nyc_data_geek1

Money is not speech, no matter what the courts say.

"Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. You wouldn’t even notice."

Musk, Twitter, 2022

This is, on its face, an utterly idiotic and untrue statement. Look at the subways in NYC anytime it rains

You can't eat AI slop

Taste changes. Teslas now feel like janky, shoddily assembled, cheaply sourced ipad cases with wheels and a passenger compartment. Novelty wears off.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

This particular technology has been trained by explicitly ripping off a lot of peoples' friends, though.

Understood, apologize for my misconception of your assertion. Mass media, of course, is only too happy to cultivate such misconceptions on the part of the public.

Maybe don't be so dismissive of that which you lack a thorough understanding.

Recommend reading "Against the State" by James Stout, wherein he describes history of various Anarchist societies, including Barcelona during Spanish fascism, Myanmar where they are very successfully fighting the junta which wrested control from their civilian government, and Rojava where he personally visited and gives a firsthand account.

If we need to check everything AI produces, every reference and factual assertion, where is the value in what it's producing? Why should we spend the money on producing this, and the time reviewing it, when I can just do it right the first time? Where is the efficiency?

Equities are underlying collateral. Prediction markets are literally just betting on an outcome, no underlying asset exists.

He could be right, or he could just be a phone company CEO trying to get you to buy a new phone, or he could be both.