I knew someone was going to write that.

The palantirs were mainly used by the evil side during the time the books are set in. Specifically, Sauron (main bad guy) uses it to draw Saruman (former good guy turned bad) to his side.

Ah, the good old days. Before those evil woke leftists ruined everything!

Worked out really great last time it was tried, didn’t it?

Yeah, that is exactly what they’re trying to do.

Why not both? And the Americans too, of course.

People who didn’t have computers before smartphones came around, don’t have computers now. For a lot of people the phone will be the first and only computer they use. As for convergence, yes, it’s happening. A modern smartphone is powerful enough tu run a desktop OS. That would be good enough for most tasks of most people. Google are working to bring that to the Pixels, Samsung had Dex for a long time. But again, that will only be relevant for people who want to use computers.

What could possibly go wrong?

They can call it GlossolaliaOS or something.

So what would you consider to be a trustworthy source?

Why not both?

If they lobotomize Grok into spouting nothing but far right propaganda, it’ll also completely trash whatever commercial potential it might have had.

If they’d been more careful, they wouldn’t have lost it in the first place.

Democracy has three main elements: free and fair elections, the rule of law and the separation of powers. You haven’t said anything about the other two.

A reasonably complex school website can be done in Django as a programming club project. A lot of educational resources are available online so making those easy to find will go a long way.

I don’t know if we can create AGI. Saying that something is impossible because we haven’t done it yet is disingenuous, though, and has been proven wrong countless times throughout history. None of this has anything to do with religion, by the way.

The current generation of LLMs won’t take over the world. It will take several more breakthroughs of a similar magnitude to get anywhere close to AGI. That may still be decades away but it could also happen next Tuesday.

Your mother worships some fake preacher they executed in Iudea, you filthy red!

This person is not arguing in good faith and is just looking to make trouble. Engaging with people like that is as frustrating as it is futile.

Try putting it in the microwave.