I am all for holding these companies to the highest standards for their potentially dangerous products. But, I did not see anything in that article to support the claim that 'AI can exacerbate mental health issues'

Looks more like my mother scolding me for some reason

I get the concern but I don't think the numbers bear it out. Current bitcoin market cap is $3.2 trillion, largest stablecoin (Tether) is about 240 billion. Even if all of Tether was unbacked and all of it up in bitcoin, it would barely be a 7.5% drop

Curious which bit you see as the bubble. Sounded like a lot of this was adding regulation (and legitimacy) to issuers of 'stablecoins' which are usually pegged to the USD (and so stay pretty stable compared to all the meme crypto coins)

...to which the clueless pessimist respond by saying that AI is nothing more than the latest Silicon Valley pyramid scheme. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle and it's going to be fun to watch this bubble pop like 2001 or explode into the singularity"

Big fan of your work. I have no love for the companies and wd welcome regulation but the research on this just doesn’t bear out the narrative that social media use has a consistent negative impact on wellbeing. A good recent summary of the the science is available here: www.jmir.org/2024/1/e59585

You might have at least one ABC ally in Alan Kohler

Scott, any thoughts on retaliatory tariffs that would be used to equivalently compensate steel producers - e.g. spread across different product lines (e.g. Teslas, bourbon....). I guess bottom line would be that consumers would still be paying more for stuff overall

Simple logic, they can just buy the water from the farmers and let the people eat yellowcake

to delivering the cheapest power with the lowest carbon footprint is better left to a competition of ideas in the general market. Thoughts?