is not responsible for this fuck up ?

Comment Weaker consistent with primordial black holes (Score 1) 109

Back in the mid 80's when I was working on my degree I had discussions with professors about the implications of Hawking Radiation (evaporative black holes), primordial black holes (created as part of the immense pressures a tiny fraction after the big bang) and quantum relativity. It pains me when dark energy was first proposed I never thought to consider that primordial black holes could be the source.

If they are, which has recently been proposed, than you would predict that the strength of dark matter/energy would weaken over time as the number of primordial black holes decrease over time.

Comment Look over here! Mars, yeah!! (Score 1) 297

This is a classical Look-over-here strategy .

To much reporting about what the Dodge brothers are doing to the government and to people's private data, Tesla dealers burning, Tesla stock dropping, but...
... "look over here, Mars, cool? Right? Cool!"

Except that now the reaction is, "So the idiot will go to Mars next year???

While the image boost part of his strategy might not work, at least we're talking about Mars now, so that part still worked.

Comment Re: Thank you RFK Jr! (Score 1) 88

Yes.

It is especially funny, when the same company produces a variation with all natural colors for the EU market and a slightly more colorful artificial one for the US.

But the tendency to pour color into everything, I wouldn't blame it all on the FDA

Maybe if people had some cooking classes in school, they'd learn that sugar coating isn't bright white unless you add titanium dioxide, mint ice cream normally doesn't turn green, and cooked vegetables don't have the same bright color as fresh ones.

Latest thing I found: Green food color in pickles.

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