BLAH BLAH BLAH.

The point I was trying to make is that the money isn't slowing down YET.

Investments are INCREASING, not decreasing. Will that day come? Probably. But it's not today

Oh please, regale us with your vast knowledge on the subject...

Worldwide investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to skyrocket to $2.52 trillion in 2026, representing a 44% increase over 2025 levels.

The top five U.S. cloud and AI infrastructure providers (Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle) are expected to spend over $700 billion on AI-related capital expenditure in 2026.

The EU has unveiled a €200 billion AI Action Plan, while Japan has allocated ¥1 trillion annually for AI development.

This high spending is expected to continue, with total AI spending projected to surpass $3.3 trillion in 2027.

You know fuck-all.

Sure. Just a reminder, back in the old days, before the NLRB forced owners and unions to negotiate in good faith... Factories and warehouses burned to the ground during labor disputes, people were beaten and killed.

Desperate people do desperate things when they feel they have nothing left to lose.

None of it is for this war. It is in addition to the special appropriation he has requested to pay for this war. The 1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS is for the next war(s) that he is planning to drag us into.

200 Billion?! that's nothing...

Trump has requested a 1.5 TRILLION dollar War (Defense) Department budget for 2027. That is a 500 BILLION increase over the 1 TRILLION dollar Defense Department budget he requested for 2026.

He has proposed a 10% reduction in domestic services budgets (Veterans, Medicare, Housing, Infrastructure, Parks, etc.) -amounting to 73 BILLION dollars to go along with it.

"It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis," the president said, adding that the focus should be on "military protection".

You can watch actual live streams of cabinet meetings. It is just a bunch of people going around the table kissing his ass. No one providing any real advice or information. It is a performance.

Right + Authoritarian = Fascist, aka forced inequality (Class/Wealth/Race/PickYourFavorite)

Left + Authoritarian = Communist, aka forced equality (although as Orwell pointed out, in practice there always some more equal than others)

"legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems."

They can claim that it is legally distinct, but until they win the lawsuit and appeals to set a legal precedent -it is not safe to make the assumption.

I feel that way as well, but the evidence is that for the general population it is not true.

Quantity vs Quality.

All of your points are true, but they are arguments of quantity over quality. You have more books, you can write faster, etc.

Especially at an early age, students benefit from an emphasis on quality over quantity. Real books, with subjects read slowly and studied in depth. Thoughtful consideration before putting pen to paper. Taking physical notes. (I absolutely hated taking notes in class but it has a documented relationship to remembering the information.) etc.

Introducing computer-aided learning tools such as word-processors and e-books and tablets and search engines is important as it allows faster processing of more detailed and up-to-date information, but the basics need to be developed first. Speed running the educational system does not improve learning.

TLDR: physical books and handwriting good to start with, add electronics in higher grades.

*BUZZ*

Clean-room design requires that the new model be built from a description of the original by someone with no exposure to the original. You can't look at the code and rewrite it and call it a clean room recreation. Typically it requires separate teams: one to examine the original and document what it does (but NOT HOW), and a second team to build a new model from those specifications.

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Umm... you missed the premise:

the clones are actually alive and not "brainless".

If you are down with this, the CCP already practice it with Uyghur donors. Pay your money, and someone will "donate" whatever organs you need.

It's not a problem when you are a senior-superstar. In fact, it is great not having juniors around slowing you down by asking questions and making mistakes.

But I certainly learned a lot as a junior-assistant-nobody working with some of the great minds of our time. I was part of the teams that invented some of the core tech we rely on in daily life -although my role was barely above coffee-fetcher at the time.

The deal wasn't just with the US and Iran. Iran only officially killed the deal with the other signatories in 2025. So that would put Iran openly violating the treaty years ahead of rescinding it.