Most of your thoughts are right.

But China is not going to attack anyone.

And: China is a better working democracy than the US 2 party system.

It is a bit more complicated. As the "feed" is for every user unique.

That's a feature, not a bug. They want to end general-purpose home computing and rent computer time to us instead (if our social credit score is high enough)

Starting to think I should buy another DGX Spark while they're still cheaper than a new car.

Indeed. And a few that are not offenders at all and against quite a few misidentified people since this tech is _unreliable_.

In some jurisdictions, it is not even classified as an attack.

The problem is a practical one. As soon as you restrict voting, some assholes will use that for their own purposes. If that effect could be prevented, voting could be restricted to those that actually understand what they are voting for or against and democracy would work much, much better.

As a CS PhD? I do not even thing that is possible without a major mental breakdown. I think you are hallucinating.

I was just stating the obvious to complete the argument.

If you talk to people who know what they're talking about, it turns out the cost is very similar. As for light delay, it's a few milliseconds; if users can connect directly to the satellites it may be faster than communicating with a data centre on the other side of the US.

Hmmm. Looks like I installed Adblock Plus on Vivaldi so long ago that I did not remember. My apologies.

The cost ends up being similar assuming mass production of satellites and realistic future launch costs, and you can "just do it" rather than have to waste years fighting through bureaucracy to build them on Earth.

Just as regulation pushed chip manufacturing out of the US, it's now pushing "AI" data centres out. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, but it's clearly a thing.

The main problem they have is that their monopoly is not actually one. That it is all made up.

The amount of queries needed to steal a model (which is possible though queries) is prohibitive. This is probably just an attempt to keep up the fantasy that China cannot do their own models. That is nonsense. For example, small Switzerland has created its own open model (https://apertus-ai.org/), mostly as an academic project. China for sure can do it. All I see China doing is comparative benchmarks and such and that is perfectly legitimate.

If China can do it, that means the likes of Anthropic are not nearly as special as they present themselves to be. But that false image of superiority is what keeps their cash-flow going, because they are still very far away from becoming profitable (if they ever do). Hence, in order to be able to keep burning the stupid money (from "investors"), they have to push this narrative.

Add cosmic particles that kill small-structure electronics fast.

I think this idea is used to push the stock-price.

I think it is primarily a drug-fueled hallucination of Musk and an attempt to pump the stock price. The actual experts there must know this will not work.