GolfPopper

>The only thing anyone cares about is whether the (economic)math works on put AI in space.

This is a greater fool market. The only thing anyone cares about is whether they think someone else will believe the math will work out.

I.e. NYT readers prefer their propaganda with a hefty side of snobbery.

Nah. Probably not even RIP cryptocurrency exchanges.

Are you talking about American religious conservatives in power, or Iranian ones?

That was the original meaning, yes.

In casual conversation in America English, it a derogaty term used to mean "poor and lacking in quality of life, freedom, and/or democratic governance."

>It is important work, but we have yet to find an economic model to effectively support it and the people doing the work.

We had an economic model that supported both the people and the work; the current economic model supports neither.

I would submit that this one of a great many reasons why the current economic model is problematic.

You left out one...

The already shaky economic system (and associated political systems) can't take the strain of every man woman and child in the western world devoting a substantial portion of their income (like 5-10%) to LLM fallout, and we end up with a collapse scenario of some sort. (Which, to be clear, is near-certain to be worse than either of the above.)

>best guess is he plans to deflate the currency to make the debt worthless

That might be the best possible intended outcome, but it also seems unlikely that Donald Trump and his government are involved in anything so far-sighted. Just look at the man's public behavior over the last year; either he is an incredible actor, or this is not a government where anyone in power cares about anything beyond the Big Man's whims of the moment and their personal benefit.

"Hate AI"? Not at all.

Hate marketing BS and wealth extraction? Absolutely.

I see OpenAI, Anthropic, etc (the whole LLM-hype/boom) leaning far more towards being the latter than the former, in which context the dislike makes perfect sense.

Even if they are, watch the video I linked. We, as a species, were conducting an average of dozens nuclear detonations on or near the surface annually. And we stopped. IMHO, that ranks right up there with the Montreal Protocol as one of modern civilization's great accomplishments. (Or perhaps I should say late 20th-century civilization's accomplishments. Now there would probably be a huge movement calling for destroying the ozone layer to get more of the amazing ultraviolet.)