So, the way you justify your own perspective is to dismiss everything I say on the grounds that 'This person who thinks differently than me clearly couldn't be an American because it's impossible for any American to think like that!'

Talk about being brainwashed.... The idea that you refuse to entertain the idea that Americans could see evil in their own government and refuse to support its actions speaks more to your propagandized and brainwashed ideology rooted in imperialist hegemony than anything moral or grandiose.

Anyways.... Enjoy your collapsing empire, bank failures, and inflation. I'll continue to live in the happiest country in the world. Cheers, mate!

Honestly, yeah. That's a great example. The issue I have is that people start trying to justify the actions of the serial killer they are friendly with and start trying to argue which one is worse.

How about we take a minute to stop and reflect that they both are serial killers and have done terrible awful things and let's move forward trying to not kill each other? Idealistic sure, but a better step in the right direction.

By this logic, no scientific research should take place for fear it could be used for military applications. The issue isn’t one particular country - all countries use scientific research to further their military and geopolitical aims.

What I’m saying is humanity is the issue and until we look beyond an ‘Us Vs. Them’ mentality we’ll always been a stone throws away from destroying ourselves.

Access to Facebook and social media is the same thing as access to Science and technology. Yes. Absolutely.

> Europe is free to collaborate with even under ITAR. It's reasonable.

It’s only reasonable if you agree that certain countries (China) should be barred and not others. I don’t think any country should be barred. I’m against export controls of any kind. Technology and innovation should be for for humanities shared progress and not used as tools for political aims or goals.

I’m just disappointed that we can’t all work together for a shared future for mankind and are still stuck on militarization and threatening to destroy ourself.

I have no idea what your point is. I’d rather live in a world with completely open access to information and technology so the best and brightest can work together and forge a prosperous future for mankind.

Well, I clearly hit a nerve.

> If you buy components from a country you are subject to their export controls. Its hardly rocket science.

Correct. That’s disappointing, though. It limits the abilities of countries to develop their own space industries and prohibits international collaboration. It’s disappointing.

>“Now that China is a major space power, I suspect the long-term result – assuming the US does not change its attitude – will be more ITAR-free products developed in places like Europe and the UAE, and ultimately the rest of the world depending less on buying US space products.”

My guess is a jointly designed UAE Moon Rover between China and the UAE leaving out US Components. I think a lot of countries are getting tired of being subject long arm jurisdiction of the US. UAE can't even develop its own space program without approval of the US. That's disappointing...

You can't really make any inferences like you were saying. I went to your source, and People Per Outlet just seems like population divided by the number of stores in that country. I thought it was like an average of visitors per store, or even total number of transactions divided by the population.

Basically, what your graph shows is McDonalds Per Capita vs. GDP Per Capita. Which, I'm not sure what exactly useful information can be taken from that.

So, McDonald's is an inferior good (in the economic sense). Nice graph that shows it.

So genius Elon finally discovers the law of demand?

>It’s nothing groundbreaking.

I mean, in some ways it is. I'll impact my profession and work in a positive way. As an IB Teacher I can ask it to write business case studies for me. This was an extremely time-consuming task. ChatGPT will improve the quality of education that I provide.

>It’s just marketed well and anyone who buys into the fear mongering is gonna get got.

Then point out better alternatives rather than complaining about the technology as a whole.

>My idea of shooting for the stars does not involve fear-mongering over the latest bot that passes a tech illiterate person’s Turing test

Yeah, your version of shooting for the stars is getting an AI to make you laugh. Don't know, don't care. Just sayin' that ChatGPT is the way we're all heading, whether you like it or not. With every new technology, people are nervous, afraid, anxious. At the extreme, you have the luddites.

This isn't anything new, and trying to tell people that they shouldn't feel that way about new technology is foolish. Basically, your entire post is pointless and not sure what you hoped to accomplish other than a cathartic release of annoyance and frustration.

> ChatGPT will not replace anybody, except maybe call center reps. Not programmers, not management, not human bodies doing manual labor, etc.. so chill out people.

The computer won’t replace anybody, except maybe a few mathematicians. Not (human) computers, not human bodies doing manual labor, etc… so chill out people.

But seriously, you lack imagination. To me, futurology is about imagining the future and what could be possible. Why not have idealistic hopes for humanity and shoot for the stars?

If you wanna just learn about physics and technology, then go to /r/technology and /r/physics

>However, when those axes are showing the same unit, then yes, it does seem like it would be intentionally misleading.

This. I have no idea why someone would show the same unit. I've seen this when units are different, but there's really no use case for two axes when they have the same unit.

No. This has been lambasted on social media for the horrible axis on the first graph. There's no reason to have two axis on one graph like that, unless you're intentionally trying to be disingenuous.

So... Germany has 35% less natural gas.... I wonder what their change in demand is, because a 35% reduction in supply is fairly drastic.

> Apple had originally planned on using their own cellular chips half a decade ago.

This is one of the reasons Apple bought Intel's modem division. That was only in 2019, though.

>It's that Apple is at a scale where they find themselves tired of paying tens of billions of dollars for Qualcomm and Broadcom stuff.

This is the point. Apple is at a point where it actually does make sense to spend the tens of billions of dollars in their own All-in-One Wireless Chip because - if they can do it - then they can save tens of billions of dollars a year. It's a simple ROI Calculation.

>Based on recent data showing continued labor demand and wage increases, Amazon also anticipates a soft landing for the US economy, a term used to describe a slow-growth period that avoids a recession, the internal report said.

Ugh... This is the worst way to make forecasts: just extend a trend line. Seems like this is what Amazon did.

What exactly is the end game, here? Musk seems to be literally pissing off every one, except for MAGA Supporters who claim this is all 5D Chess to take on the Deep State and own Woke Liberals. Because, that is a winning business strategy....

That's a shame. China is a poorly misunderstood place that needs more people-to-people exchanges, not less. If you ever change your mind, give me a message. I'd be happy to show you around the Nanjing area.

Depends. The idea is just generic automation. For different courts, it might recommend relevant laws and legal cases. For smaller cases, it might recommend sentencing outright.

If it's a high level court cases, the AI is going to basically do the background research for you. For low level cases, it might do the sentencing. Again, it's all about automating routine tasks.

This is basically for small claims court and routine civil matters. It's basically a clerk inputs the basic facts of the case (i.e. police report and evidence) and machine learning will process the case and output a recommended judgement. It saves the judge time of having to determine all the facts of the case themselves, and its point is to automate routine judicial matters. It doesn't remove the judge or human element, its there as an automation tool

Imagine an AI being feed Judge Judy shows and then being used to predict outcomes of future cases. That's essentially what this is.

Again, I'm happen to travel to Xinjiang with you. I'm currently in Nanjing. If you do decide to make it over here, I have a relative going to college in Urumqi. You and me can travel there together and we can experience Xinjiang for ourselves.

Spoken like a true sociopath: someone advocating for the murder of others based on misinformation and ignorance.

China is absolutely nothing like how you imagine. I highly recommend you visit here and see and experience China for yourself. It's an amazing place. If you do decide to visit, let me know.