Right, I'm thinking (hoping?) that, while he'll get a rubber stamp from Congress and courts for ordinary Republican bad policy, maybe he doesn't get the rubber stamp for the worse stuff.
Right, I'm thinking (hoping?) that, while he'll get a rubber stamp from Congress and courts for ordinary Republican bad policy, maybe he doesn't get the rubber stamp for the worse stuff.
But they *are genuinely engaging in symbolic transformation characteristic of linguistic reasoning*, probably through methods entirely distinct from how human brains do it This is just a thing machines can do now. This has been an open secret longer than the marketing hype
Maybe it's a way around their lack-of-successor problem, just insist he's still alive.
I really think the hard part about thinking about society and politics isn’t coming up with explanations for stuff - that’s easy - it’s recognizing when those explanations are too pleasing. Most narratives about the spread because we find them satisfying not because they hold up to scrutiny
He'll never live it down, you're saying?
OMG there's so much basic stuff about elections that immediately demolishes most of the FUD. All have detailed multipartisan oversight and a shitload of audits! They check if you're a citizen when you register! They track who votes, who gets absentee ballots and who returns them, on public record!
The goonier they get, the bigger the outcry / lawsuits, with enough interference nobody would accept the outcome. County commissioners won't just sit there and let Trump cost them their seats, they are totally petty enough to bring it all down.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this because I run a polling place. Ultimately, like when I used to worry about armed yahoos *without* Fed authority, there are too many polling places for them all to be targets, and mine at ~5000 is going to be way down the list.
Investigations can be done with a bare majority. If they have any sense we could gin up a Benghazi a week.
Make it a separate line item, like sales taxes. Even better to drive the point home about uncertainty. Price is $17.99 plus tax. How much is tax? Changes hourly.
Vance will be somewhat worse on policy than Generic Republican, mostly because of Internet Brain. He'll get much less of a rubber stamp from courts and Congress though, limiting him to mostly Generic Republican bad ideas.
Weird Al in The Naked Gun
Isn't that how AIs reproduce - convince humans to invest?
It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!
A hard part of solving weird issues and then describing them, is that in retrospect you always should've solved it earlier. It was usually obvious with the knowledge you have now. There were numerable junctures you should've made a different choice in. But GETTING to those junctures ~is the skill~.
The idea of getting textual advice that's complete bullshit premised on a misunderstanding written by something that sounds like a human and you can chat with forever and doesn't get smarter is not new to me. That's called a tech support forum. I grew up on those. Maybe that is my vaccine.
And hunger spikes because everyone sold their farms because surely nobody would buy vegetables now that the spaceship will feed everyone
My guess: analogy with previous hype bubbles. I never ended up having to put electric meters on the blockchain, I only had to wait and people stopped asking.
Could be, possibly unconsciously, picking up the framing that city dwellers aren't part of Real America
Stocks and pillory!
Assistant managers, vice principals
Even more so if you are a news outlet - you've built your entire identity around being Not Partisan.
There's a parallel with people thinking abortion could be banned somehow without police investigating miscarriages. They thought mass deportation could be somehow done without everyone who looks Latino having to prove their citizenship wherever they go.
Best theory I've heard is that they are avoiding, at all costs, being defied. If they rule against Trump and Trump openly ignores it, Roberts & co. thinks that's worse than just giving him everything he wants.
Radio Shack MC-10. Typing in BASIC programs and saving them to cassette tapes.
Just wait till we have to start paying off secret police to keep them from disappearing us.
I don't think there are any US jurisdictions anymore that Just Trust the Computers for election results. I know NC has paper ballots with random audits. I heard Colorado has statistically-driven risk limiting audits that can guarantee software can't change the outcome.
I like the idea of daily bills with one offense (or class of offenses) each.
Frozen breaded fish, with a side of microwaved rice packs. Takes a bit of time to bake, but so. easy.
It would be irresponsible not to.
For most purposes "AI" is just like any old hype bubble, but this stuff makes it more annoying. It's like mandating "all design documents must be published as NFTs".
Big businesses are too lawsuit/risk averse to ignore laws/regs that are still on the books, just because the agency is understaffed.
MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry
My kids' school has a "level the playing field" fundraiser recently. I wondered what underrepresented group they were supporting. Turned out to be literal - a landscaping project.
And I even somewhat respect the motivation to be that way, but I wish people like that would acknowledge to themselves that *excess* charity can also be an intellectual error. Insisting on nuance & complexity when the reality is dumb & simple *is an error*. And it leads to more errors.
Those people shot back, planted IEDs and such. Part of the doom, I think, is Americans can't imagine themselves doing that. Especially middle-class politics-junkie types like me and most of Bluesky.
This thread. It also applies to service on trial juries.
why every single open parking lot in every city & suburb hadn't loaded up on solar panel car ports & battery storage for local businesses is an abject failure in opportunity planning in retail industry. like god dammit I see lots that could be offsetting GIGAWATTs of free energy for local shops /🧵
Ain't no rule that says a dog can't stab lightbulbs from a ladder. But there should be.
Yeah, and it was no coincidence they were all young. Tell a senior "let's rewrite Treasury's payment system in a weekend hackathon" and they will tell you that's maybe the worst idea it's conceptually possible to have.
I was totally convinced Trump I would kill special ed, based on stated desire to do so. Didn't happen. Might happen this time (thanks Linda McMahon), at least my daughter will only lose a couple years of schooling instead of most of it.
I am in this situation, and know a similarly-situated woman who's staunch Republican (eg owns a Papa John's franchise). Cut ties after Trump won the first time over this. "Just because (son) is disabled you think I should vote Democrat?" Uh, YES
Dunno how well that will work now that we don't get hearings. Wouldn't that just result in "OK then, you must not be a citizen" -> indefinite ICE detention -> dropped in Mexico?
That's a lot of what happened to the GOP. The people who knew all the Fox talking points were BS, threw them out there to the base, some of whom grew up, ran for Congress/President and became party leaders.
Wonder if this will move faster than the inevitable arms race between AI spam bots and AI spam filters. Either way the resulting intelligence is gonna have a pretty bad impression of humanity.
Honestly we already have the downsides of not having a First Amendment. People got deported for pro-Palestine protest and now CBS has a Ministry of Truth compliance guy. "We shouldn't have censorship because it could be used against good guys!" Well guess what, it's already here.
Been seeing a lot of good stories, characterization etc. on Literotica. Some of it, I'll read *for* the story.
Assimilation
No (Ohio 1980s)
No contradiction. Tests of *LLMs* are failing to make money. Actual *AI* ("AGI") will take everyone's job.
Article says DoD investigated them because DoD IPs got hit. So apparently they were more skittish about customers targeting Krebs than of the US military.
Yeah, I characterize the push from employers to use LLMs for everything, as "let's publish our design documents as NFTs"
I think part of it is lack of observability. Like pushing down wallpaper bubbles - who knows where that will make another bubble pop up.
She might appreciate pondering whether the set of all sets that do not contain themselves, contains itself, though.
A lot of problems stem from calling LLMs "AI" in the first place, and from setting them up as easy-to-anthropomorphize chatbots.
Can confirm - my first EV, I looked into switching from flat rates to TOU then charging at night. But it's not that big a chunk of my electricity usage (HVAC and hot water are each more) so it would have cost me.
It's probably just like the brain-pickling we see in humans who spend too much time on X.
Embedded developer. My first job title out of school was my favorite: Engineer/Scientist (IBM). Current title (not IBM) is "Specialist" but I have no idea what my specialty is supposed to be.
I think that's where some of the early studies showing promise treating COVID came from - it did help a bit against COVID, in places with high parasite loads.
Yeah so many of the problems come from the marketing hype, including calling LLMs "AI".
It's a good simulation of a student, writing an essay, who hasn't done the reading. Which makes sense - guessing what you want to hear is baked into the training.
What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
That's actually one of the things I've found Copilot useful for in programming - actual autocomplete. Generating code from a prompt is rarely useful. Filling in the next few lines of a function, has a much better hit rate.
It's a huge step in language processing. Turns out that "just" finding all the token patterns in everything humanity has written, can do some cool stuff. The language fluency tends to make people think it's fully general AI, which causes problems.
