I did not!

says ftl isn't a thing and the answer to Fermi's paradox is that everyone is out there but too far away to hear.

Alienz! would imply necessarily that there is quite a bit about the way of things that we don't even know that we don't know.

Possibly it is discoverable in the foreseeable future or just as possibly it requires an inordinate amount of dumb luck to stumble on the conditions of time and place in space where such a discovery (if it even exists) is possible.

Whole lot of very big ifs. Not a whole lot of reason to just believe the way one might just believe that a better chatbot is just around the corner or a vaccine for the common cold is sitting in a test tube somewhere just waiting to be tested and commercialized.

The latter extrapolates within the known unknowns. The former is predicated on the existence of specific unknown unknowns.

The first computers were leaps and bounds above the state of the art at the time of their introduction. The state of the art being pencil and paper, (manually calculated) log and trig tables, and maybe a sliderule.

Electric airplanes today are leaps and bounds worse in cost, range, payload capacity than what you could buy commercially almost a century ago.

And some pretty fundamental chemistry principles strongly imply it's gonna stay that way. One of those principles being that burning fuel sheds mass through the flight but battery mass stays constant. Another being that oxidizer is for free in the air if you're burning fuel but you have to bring your own if you're discharging a battery. Other dead weight costs go either way depending on technology and scale but the first two are kinda big ones.

Get a pen knife and an amazon box and go to town.

No one said the bike had to be rideable.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you rephrase that as a four hundred millisecond video, vertical format, poorly lit, and shaky?

Why wear clothes at all?

It costs next to nothing to bring on a new customer since there's no widget to make and ship.

Growing marketshare is *the* priority. Give it away for free. Pay people to use it if you must.

Then once they're hooked, start charging licensing fees. Just a little. More for bigger customers. Maybe keep a free tier for personal use. A little times a huge userbase is enormous cashflow for a little bit of nre.

It's great cuz the customer supplies his own platform, pays for training his own people, and even pays for the electricity to run your product on premises.

Now about this building full of expensive and power-hungry silicon needed to deliver the ai hotness...

Because he's a communist. He never saw a business or asset he didn't want to pocket "for the people."

If I ran any kind of business, I'd have my money in various kinds of places that balanced risk, return, and liquidity against my perceived need for keeping the lights on, paying vendors, and and anticipated revenue. Same as everyone.

I wouldn't operate like I had a fountain of money nor do I believe I would be perceived as having one.

Hospitals don't have a fountain of money. They purchase malpractice insurance on behalf of their providers and the premiums for that insurance pay for these jury awards.

Insurance companies don't print their own money either. They redistribute the costs of these payouts over their risk pool. And those premium hikes is one of several reasons why your emergency room visit costs 10k if you had to pay for it out of pocket.

The other reason it costs 10k is that enough of these lawsuits and jury awards have forced hospitals into doing medically unnecessary (but expensive) tests for everyone, rather than coming up with some kind of cost-conscious criteria, to cover their bases and their asses so they don't get sued.

Say it with me now: tort reform. The lawyers don't like it, which is how you can tell it's a good idea.

But why is the traffic so bad and why does stuff cost so much?

Yes, and in general it's just a lot easier when the whole world, including your would-be adversaries, use technical standards, software, and electronics that your own private sector sells to them.

A corollary is that it's less easy when your would-be adversary makes moves to undercut your industry and/or try to assert their own dominance in any such domain. One might even read it as a strategic prelude to conflict.

Clear nonsense for many reasons for anyone in the business and anyone who knows how computers and/or business works, even if they're not turning redbulls into vibecoded goodness themselves.

Politicians?

Theologians?

Landscapers?

Who's the indented recipient of this propaganda?

I know, right? I had all my money on voodoo and child sacrifice, but damned if mathematics isn't uncannily useful.

Naw just use the RightwingNutjobPhone. It's totally secure. I came up with the otp myself by rolling a fair die with my own hands. It was such a perfect source of entropy I just had to hardcode it into my system...