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Easy for that to be true: just set your expectations to zero.

The Libertarian Party is solely focused on reducing the liabilities side of the balance sheet in the interest of reducing the income side by lowering taxes. Try showing up to to a libertarian convention with "give me some money to invest in a program that will benefit our whole society" and see how far you get.

One might argue that this war is a free hand-out to foreign interests.

> I even wonder if it has been developed seriously- I mean the study of antimemes as a communication/ propaganda technique.

Tell me you can't see the fnords without telling me...

> UK number was 12000 per year.

"Arrested for social media posts" including things that aren't protected speech anywhere (harassment, threats, incitement to violence).

>Tucker Carlson is under the gun for allegedly being a Russian or is it Iranian agent.

As critical as I am of the US administration (it wouldn't surprise me if they were investigating their critics, especially those who have large platforms and are openly supportive of adversaries), Tucker Carlson built his career by shilling conspiracies and persecution complexes. There's nobody here whose word you should take.

There's a big difference between the first chunk of this account's history and their posting over the last ~2 hours. Either they suddenly adopted a very different and, frankly, dramatically more literate-but-vapid writing style, or they're running an LLM responder.

On the one hand:

> 11 comments in the last two hours, each 3-4 3-sentence paragraphs expounding essentially very polished summaries of the text with no added context

On the other:

> paseante 74 days ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from th...

> That's the first thing I thought when I read the title. Hey we have already efficient systems for eliminating CO2 from the athmosphere: trees!. The joke tells itself.

> It seems like we have not yet done the full circle, but we are close.

Confirmed, that's the last paragraph in my 1996 Signet Classics copy.

CSI and Law and Order as well contributed to the perception that the majority of police officers spend their time diligently and righteously investigating real crimes (usually resulting in finding the culprit) instead of spending their days watching traffic in pursuit of pretextual traffic stops, and solving less than 50% of violent crime cases.

    The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy. [0]

[0] Umberto Eco, *Ur-Fascism* https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

With you on the other things (we wouldn't be in this position if the Biden admin had had any interest in enforcing laws), but, other than his purely symbolic nomination, what role did Merrick Garland have in the Obama administration that Obama could "let him get away with" anything?

I don't know, it would take quite a subtle prompt to get an LLM to write the sub-edited slop in the latter part of the article:

> We are now again in a new inflatory phase, and this time the difference is that it does not only impact GPUs, but almost everything really important, like RAM and NVME storage.

> But there’s also something new on the software side. The advent of new technologies like DLSS, FSR, and more recently Framegen have also changed the performance equation a bit.

> Finally, the games themselves are not pushing the enveloppe [sic] as much as they used to.

> but that’s not obvious that the visual outcomes are far better.

> We have entered in the marginal progress zone.

That level of risk aversion has been burned into policymakers, especially at the local level. Wasting taxpayer money by letting an inefficient system continue to degrade makes less news than doing so by investing in a risk that failed, and gets a lot fewer people screaming at you in public and sending you death threats.

Why might you wear a life jacket on a boat, even though you're 99.9% likely not to have the boat flip over?

I don't know what of this is the prompt and what was the output, but that's a pretty bad schematic (for both aesthetic and circuit-design reasons).

What am I missing? Spain is still a monarchy [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_VI

The word "lied" has a lot of layers[0] other than "knowingly said an outright falsehood". He may not have told an outright, provable falsehood (although some of these examples are close). He certainly has a long history of statements to Congress that are baldly misleading or belied by Meta's own internal records.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Types_and_associated_terms

It's worth noting that their argument isn't "Mark Zuckerberg perjured himself and needs to be jailed for it" because he said something strictly and knowingly false. It's "we shouldn't trust Mark Zuckerberg's testimony because he (and Meta more widely) have a long (long, long) history of being knowingly deceptive about the harms of their product".

Often, the same ones with limited punctuation also have length limits, so maximizing the character options is the only way to maximize entropy.

My favorite is when it must have punctuation, but certain punctuation is silently banned, so I have to keep refreshing my password generator until it gives me an acceptable combination.

In fact, the last mayor I can find who served in a superior political office after their mayoralty was John T Hoffman, who was mayor from 1866-1868 and then NY Governor from 1869-1872.

> But regardless of power, what the NYC mayor does is widely reported and it's often a political stepping stone (if not always successful) to something greater.

The only "greater" things any recent NYC mayors have done are bankrolling presidential campaigns and failed coup attempts.

Looking back at it, the last NYC mayor who held a notable political position after their mayoral term was Robert Wagner.

Many of the software developers whose end users are their revenue source return to calling them customers.

GP's question was about perception, not reality.

This is the "LLM as junior engineer (/support representative/whatever)" strategy. If you wouldn't equip a junior engineer to delete your entire user database, or a support representative to offer "100% off everything" discounts, you shouldn't equip the LLM to do it.

Anthropic seems to be chasing that angle (c.f. their run of "AI that doesn't advertise to you" commercials).

Virtually none of the Bible was written in a currently-dead language. Only small bits were written in Aramaic, and Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew are pretty much comprehensible to modern Greek and Hebrew speakers.

Even the Christian era of the Bible being distributed in Latin made perfect sense since it was originally mostly being distributed to people who spoke Latin with questionable accents (and where Latin was the language everyone who was literate was literate in).

> Gaming HW is going to suck for many years.

Not just gaming hardware, everything where the electronics are a predominant part of the unit cost (read: all gadgets) is going to be seeing a big crunch in the next ~2 years (optimistically).

Approximately 100% of RAM manufacturing capacity on Earth has been reallocated to feed the slop machines; anything consumers get is effectively a production cast-off.

The global freight carrier storefronts around me all have notary services. I used them to notarize the documents from my last home sale; they glanced at my ID to the extent that they checked it matched the name on the paperwork, and signed off on it.

Border entry at airports is concerned with a) smuggling and b) immigration control. Passport control may have been all you saw but there was almost certainly heavy profiling and background checking going on behind the scenes. If you had matched a more suspicious pattern than "high-power passport without suspicious history flying an unusual route", you likely would have faced more scrutiny.

Enabling and incentivizing able-bodied people to do things other than drive reduces traffic and parking pressure, expanding access for the people who are unable to function without cars (and long-term will, contrary to your concerns, reduce the portion of people whose physical condition prevents them from functioning without a car).