This is certainly no fatal for OpenAI, but there is some irony that Altman and Musk are both struggling.

All of this is true and credit assignment is hard, but the brutal competition between Chinese firms, especially in manufacturing, differentiates them from and advances them over economies in the west. It makes investment hard as profits are competed away, which is blasphemy in Thiel's worldview, but is excellent for consumers both local and global.

Yes and: Good for the nations underwriting all that domestic competition. Playbook followed by Japan, South Korea, etc, and most recently China.

It's not illegal, you just get shot is all

First one by one but slowly getting to Iran levels. If it feels unthinkable, the current events were unthinkable three years ago.

Shot and immediately branded a violent terrorist by the highest levels of government.

It's a bit of a catch-22 that they keep shooting and lying about the people who are filming them shooting people to provide evidence that they lie about what happens.

I think the Tailwind case is more complicated than this, but yes - I think it's reasonable to want to contribute something to the common good but fear that the value will disproportionally go to AI companies and shareholders.

Not at all - it's legal, but it doesn't garner goodwill either.

When training for muscle size atleast, but not strength. Presumably there are increased injury risks overall when lifting heavy (based on a brief search).

Well, many companies are still mispriced, but stock markets today look a lot more like voting machines than weighing machines - so it takes more time to be proven right (or wrong).

Have you tried not being poor?

It gives you a new opportunity to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Until mommy and daddy come along with another cash infusion.

Sergey Levine, one of the co-founders, sat for an excellent Dwarkesh podcast episode this year, which I thoroughly recommend.

He's referring to humanity, I believe

It's ambiguous. It could go the other way. He could be referring to that oldest of science fiction tropes: The Bulterian Jihad, the human revolt against thinking machines.

Meh. I think the more likely scenario is the financial extinction of the AI companies.