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Which makes this situation all the more remarkable, since Trump called in the national guard without Newsom’s approval.

Not without it being received in earnest. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Because the Chinese Room is a much better analogy for what LLMs are doing inside than the Turing test is.

The president is currently ignoring a Supreme Court order, not explaining why they’re ignoring it, and even if they tried to charge him, last year the Supreme Court ruled that he has immunity from everything anyway. So where exactly is it different from a dictatorship now?

A shocking amount, and it’s well spent, because it literally underpins everything else. The stability it provides (or rather, provided in the past) is what made America so appealing to build and invest in in the first place.

Lefty here. I didnt consider the WaPo left of center. I considered them moderate right.

What’s really interesting about this is that the Overton window has shifted so far to the right with this presidency that even moderate right is now experiencing a chilling effect of its discourse.

And now that we’re in debt for them, they’re using that massive debt, that they created, to argue for dismantling and privatizing those same systems.

That assumes that the corporations would be on the wrong side of the uncertainty.

To me, it seems that the political environment in the US is the most corporate -friendly it’s maybe ever been, so maybe the market priced that in but for the other direction.

Not only that, but that same Republican controlled congress has seemed more than happy to throw their hands up and let Trump stomp all over their authority. I guess because it hurts the Democrats more than them right now.

That is literally the entirety of a manager’s job: judging and evaluating people they manage.

That isn’t the point of this entire thread, though. It’s about what the default is, because like it or not, most people are crazy susceptible and have practically zero media literacy.

Trying to use bitcoin like this is like trying to use certificates of deposit to buy coffee. Bitcoin is a store of value, it’s nonsense to try and use it like this. Look at Ethereum if you want a medium of exchange fit for the digital age.

He didn’t step away willingly the first time, I have zero reason to believe he would step away willingly the second time, especially after he’s spent so much time undoing all the checks and balances that pushed him out that first time.

We do not have an independent judiciary, they have already shown their allegiance to the President.

> who’s going to enforce it?

This is the real danger of where we’re at right now. We are currently at a point where the President has a stacked Supreme Court that had already showed they’re willing to take his side almost no matter what. There is now effectively no check against the executive branch because of that. Papers are already running stories about how Congress is just letting him loose, with these Inspectors General firings as a prime example of how Congress has just thrown their hands up without even a fight.

Trust is multi-faceted and although I trust Amazon to deliver me a toaster, i don’t for a second trust them to handle my audio or video in a manner I’m comfortable. This survey is talking about the latter kind of trust, not the former.

This is more or less how I use LLMs right now. They’re fantastic at the plumbing, so that I can focus on the important part - the business and domain logic.

We certainly are, if you ask me. Especially when you realize that we haven’t had official comms with Russia since the war in Ukraine broke out.

This is spot on. It’s not that I think health insurance companies are making insane profit margins. It’s that their very existence in the system is a pure negative and in fact a moral blight. Inflicting profit into a system that is entirely dedicated to human health is by definition a conflict of interest for basically everyone involved, even if it operated at a hypothetical 100% efficiency.

> very late

when was your fully reusable full-flow staged combustion rocket engine scheduled flight, again?

I’m in a slightly different boat. The CEO’s rubbish behavior sucks, but the company shouldn’t be diminished by that. The people behind SpaceX are a modernd day Apollo Program. Absolute marvels of engineering.

Survival of our species, for one. Never the mind short-sighted folks like yourselves clawing us back the entire way.

I’ve seen this argument made so much lately I’m starting to feel like it’s being astroturfed.

The prices definitely did go down, just not to same levels as before. But I agree Biden failed to hit on that messaging though, and Kamala made the same mistake.

The CHIPS act is going to be his legacy. That and the infra bill, I think. That bill is responsible for several bridges in my area getting much needed attention from what I understand.

Right? Biden actually pulled off a soft landing and got inflation under control. Just couldn’t land that messaging by the time it mattered.

This is the same boring alarmist argument we’ve heard since the Industrial Revolution. Humans have always turned extra output provided by technological advancement to increase overall productivity.

They were falling for those conspiracies before LLMs and arguably even before the internet. They're just able to be much louder now.

This has to be related to the removal of that additive from cargo ship fuel, no? It was theorized it was causing a huge amount of cloud formation.

One of the comments on this post raises a really good question.

What does this hypothesis say to the German language kicking verbs to the end of the sentence?

Ive heard native Germans say they like and even prefer this feature to English’s handling, saying they feel like it allows them time when speaking to pick a good verb for the sentence.