maurycyz

The raw materials are cheap: It's mostly just quartz, which is the most abundant mineral on earth.

The problem is actually making chips. The machines use to make modern integrated circuits are some of the most precise equipment in the world, manufacturing structures just tens of atoms across.

Getting more factories online might take close to a decade, and that's if anyone wants to pay: The current demand showed up basically overnight as some of the companies (running of investor money with no way to make profit) started a bidding war. Betting billions of dollars on them still being around in 5-10 years is just not a wise decision.

Most people want to avoid looking like AI, ut what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising.

I present ⸻ the U+2E3B dash.

Very predictable: If Facebook (or any other social media site) showed you what you wanted to see --- stuff from your friends --- you would be satisfied and leave.

... but Facebook makes money off ads. They don't want you leaving. They want you to stay online all day.

Instead, they show you brainrot: content interesting enough to keep you on the site, but shallow enough that you are always thirsty for more. However, making this content is still a lot of work, and isn't what most people want to do: It takes a lot of brainrot to keep you trapped 24/7.

Slop requires no effort, costs next to nothing, and fills the "brainrot" niche perfectly. Facebook doesn't care that people are posting bot content, because it's the perfect thing to make them money.

This. A physical safe provides something that you can't do digitally: It's hard, but not impossible to get in without credentials.

On the internet, it's either: Public for anyone in the whole world, or impossible to recover if anything goes wrong.

I doubt that's going to be much of a problem: As long as the average power is within rated limits. It takes time for coils to heat up and cool down: The worst thing you can do for speakers is to play loud music on a hot day. (Music also has a high dynamic-range which maximizes mechanical loads)

Inductive kick won't be an issue either: amplifiers are designed as voltage sources, not current sources. They present a low impedance path for back-EMF to take without causing any problems.

That would work, but I'd really prefer not to force users to run JavaScript, break RSS readers and slow down page loads (round trips are expensive). Adding a link maze to a random corner of the site doesn't impact users at all.