OK guys, here's the current deal. I do not intend to make any negative statements about your mother; I am simply stating what I believe to be the facts. But when I say "mom decided", I mean "mom controlled our decision."
After mom and I met (1999) and before we married (2000), we agreed that:
We would not buy property in the USA.
We would not have children.
We would move to Canada or Asia.
We would retire by the time I was 35.
Then:
In 2004, mom decided we would buy the condo in Albany.
I think in 2007 or 2008, mom decided that we would have children. This prevented us from moving to Canada or Asia.
After you were born, my grandmother funded your education accounts and I funded your UTMAs. A family trust has always paid for expenses such as your private schools.
At the end of 2016, we moved to Singapore. Mom chose not to work there.
In 2018, eight years after we had agreed to retire (by which time we had originally agreed to live Asia, which would imply not owning property in the USA), mom decided that we would return to the USA.
In July of 2018, a few days after I returned from Asia, mom and I agreed to divorce.
In October of 2018, I returned to Laos and started going there about every second month.
In November 2019, Wendy was born.
In approximately February of 2019, COVID started, making it impossible for me to visit Laos.
Mom initially agreed to joint petition, which would have minimized cost and conflict, but then decided to get her own lawyer.
By April 2022, I had ensured approximately $1,000,000 in mom's accounts for the purpose of raising you assuming mom had 75% parenting time. After the incident where mom put her mother on the phone to say bad things to you about me (technically, a violation of a parenting through divorce agreement that we had both signed), we reached a settlement regarding the divorce, with no child support payments, 50% parenting time each (every second week), joint custody (neither of us can make parenting decisions), and an agreement that our family trust would pay for private schooling.
In September of 2022, I started going back to Laos approximately every second month, but increasingly staying in Asia. I considered the parenting plan to be flexible and netotiable and always got approval from mom before traveling.
In approximately April of 2025, mom started trying to renegotiate the divorce settlement, specifically pushing for full custody, child support, and an parenting plan that could never match our actual needs.
In March of 2026, the United States restarted the war with Iran.
Hopefully less vague:
1. Can we agree that LLM is a subset of AI?
2. Can you indicate where I claimed certainty about anything?
3. I think I stated a perspective that others would recognize as opinion. Premises are very different from opinions.
Going back though the entire thread:
1. I am not sure where relevant talent is available, but I expect it is extremely sparse, in demand, potentially even oversubscribed, potentially remote, and potentially compromised in some number of ways. I would love to go back to the 1970's, but no way does anything relevant to physical production happen in California in 2026.
2. I believe that modern fabs are not labor intensive for construction, though operational labor skills seem to be either extremely general (security, facilities) or rare (whitesuit). Fab machinery, management, maintenance, and other considerations may be more indicative of cost and other considerations. Relevant machinery is almost completely unknown to me, but I understand this is the most machinery equipment developed by humankind, though not even remotely comparable to the human brain.
3. There's a comment that touches on something like molecular modeling. Topics like that seem to be where non-LLM domains of AI may be relevant.
Good to be back in college again, writing essays/debate prep like this. As usual, I honestly don't know WTF I'm writing about. I appreciate such interactions. I don't claim knowledge or intellect, I just like to explore definitions, facts, arguments, logic, possibilities, perspectives, theories, etc. It's something like crowdsourced debate that helps us reach optimal conclusions.
