A lot of the people replying to you don't seem to realise that it comes from analog/mechanical watches where major features of the watch are advertised on the dial. "Spring drive" "co-axial" "Swiss made" etc.

Except I agree, in an analog watch it's somewhat classy (although people complaintthat seiko sometimes overdoes it) but on a digital watch it seems a bit gaudy, because _of course_ it has those features, it's almost zero effort to add when you're not having to implement them with physical mechanisms.

*in America

Imo TSMC would have been better positioned to open a new fab in Europe, preferably Netherlands so they can be close to ASML and create a working relationship to help test and develop upcoming nodes/tooling.

The only reason US is getting the fabs is because Trump threw a tantrum. As always the best way to deal with Trump's posturing is to call his bluff, just like on the moronic tariffs.

If TSMC had said no, and Trump issued tariffs, then TSMC can follow up with "Well, no wafers for any US company then". They'd take a hit, but not as big a hit as the current administration's popularity with a population who can't get their iPhones to browse the tiktoks.

I would suggest that llms could access information more reliably and securely than humans ever could.

The padlock on browsers means nothing to most humans. Permission popups are just there to be immediately accepted so that one can start scrolling reels sooner rather than later.

Yes, I'm realistic about it too. For simple queries it nails it more often than not. It's only asking it more complex technology related questions that it falls apart for me, and in those cases I already know I should be talking to one of the big boi models for certain lines of questioning.

Google certainly ain't gonna run a several T model for every search that's for sure (well, not yet).

Yes, why use a showerhead when you need a funnel.

I've seen interesting points made on this topic. Like how on the whole China/Asia poll more favourably in public perception and adoption of AI.

I'm still skeptical that the source of Western dissent is misinformation campaigns run by said Asiatic bloc, though.

Have you seen the behavior of all big tech companies in the US for the past few decades?

Chinese CEOs would be sentenced to death for 1/100th of the things American AI CEOs have done.

American CEOs are almost comic book levels of evil.

>Like how on the whole China/Asia poll more favourably in public perception and adoption of AI.

If I was Chinese I'd probably have more faith that AI advances are going to benefit society as a whole than just a few tech billionaires.

As an American, not so much.

I'm skeptical that the misinformation campaigns are run by China, et al. but I do believe there are a number of competing interests directly manipulating public perception.

And surely “the public” doesn’t include “thepryz” though!

Hmmmm. Is this the compute economy that Altman was going on about.

But then if you observe human behaviour at a macro level don't we do the same?

I think we like to pretend that we don't. But even if you think about it from a bio/physics point of view, all we are is just a bunch of biological wires and neurotransmitter packages.

I know there's the whole unproven quantum tubule nonsense but even that would be a physics effect that we could learn about, manipulate and extort just as we have with everything else we've learnt about our realities.

Damn 610m for something they never used, just like the sapphire company Apple acquired.

Something is super, super fucked up with valuation of companies and the profiteering of late stage capitalism for stuff like that to be able to happen.

No wonder lots of people are saying the world feels worse than ever, everything's expensive and it seems in many ways we've regressed rather than "made things better for our children".

Apple didn't acquire GTAT. They were just a supplier.

Ah, in that case thank you for the correction.