it indeed is. i think it has mostly to do with kakistocracy, deeply engrained exceptionalism and the false sense of security from being geographically isolated and having enjoyed a privileged environment and history, but the apparent absence of coherent long term strategic thinking is just astonishing. to me it looks like us elites (and western elites more broadly) are just preparing and securing their own golden boats.

it's ironic and not really surprising that everyone blames this on trump now; he has indeed fucked up in several ways, but this began long before him and his basic intention of dismantling the "rules based order" (which is nothing other than western hegemony, and it's decaying) and promoting a more negotiated approach (however clumsy) does have some merit. his antics and erratic ways aren't helping though. to me the biggest irony however is that it actually shows how little power a president of the united states really has in american politics. his worst enemies are at home, and i don't mean the populace they just screwed with that beautiful bill, they're happy with that, which is probably why he did it.

the irony is that he was an american product too ...

it's not that new. about 40 years ago i did a course on quality assurance, long before the whole "qa" thing exploded in software and we had any proper tools. the introduction was, not surprisingly, "what is quality", and the corolary was "optimal quality is not perfect quality". good enough was the aim from the start, we just might have been lowering the bar a bit.

China's attempts at replication of advanced lithography equipment isn't going super well. So attempts at making cost competitive chips are being replaced with brute force spending that only China would be willing to accept. All to generate AI models for a market that's already over competitive and in a huge bubble. Once the bubble pops maybe China will have a national champion or two left that like the survivors of the .com crash will continue onward, but that's not exactly "eroding a global lead".

same with me and dope, except i don't think i release any photons.

btw, will there be an xxxxxl version? asking for an american friend ...

so you didn't even read to the end of a 3 short paragraph post to make a redundant comment that only shows you cannot read and otherwise doesn't contribute anything? feeling better now?

the game has indeed changed but i would take "professional quality" with a grain of salt in this context. yes, ai is an incredible boost to productivity, and an enabler for people without engineering knowledge, but an app isn't "professional" because of its looks or functionality. it also has to be secure, performant, maintainable, possibly scalable and interoperating.

behind these new careers and any of these geniuses (whose genius i don't dispute for a second) you'll still need a few engineers in the background who actually understand how the stuff works in order for it to last and minimize the risk of it blowing up. for a while at least.

on the flip side, pre ai era apps or even large scale applications made by entire teams of human professionals that have shown to be crap aren't a rarity either, so i'll take my grain of salt with a grain of salt.

what do you mean "until", the chips have been widely tested.

This is great news for China in the long term. They are rapidly catching up in the microprocessor and fab side of things, shit like this just spurs more investment from them and will leave the rest of us out in the cold as they move past us like they did with EV's. These sort of artificial barriers are short term thinking from morons that can't perceive the long term effects.

what you covered in your first post:

is just wrong because, as i just told you (but you didin't read or understand):

- not all of the fines are treated equal, what you describe is actually exceptional and even then often only applies to a part of the amount
- the full amount of this particular fine would be a net monetary gain for the eu

Actually, it's insulting to AI to imply this response would be generated by AI. At the very least it would generate a helpfully generic, slightly off response instead of a this.

my point is that "reasoning" is a very broad definition. we know that many other animals can reason to varying degrees, that there seems to be an evolutionary pattern and that it can exist at very simple levels. yet we still don't know how it really works, so we can't really pinpoint it. the most plausible assumption is that it is a property that emerges from the complexity of neuron interactions, and different complexities exhibit different properties. then, who is to say that a simulation or a statistical model can't exhibit a comparable behavior, specially when perfectly reasoning humans can be easily fooled by the output?

i know you just wanted to crap on "ai", which is fine by me. you just do it poorly by nitpicking at the semantics of words that are actually very clumsily defined, because we don't really know squat about how reasoning works or even what it is. i just wanted to bring that to your attention, funny that you interpret that as dishonesty. i'm compelled to think that you simply cannot reason. :-P

have you looked at the wiring of cells in a human brain and understood how human reasoning actually works? by that reasoning, should we say that human brains can't "really reason" either, because we don't know how it works?

Musk doesn't get a vote so no he did not vote against it and despite all his whining now he only has to look in a mirror to see who is to blame for installing a greedy moron in the WH.

it seems they're afraid. of their own people. wonder why.