This thread has been tough for me tbh. A lot of the things I’m reading here were like what I would say when I was back in college.

I guess I’m the old man now haha

I agree, with the caveat that your last sentence is a little hand-wavey. The word “Just” makes it seem easier than it is. People are easily swayed & bought. It’s wrong, but it is a thing.

Well. Amazon didn’t make a profit for a long while. Maybe still not? EBITDA? Idk their current numbers, but I’m assuming there’s a lot of Hollywood Accounting happening.

I think closing those types of loopholes is the place we should start. Circling around: these campaign promises are easy to make, hard to keep.

It requires knowledge of accounting, economics, law, tech, politics…few people, if any, have that breadth of knowledge and connections.

I would be impressed with a politician if they had a solid how on these items. Otherwise: talk is cheap.

Yep! And people in China VPN around it

One thing I will mention. GMT above focuses on 15% of profits. It is trivial to manipulate that number. Which is why I am also for…

Openly transparent auditable money

Exactly! Good link

Thank you for sharing the video! I will take a look 🤠

Thank you for the reply! What would this look like realistically? I.e.: Google doesn’t comply. Do we build our own Chinese internet where you can’t use Google products?

Thanks for the reply! Would this work for tech companies? Biggest part of our Sp500. They’re mostly “in the cloud” right? So it’s pretty easy to move. And physical resources they leave behind would just be some data centers or whatever

Would love to see the video you mentioned if you can find it

Thank you! I like this.

To be clear: I do not think we should do nothing. That was not what I was trying to suggest. I’ve just been around a while and seen this type of promise before. I am worried that some people are maybe over optimistic about these types of promises and how it might play out.

Re: your last paragraph: would you be willing to pay more for goods or have US based companies perform worse in your 401k? (I do not have any money in my 401k to be clear I’m pretty poor, but I know that people care about that 😂) I will continue being negative and assume they’d pass that cost onto us

It’s going to feel so good to get those stitches out! A deeply scratched itch

I honestly hope you are right. But as an expert, I am confident you are not.

There are existing successful products in these and other areas. I am not going to do your research for you, because I have burned a bunch of time and energy on that in these types of discussions in the past and rarely has anyone changed their mind. If you want, you can start your search with the term “AI Agents”

Realistically, the near future is going to look like 1 person managing 10+ AI Agents that do desk jockey jobs in a supervisor role. Long term future, as confidence rises, the managers will not be needed either.

If your only experience is with text or photo generation in consumer models, that is a fun toy, but it’s very small compared to the total possibilities. And it gets better exponentially. It is already replacing software engineers and paralegals. And it’s better than radiologists at spotting cancers and such.

Every job that was considered “non-essential” during the pandemic will be gone in the next 3-5 years. Save up and get ready.

MAGApox lol

Idk who this is, but kind of funny on a 4chan edge lord level. I’m guessing context is important here and I’m missing it

Surprisingly balanced and civil discussions in these comments. Super proud to be here 💪 this would not happen elsewhere

You probably want 48gb of vram or more to run the good stuff. I recommend renting GPU time instead of using your own hardware, via AWS or other vendors - runpod.io is pretty good.

Dumb name & dumb product, bring back Chromecast