The integration of ads is a problem but content creators and marketers have had an adversarial relationship with SEO with Google for a long time, the old algorithm probably would not work as well as what they are providing.

Or worse subtly integrate companies that pay them into the answers.

He does not need to send a message to the next chair, he will appoint an ally. He needs votes.

> He does not need to send a message to the next chair, he will appoint an ally. He needs votes.

Autocrats need to constantly be sending a message: stay loyal or else.

More than voters, trump needs Wall Ttreet's vote, and they aren't having any of this.

Sorry, I was not clear, he needs votes on the fed board, not so much a message to the chair.

FWIW, Trump appointed Powell as chair.

He also appointed Mike Pence,who single handedly derailed his coup in Jan 2021.

He learned from his mistake, and this administration is much less prone to defect than the first one.

I am a bit confused by the network example, even when I don't control the network at the moment I need to do something about it and know about it to act.

The software needs to report back to the end user eventually. But if there is a temporary network failure, then the software should automatically retry the request without informing the user (assuming idempotency).

It's funny, because I had a similar question but wanted to be able to materialize a view in Microsoft SQL Server, and ChatGPT went around in circles suggesting invalid solutions.

There were about 4 possibilities that I had tried before going to ChatGPT, it went through all 4, then when the fourth one failed it gave me the first one again.

You can't use the free chat client for questions like that in my experience. Almost guaranteed to waste your time. Try the big-3 thinking models (ChatGPT 5.2 Pro, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5).

> If everyone wants chips, semiconductor manufacturing supply should be increased. Governments should subsidize domestic semiconductor industries and the conditions for them to thrive (education, etc.) to meet both goals of domestic and economic security, and do it in a way that works.

If there is already demand at this inflated price, shouldn’t we ask why more capacity is not coming online naturally first?

> If there is already demand at this inflated price, shouldn’t we ask why more capacity is not coming online naturally first?

...and why it has been consistently the case for a long while.

Yes, one of the most valuable companies in the world has been supply strained for years. Unless incredibly well focused investments are made, cash is not the problem. Subsidies are madness.

If we can deal with the personal economics of the transition, isn’t freeing up human capital to do something else a good thing?

Yes, unfortunately we cannot deal with the personal economics of such a transition :)

The upper class who holds all the power does not want people to have good life. They want to extract as much as possible from most of us.

So, no, because said human capital is holding shorter end of the stick and will be worst off.

CGP Grey once asked "What happens to humans when it becomes uneconomic to employ them?" eg, the value of their economic output is functionally zero.

If you like speculative fiction on this topic, read Manna by Marshall Brain while you still can (the author died not long ago, so it may not stay up).

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

We should just develop cold fusion. It's gotta be easy, right?

I don't think the article disagrees here? The issue is not control or decentralization, but consumption v. back and forth (communication).

It’s not unheard of, similarish to many core licensing schemes. Like mssql.

Not the same thing. The equivalent would be mssql charging by web server connections to it.

In some sense, core licensing is worse, in that you are also paying for idle capacity. But when you try to scale by activity, I think you will see it is not that much different.

And importantly, not agree to future agreements. Outside of war, that's the ultimate punishment.