I imagine that this is part of the original plan. “Okay, we wasted 80 billion dollars on VR, and that hurts. But if we can somehow to convince all of our competitors to also waste 80 billion dollars each, then it’ll even out. How can we trick our competitors into thinking more like Zuckerberg?”

In general, this is total bullshit. But in the particular, Job made his first billions from selling Pixar to Disney, not from Apple.

I'm assuming they meant a 2D printer, which you need to be able to use this.

Were there lots of people upset? Or was it a small number of people with power who were upset? Like, I'm not at all surprised by how this played out, but it's not clear that anyone was upset beyond some people who don't take well to criticism.

Oh shit, they put that stuff in Root Beer? I hear that kills thousands of people every year—from kids to the elderly.

I think the cases where judgements differ—either between humans or AI or both–will be the difficult to discern cases, where no human and no LLM will have 99% confidence.

That sound like he knows what he wants to do, but that's not the same as knowing what he is doing.

What are ours doing during this war?

I think it's interesting when a movie can be faithful, and yet hit differently. Conclave was like that for me—I enjoyed the book, but it came across as a political thriller with a Catholic twist. But the movie, by showing all of the uniforms, all of the architecture and art, came across far more significant than just a political thriller. A great cast helped with that, admittedly.