it's just a pipeline for techno-oligarchs

I think a thing people overlook here is that it does, actually, have complicated enterprise features, in an uncomplicated way. Chromebooks, and the Googlebook which is a direct successor, and even Android phones, are intended to be managed centrally using whatever-they-call-Google-Apps-these-days (Google Workspace? Not sure.) The fact everything's web based makes it, theoretically, much easier for system administrators - Active Directory configures a lot, but admins still have to set up either complicated start up scripts, or go to people's PCs to install software. Google Apps just means enabling OAUTH apps. Presumable this has integrations with the Play Store too.

The idea is essentially most organizations can give most of their employees Google/Chrome Books to work on. A small minority, smaller by the minute given Crostini et al, will not be able to use it, but they are easier to manage individually, and they can still run Chrome to access the applications everyone else uses.

The Chromebook model, of which this is a successor, is entirely about what organizations want. More so than Windows and Active Directory. Ask an average system administrator and they'll reluctantly, because they generally like open computers on a personal level, say they prefer managing a network of Chromebooks. Less headaches. Less fixing people's computers. Less having to use other people's computers. Easy recovery from laptops not working. No viruses. etc.

Maybe the version that isn't Gemini enhanced will be more popular, but I gather they're pricing that at $1,798.

It's not super intelligence because it currently has tremendous blind spots. But so do people, just different ones. I *think* that blind spots are a necessary feature of the compression used to take a huge volume of signal and compress it into something that will fit into storage.

OTOH, note that the "blind spots" are only "relatively blind". And can be worked around. Actual human 6D geometricians exist, but they approach it via symbolization. (Actually, they are really n-dimensional geometricians, but some specialize on problems in 6 dimensions.) But an AI could presumably be designed to work natively in 6 dimensions (or any specified number), however for most problems this would not be an advantage, but rather the contrary.

Note that human thinking is basically either planar or linear. To handle 3-space we use various short-cuts than enable dimensional reduction. (Unless you are counting time as one of the dimensions...then it get more complex.) Compare the way you play 3-d tic-tac-toe toe the way you play 2-d tic-tac-toe. That's not really fair as the 3-d one is inherently more complex, but it give you an idea.)

The electoral college was necessary to get the states to agree to join under a single government. It wasn't, exactly, corruption. And it wasn't argued that it was "for democracy". States were where the power was at the time. Even in the 1860's many people were more loyal to their state than to the federal government.

And I think the direct election of Senators was a mistake. Democracy when actually practiced routinely tramples on the rights of minorities.

Unless you give sources, I'm going to assume you are stating your opinions rather than facts. ISTM that I've heard of a few "vibe coded" successes, though I'll admit I wasn't interested enough to either document or remember them. And lack of marketing is a sufficient explanation.

No. But I'm sure they expect there not to be many jobs in computer programming when an AI can do it cheaper than they can. And that's what's being advertised. And entry level jobs are already down.

"a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming"

How is this not an indictment on America's ability not to raise incredibly dumb voters? I mean .. c'mon dude. This has to change. I dunno how America, but it's getting hilarious.

"We need to call it Super Intelligence!" Trump demanded, waggling a finger at an iPod.

Lol, this is the president some people are willing to tolerate for a party that promises you'll have lower taxes (while only giving them to the upper class) and less thinking about trans people or something. Communism! Boo! It's quite astounding.

To be fair, the Roadrunner cartoons were pretty much all the same, with differing details. Retreads aren't necessarily bad. Formulas exist because they work.

I just don't like the things I've seen in the last 40 years. (OTOH, I didn't like the movie version of "The Wizard of Oz" when I was a kid...I much preferred the book version.)

It's actually very funny. There's a reason word of mouth has been doing the heavy lifting for this.

"No, I grew up in the 80s watching the roadrunner"

The connotation that the roadrunner in the 80s was original is hilarious.