There is no equivalent for consciousness. In most conversations, people aren't even referring to the same thing when they use the word. There is no measurement we are making that we categorize as or attribute to consciousness, so equating the two is a bad analogy.

In fact, taking your statements here at face value, you are equating consciousness and intelligence. A link between the two is only theoretical for all the same reasons your analogy here doesn't work: consciousness is currently entirely unmeasured outside n=1 studies.

I would also like to point out, that on a forward P/E basis, AAPL is quite overvalued compared to historical norms, but basically every tech company is right now.

Sidenote: 3 is actually high. 94 is absolutely ridiculous.

We can't measure consciousness. We can't quantify, or even qualify, what it is. We don't even have a framework to ask a meaningful question, so debating an answer feels premature.

People quite often lose the plot that "government" is "collective will". Governments will only do this if their constituents want them to. If the constituents would rather spend those recourses on free VR for every household and gatorade from drinking fountains, then that's all we're getting.

Attribution from an LLMs output is nearly as infeasible as attribution of where I learned the words I'm using to talk to you right now. I mean, AGI is incompatible with that kind of attribution, so saying we have to do it is equivalent to saying "AI not allowed".

It's a valid opinion, but, IMO kind of a wolf-in-sheeps-clothing argument.

I remember when IP laws were looked at like a form of oppression in the tech community...

Two competing viewpoints to this:

1) It is getting harder to make the same performance gains, so maybe that 10 year window grows to 15 or 20.

> Put another way, their investment is going to be worthless in 10-15 yyears, absolute max.

2) The value of a GPU is not its flops relative to to other GPUs. Its value is it's output minus it's cost. If the value of its output is stable, or grows, it doesn't really matter if its efficiency relative to the latest and greatest diminishes.

When you're writing the code, you know what the types are, as you literally just created/wired/whatever them. Static types become a benefit only when you visit code without that fresh context. For instance, third party libraries are far easier to use when the interfaces are typed.