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They're trying to imply that they would get kidnapped and forced to work for openAI or something. In reality they'd probably just get job offers, which they'd accept because as crap as the US is right now, it's got to be better than China.

It is simply that China doesn't want their citizens working for American companies unless China is the one that's placed them there.

I can't remember where I heard this quote but somebody was one saying that the television wasn't invented because somebody wanted a television, it was invented because thousands of scientists over decades worked on ancillary technologies that culminated in the television.

The most recent major invention in jet engines came from the 3D printer industry. I don't think anybody who was working on 3D printers was really necessarily thinking that this could be applied to jet engines, it's just how it turned out.

Most of the mathematics behind modern computer graphics were come up with in the 18th century. The equations were just an interesting mathematical oddity for centuries until the technology caught up with the theory. Obviously the mathematician wasn't trying to optimize rendering pipelines for a technology that wouldn't exist for over 200 years.

Technological innovation is like evolution, there isn't necessarily a target objective, things just evolve over time. You don't just throw a lot of people at a problem and expect a solution, academics understand that which is why they do research. Research is not necessarily in aid of anything in particular, it's just more knowledge to the toolbox of humanity, amd who knows how that knowledge might subsequently be applied.

Currently the world is getting a lot of that.

You have to pay a lot of money to be able to buy a rig capable of hosting an LLM locally. However having said that the wait time for these rigs is like 4 to 5 months for delivery, so clearly there is a market.

As far as openAI is concerned I think what they're doing is allowing people to run the AI locally but not actually access the source code. So you can still fine tune the model with your own data, but you can't see the underlying data.

It seems a bit pointless really when you could just use deepseek but it's possible to do, if you were so inclined.

They kind of have to now though. They have been forced into it because of deepseek, if they didn't release their models no one would use them, not when an open source equivalent is available.

Doesn't explain Europe though. European market in the American market are almost identical in terms of population size.

But they use Skype?

If anyone in the Trump administration had a brain they would already realize that they have nothing to offer internationally. It's not exactly a secret.

Trump thinks that if he puts a tariff on imports from, say China, suddenly a bunch of factories will open up in America outputting the same cheap tat that China used to produce. But of course it doesn't work like that. Attempting to take resources by force won't help matters because America's problem is not actually a lack of resources. It's a lack of infrastructure and a talent pool so shallow that the ground is barely wet.

We've seen this with the chip factories that TSMC is trying to set up.

Really?

When Canadians were going on about boycotting American things there was a question on here, or Reddit I can't remember which, that was asking other people from other countries if they would do the same.

I remember thinking I can't think of a single American product that's even available for purchase for me to boycott. Other than quite possibly Jack Daniels but I already don't buy that anyway.

I cannot think of any food items, clothing, tech products, or materials that originate in the USA that I would normally buy even semi-regularly.

The US has a really serious problem on their hands which is that their trade war won't achieve anything. The US doesn't make anything, it famously doesn't make anything, the only reason that they trade with Canada is because Canada is close. Even then it's mostly just food stuffs which Canada can make themselves.

But they have virtually nothing to offer internationally hence the trade deficit, that trump is so upset about, in the first place

Its not like with Trump where his kids are actually problems themselves. I suspect that some of the younger ones will probably want to disown him too, especially the ones that he's called stupid names.

I don't think anyone was suggesting that you don't take a phone. Just not taking your everyday phone.

A protest only really works if it's covered by the media, you definitely don't want the people you're protesting about to decide if it is or isn't covered by the media so you record it yourself.