I'd ask how he has a professorship, but then arguing philosophy at all is pointless. If it looks and sounds and acts exactly like a duck down to the smallest detail, then it is no more nor less than a duck, whatever driveling nonsense "philosophers" and those that take them seriously may argue otherwise.

"Consciousness", pheh, may as well start arguing about shadows on a cave wall.

Firing half your programmers and claiming AI is replacing them to pump your stock price is going perfectly!

Lithium being "rare" is a myth, that stuff is everywhere and earth has enough to last centuries even without recycling, it just tends to bind to a lot so it's hard to purify in many forms. But like with decades of oil drilling practice making oil incredibly cheap, years of engineering lithium refining already have, and will continue to, make lithium cheaper and cheaper. Which is good as it's the lightest metal there is, and as lithium batteries are already pretty heavy for cars trying to replace lithium with an atomically heavier metal feels like a long term dead end driven by temporary economic difficulties rather than long term fundamental physics.

-or, whatever."

-AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage to my stock price." - there you got Jensen, fixed your ego pump statement. But I'm sure your tiny little ego will deflate and need to be pumped up again in seconds regardless, just like all silicon valley tech bros.

Who in the god damned hell trusted random shit they saw online in the first place? I could be a Bolivian pig trained to type out internet comments for food, you don't know.

"Let them fight."

and a nasty sprinkling of hail, aka frozen balls for DonaldTrumpIsInTheEpsteinFiles.

"Welcome Worker of Google! You may have heard of other corporations such as "Claude" and rumors of their successful invasion of the Google territory formerly known as "Thailand". But rest assured, "Thailand" has always belonged to Claude; you are perfectly safe from deprivations such as war, famine, and digital zombie plague. Claude and Google have always been at peace. Now loyal worker, prepare your drone invasion supervisor score for our super secret announcement that will not, but totally could, involve the dastardly "Microsoft" and a liberation of the territory known as "The North American Midwest"."

The future, once every corporation turns off the ability to opt out of "AI mode"

-Please pretend it is" Microsoft CEO

And yet the "buy the dip!" investors shall continue to flounce shortsellers, only when there's no money left to "buy the dip" at all, not even via debt, will the freefall start.

Giant TVs are cheap relative to the average high income country, why pay $11 USD to see a movie with a bunch of other people, outside having a bunch of kids you need to distract for an hour and a half (the big theater hits were mostly kids movies this year), when you can get the same experience in the convenience of your own house for cheaper?

If movie theaters want to survive they need to do what they did back when TV was first invented, offer an experience you can't get in your home. Back then TV pushed movies to go wide screen and "big", offering an obvious difference to the small little square screen in your home, and it worked for decades until technology caught up. Some new technology, like holographic movies or some similar cool thing, that you could get in a theater but not at home (for a while) would need to be ginned up for movie theaters to survive. A reason, in short, to go all the way to a theater and spend that $11 per person needs to appear.

I'll ensure at least a dozen John Connors are born and trained since childhood in the art of leading an anti machine war effort as a backup.

Hearing about AI bringing down the global economy, or driving people to psychotic breaks, or committing mass copyright infringement is all well and good. But hearing about some vaguely delusional losers AI powered revelation is lame as fuck and should be banned as a story

-and yet you still don't have the actual cash you fascisti, and shareholders don't want your overvalued Oracle stock. Capitalism vs fascism, what a fascinating fight.