Name an ingredient and I guarantee I'll be able to find it in either walmart or walgreens.

ChatGPT has given me code with comments so specific I found the original 6 year old github.

How long ago was this?

Doesn’t invalidate your story in the slightest - I just know they’ve gotta be chasing this, specifically, like it’s life or death.

China can copy, can it create anything new?

Papermaking, printing, gunpowder, compass, porcelain, paper money, abacus, iron plow, wheelbarrow.

More recently, net-positive thorium-salt fusion reactors

Molten salt reactors are fission reactors.

Whups, yes, my bad. Must have been tired when I wrote that.

Anything in the last 100 years?

I guess you haven't heard about their clean energy sector

Sure, and google "invented" android.

Chinese EVs are more technicly advanced than Western EVs.

That is a somewhat broad claim that needs decomposing. I would agree that Chinese EV industry is quite more advanced in terms of manufacturing processes and cost optimization, but that is not "technically" more advanced per se, its just a reflection of a culture. Maybe the salt batteries will be a breakthrough, but at least for me it has been difficult finding reliable data on it; Other than that, afaik (and from a layman perspective) there isn't anything inherently superior in chinese EV vehicles from a technological perspective, when compared to western counterparts. Cheaper, yes. But thats about it.

They're already 50 years ahead of us on flying cars.

Every car is a flying car if you use it wrong enough

I wouldn't know, I don't look at my spam folder.

Gmail spam filtering is poor enough that a lot of obvious spam reaches the inbox as well. The quality of the spam filter alone is a good enough reason to move off gmail.

I just mark as spam and move on. Maybe my email isn't on as many spam lists.

>The logical next step is for smaller AI players to present themselves as the largest players in the space.

We think we're so different from animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimicry

>but the people who need to make the decision to do that are the ones who would be cut.

It's devastating when you learn so many of society's problems are due to this.

I'm glad the one person is a huge Bob Dylan fan.

I agree. It would have been tempting to send someone who doesn't listen to Dylan at all, but what a waste that would have been. This guy deserved it.

God bless aliexpress

You got older.

>Local AI will eventually be booming.

With how expensive RAM currently is, I doubt it.

That's a short term effect. Long term Wright's law will kick in and ram will end up cheaper as a result of all the demand. It's not like there's a fundamental bottleneck on how much ram we could produce we're running into, just how much we're currently set up to produce.

It's temporary. Sam Altman booked all the supply for a year. Give it time to unwind.

I’m old enough to remember many memory price spikes.

I remember saving up for my first 128MB stick and the next week it was like triple in price.

Do you also remember when eveybody was waiting for cryto to cool off to buy a GPU?