With all the VC money flowing into AI now, I imagine the various quantum computing companies are getting a bit anxious about finding someone to buy them out. And just like the promise 'national crypto reserve', having a grifter running the country with promises out to other grifters who are running low on marks, I imagine they are REALLY hoping for some state funding to cash out with.

There are a few paywalls in the way, but the first few lines of both TFA and its link to WSJ specifically say the companies are engaged in talks with the administration that involve the government taking a stake.

I always thought the CS trade community moved over the web3 and crypto years ago. Seems like a lot of the founders and thought leaders were ex-CS trading people who had gotten banned for one reason or another and wanted to create products that they could never be kicked out of again.

So.. outlook is mostly used to read, write, and schedule. There isn't much room for 'AI' in there unless you are picturing having an 'assistant' that autonomously replies or schedules for you.. which I imagine being novel until it decides to channel /b and emails erotic poetry to one of your customers, then get switch off by IT policy.

Well, in order to build the technology we have today, we needed a well educated affluent workforce. Now that we have it, and the rate of innovation has been slowing while profits are soaring, the people who influence society the most are likely asking, do we still need this dangerous social weapon that we used to get to where we are, but could now be used against us?

Which is not unusual after a big upheaval. Fortunes were made over the last few decades, and the new rich (well, most of them were already rich) probably want a few generations to solidify their hold and make sure no one else is getting ideas about following them.

Heh. At my company, management is pretty open that they do not know what problems AI will actually solve, but that it is really important to be on the cutting edge anyway and are really encouraging people (i.e. dangling career growth and promotions) to figure out how ot use it. So burning lots of cash we can not spare on the hope of finding some corporate killer app that all the other companies have not thought of.. and we are not even a software company.

All depends on if any americans get their cut. Everything this group did had open-secret equivalents in the US, but there americans are making lots of money, and that is seen as a sign of god's favor. Foreigners making money and not cutting americans in, well, that is the work of the devil.

They believe in it, but also know their wealth insulates them from its effects. No price is too high for someone else to pay.

There are a lot of upper class preppers, so yeah, they are expecting things to go to pot but view it as the rest of the world's fault, not theirs.

More worryingly is the overlap between the billionaire tech crowd and accelerationists. It is almost like they are making their economic decisions less based off economics and more on the quiet hope that the big race war will finally start

Which is kinda the point. Training is not the only thing they might be found liable for, so it isn't the only thing making insurance companies nervous.

Kinda sounds like when they say 'politics', they are referring to the DSM not matching their personal beliefs, thus it is inconceivable that professionals came to a differnt conclusion. The whole 'it is the medical field's fault that we do not trust them! kinda gives it away since that is a really popular saying among groups that wan to to discredit scientists and take their own rhetoric as proof of, well, their own rhetoric. Always the victim's fault you had to hurt them...

There are two key points : Diminished theory of mind is a core conservative trait, it is how one starts down the path of that worldview. They can not picture people thinking differently then they do, other groups are just degenerate versions of themselves with the same priorities and objectives. But the other trait, crap, can not recall the name for it right now, but essentially they view the morality of actions based off the actor/target pair, NOT the action.

So they are upset with liberal pedophiles because not only do they want to diddle kids, but they see it as something acceptable for them to do and are mostly pissed that unworthy people might be doing things that are their right.

Ah, but since the US has historical examples of someone being elected for more than 2 terms, that means there is a historical tradition, and SCOTUS has already ruled that historical traditions override the constitution.

I've heard 'traditionalist' parents groups citing 16th century chattel laws for why child protective services should leave them alone, so yeah, would not surprise me.

At this point, I would not be surprised if the supreme court ruled that obama really was a muslim from kenya and thus every judge he appointed was illegitimate.