It's also the deficit of code we actually use day to day that is actually written in lisp.

I file it under the same heading as haskell - a language that clearly has useful ideas, but...

This doesnt mean the training has to be good, useful or original in the slightest but the provider does need to have credentials which arent just "some dev with a hot take" that a fellow executive would recognize.

There's a 99% chance that the training materials on sale are equally replaceable with a prompt.

Iran offered that commitment a month ago and was rebuffed and bombed. What are the chances that Iran will agree to it now that the US has proven itself to be incapable of negotiating in good faith?

The only rational decision Iran can make now it to make nukes. The US has made certain of that.

Because it IS an us vs them situation.

They're awfully good at turning it into an us vs us situation whether it's blaming our parents' (boomers), blaming immigrants, blaming muslims or (their favorite), blaming the unstoppable forward march of technological progress (e.g. AI).

The media organizations they own are constantly telling these stories because it protects them.

>The Government could legislate that any increase in profits that are attributable to the use of AI are taxed

Nothing a billionaire loves more than misdirection and a good scapegoat. This is why Bill Gates made the exact suggestion you just did.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-wants-tax-robots-2...

When THEY are the problem they love a bit of misdirection, especially when the "problem" is a genie that cant be put back in its bottle.

They're terrified that we might latch on to the solutions that actually work (i.e. tax them to within an inch of their life) and drive a populist politician to power which might actually enact them.

Coincidentally that's literally the exact same evidence cited to prove the existence of Saddam's WMDs just before launching an entirely different unprovoked attack.

That was just an unhappy mistake though, this time it's totally legit.

Not to put too fine a point on it but this was basically how the Japanese post war economic miracle was achieved.

In this case it was America which ordered the Japanese oligarchy to be stripped of its wealth.

We've had decades of propaganda telling us that this is the worst thing we could do for economic growth though so it's natural to doubt.

Biden's general mark milley said it would be a three day war. Putin said from day 1 that "it will take as long as it takes".

The propaganda on the western side of this war was extreme and (as your catchphrase illustrates), often rather stupid.

"3 day war", "Russian economy will imminently collapse", "crimean beach party"...all incredibly inane and thoughtless and these were just the trivially disprovable idiocies.

When they actually got a nuke all it meant was that the US stopped threatening them, halted practicing manoeuvres in preparation for attack and generally just left them well alone.

Iran has probably realized by now that if they dont get a nuke the US and Israel and will keep slaughtering their schoolchildren.

Sometimes we're the brutal savages who need to be stopped, impossible though that is for some people who have more of "racial loyalty" mindset to comprehend.

For companies that have a solid competitive moat they have at best gotten lazy about user centricity and at worst actively hostile.

Indeed, the entitlement complex is probably why so many of them (in the iranian diaspora) were happy to rally behind an actual monarch.

This is not a normal thing to do for somebody who has supposedly adopted western values.

The people who left tend were often in a privileged position under the previous regime and the bitterness at having their privilege revoked often echoes through the generations.

They might feign concern for human rights when the regime they hate is violating them (i saw a lot of that when the alleged killing of tens of thousands of protestors) but it's the bitterness of lost privilege which truly drives them.

Ive seen it with Cubans, Venezuelans, Angolans, even the odd Russian.