This solves a lot of problems:

- Since AI can't be copyrighted, its later use shouldn't be prohibited. You can use the results of the AI you paid for, for whatever, including distillation. Trademark law still applies, ToS against abuse still applies, there's just no preventing people from taking it and using it for something competing.
- Distillation makes open weights more powerful, competing with the frontier labs.
- The frontier labs thus won't make as much money, which means building thousands of datacenters. So we stop the onslaught of datacenter building.
- Less power concentrated in a single company's hands, which means we have more legal and political control over AI.
- We gain the benefits of the competition of open weight and other AI companies that distill. Competition reduces cost, increases efficiency, increases consumer choice.

The question is, can a company legally restrict people from using the *result* of a given product, for use in some other product? Since the output of AI is not copyrightable, my not-a-laywer opinion is, you can't restrict its use.

We still have nukes so we're mostly fine on safety.

The bigger issue is batteries. No matter who's making the car, if it's battery powered, China controls it. If we don't advance our own battery manufacturing then we will remain a stone age backwater.

Their big complaint is our cars suck and are too expensive. Subsidizing isn't why theirs are cheaper. They're just more advanced at manufacturing than anyone else in the world. They're just better.

They want to force us to buy crappier cars. And as a result, force us to pay more money and deal with more problems. Which means they won't have to compete anymore and our cars will get worse.

This is why protectionism is always a bad idea and competition is a good thing. It forces companies to get better. The same way Chinese companies had to get better.

No liberal 15 years ago was saying they wish London was more white.

They might be funding his foundation, but the money goes into his pocket to build his Linux distribution. He will be using this platform to push his racist views, the way the has for years through Ruby and his companies. And the other 1Password founder is pretending he's not even racist.

I can't financially support 1Password knowing my money is also funding racism. Time to find a new password manager.

I assume the rename was intended to troll Canadians? Oh man they must be super pissed. What a huge inconvenience for them... How will they ever find their way, assuming they wanted to cross the border?

"...or the worst source of injustice"

Or both? Like most of modern society's advancements? We have both air conditioning and laser-guided missiles. We have the most food in history and a lot of starving people worldwide. The car both unlocks people's ability to do more, and poisons them/the environment. It's not either/or, it's tradeoffs.

"As the models become more powerful, they could begin to act against our interests and we could lose control"

This will never happen, and the proof is Bill's own words. He is already acting to keep control. Humans don't just sit back and let themselves get steamrolled, they act to put things in place that protects them and retains their own power and control. The machines will never pull a fast one on us because we're already too paranoid and power-crazy.

"In his essay, Gates proposed taxing AI or robots the way you would pay a human employee's payroll tax in order to slow the shift away from using human labor."

This is like putting a tax on the Cotton Gin. What would be the point? To artificially raise the price of goods and services? The whole point of technology is to ELIMINATE HUMAN LABOR. It's the reason we have computers to begin with.

Cramer's picks are so bad that he is more often wrong than right. A study (https://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus/) (https://www.danerwealth.com/blog/the-terrible-track-record-of-wall-street-forecasts) showed that he was accurate only 47% of the time, or worse than a coin flip.

If Cramer says to dump AI, that means you should buy AI.

10 million people within spitting distance of America who now have a *renewed* reason for revenge. This administration is filled with geniuses.

It's gonna be directed by Shawn Levy, who makes pablum for the masses, so it'll be exactly like the Grogu movie. Making a buck with predictable crap and stretching the IP

> and cost nearly nothing to produce

> budget of $10M

Hollywood is seriously fucked in the head

Pretty sad. Time to see a therapist to deal with your anger issues

Adding more people to a software team does not make the team move faster, nor does it allow you to ship better software faster. This has been well-known for about five decades.

Whether you use small teams and switch to big teams, or use big teams and switch to small teams, the output will be shit if the people coordinating the work and the people doing the work aren't good at their jobs.

You can't take young inexperienced people and make their output smarter just because you have lots of them.

The biggest barriers to productivity in any corporation are organization, communication, and agency. Road blocks are death by a thousand cuts.

All of this means that just changing team size will make no difference whatsoever by itself.

Ransomware attacks are only possible if you have no backup of your data or infrastructure. They depend entirely on the idea that the attacker can steal all of your data, delete it all from your servers, and you have no way to get it back.

This should never be possible for any responsible business. Yet this happens to organizations all the time, and it seems like there's no punishment for this at all, or recourse for people affected by it.

We need to make a software building code that enforces doing the right thing for all online businesses. It would be the same as the building code, electrical code, and fire code that we require businesses comply to for the safety of the people at those businesses and their customers.

AI is only going to make these attacks happen more frequently. We must have a legal regulation that forces businesses to do what they should have been doing already.

If talking to a robot that seems human is the measure of consciousness then computers we had 30 years ago were conscious.

Anthropic actually hires philosophers, scientists, etc who are experts on consciousness, and even THEY don't know if it's conscious. It's a stupid idea anyway. It's like trying to measure when you're dead; there is no one indicator of it.