SpaceCowboy

No, the way it works is they start an investigation so they can suspend it later. That way if he doesn't do exactly what they want they want they can just re-open the investigation. It's how they handled the Mayor of NYC.

To keep a scumbag loyal you need to keep the threat of jail time hanging over him.

Vikings also believed that drinking cod liver oil would make them stronger. Turns out, cod liver oil is high in vitamin D which mitigates seasonal depression which is kinda important in northern latitudes.

It's true that it can't replace a skilled profession. But I honestly believe you could replace most middle management with AI already. Of course the bar is incredibly low on that.

One of the talking heads on one of those business news shows summed up the theory about lowering interests rates as "it's like burning down the house to cook a steak."

There's no plan here, it's just a deranged old man surrounded by sycophants doing all of the things people previously told him wouldn't work.

It doesn't cost $8 per copy to manufacture. I can get a writable 64GB SD card delivered to my door for less than that. And a plastic case is pennies to manufacture.

It's more about preventing people from trading or selling games with other people after they've finished playing them.

He purchased the sword which resulted in a trade deficit so he started imposing tariffs.

They don't know enough about the world to know which ones to remove.

Giving them too much credit. They probably just had ChatGPT do everything.

LLMs are already at the point where they could replace middle management in most places. Of course that's more of a reflection on how poor middle management is, not how good LLMs are.

And yeah the C-suite probably could be replaced too. Yeah the LLMs will hallucinate and make terrible decisions sometimes, but that's not different than what the C-suite is already.

Wanting to replace skilled labour with AI is proof of that. They don't know enough about what their employees do if they think an AI will work as a replacement. But if they can mange employees with an inaccurate understanding of what they do, then an AI with a inaccurate understanding of what employees could replace that manager.

I always liked the suggestion that biggest problem wasn't actually the machines themselves, it was humans letting the machines think for them. We're seeing a lot of that happening now.