Imagine a company selling devices to billions of people and then using local laws to stop them from using those devices how they want.

Apple is a scummy company with no regard for capitalist rules of competition. They are just butthurt their homegrown strategies of buying politicians isn't working overseas.

The speculation is necessary to increase the market cap so that the remaining amount in circulation is valuable enough to make transactions.

They were offered significantly higher salaries. And Ford was forced to poach from some of their suppliers, so they also caused a brain drain at the companies they most rely on.

If you can't block Chinese use of your tool, then how the fuck do expect the government to do it?

No, you just don't want your company associated with being anti-Chinese, cause you want that sweet Chinese money when our markets get reconnected.

Now in addition to rising token utilization driving costs through the roof, there will be a Trump bribe you have to pay for to access a frontier model.

It's 2352 CE. Influence, rhinovirus, and coronavirus have all become things of the last. No one gets colds or flu anymore.

Then an archaeological team digs up an old corpse with the common cold.

Within a year, there are 18 billion dead.

"suggesting external input not self generate"

What it actually is suggesting is similar cognitive and sensory structures in the human mind.

Lots of substances can be used to instill a feeling of dread. This does not imply there is some external dreadful presence. It implies that dread is chemically triggered in the brain.

I believe I speak for all psychonauts when I say, "take my money"

If only. The markets can remain irrational far longer than you might think.

Wikipedia is far more reliable and unbiased than a typical search results page. Your crazy politics are glaringly obvious.

Science is intrinsically progressive and anti-conservative. It is used to develop new knowledge that overturns existing knowledge. Inasmuch as progressive=left and conservative=right, truth has a left leaning bias. That said, left does not always equal progressive and right doesn't always equal conservative.

Sure, I just don't think his windfall is based on an IPO. He's got it setup so he gets paid regardless what happens to OpenAI.

Anthropic: Our product is leaps ahead. We provide the best tools.

Government: stop selling your tools. They are too good.

Anthropic: our tools are not better than anyone else's. I don't even know why you guys use our stuff.

I know very well how to code, and that's why the AI isn't useful.

If I need to document how something works, the clearest, most succinct way to describe it is often with code. Using natural language to try to specify things is a step backwards.

I think the sooner people realize/admit LLMs are not AI and have little to do with AI, the better we'll all be.

LLMs are stochastic token generators. While machine learning might be used to train them, the LLMs do not actually perform anything related to AI. Claiming LLMs are AI powered is like claiming my car is AI powered because machine learning was used when designing for air flow.