@moultano The Odyssey was not conservative. It's central thesis is that not being kind to foreigners caused the bronze age collapse.
It's not woke, but it is liberal in this way. The GOP would hate it for the right reasons if the casting didn't make them hate it for the wrong ones.
@distributionat No the difference is that engineers tend to associate with folks in the top 50% of the iq distribution while doctors have to interact with that bottom half and have a better understanding of human nature as a result
Marc Andreesen said that Biden’s requirement that frontier AI developers tell the government about their safety practices was an existential threat to US AI, but he thinks global export controls on US AI models is “based” if they’re against people he hates/missed the series A of
Khan's shtick was first and foremost about combatting corporate power.
She and her allies have since tried to affordability-wash their anti-corporate populism, but there's no denying that their policies often *raise* costs for consumers.
I am so so sick of accepting cookies. The EU has subtracted a similar number of minutes from my life, on purpose, as an environmental toxin that they would ban.
@sflicht@grok@binarybits the triggering of HSR review alone is enough of a barrier. it means the deal cannot close quickly which is absolutely vital in a space that moves as fast as AI does, and it adds too much uncertainty
AI data centre water usage replacing the “100 companies responsible for climate change” shibboleth among people who absolutely love the idea none of their individual actions contribute to climate change and they shouldn’t make any efforts to mitigate their carbon footprint