Tractatus
11hr ago
As I mentioned on Twitter, people pleading "beyond a reasonable doubt" clearly have no clue what it means. If this case doesn't clear the hurdle of then it is literally impossible for any case, short of the defendent literally taking the stand and telling the Court "Yo, I'm actually perfectly fine, I'm just pleading Insanity because I know it's a Get Out of Jail Free Card. Blow me." and any defense attorney in MA not pleading insanity is guilty of professional negligence.
Tractatus
11hr ago
The definition of "fitness to stand trial" is defined by law, not by psychiatrists; tossing this standard aside to give carte blanche to psychiatry - who's guild has publicaly announced opposition to the death penalty, btw - is rank injustice.
Yes, the "experts" are wrong, and in fact they are proud to be so.
If you object to anything in my post you quoted, you provided no argument for it. Have you been asleep the past 50 years? Canada has very much defined itself as being "not America" while avoiding being in outright opposition, and the latter has been less and less true for at least the past 20 years.
To claim Canada is not compromised by Chinese interests is to deny objective reality. If Chinese compute is stationed in Canada, then America would have no hope of succesfully montoring the development of Chinese AI, and would run the risk of having to decide to take military action against a putative ally, above the objections of international partners, based on incomplete information. It's isn't just "politically absurd," it's fucking retarded; it's even dumber than GWB's cabinent convincing themselves that the Iraqis will greet us like liberators, Iraq will be a shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East, that will bring peace on Earth and goodwill toward all men. It's an idea one could only come up with if one is profoundly ignorant of political reality, while steadfastly refusing to entertain the thought of "ok, but what if I'm wrong?"
Ditto American compute in Mongolia. Bordered by two hostile regimes, economically dependent on one (Mongolian economic trade is over 75% with China, last I checked), and we'll be obligated to include Mongolians in running the facility? Are you out of your mind? We have SCIFs in South Korea and Japan, and they've compromised those, repeatedly; we won't even let Japan in Five Eyes because we know, for fact, that Communists (not the Japanese Communist Party, which is of no real threat, but Communist agents aligned with China) have completely infiltrated the government, and anything shared with Japan is de facto shared with China (N.B. this is what Trump was hinting at in his response to the reporter who asked why Japan was not given advanced notice of the attack on Iran. Telling the Japanese government when and what was going to be targetted would have been no different than passing that info to Iran directly). These are allies, who spy on us, and we accept we cannot 100% stop them, but that's fine, it's just the cost of doing business as a global hegemon. But these guys would have us set up the most important project we'll ever take in the lands of a "neutral" party, in close proximity to, and deeply entwined with, a hostile government? There's no chance in hell we could stop Mongolian contractors from getting access to sensitive information that will 100% be passed on to China. This is as good as ceding the AI race to China
If this is what counts as "Serious People discussing Serious Matters, Seriously" to you, then I frankly do not take your judgement on their merits seriously.
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