And sending a space ship at a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We’ve got some work to do climbing up the Kardashev scale before we’re anywhere close to that kind of travel.

Oh yeah, that time the USA kept lying about weapons of mass destruction found there and Washington not liking being called out by almost everyone.

China goes wolf warrior diplomacy from time so that’s a given. It’s what made many countries to make sure to not fully commit to trade with China.

Much greater models

It’s Musk, so the new model is simply “the more money you have, the more you receive”

Technically they can be replicated, but the network effect and their current economies of scale are harder.

Certain military hardware doesn’t have an equal. And a number of digital services.

Biotech is still on the waiting list with vat grown meat.

The plan was simple enough.

1. Lie

2. Do some tariffs

3. All countries get scared and give him money, attention and trade

4. Profit

Turns out global retaliation against him was not part of the plan.

Notice how those French places are not a total ruin.

And it’ll be used to suppress wages, because “you’re not making new stuff, just fixing some problems in existing code.” That you have to rewrite most of it is conveniently not counted.

That’s at least what was tried with movie writers.

So that makes him a classic useful idiot.

With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.

Much of the craze is almost religious. You have for example Singularitarianism. Basically “Man creates AI, which will create artificial general intelligence, which will create artificial super intelligence, which will bring us the singularity, release us from drudgery and give us eternal life.”

Measure once, pay twice?

Garbage in, garbage out. These logos represent the latter.

Stock markets don’t create or destroy money. They just move it around. Mostly from the poor to the rich.

Then twins walk into the airport and the system crashes.

And facial recognition has been known to fail with very dark skin so that’ll turn into a racial issue real quick.

Amazon of the “just walk out” shops powered by AI, that turned out to be s lot of Indian workers in the background.

¨Sir, you are scaring the banks, and if banks get scared they kill presidents. They hire professionals, not some kid on a roof.¨

¨Oh¨

We know what contributes a lot to developing autism. It’s pollution, more specifically small particle matter found in for example car exhaust. The same cars for which they’re now killing the environmental regulations.