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Two mines in North Carolina are the world's only producer of the quartz necessary for semiconductor manufacturing
Tech Spot ^ | March 24, 2024 at 7:55 AM | Erika Morphy

Posted on 04/05/2024 6:11:10 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: RoosterRedux

“If anything, investors don’t understand what AI is and how profoundly it’s going to change things.”

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And the government will find a way to tax, regulate and control it. Profoundly.


21 posted on 04/05/2024 6:48:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Red Badger

Harumph Harumph! We’ll just have to put a stop to that!


22 posted on 04/05/2024 6:49:25 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: OHPatriot

How long before some Chinese company buys it???

As soon as they can get a front company to buy it like they are doing for U.S.Steel company.


23 posted on 04/05/2024 6:50:39 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

I used to live right next to one of those mines. Their quartz was used to make the top telescopes lenses.


24 posted on 04/05/2024 6:54:20 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: Red Badger

They will probably be sold to the CCP.


25 posted on 04/05/2024 6:56:54 AM PDT by chopperk (s to )
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Toledo, the ‘Glass City’ was situated near the Sylvania Sandstone, a very high quality quartz formation that is actually in the form of loose sand for glass mfg. It runs throughout NW Ohio into SE MI. Part of it was excavated during construction of the Livingstone Channel at the entrance to Lake Erie, so we had a few beaches with brilliant white sand on the Detroit River where the material was dredged up.


26 posted on 04/05/2024 6:57:35 AM PDT by F450-V10
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To: Starboard
The good thing is that, as Musk and others have said, AI evolves at a rate that is infinitely faster than legislation can be passed to control and/or regulate it. AI moves like lightning and legislation moves like a snail.

As soon as the government has passed legislation to control and regulate it, AI will have evolved into something else.

27 posted on 04/05/2024 6:59:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“legislation moves like a snail”

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Not when they want to pass something in the dead of night.

A lot of legislation today is rushed through without members having read a word of it.

The government can move quite fast when it really wants to control something.


28 posted on 04/05/2024 7:02:36 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: V_TWIN; Red Badger

Those are my favorite beaches. I love having that sugar white sand between my toes.


29 posted on 04/05/2024 7:07:09 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Starboard
It doesn't matter. Legislators don't know what AI is. It is waaaay beyond their comprehension.

In fact, some of the "scientists" developing AI admit that they no longer understand it. It's called the "black-box problem or effect."

In other words, humans write the initial code--just enough to get the deep learning process started. And then the AI begins to program itself as it starts consuming data and starts to "learn."

30 posted on 04/05/2024 7:18:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Red Badger

Biden will sell them to China before January 2025.


31 posted on 04/05/2024 7:21:12 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Legislators don’t know what AI is.”

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They don’t pass legislation on the basis of knowledge. They pass it on the basis of politics.

Few actually bother to read it.


32 posted on 04/05/2024 7:21:51 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard
No legislator knows "everything" that's in it, but individual legislators know what they have inserted into it because they are the recipients of its largess.

My point is that it is difficult to regulate something that can't be understood or identified. They can't hit a moving target.

33 posted on 04/05/2024 7:25:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: FamiliarFace

“sugar white sand between my toes.”

Squeak Squeak Squeak


34 posted on 04/05/2024 7:26:00 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: OHPatriot

You beat me to it.


35 posted on 04/05/2024 7:28:19 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Red Badger

Have Gates or China bought up the land around it?


36 posted on 04/05/2024 7:30:27 AM PDT by bgill
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To: V_TWIN

It’s the best!


37 posted on 04/05/2024 7:34:45 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Starboard
People forget that the 3 most valuable companies in the world right now (in terms of market caps) are deeply involved in AI.
Microsoft (MSFT): $3.176 trillion

Apple (AAPL): $2.652 trillion

NVIDIA (NVDA): $2.241 trillion

They influence politicians directly and indirectly.
38 posted on 04/05/2024 7:36:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“My point is that it is difficult to regulate something that can’t be understood or identified. They can’t hit a moving target.”

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I get your point. But look what they did with Obamacare. I wouldn’t underestimate their ability to screw up anything.

Things like knowledge, practicality and workability are not their strong suit. Self-interest, political advantage and lust for power are what drives them.

Also what concerns me is the government’s increasing control over every aspect of our lives. When it comes to doing that, and spending money, they are second to none.


39 posted on 04/05/2024 7:37:56 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess - woke leftists want to shut them down....


40 posted on 04/05/2024 7:49:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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