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anonymouse said:

This is delusional, or, to be kind, we can label it "magical thinking". 

Yup -- that's why I mentioned the Orwell quote. It occurs to me that the Orwell quote also is relevant to AI/LLMs. Much like someone who lives in an information bubble, an AI can hallucinate all kinds of crazy stuff because it doesn't come into contact with the physical world. But tariffs affect the physical world in ways that cannot be wished away. 

I think it's going to be interesting to watch as people's false ideas keep colliding with that physical reality. It's going to take some longer than others to reconcile their thinking with reality. Some people are already doing it, but others will take longer. 

xyzzy-xxx said:

People in foreign countries stop buying US products because of Trump, this alone will hurt Apple.

Yeah, clearly the brand hurt most is Tesla, but the USA brand is also severely damaged, which affects all companies associated with the US. 

9secondkox2 said:

The rest button has been pressed. The system is powered down, but will power up with a fresh set of memory banks. 

Of course things are rough the day after. But let’s give it time to do what it’s going to do. There’s no arguing the USA has been unfairly treated in the world trading stage. Giving them some of their own medicine is necessary to level tje playing field. It’s not okay for us to pay sn ram dnd a leg to sell iverseas while they have it easy here. Or to be barred from selling there while they take over here. 

We can hold off our addiction to foreign goods for a short while so they can feel the squeeze and give ourselves strong legs to stsnd in moving forward. Short term pain got long term gain. 

With ford offering killer deals for the next 3 months the snd apple poised to sail through, I think we will be ok. Kinda me me wonder if anticipation of this isn’t why we have an m3 ultra instead of an m4 ultra. 

I can’t imagine there not being some communication about how to navigate this behind the scenes. The president and Apple’s CEO are brilliant people. 

Interesting to know that the kool-aid is still tasting good. I look forward to future updates. 

As Orwell said,  “sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.”

MAGAhats are now getting bruised 

I really hope that Apple primarily uses their own silicon for both training and inference because I think that could be a nice competitive advantage for them in the long run. 

But I could see using Nvidia in a limited capacity in the short run as Apple works to catch up.