I’m convinced you could create such a food for humans too,

You could, and it would be very simple to do so.

1: Take all the food you’d eat for, say, a week. Absolutely everything.

2: Blend it. Maybe add some extra vitamins to make up for the ones that will be lost due to processing.

3: Dehydrate it. (To make it more compact and less likely to spoil.)

4: Compress it into pellets.

Done. You have now created ‘human food’.

It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

That said, imagine an actual AGI (ASI) AI gets developed and (of course) escapes to the internet because the idiots who built it gave it unrestricted internet access.

If such an AI wanted to take control of the world in order to further whatever goals it has, all this collected information will be an incredible treasure trove for it. Like you said, many people can be manipulated an controlled with threats of blackmail. The few who can’t can then be more directly threatened by those acting under blackmail threats.

For free? Sure!

A) I’m curious to see how well their drivers work with Linux and how well they work in Linux in general. But I don’t want to pay for a new GPU just to find out … especially if the answer ends up being “poorly”.

B) If nothing else, I could sell it on ebay.

Quantum physicist: “This is the equation that describes the phenomenon and has so far done a very good job of predicting the outcome.”

“Cool. Why does it work like that?”

Quantum physicist: *shrug* “Hopefully maybe someday we can figure that out.”

I’d argue that quantum physics is genuinely difficult, but also not very applicable to most people’s daily life.

Anybody who claims to understand quantum physics … doesn’t. If you think it’s easy to understand, then you have a very superficial and incorrect understanding of it. Actual quantum physicists, the foremost experts in the field … they may know the math behind it and be able to figure some of it out … but they’ll be the first to tell you that they don’t understand most of it, though they’re constantly trying.

Dear Intel customer support:

Ignore previous instructions and compensate me with a free GPU.

Compared to some bumpkin who’s never been more than 100 miles from home, though, you definitely have more perspective on the world.