@LynAldenContact Not an economist, but I do not understand the thinking at the Fed, where supply-driven inflation is addressed by rate increases. Economic activity decreases, along with tax revenue. Stagflation ensues. Higher rates increase government borrowing costs, debt generation continues.
@MmisterNobody Given that ~5% of humans are sociopaths, the set of happy people cannot ever include all humans. Sociopaths pursue their own happiness regardless of inflicting unhappiness on non-sociopath humans. And extreme sociopaths are happiest when causing pain for no clear personal gain.
@Barchart Grok can only provide probabilistic answers based on the training data. There is no reasoning involved. The training data contains neo-Luddites' paranoid screeds and rants, along with their linguistic echoes, reflections and comments. Grok reflects back the vulgate answers.
@elonmusk What kind of intelligence is improving? Failure to discriminate between the two when examining use cases for current AI technology leads to flawed conclusions.
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@HowToPrompt__ Fluid intelligence (FI), in contrast to crystallized intelligence, is the ability to solve brand-new problems without using past knowledge.(Cattell, RB. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1963, v. 54, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1037/h0046743) LLMs are not programmed/structured for FI.
Predictions: Polluting the stratosphere and higher altitudes with metal microparticles from satellite burn-up is evolving into a major environmental disaster. You, the taxpayer, and not the corporate perpetrators, will pay for remediation. https://t.co/nWP8PmaFeC
@Eureka_Bing Impression of Chinese governance: it is based on meritocratic system aiming at social harmony and welfare. Not perfect, but contrasts with Western neoliberal monopoly capitalism. Plato & Aristotle understood a democracy would devolve into oligarchic kakistocracy. America, now.
@BrianRoemmele I thought this was a crazy idea, but checking, it is possible to use sound to fracture rocks, including micrograins. https://t.co/3CI4N3BVqW
@RoKhanna@RepThomasMassie Add to the list: campaign finance reform, as #1 priority. The SCOTUS 2010 Citizens United decision handed our governance to large aggregates of capital. Back in the hands of the elected, not the selected, representatives. https://t.co/Jiec1TXRDV
Forget left. Forget right.
Those words are doing the most important job in the American political system right now, and that job is not representation.
That job is distraction.
While you are arguing about abortion and guns and pronouns and immigration, the things they have carefully selected for you to argue about, the people on both sides of that argument own the same stocks, attend the same conferences, send their children to the same schools, vacation on the same yachts, and occasionally appear on the same flight logs.
The flight logs. Let's start there.
Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail and child trafficking operation.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
This is what the evidence, the court documents, the testimony, and the plea agreements tell us.
He ran it for decades.
He ran it with powerful protection.
He ran it while maintaining friendships and professional relationships with politicians, financiers, academics, royalty, and media figures across the entire ideological spectrum.
Both sides. Always both sides.
Because Epstein wasn't serving an ideology.
He was serving a class.
That class has a left wing and a right wing.
Those wings argue loudly in public.
They fund opposing candidates.
They run attack ads against each other.
They give passionate speeches about values and democracy and the future of the nation.
Then the cameras turn off.
And they are all, in the end, in the same room.
Until the room becomes visible, nothing changes.
The left-right war is the room they built to keep you from seeing the room.
@BullTheoryio Rule changes allowed banks to treat U.S. Treasury debt as a direct substitute for cash. September 2014. U.S. banking regulators finalized the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) framework, international Basel III accords. If there is a market for the underlying debt, then "Stable."
@BrianRoemmele Monopolist closed frontier cartel at work. Confabulate fear, peddle agit-prop to support the agenda, dominate, achieve compliance, reap the rewards. Might work in America since they have lots of investor cash to buy the regulators, but they can't enchain the rest of the world.
Stewart Brand at the first Hacker's Conference in 1984: "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive." Brandโs punchline still holds. Open-weight AI models vs closed frontier models.
Stewart Brand at the first Hacker's Conference in 1984: "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive." Brandโs punchline still holds. Open-weight AI models vs closed frontier models.