haversoe
25d ago
I think there should be a way to punish politicians who tell you what they think you want to hear on the campaign trail and then do the exact opposite (or an indefensible watered down version of what they said; cf. Trump's actual actions on illegal immigrants) once they're elected. Fuentes evidently feels the same.
She's seriously disappointed with the type of guys she has available to her.
If she had planned to start looking seriously for the love of her life in her 30s and expects that she'll have the same success, as measured by the "quality" of the man, as the women who make this their top priority from the time they're 19, she's in for a bad time. The really good ones--both men and women--are locked down early, as you've surmised. By prioritizing career, she's made a tradeoff, whether she realizes it now or not. There is no "having it all".
Of course, there's always black swan events. If, against all odds, she finds her doting 6'4" doctor with the chiseled abs and jaw, she'll be on reddit's r/askwomenover30 in a few years giving really bad advice to people who will then be in the situation she's in now.
haversoe
29d ago
She does not consider herself one or the other,
Couldn't it be a "Not my president" kind of vibe? Versus an "I'm not an American and I hate the Americans" kind of thing? I don't like Congresswoman Tlaib. She has many characteristics, and been behind many public stunts, that are easy to criticize, but worst of all she's just plain trashy. But I find it hard to believe she seriously wouldn't consider herself an American considering she was born and raised in Michigan.
haversoe
29d ago
Fair enough and I agree with your assessment of Trump. Trump is Trump. He does things his way and that rubs lots of people the wrong way. But he's not a monster. In fact, from time to time you'll see evidence that he actually cares about the legacy he leaves. Kushner, on the other hand, just gives me the heebie-jeebies. Brilliant and sociopathic.
haversoe
30d ago
I believe so and I'll concede that it's possible that the people of Iran take control. Personally, I'd be happy if that happened. But I'm skeptical of a disorganized mob being able to effectively stand up to even a very wounded regime. If there's actually an organized group of dissidents on the ground poised to stage a coup d'etat, I think that would have a much better chance at success. There's always the outside chance of a full-on revolution too (counter-revolution, actually). Don't know whether the circumstances in the country make that likely. But again, without a plan, leaders and organization, a revolution could make things far worse.
haversoe
30d ago
Producer cannot tell the customer how their product can be used.
Yeah, but software mostly isn't bought. You're purchasing a license. True for the DoD too. And they absolutely tell you how it can and cannot be used. That's typically what a EULA does, among other things.
haversoe
30d ago
There is no plausible scenario where we "sacrifice millions of Americans"
Seems to me that what you're responding to was an attack on Kushner's character, and his loyalty and disloyalty to Israel and the US respectively, versus a claim of what Trump and the US gov't will do. In other words, he'd be willing to sacrifice millions of Americans because he's a terrible person and only cares about Israel anyway.
haversoe
30d ago
There were ongoing diplomatic negotiations in Geneva up until yesterday. The BBC reported yesterday that an observer claimed "significant progress" in the talks. Whether the US was negotiating in good faith is up for debate.
haversoe
30d ago
Uprising is plausible I think.
It is if CIA has significant assets in-country that have already built up networks. The belief that these things just happen organically when the situation is ripe is suspect.
haversoe
30d ago
Maybe the plan is to bleed them a little (and get them afraid of being hung from lamp posts by their populace) so they'll be more amenable at the bargaining table? Art of the deal and all that.
haversoe
30d ago
models deployed on the USG's classified networks
When I read this (with respect to Claude) I'm not thinking operational networks, like the Air Force and Army have a secret level network (SIPRNET) for mission planning. I'm thinking of the top secret, compartmentalized networks of the intelligence agencies. Whole other beast and a classified solution authorized for the former may not be authorized for the latter.
haversoe
1mo ago
If AI sticks only to coding and produces genuinely useful things, wonderful, we'll all be happy.
