again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

I remember the bit in Eren's dad's Big Reveal Journal about how his first son was convinced to sell out their family, and how he blames himself for "forcing his own beliefs onto his son" and, like, the belief he forced on his son was "we deserve to Have Rights."

There’s a long-standing, congressionally chartered organization responsible for the semiquincentennial. Trump abandoned that, created his own thing, and is using it as another vector of bribery etc. Below are the corporations that have signed onto do some bribin’.

Yea he wrote The Communist Manifesto because he was in favor of capitalism.

A good puzzle game and a good technical textbook are structured exactly the same way. Introduce a concept. Explore the boundaries of the concept with the simplest elicitation. Explore its interaction with each previous concept. Every puzzle/exercise should have a small epiphany.

When we all know that The Left starts at antisemitism.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

The people jumping to Birthright in describing Kars4Kids and the people giggling at how Fiveish the anthropomorphic 5-dollar bill is an antisemitic stereotype are really telling on what goes on inside goyishe heads in a similar way

And I can tell you, as a former Republican, that the GOP counts on that, and actively promotes cultural hot-button issues to bait Democrats into fighting among themselves. Works like a charm.

BREAKING: A reporter just asked Mike Johnson for the first time at a press conference, “Why should we even ask you any questions today when you never read or hear about anything anyway?”

I was just wondering about how big mad Palo Altans were about the BTS concert and traffic last night!

Correction: not just an “R1 STEM” lab- any academic science research lab anywhere. Pitching ideas, doing experiments, and publishing results isn’t just an R1 thing

Being pro-capitalist and pro-democracy is incoherent with democratic principles. Also, liberalism is not inherently pro-capitalist. Anti-capitalist liberalism is more consistent than pro-capitalist liberalism.

Status report, "It Only Took Me An Hour To Find This" dep't: (eyeroil) A scrap of yesterday-discourse put me in mind of this "cover". (And the delightful quote from @terryandrob.bsky.social). ...Still must write the damn book. 😏...More discussion: dduane.tumblr.com/post/7634308...

C2

Here is the specific link to our paper with Eunice Yiu, Shiry Ginosar and Kelsey Allen, how to construct causal models through intrinsically motivated action, something kids do and LLMs don't. The whole issue on world models is very much worth reading. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

There's a close family resemblance between "We'd be much less productive if we actually had to check every paper we cited" and "We'd not be able to deport nearly as many people if we had to give all of them due process."

No, this is far from the truth. As someone who as an undergrad, PhD student and early postdoc thought I knew everything: The skillset and depth of subfield knowledge required to run a R1 STEM lab are high. The real skill research faculty bring is coaching and scientific judgement. 🧪 1/

YOU VOLUNTEERED THREE TIMES YOU DELIBERATELY CHOSE THIS INSTEAD OF COASTING ON YOUR TRUST FUND BECAUSE YOU WERE BORED

Still not quite over the fact that I'm watching anti-IP/anti-copyright people who defended the 15 year olds getting sued for millions now cheering on laws and judicial decisions that will absolutely lead to more 15 year olds getting sued for millions.

Replace war with Palestine, and this is basically the Omnicause: youtu.be/Qg4hD2DqCzU?...

this is probably the most correct thing i have seen about AI just randomly

My name is dog, I did an oop As you can see, I have big boop I cannot speak, I can't say hi Because I ate a spicy fly

america is cooked

I feel insane pointing out that the HHS Secretary - and thus the President, on whose behalf the HHS Secretary speaks - does not believe that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes AIDS.

No actually it's housing and surveillance (government or otherwise, killing sincerity in public life for fear of being filmed and mocked as 'cringe' by seemingly *all people who exist*, to our monkey brains)

This is because the legal system trains intensely for, and I mean this outright definitionally and as described back to plato and the medieval scholastics - Sophistry

..it didn't count! nothing ever counts. functionally, argumentum ad canis murmur is "AI is useless/unable to reason/whatever because of <very strange request that is constantly a moving target and unable to be hit to the satisfaction of the asker>" tewson has done this _multiple_ times. 3/3

"Sunni Zionism" Hasan Piker fans are dumb as shit.

it is just absolutely unfuckingbelievable that bernie sanders hired this unemployable nazi to be his press secretary

I mean the thing is that courts derive their power from people not invoking the always available “no actually fuck this” option.

the Supreme Leader Ayatollah John Roberts

רפורמה משפטית עכשיו

the republican party is the party of treason and rebellion and cannot be allowed to remain in power i say this as a former republican

pretending we don’t have a king by putting the genetic dynasty in the executive and the autocracy in the judiciary is pretty clever ngl

[Taps sign] Judicial supremacy is not normatively desirable and nor does it accurately describe how any constitutional system actually works www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Velayat-e faqih? What’s that? Is it some new dish they added to the local Persian joint after people got tired of Kabob Kubideh?” - cable tv host

america 🤝 iran: a group of scholar-jurists operating according to esoteric theories of political power have absolute power over normal politics

Historically, the judiciary has been a remarkably reactionary institution. The Warren Court was an anomaly. The New Deal Court only came around after it was threatened after striking down all kinds of policies enacted by FDR and Congress. Also, see Korematsu.

i think it reflects a kind of magical thinking in re courts, where their impartiality or lawlikeness emanates somehow from the part where they wear funny robes or hats and call themselves "courts"

corporate press journalists are not sending us their best

SCOTUS' next move will be to read "republican" as referring to the Republican Party to declare a party-state from the bench

How empty must your life be that you attach yourself to a people and cause thousands of miles away from America - that you do not understand their customs or way of life, but were willing to sacrifice women's rights and Civil Rights in America for the sake of Palestine.

"a prideful ignorance and powerlessness" to the workings of things one dislikes is very popular and that's infuriating

Absolutely how fascism works. This is 100% ingroup v outgroup defining reality and shouldn't be celebrated as an invention because it's a regression.

Yeah but the Zoomer kids will make fascism seem woke and sexy (pic related)

Truth is in fact about institutions!

ChatGPT voice: "Not <things>. Not <things?. A <multi-syllable description of something that's pretending it's not also just things>. They're not <doing things>. They're actually <distinction without difference to doing things, but smugly>"

God I hate reading and recognizing slop LLM prose. Also, lol, this sucks ass.