My point was that defending the pissing contest over standards that gave us consumers six ports instead of one to do all the same tasks really misses the mark, imo.

Yeah.   AI may grind for a while but hardly anyone has put the current stuff to work, yet.   We will be feeling the benefits of what is released right now for a decade to come.   I am working on a very rudimentary application that will use ML at work and it won’t come out for 12 more months, and it hardly does anything but make the most obvious decisions 10m times faster than I can.   But it’s going to fundamentally change our labor model.

There are regular folks applying amazing technologies that go way beyond content generation.

The tech may grind but the application of that tech is barely getting its feet and should run hard for a decade.

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That’s what prisoners say. You are so conditioned to it that you prefer it.

Look at all those ports I’ll never need

We should have had USBC 20 years ago.

The corporations are people too!