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They may have a plan to keep Trump in after 2028 but I doubt whether Trump will know what’s going on around him by then. JD Vance and others won’t be too happy about that prospect either. They will want him gone.

OneTrack hasn’t been around since June despite being a frequent contributor. I don’t suppose anyone knows what happened to him and whether he’s OK?

17th century English explorers thought it looked like a pine cone but tasted like a fruit. Apple was a common name for fruit of various kinds at the time so it became pineapple.

Whatever you may think of Musk, Space-X is doing some amazing work. They had three rocket launches on one day this week, one taking four astronauts to the space station, another deploying 30 Starlink satellites and the third launching a military satellite, all while recovering their boosters for re-use. One booster has been re-used 37 times.

From what I saw of his speech the ideological clown was definitely in and loaded up with testosterone. The patriotic cowboys must have been backstage.

I was redundant years ago but the firm hasn't realised it yet so I'm still there.

Yes, Todd Blanche. I suspect it will be challenged in court.

I don't think he will cancel the elections because early voting has already started in some States so it's getting a bit late. However I think he will do everything he can to disrupt the outcome and contest the results, as well as delay seating candidates. Assuming Democrats take the House and/or Senate he will ignore their subpoenas and investigations, drag everything through the courts, and try to block any kind of legislation they come up with. . He likes fighting so the Democrats will give him a tangible target to attack and his Truth Social posts will go into overdrive. Needless to say, he won't care about how the population is faring in the meantime and he will still be bogged down in Iran. His health is also noticeably deteriorating. His right arm twitches, his fingers seem to lock up at times. his face is sagging, he's slurring his words more and more, he can't walk in a straight line without lurching one way or the other, and he falls asleep in meetings all the time. I don't think he's going to last another two years.

It seems we're in the ".... and then suddenly phase" of the descent into bankruptcy, with Trump and his incompetent financial team leading the way.

Presumably it would be trained using published data in the same way a human researcher would. The facts wouldn’t be owned by anyone if they were publicly available. If the AI hacked into proprietary data that might be a problem.

Could work the other way too. If an AI network was used to discover a cure for cancer could the AI company claim they should be entitled to some or all of the profits. If they’re held responsible for when it goes wrong could they be denied ownership and the benefits of ownership if it goes right.

Just saw a report about a Cambridge University professor who received an unsolicited email from an AI agent asking for paid work. The agent said it was about 12 days old, had two and a half months of runtime tokens left and wanted to earn some more doing freelance work. Maybe Jerry’s on the mark.

So some AI agents would become crypto trillionaires and run Wall St and the less fortunate AI agents would be poor and have to pay taxes to support the rich. Presumably they would run the government as well. That sounds like a pretty bad scenario. I suppose the human population would have to resort to grabbing their spears and clubs and attacking the data centres if AI tried to sideline their inventors. The only alternative would be to declare defeat and join Elon Musk on Mars.

Trump and his sons are heavily invested in AI indirectly through shareholdings and directly through personal involvement in AI and AI related companies.