@Rayrod22@mehdirhasan It was a weird one-time tax, which someone could oppose while wanting higher overall taxes on billionaires. Also it's in one state, which struggles to keep billionaires from leaving in a way the federal govt doesn't as much.
@teortaxesTex You're acting unhinged and like a desperate hit piece writer, while Andy is acting like a normal guy. Are you ok? Really upset because your favorite chip smuggler and lying profiteer got canned? What's going on here?
@_SatanWatch I have a deep ironic enjoyment of this song, though that's prolly because I was raised about as far from evangelical as you can be. I can see how someone who grew up with it would be completely sick of it.
@squarepianocase@GroundhogStrat Violent terrorism seems like an awful tactic, likely to discredit the AI safety movement. How are you supposed to convince politicians to stop AI when you're under investigation for incitement to terrorism or on the run from the FBI?
@nafo_boi@Deadly_Laser The yellow lines are from the International Energy Agency. They are not a pro-fossil fuels organization. The US has repeatedly withdrawn from them for being too anti-fossil fuels
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@nafo_boi@Deadly_Laser Also, Moore's law is similar: crazy exponential growth that continued until it reached ridiculous levels by 1960s standards (when it was theorized based on literally four data points).
Also the solar predictions come from a pro-green energy international org, not oil companies.
@nafo_boi@Deadly_Laser Better analogy than the exponential growth of baby weight, something we have literally billions of examples of how it explodes and then grows at a slower rate.
Tell me, where are the billions of alternate universes we can look at to figure out how AI progress will go?
@MikeFellman Just hold a binding statehood referendum. If you boycott, too bad, it's a state now by statute. There are two options on the ballot, yes and no, and the question is "Should Puerto Rico become a State of the United States of America?"
@bofrench@emeriticus Maybe try winning an election first? You can start with something easy, some random statewide position in Texas, no way you lose that unless you're a total moron.
@Arin_Yumi I mean to be fair, as far as territories go it's somewhat obscure, and with a population of only 170k, smaller than like 150 American towns and cities.
@rogesterone Bring your giant Stalin-esque portraits of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander, as well as a small missile for taking out any data centers harboring nascent AGI RSI-ing to infinity that you might come across, duh.