I'm of the impression that the emphasis on coding is so that each new generation can take a larger share of designing and implementing the next, until such time only the AI is writing the AI. And that's how we reach AGI as quickly as possible, if such a thing is possible via LLMs.
haversoe
1mo ago
The only thing that could reign in AI at the moment is Haskell.
Because of strong static types? Referential transparency?
haversoe
1mo ago
That was my immediate thought as well. We're obviously not at that point yet. The $64K question is whether we will be in a couple of years or a couple of decades.
haversoe
1mo ago
I would like to call out that I explicitly rejected providing Hello Fresh in my proposal
Piggybacking to say: I said issue MREs because we were talking about a post-scarcity, UBI situation where AI and robots are doing all the work. What does "this meal costs $21 to make" even mean in that situation? What the hell is a dollar if all commerce has stopped?
haversoe
1mo ago
Or just issue everyone MREs. The government already has the supply lines set up. Just need to ramp up the manufacturing. And you don't even need a heat source to make hot food.
haversoe
1mo ago
I like the general shape on principle, but I'd hate to see it grow into 50,000 well-paid bureaucrats overseeing 15,000 beneficiaries. Also, they tend to morph into millions of exceptions and administrative hearings for "yeah, 3 of my kids got arrested but here's why the rules shouldn't apply to me right now."
haversoe
1mo ago
you can't use it for hot foods
That's exactly my point. They're trying to say what people aren't allowed to buy and it's too hard to get right. Instead they should only say what people are allowed to buy. And rotisserie chicken should be one of those things IMO (whole chicken, cooked on premise, no breading... or something specific like that so it doesn't accidently include hungry man chicken dinner or KFC). And anything not on the allowed list won't be covered by food stamps. But I'm not a policy expert on this topic (or any topic) and there are probably good reasons why it isn't done this way.
haversoe
1mo ago
I think any attempt to ban categories of items is doomed to fail. There really are no strict categories once you get down in the weeds of what's available at a typical grocery store. Or, there's as many categories as there are products, which isn't helpful at all. I advocate for starting from zero and adding foods you want people to purchase. Surely "whole raw onions" does not accidentally also cover something in the frozen frankenfood aisle.
Yes, it would be hard to do this and there'd be gnashing of teeth, etc. A big problem is that most people don't know how to cook. What used to be a survival skill at some point became a luxury hobby in some sense and for some people. I don't know what we should do about that. Maybe just live with the fact that the very poor will eat like the blue collar/lower middle class.
haversoe
1mo ago
Thanks for sharing the Shumer piece. Despite it being viral, I didn't know about it. I'd be interested in seeing a counterpoint from someone with as much claimed insider knowledge that doesn't scream that the sky is falling. Has anyone of note pushed back and called bullshit?
haversoe
1mo ago
I remember Challenger and I think it was not 0.001% as traumatizing as 9/11. Maybe others my age feel differently, I dunno.
haversoe
1mo ago
In particular, my antipathy for any sort of celebrity has grown so large that I've taken to telling people (and working to make myself believe) that "celebrities aren't really people."
I share this view with you and I was an adult when 9/11 happened. Maybe it's just the way we're wired versus the environments we grew up in.
haversoe
1mo ago
If you're represented by a lawyer, why are you asking an LLM questions about your case.
Because if you ask a question you get 30 seconds to a minute of explanation. The lawyer, on the other hand, gets (at least) an hour billable. For lawyers willing to do business with scrubs like me (vice lawyers and firms that specialize in multi-million or billion dollar business only--God only knows how much they cost), that's $600-800 for something I could have gotten for free if I'd only taken the time to type out the full context. Obviously, this could go really sideways really quickly and when life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are on the line, that's not good. But I'd like to have it as an option for the times it feels safe.
haversoe
1mo ago
bowing and lifting relatively heavy objects, which is also terrible for your health
I think it depends on why you're doing it.
Some people will just throw up their hands and say, "that's just the way it is now." Others will get mad and try to do something about it, no matter how impotent. I have no idea which approach is right, but I'm glad the second kind of people exist. We've got more than enough nihilism and helpless acquiescence.
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