Does anyone actually use these browsers or is it just a ploy to soak up VC dollars?

Yeah, my Musk sycophant friend says the same whenever I express skepticism about Elon's endeavors or character. Which is funny since I rarely read Electik and my arguments aren't from there.

If you climb a mountain and see the sunrise from the summit, you feel like a champ. Because you've done something hard. Now what if the park service builds a road up the other side and you finish your climb only to find the top crowded with tourist buses? Well now you feel like a chump... a superior chump maybe, but the sense of satisfaction you got from summiting will be gone.

That's all really complicated... just confiscate their toys and bar them from using smartphones and social media for one year. Maybe throw in a few hours of community service.

Done. Problem solved. They'll grow up to be well-adjusted, or at least well-adjusted enough not to robo-rape girls.

Musk is a brand, which like any brand needs periodic marketing to maintain mindshare and relevancy. The value of his companies' shares hinges on fanbois' belief in the brand ~ e.g., the perception that Musk is building a sci-fi future. Musk knows he must do stunts like this periodically to stoke the faithful.

I hope you're a rusbot because if not it's truly sad that a human being would choose to live in such a complete state of bitterness and spite. Show yourself some kindness man.... there's a big wide world out there full of new experiences and opportunities.

What's the price going to be tomorrow, after Big AI gets a government moat?

Fascist states tend to become highly obsessed with vitality and manhood. But wars haven't been won on muscle and bravado for a long time... things like logistics, intelligence, and combined arms are way more important.

Of course, fighting a religion or ideology is another matter. The military can only set you back there. You're better off using cultural weapons (good will, propaganda, trade/wealth, etc).

No kidding... gee, I wonder how they know quasi-monopolistic consortiums "will have leverage to demand higher retransmission fees"? Where could they have seen that play out before? Oh right, that's their own usiness plan.

This. Fox News did the same to engineer doubt about the 2020 election. Always be suspicious of the framing of "a growing number of people think...".

Yeah, got to generate a steady stream of promising headlines to prop up the stock price while each new traunch of SPCX shares gets dumped on the bagholders^h^h^h^h^h^h retail investor.

In a worse case scenario, AI superintelligence would be like giving hostile genius aliens root access to most every computer in the world. In a relatively "happy" scenario, white collar work is nearly eliminated in 1 or 2 decades and the billionaires hide in their bunkers while everyone else is just expected to rot. It can get a lot worse than Iran having nukes (which would be concerning for Israel and the Saudis).

Don't be naive, this is just the foot in the door. And it requires you to have a relationship with Google or Apple, which itself is not anonymous.

This is kind of like saying that car wrecks wouldn't happen if we had training and standards that excluded 95% of drivers... You're right in that it would greatly reduce the number of fatalities, but people are still people and it wouldn't eliminate them (see the recent Prime Air runway excursion for an example). You'd also lose the benefit of all those other drivers being able to get to where they want to go... American society would have to completely restructure itself.

It's simply bad engineering to pick a fundamentally unsafe tool over a safe one that will do the job just as well. Computer verifiable checks strictly beat depending on a human to follow best practices. Talent is multidimensional and reducing the job requirements for any one dimension means you hire candidates that are better in other important aspects. Engineering must consider technical realities, human nature, and market efficiencies.

Not sure how much it applies to VR, but as a point of comparison, VHF dominates drone racing because it has super low latency (15ms). Racers put up with it despite the crap quality, despite DJI and walksnail offering systems with 20-40 ms latency. Maybe DJI race mode (15ms) is changing that.

To somewhat discount this perspective: latency isn't the only benefit of analog... factors such as interference and penetration also come into play, as does price. But still, at 60 MPH, every 10ms is almost a yard of extra distance before the drone responds.