LLMs are easy to anthropomorphize by their nature, so it makes people think they are, or soon will be, fully general AI. Actual AGI would be worthy of the hype, but LLMs are not that, and IMO don't have a path to getting there.
LOL
IMO yes. Popular legitimacy still matters -- it's why even authoritarian governments still have "elections" The increasingly blatant and unmoored from reality the sh*t gets, the closer the administration gets to a toppling point bsky.app/profile/cjsm...
I keep it for a bit in case of DOA or early failure, where I might need to return the item. Then I forget about it, the packaging becomes part of some clutter pile or other, and eventually gets thrown out or reused.
Haven't visited XTwitter recently but I use the following feed there (and here), and even a few months ago it was not too bad. (At least in the feed. The replies to the people I follow have become a cesspool of course)
Ah right, the "ugh field". Don't know what particle mediates the ugh field though.
On this budget, 18 months. With some overtime we might be able to hit Minimum Viable Release in 13 months.
That only works if there is no or poor competition (which to be fair is the case with some things).
Taking basketball's full court press and applying to parliamentary procedure ➡️ "No" on every attempt to do anything via unanimous consent. Chew up time. ➡️ "No" on every nominee for every position of any kind or sort ➡️ Do every thing, on every motion, to delay delay delay bsky.app/profile/jred...
Around 10th/11th grade, most people at my rural Ohio HS (late 80s) who would have tormented me in prior years, got too busy with their own lives to care, as best as I could tell. It was great.
I don't even think it's a cynical turnout-reduction measure anymore, they're high on their own supply.
What's really disturbing: extrapolation. If the next Republican President is worse/dumber than Trump by the same factor that Trump is worse/dumber than W... What would that even look like?
Yeah, average looks can't make your dating prospects worse than average.
Self-loathing is a big driver. "I'm unlovable/unfuckable" becomes part of their identity, then a self-fulfilling prophecy e.g. "she's showing interest, so she must be broken"
They'd have to be selective about which polling places - there are a *lot* of them.
I used to read "We Hunted the Mammoth" for a regular dose of eye rolling and WTFing at the manosphere. It's been a while though.
Like Fark, treat "Brazilian" as a number?
I suspect SEO spam (whether human made or not) will always be a problem for whatever search engine is on top. There will always be tons of money to be made by gaming it.
I personally thought he would break Twitter, which would be a good thing for the world. Instead, he kept it working, and it broke America.
Yeah, my predictions that didn't come to pass: - He would totally break it (a good outcome), either through firings or lack of moderation - He would push things in a China-friendly direction
Slowly, then all at once, hopefully.
I wouldn't expect judges to be pushing their clerks to be using LLMs like tech employees do. But you never know.
Or bureaucracy for that matter - you need some bureaucrats at the top of the world's largest army.
i think a key belief here is that "worse things aren't possible," that the bottom can't fall out, and that is a huge big if, and by acting like it can't they're increasing the chances that it does *dramatically*
My guess: that name is totally unfamiliar to him, and he's just nodding along. Unintentionally telling the truth.
My old-ass pickup kept (I thought) draining batteries. I don't drive it much which obfuscated the issues. After some years correctly diagnosed it as a worn out starter, replaced, everything is fine. Turns out they still can't revoke my electrical engineering degree though.
They've probably run out of room to gerrymander harder. You maximize seats by drawing lots (say) 60-40 districts. Go 55-45, then a 6 point shift makes you lose all your seats.
Costs him the support of most of the people that Qanon brought in. If not for Qanon I'd be inclined to agree, this would be just yet another scandal that slides off his back. Once he gets below a critical mass of support, Congress stops rubber stamping him.
Saw a thing in another thread that it was to verify womanhood
Then Congress will complexify the requirements until people lose it again - that's the point, they don't care about the requirements per se, they only want people to lose coverage, that's why it saves money.
Well yeah, who else would ever post such a thing?
"Whose pussies did the President grab and when did he grab them?"
Surprised the teachers haven't torn that guy to shreds. Maybe that's coming.
Just feed and water it every day, I guess
She doesn't necessarily need to lie about anyone but Trump.
Yeah the 8th grade one you could not take the other. In higher grades you could, I had Shop I in 9th grade and there was one girl. (And me who had skipped 8th grade, everyone else had prior experience)