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[–] solomon42069 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Good question! Leonardo DaVinci was born in the 16th century and he came up with flying machines too. It's a very different problem to have a key person, or five, who have vital engineering and design knowledge versus the numbers needed to uphold an industry. I was more talking about the latter.

You might produce a few geniuses to write your whitepapers - but you need scores of them to manufacture vehicles, bridges, roads, buildings, etc. I've updated my original comment with an asterisk alluding to this point.

Donald Trump's Gilead is not going to inspire a lot of people to become a software engineer in a time when we're celebrating AI replacing jobs. Trump and MAGAs vision will not drive the world to do business with America - it will drive investors and new customers away, shrinking the US tech industry and eroding American dominance.