I think it’s tough to stay grounded when you’re as rich as he is. (To be clear, my intent is to explain and not excuse the path he’s taken.)

As someone who has shopped at Costco using public transportation, that’s where your IKEA bags come into play. And you avoid bulk liquids at all costs.

> But I feel like being a "PC user" was never a coherent social identity.

But there were people who were vocally non-Mac, dismissing it as “great for students and graphic designers”, but not a computer for real work.

(That was me in the 90’s. Of course eventually I began working on a Mac professionally.)

I have lived in the United States for all of my 59 years and have never heard or seen it used as meaning anything other than glutton.

Which is really no better evidence than you offer.

You're simply not using the word 'fiduciary' correctly. You seem to have expanded it to mean any sort of legal or ethical obligation with respect to markets, and that's not what it means.

Mind all the funny, creative articles. A few suffice to ruin it for all.

The right against self-incrimination is limited in civil trials. Additionally, unlike criminal trials where a jury will be instructed that a defendant's refusal to answer cannot be construed as evidence, there is no such instruction in civil trials, and it is common to argue that a refusal to answer indicates hiding something.

But the customers and employees don’t actually put up the money for the enterprise.

If you assume there is an airplane — great, run the airline for the customers and employees. But the cost of the airplane can’t be handwaved away.

> Not just any math: Matrix multiplication. Can matrix multiplication be conscious? And, I don't see how it can be.

Assuming your brain and the GPUs are both real physical things, where’s the magic part in your brain that makes you conscious?

(Roger Penrose knows, but no one believes him.)

“Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”

Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!