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They do those things to some degree, but those things remain banned for under 18s, which I suppose reduces harm, even if it doesn't fully eliminate harm.

By that logic we shouldn't ban anything for teenagers. But we do: smoking, gambling, alcohol, etc.

That would be great. "Get tae fuck ya wee bawbag" (I think that's the kind of thing Scots say)

Unfortunately I think they'll stick with the USA

I wonder if there's some validity to what OpenAI is saying though (but I certainly don't completely agree with them).

If the US makes it too costly to train AI models, then maybe China will relax any copyright laws so that Chinese AI models can be trained quickly and cheaply. This might result in China developing better AI models than the US.

Maybe the US should require AI companies to pay a large chunk of their profits to copyright holders. So copyright holders would be compensated, but an AI company would only have to pay if they generate profits.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable in this field will tell me I'm totally wrong.

I listened to more of their stuff on YouTube, it's pretty cool, I can respect the guy's anger and pissed off attitude.

I don't think it's just Putin which is why I mentioned the megalomania of other Russian elites. But Putin surely made the final decision to invade.

I didn't say Russian only lies. I said Russia "has lied about pretty much everything for a long time". That is not the same thing.

assuming the opposite of whatever Russia says

I'm not just assuming the opposite of Russia's statements. I'm drawing a best guess conclusion based on two premises:

• Russia has a history of lying about its true intentions and actions
• Russian oligarchs and elites would absolutely be interested in mineral wealth, given their history of megalomania

I think it's likely that mineral wealth would have been part of the Kremlin's motivation to invade. Along with general megalomania and irredentism.

Maybe the primary cause was Putin's megalomania, or indeed megalomania among quite a few Russian elites.

Occam's razor would dictate that Russia is probably lying if they say they're not interested in Ukrainian minerals, given that the Kremlin has lied about pretty much everything for a long time.

Putin is even saying he wants to sell minerals from Russian-occupied Ukraine to the US. Clearly he wants to profit from minerals in Ukraine.

It's hilarious that you accuse the US and Ukraine of wanting to get rich from mineral rights, but you won't accuse Russia of the same thing. In reality there will be rich people in each of those countries wanting to profit from minerals.

Why do you think that what Russia says is true?

Russia said they didn't poison Alexei Navalny in 2020, but they did. They said they didn't kill Alexander Litvinenko, and they said they didn't poison Sergei Skripal, but they did both of those things.