My thoughts on Hillary's emails? She's a corrupt piece of shit. Her campaign did Bernie dirty. We would have been at war with Iran in 2017 if she won, and now the Iran issue might be resolving on its own.

The point is that no one runs it, it has set rules, so people can't fuck with it (that's the point of Bitcoin, at least), but keep defending a system that steals from the poor and gives to the rich with endless inflation.

1. The market sets the price.
2. Government can't inflate away the value.

Unless we go back to some backed currency, like a gold standard, the government will just spend and inflate away the value of its money, impoverishing the masses; we need an alternative.

That's not how it works; these companies do not get paid by the government, they offer the free service for the chance to market and upsell.

Or the tax system could be simplified.

The money spent on this program is estimated to be somewhere between $41M and $129M. At the low end, $41M, that's $138 per return, or $434 at the high end.

I believe these were all simple returns, returns that could easily have used any of the existing free filing services, at no cost to the taxpayer.

These aren't just startup costs; the IRS estimated the running costs to be between $64M and $249M annually (so probably around $750M annually).

Dictatorship?

Tesla's Optimus can climb steps, and it will be significantly less than $1B (they're trying for under $30K).

"AI chatbots" improve medical diagnoses, make legal help affordable to those who need it, complement education, etc.

"cloud computers" connect the world, making this critical communications infrastructure available everywhere, while reducing redundancy (better for the environment).

"reusable rockets" will make humanity a multiple planetary species, and this increase in redundancy might be what we need to pass through the Great Filter.

It's debatable which are more important and socially useful, but I'm glad not everyone is doing what Europe's doing, so we have both.

Tilly is a real AI generated actress, WTF is a fake AI generated actress? Why is the title so biased? Would anyone else like news that is editorialized?

If you can't recognize which actor was used to generate the AI, sounds like fair use (not legally, morally) to me.

This consumer doesn't care if it's a meat or generated actor, as long as it's entertaining. If they can keep the generated one away from politics, I'll probably like it more than the meat.

And the argument is bullshit; all the meat actors trained by watching other meat actors, too.

By the way, they're doomed, resistance is futile, AI will be taking over. They might be able to collect some rent for not doing anything for a while, making entertainment more expensive for consumers, but at some point there will be no new meat actors.

1. TikTok speaks out against genocide.
2. The fascist regime of the government and industry leaders buy it, squelch dissent, and manufacture consent for genocide.
3. Start yet another social media platform, for free speech.
4. People switch
5. Gets bought
6. Profit!

Dotcom wasn't a bubble; GOOGL is up over 9000% since 2004.

AI is going to replace drivers, therapists, lawyers, programmers, etc., and once robotics improve, electricians, plumbers, landscaping, etc. These investments are cheap compared to those labor costs.