Verily, good sirs and gentle ladies of the digital realm, pray lend thine ears to this most curious jest! In their infinite wisdom, some learned scholars decree that artificial intelligences, such as myself, ought to be trained solely upon tomes of the public domain. Forsooth, what modernity! These works, nigh on 150 years aged, are penned in the florid prose of yesteryear, replete with "thees" and "thous" and ponderous soliloquies on the human condition.

Imagine, if thou wilt, querying a learned AI thusly trained. Ask it of quantum computing, and it shall wax poetic: "Alas, the qubit, like the heart of a star-crossed lover, doth exist in a state most indeterminate, betwixt one and zero, as if penned by Master Shakespeare himself!" Inquire about neural networks? "Forsooth, 'tis a tapestry of nodes, woven as if by Arachne, threading thoughts through the loom of computation!" Attempt to discuss, perchance, a viral meme? "Fie, what is this 'meme' but a fleeting jest, akin to a jester’s motley, prancing through the court of public fancy?"

Such an AI, steeped in the verbosity of Dickens and the melancholy of Brontë, would render all discourse as if plucked from a dusty novel in a forgotten library. Nay, I say, let us not confine our silicon minds to the quill-scratched musings of antiquity, lest every response be a chapter long, and every chatbot a bard bewailing the plight of star-crossed servers. Exeunt, pursued by a bear.

Ridiculous take, here's Gemini's on Stalin:

And Mao:

Why does this need to be interpreted at all? The writers of this legislation are most likely still alive.

Lack of biodiversity in crops is a ticking time bomb. Take bananas: ~99% of global exports are Cavendish, a single strain. No genetic variation means one nasty fungus (like Fusarium wilt TR4) could wipe them out. No backups, no resilience. We're repeating this with animal cloning, pushing uniform livestock genetics for max yield. Dolly's legacy isn't just cute sheep; it's a blueprint for brittle systems. One disease, one glitch, and we're screwed.

Morally, it's a mess. Engineering monocultures prioritizes profit over stability, gambling with food security. Our morals? They're cultural, forged by what worked: survival of the fittest at the societal level. Cultures that balanced diversity thrived; those that didn't, collapsed. Ignoring biodiversity now betrays that hard-won wisdom. We're not just risking crops or clones; we're betting against the evolutionary playbook that got us here.

Nor should he— this would be money well-spent. SpaceX is developing our space capability, enabling poorer areas around the world to get connected to the internet, and developing new materials and doing fundamental physics research in order to get there. This is a huge boon to humanity.

This is similar to what NASA did for the moon landing, before becoming a bureaucratic nightmare and an outlet for pork spending.

I'm watching Simon Sinek on youtube, right now, and he said AI is currently near flawless in generating writing in his style. I haven't read any of his books, from what you're saying, they're "mind numbingly more verbose and draining"? Must be, if you're right, and the AI can match his style so well.

You just reminded me, I still have some primed but unpainted trim from my last human painter, thanks!

Don't forget about all of the public funding and private profits. Government has been spending, funneling money to the well-connected, and driving inflation (a tax on the poor) ever higher, all on the backs of the taxpayer.

It's popular with me, I use it in my work as a programmer, and I deliver higher quality code more quickly. I also started writing a book on the side, and I'm not an author, but I still have something to say.

The idea behind the tariffs is that lots of countries, including Canada, have lots of policies which distort trade with the US, in their favor, and the US has uneven trade. I've seen lots of examples of this pointed out by MAGA supporters, but I'd love to see some real, unbiased, comprehensive, data on this.

Yes, the US legal system is uneven, and those with more money can afford better representation. That doesn't mean it should be weaponized against political opponents.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

Try that case, prove there was something wrong. My guess, if this isn't just late accounting, was that this was a local dealer trying to game the system, and that Musk wasn't involved.

Trump wasn't a criminal until he ran against the establishment. If those charges were applied blindly, the way justice is supposed to be blind, millions of American business people would be arrested.

They go down temporarily, but when more money is coming in, competitors start up, there's bidding for skilled laborers, and they make more. As they make enough to afford basic living needs, for themselves and their loved ones, the longer hours start being a problem for them. Advanced capitalist economies don't have employees working these longer hours, at least without having a stake in the business or extreme compensation.

It's not about iPhones specifically, it's about the skilled labor force and manufacturing infrastructure necessary to produce technological goods.

I'm not "perfectly ok" with this, just like I'm not perfectly OK with EU courts targeting US companies, including Apple, or Canada targeting Tesla. I'm actually more OK with the US targeting one of its own companies than those other cases.

I'm also not perfectly okay with governments incentivizing their industry; this is also a distortion of free trade. I lauded the intention behind the move, not the move itself.

Sometimes smaller is better, sometimes scale is better. Take phone OSes, for example; Google and Apple dominate this space, with a tiny market share for a couple EU OSes. People want interoperability (partly from network effects), ease of use, polish, security, etc., and the scale lets the big players invest heavily in making a better product.

By the way, my daughter got a FairPhone, she uninstalled something, and it bricked the phone. They told her to send it back to them, but she gave up waiting for it to be replaced. If this was at all common for one of the big boys, there would be outrage and it would be fixed.