What is the impetus for change?

The things you listed are nice but not game changing for most people.

I heard the next model, the Tesla SS, with innovative features like doing Nazi salutes out the windows to indicate is going to be a huge hit.

How you pronounce “Elon”:

N-A-Z-I

So? Still Chinese owned companies and still not manufactured in the United States.

It will just divert manufacturing to places like Vietnam or Mexico.

The root problem they are trying to fix is real (systemic trade imbalances) but the way they are trying to fix it is terrible and won’t work.

1. Only a universally applied tariff would work in theory but would require other countries not to retaliate (there will 100% be retaliation).

2. It doesn’t really solve the root cause, capital inflows into the USA rather than purchasing US goods and services.

3. Trump wants to maintain being the reserve currency which is a big part of the problem (the strength of currency may not align with domestic conditions, i.e. high when it needs to be low).

😂

Perhaps the stocks were massively overvalued and any negative news was going to start this sell off regardless of its actual impact?

That is my theory anyway.

It is also because the USA is the reserve currency of the world with open capital markets.

Savers of the world (including countries like Germany and China who have excess savings due to constrained consumer demand) dump their savings into US assets such as stocks.

This leads to asset bubbles and an uncompetitively high US dollar.

Does it still need people spending huge amounts of time to train models?

After doing neural networks, fuzzy logic, etc. in university, I really question the whole usability of what is called “AI” outside niche use cases.

In my view, Social media is a big factor in creating echo chambers and disinformation.

Consolidation in markets has led to high prices, poor service, poor competition and bloated oligopolies.

Governments should be intervening to break up these oligopolies but have been captured by these vested interests.

Who is this picture of? She looks familiar.

Is she a movie star?

I really miss the BBS forums.

I made a load of friends on those.

When I quit reddit, it occurred to me that after 10 years, I hadn’t made a single friend there.

Now many of these remaining BBS forums have a constant battle against bots.

Dead internet theory is becoming true.

Bots talking to bots will be 90% of the internet.

What are people using to monitor this?

Countries like China, Germany, Taiwan, etc. have competitive exports because they have direct and indirect subsidies to their manufacturing sectors at the expense of their household sector.

Some of these subsidies include a weak currency relative to their economy, weakened labour laws, preferential interest rates, capital controls, labour movement restrictions, etc.

China uses all of these. Germany primarily used the Hartz “reforms” which basically decoupled wage growth from productivity and GDP growth.

The reduces the household share of national income and they cannot afford to consume the production of their manufacturing sector and therefore the excess production must be exported.

I think 90% of the AI investments really have no commercial viability and are being developed to suck up clueless venture capital.

I’m older than 30.

Probably played one of your games.