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Just like incremental improvements in the bicycle will eventually allow for hypersonic peddling.

Its probably part of the standard severance package. Hand in your laptop, sign an NDA, take your COBRA paperwork, and fill out the AGI terror press release.

Its just a half assed plan. His leverage all comes from being head of the executive branch of the richest and post powerful country on Earth. Making that institution dysfunctional and unpopular only weakens his position.

From what Ive seen Deepseek is particularly prone to hallucinating and is extremely suggestable. It just thought it knew what you wanted to hear and said that, then got confused trying to justify what it had said.

Sales taxes, including VAT, are inherently regressive. Normally things like unprocessed food are exempted to minimize impact, but it does still affect the poor more than the rich. Why keep them? They are easy to collect, hard to avoid and can bring in lots of revenue without people noticing or complaining.

Oh yea, they did such a great job last time.

It comes in different versions, some of which are enormous and some that are pretty modest. The thing is they are not competing with 4o, but with o1, which has really massive resource requirements. The big news this week was supposed to be o3 opening up to the public, which involved another huge resource jump, and set a clear trajectory for the future of AI being on an exponential curve of computing power. This was great news for companies that made the parts and who could afford the massive buildout to support future developments. Deepseek isnt so much disruptive for its own capabilities, its disruptive because challenges the necessity of this massive buildout.

As we move forward with AI integration its going to be harder and harder to draw that specific line.

This is the future Jurassic Park warned us about.

Yea I dont think anyone is going to enjoy the “find out” phase of this one. Maybe Putin, if he lives that long.

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The Skywalkers have a thing for mature ladies.

That would be the possibility of concerning market distortions I mentioned earlier. They could totally be neck deep in pyramid building schemes or running unprofitable factories at a loss just to keep production up. This should still be putting inflationary pressure on the market, as material and labor markets should be heating up, but other factors might be pushing aggregate inflation down. For example, they might be building many billions of dollars worth of new condos while housing prices fall. Material and labor prices might be rising, but declining housing costs are pushing inflation into negative rates despite that. A free market economy would reduce construction in that case and the economy might slide into a recession while housing prices stabilize, but China could order SOEs and even private companies to keep building anyway. This would keep GDP growing, but would have other long and short term consequences.

Then demand for raw materials and labor should be trending up, both of which drive inflation. It would also mean that there is significant excess capacity, either due to subsidies or over investment. In this case were probably talking about housing, so the data might indicate that they have significantly overbuilt and are continuing to accelerate this overbuilding to juice GDP numbers, which will put further deflationary pressure on the market.

Yes but then the economy should be heating up and prices increasing, not declining. Strong GDP growth in a deflationary environment most likely indicates that either there is a concerning market distortion or that the numbers are fudged.

Waltzes are the worst.

Sisko was obviously space Moses, not space Jesus.

Most of the companies/ceos doing this over the past few weeks do know better. That’s why they didnt say anything earlier. The reason they would be publicly taking this stance now is that they either expect to be rewarded by the incoming administration, or they hope to avoid punitive retaliation.

Except Hungary, Turkey, India, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Venezuela, Hong Kong, El Salvador, and I dont even try to keep track of whats going on Africa anymore.

The president does not grant statehood. Only congress can do that.