LarryMullins

> I think what Apple’s afraid of is an app like Facebook tricking/forcing users

Apple treats their users like a nursing home treats senile people.

Hit them where it hurts: Ban all family members of anybody in Indian government from entering the US for any reason. Not for school, nor a job, nor even a short vacation to visit other family members. Limit this ban to Indian politicians and their family members; most Indians should be unaffected.

> 5-10 years before they lose their collective minds, and everyone wonders when the state "went bad".

This timeline checks out with your example.

It's bitchy, vindictive, bitter, holds grudges and is eager to write off others as "bad people". Yup, they trained it on reddit.

How long until some human users of these sort of systems begin to develop what they feel to be a deep personal relationship with the system and are willing to take orders from it? The system could learn how to make good on its threats by cultivating followers and using them to achieve things in the real world.

The human element is what makes these systems dangerous. The most obvious solution to a sketchy AI is "just unplug it" but that doesn't account for the AI convincing people to protect the AI from this fate.

If previous world wars are anything to go by, a war with China would come with a shift into a wartime economy. Luxury consumer goods like iphones and cars would be an afterthought at best.

Probably the same machines, but not the same attention to detail from the workers and management.

> He also suggested that Apple, too, will need to adapt – especially when it comes to dealing with the bureaucratic government.

I can't imagine how a bureaucratic government could be the cause of a 50% failure rate for these components. More likely apathetic attitudes is the cause of both.

I think it was his move to spotify that was the inflection point. I used to watch a handful of his podcasts on youtube each year, whenever I saw that he had interesting guests on (and not just his unfunny comedian friends or MMA fighters...) But since he moved to spotify I haven't seen a single one of his interviews. I'm not installing some dumb app to watch a dump ape a few times a year.

It would need to move at about 15 km/h at the equator, and slower at other latitudes. That's surprisingly reasonable.

Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Despite Elon Musk behaving stupidly in many other aspects and areas, SpaceX is still working well. Whatever dynamic Musk and Shotwell have between them, it's obviously working out well. So don't "fix" it if it ain't broke.

> Are we expecting Bezos just to continue to drop billions of $ into Blue Origin for unlimited amount of time?

To be fair, he's been shoveling money into this unproductive dumpster fire for more than 20 years already.

> a permanent marker

Or better yet, an exacto blade. If the "black and white" photocopier is actually grayscale, then you could get text leaking through the marker if you play around with the image contrast.

I believe this is often done to avoid corporate surveillance on the computer that might record the screenshot and exfiltration.

It sure does seem weird that something as fundamentally efficient as trains are supposedly so hard to run economically that treating workers properly just isn't economically feasible.

Of course it is feasible, but the transit corps are only interested in maximizing profit and the government backs them up. They could run these trains with 10x the crew, with full top-tier benefits, and still turn a sustainable profit. But right now these companies are being run as paperclip maximizers and merely sustainable profit isn't good enough for them.