True, but line isn’t going down yet.

Well, seems like he learned his lesson. Would have been better if he had learned it before his bad advice got children killed, but at least he learned instead of doubling down.

Fun fact, but you can’t really do much if the police decide to just take your stuff, because they have guns. And likely more than you do.

The problem is that even confirmed abuse does not get prosecuted. Adding more evidence won’t help.

And somebody buying from the scammer could get a legitimate card, thus allowing the scammer to blend in.

What’s that, and why should it be destroyed?

More like a terabyte.

In addition, we haven’t even come up with a definition of intelligence.

Well, we’re still at least one breakthrough away from AGI, and we don’t even know how it will go from there. Could be that humans are already near the maximum of what is possible intelligence wise. As in, the smartest being possible is not that much smarter than the average human. In which case, AGI taking over the world would not be a given.

Essentially, talking about the threat posed by ASI is like talking about the threat posed by Cthulhu.

AI companies are buying up all of the RAM in a futile bit to reach AGI.

Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.

Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.

Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.

In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.

The two party system is baked into the system, without reform, it will persist through all challenges.

Just launch a ton of ball bearings into orbit, and end space flight for ever. Or at least for the forseeable future.

Edit: Bearing balls, actually. Ball bearings is where the bearing balls are. But we want them in orbit.

A shutdown means that the government is insolvent, though. At some point, the funds will run dry without borrowing more. A default would likely send the US and world economy into a recession. Though could be that Trump will just bypass congress to borrow more money anyway.

They’re the ones selling shovels in this gold rush, though.

Well, I hope he enjoys burning 🔥 in hell.

What if we’re not smart enough to build something like that?