Mention of Microsoft Works? So there *was* another user.

I would add that there are levels such as concentrated wealth above and outside nation states and benefiting from swarm theory on aligned interests without explicit cooperation, but what would that have to do with whether "AI" is useful at identifying code defects...

> it's unlikely what you're reading hasn't been gamed to suit a particular company

Or politician, or political party, or other group of people whose interests generally don't match mine. I completely agree; this has been my assumption from the start, and certainly borne out by evidence over time. Unfortunately, most consumers are not very media-savvy, and advertisement systems are increasingly deceptive. Shaping audience perspectives must be one of the primary purposes of any vendor in the LLM space, which would have a direct result on revenue and profitability.

In the end, the US government may be the largest AI customer.

Do they allow ads for Gemini and others? Because, on top of ads in the first place, that could cause a significant customer loss.

I get your point, but would also point out that law and order are separate. Additionally, both seem less relevant under the Trump administration. Courts can only resolve issues after they have occurred, whether or not those incidents involve law enforcement personnel. In other words, some aspects of outcomes may be enforced by courts applying laws, but actions will not always conform with those laws.

Fuck I hate slashdot sometimes. I honestly posted a personal note to my teenage boys that I drafted in the same Write window as my fucking post response. I don't think I can remove that.

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.

It's trolls all the way down. Sorry, that is an attempt at humor, but I've reached my limit on this thread.

Man people on this site have challenges making relevant and logical and arguments. Sometimes it's startling.

I'm trying to find in what phrase of mine you read certainty, but unable to find such.

I have no idea whether they can or cannot, but they want to do so, and they seem capable of achieving many goals. I wouldn't be surprised either way, but I would try to be prepared. That's why I wrote "potential opportunity".

Has there been an "unfortunate smelting incident?"

I wonder how stand your ground laws would fare against armed masked Trump Gestapo that don't show warrants or identification, especially compounded by the race of the homeowner and the agents.

The humanoid robots will travel through the hyperloop in self-driving cars to transport nanorobots to the picochip terafactory on Mars.