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Canadian, here. Kind of hard to ignore our giant idiot neighbour to the south.

Which is no doubt why he doesn’t speak it.

Those business are ad aggregation companies by default for the most part, and they aren’t gonna to survive without clickthroughs

Yes, this is it exactly. The web pages that depend on ad revenue are the ones in trouble here. They’re being undercut by pages that give people the information they want without going through all that stuff.

You’re confidently predicting that the AI summarizers are going to fail somehow, and then everything will just magically go back to the way they were. I suppose that’s a reassuring thing to believe. Why should I believe it, though? The AI genie is out of the bottle. I can run one locally on my computer if I want. All the existing online summarizers could go bankrupt tomorrow and I’ll still be able to get an AI to distill the information I want from the morass of ads and engagement-harvesting click farms.

All of those things remain true until one day they don’t. Do you really think that the United States and its position on top of the world is eternal?

Trump was first elected in 2016, which is almost a decade ago now.

The voters that elected Trump will still be around after Trump’s heart explodes from hamberder overload.

Did you read the article? The part of the web that is having problems with their business model are the sites that are not using AI. They’re sites like news pages, the “sources” for information on the web. The ones that are eating their lunch are the ones that are using AI. They’re the search engines and similar sites that people go to looking for information. Since AI is able to gather the information from those sources and present it to the user without the user having to actually visit that site, that undermines their existing business model.

I suspect it’s more because of Elon Musk hate.

It is also possible for someone who has done something bad to be the victim of something else that is bad.

It’s possible for both of those people to have done something bad.

Or, perhaps a lot of people just didn’t think it was a very good show.

Well, direct your ire at the EU for that, I suppose. I’m just pointing out that calling for massive retribution against Meta isn’t warranted here.

the social media giant will not sign the European Union’s voluntary AI code of practice.

Emphasis added. If the result of not signing a voluntary code of practice is massive fines and IP blocks, was it really “voluntary?”

Getting Kasparov v. Deep Blue vibes here.

Did you read the article? It says:

The competition required contestants to solve a single complex optimization problem over 600 minutes.

No, there’s ways to do this without damaging Earth. You could arrange the sphere so that there’s a gap that allows light through specifically to keep Earth lit, or you could use mirrors or straight up artificial light sources to maintain Earth’s sunlight levels.

Or you get over the obsession with maintaining Earth exactly as it always was and carry on without it. Once we’re talking about Dyson spheres a planet like Earth would be a very minor population center. Probably more valuable as a source of additional building material than as a place to live in its own right.

For a power-collecting Dyson sphere you don’t actually need all that much matter. Most of the sphere’s area can be thin metal foil that just acts as a mirror to concentrate light on power converters, for example. You could build it with asteroidal material.

If you really want to get massive, then Mercury is usually the first target people propose for demolition. Lots of heavy elements and already close in to the Sun. And nobody cares much about Mercury.

Sure, what would be the obstacle? You start by building a single solar energy collector. Then build another. Then another. And so forth.

Actually, it might be worth doing this first. Once you’ve got even a partial Dyson swarm you’ve got ample energy to make interstellar travel a lot easier. You could either use beamed propulsion (lightsails or magsails), or manufacture bulk antimatter to fuel high-efficiency rocketry, or a combination of the two.

The risks of blotting out your only livable planet’s biosphere is too great

If our Dyson sphere project has become large enough that this is a risk, then we’ve got ample energy to spare to artificially light Earth. Assuming we still want to keep it around at that point and not dismantle it for additional raw materials.

not to mention stuff like the dark forest theory.

Dark Forest only works in the context of a cheesy sci-fi story. Under real-world physics it fails utterly.

There are a couple of physically feasable versions, yeah. The sci-fi solid shell with an Earthlike environment magically glued to the interior isn’t possible, but that’s not what any serious physicist or futurist was ever talking about to begin with.

A Dyson swarm in particular is quite easy, as it can be assembled piece by piece is immediately useful from day one. Just start manufacturing solar power satellites, and keep doing that until the orbital space around the Sun is full. There’s plenty of raw materials in the solar system to support building that.