"This is Peak Stupidity."

No, peak stupidity will be requiring it or your health insurance will go up 30%.

Incidentally, my old employer did exactly this. Required annual blood tests or your rates went up. They used the data to promote the "health" of their work force, not for your benefit. What a piece of shit company they were. National Instruments for those interested.

It's not an outflow of wealth, it's an upflow of wealth. Wealth is not a zero sum game, wealth is generated. China may generate a lot but it doesn't have to take it from the US to do so. The problem in the US is the billionaire class, not China.

"By the time voters figure it out, it will be too late. "

By the time you figure it out...

"I think you're beginning to understand taxes now. Good job."

But you are not.

Come on, no idea? And cleverly executed? Even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut. And it's lies anyway, you think China isn't getting Nvidia hardware?

"...and called it a mistake not to have them build AI on American technology."

Why? In what way does "America" lose out because of this alleged mistake? nVidia may lose out, but not the US. Does not affect me in the slightest.

My oldest was born in 1999 and the hospital sent us home with a list of foods that we shouldn't introduce to our children until they were three years old. I remember this because both peanut butter and honey were on the list, and one of my favorite foods is peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I have six kids, and I got in trouble quite a bit over the years because I gave my infants bits of my sandwiches.

What can I say, they liked them...

It's a bit funny to me that I was actually right about that particular call. Most of the times that my wife and I disagreed about something I was definitely the one that was wrong.

Most new parents don't know anything about raising children, and even the worst parents are pretty motivated to do a good job. New mothers, in particular, are desperate for solid advice on what to do with their new child. My wife isn't keen on reading the instructions for any purchase that she makes ever. No matter what it is that she buys I am the one that has to read the instructions and teach her how the thing works. That was true with our children as well. However, she made me read every pamphlet that the hospital sent home with us when our babies were born dozens of times over. If she thought I was interpreting them incorrectly she would wait a bit, cross examine me again, and force me to show references. If one of those pamphlets would have said that the best way to insure that the child grew up healthy and strong would be to murder the father and sprinkle his blood over the baby by the light of a full moon then I probably wouldn't have survived the first full moon after my daughter was born.

Someone in the medical community decided that the best way to protect children was to keep them away from certain allergens, and they put that opinion into the pamphlets that get given out to new parents. I am sure that the people that came up with that strategy meant well, but in they theory was proven incorrect.

Who said it's a con? I'm fine with building nuclear. And with coming up with sequestering. Let's go.

I'm just against emoting, preening, and political exploitation.

I invented the Bresenham line algorithm, a while later I learned I was not the first. I'm sure that's been replayed a million times.

Gallo discovered HTLV-3, the virus that causes AIDS. He discovered it by stealing the virus from French researchers who isolated it first and made it available in good faith. So, you know, the details are important. Here, promoters of AI made claims that are utterly untrue, it would be interesting to know if they made these errors out of deceit or ignorance.

"... GPT claims are not "embarrassing", except perhaps to competitors."

Yes they are, the claims were utterly false.

my thoughts exactly, and also proof that GPT-5 may actually be more intelligent that the a-holes that created it and promote it.

... humans part of the environment?

Other animals change their environment too, you know.

Virtually all websites are cookie cutter now.

There are benefits from that, of course - you know where the menu will be, the search box (if any), etc. But at least there was some creativity when we had mystery meat navigation.

Life is full of tradeoffs I guess ...

Then you would be wrong. Probably best to recuse yourself from weighing in on this dicsussion.

"I can also download some JavaScript through that same pipe and execute it locally. But it should never be more than an extension of that page."

What's a page?

"But it should have no ability to open its own connections and negotiate its own encryption with third parties. It should have no concept of the outside network beyond the server from which it came."

That would work great with websockets. Won't be asking you for architectural advice.