I try to calmly explain to people how if you hear something enough, you start to believe it blindly

I also explain how the reward schedules of social media are terrible for you

I have not had great results. I’ve helped encourage people who already understood all this to be more mindful of their media diet, but people blindly enraged at imaginary enemies don’t seem to be moved

Yes, it’s cultural. Using your hands to think in general is natural, just like head movements - but the actual movements we use are cultural

There’s some natural shaping to the movements, such as tilting your head to signal you’re paying close attention - tilting your head can help you hear more clearly. In the same way, covering your lips in some way signals you’re not trying to speak

But ultimately, in another timeline everyone would be bobbing their head from side to side to signal consideration… It’s shaped by instinct to some extent, but dominated by culture

But also deeply unhappy people

It’s because of dilution of responsibility.

Private companies aren’t restricted by the Constitution, so they’re not on the hook. Police are just using a private service, so the department isn’t on the hook either

So really, it’s no one’s responsibility to make sure this isn’t abused. That’s what we have to fix

make it a crime to have wealth over ＄500M. Anything over that and the government gets to seize assets until total wealth is ＄50M.

I say we just give them a medal and say “you won capitalism!”, give them a fancy card with a $5m a year stipend, and forbid them from ever touching money again

Let’s make it a status symbol, the interest on the money we take from them will pay for the program and more. Hell, we can give them a point system for whatever they don’t spend for cool prizes to compete with each other for

We need to change the incentives… Instead of letting their net worth act like a point total among their peers, we need to give them pro-social activities to compete through to keep them occupied

We’ve got time, and progressives are winning at all levels of government right now. We’ve got a huge midterm battle coming up too

That’s certainly what will happen if we don’t fight… But things move fast these days. We’ve got more than a year to make sure that doesn’t happen, and who can predict where we’ll be in a year?

It would be a lot easier to regulate open models if they perform regulatory capture first

Seems like one of several last ditch efforts to keep the bubble going IMO. They’re flailing

No, this is out of nowhere and it’s basically just a formal request to the prime minister

If it goes anywhere, it’ll take some time

“Climate change” doesn’t say anything about warming

I think climate change is just more accurate than focusing on warming… Things outside aren’t just getting warmer, it’s also going to get colder and generally more extreme

It is another example of this softening though…I think “anthropological climate destabilization” would be much more descriptive

Not sure how violence is going to improve that. Doesn’t seem like it’s ever helped in the many times we’ve tried

Maybe we should try literally anything else? Just spit balling here

If they’re a child sex offender, say that. I hate how the media softens impacts that shouldn’t be softened these days

Could not imagine a more clear basis for outrage from Americans everywhere than that.

Remember when he tore down part of the white house for essentially no reason? That was a way bigger insult to the nation

Who cares if he steals a little piece of metal? He does that all the time, he loves stealing tokens and trophies. No one with half a brain would ever be confused and believe that he somehow earned the FIFA trophy and congressional medal of Honor, and a purple heart and whatever else he wants to stick on a shelf

It’s embarrassing, for both him and the county, but it’s entirely meaningless. It’s just a piece of metal if you don’t earn it

Connect with your community. Work at a local level, and build from that foundation with others doing the same to take on bigger problems

Things are going to get rough for the whole planet, seems like that’s unavoidable at this point, but that doesn’t mean things are going to be bad everywhere all the time

One person can’t fix the world, but you can make life better for the people around you. Things can get better locally. Good, even

Those are basically nuclear batteries, in the disposable reaction sense. It’s not fission, fission requires huge amounts of water. Fundamentally, even if you used another coolant and another way of turning the power to electricity, you need massive heat dissipation (which is very difficult in space)

Nuclear batteries are basically decay powered, they give a small amount of power for a really long time. Totally different technology

Old America

First, you have to decide who you want to be and what you want out of life. You can have anything, but not everything, if you pursue it without stopping

Don’t take on debt.

Don’t get into a relationship with a manipulator.

Be honest in your dealings. Don’t take advantage of people or profit off suffering

Follow that, and you have 10 years to figure out everything else. 20’s are for learning, 30’s are for earning… Just try stuff. Pursue whatever you like, make connections with people, and you’ll build a foundation that will put you far ahead later on

And if you do want to try doing a software start up, I am looking for someone to partner with who can make sales. I’m planning to go after professionals like lawyers and start by making them websites to make the connection, and taking whatever work flows from that. Hit me up if you’re interested

What do you mean? The presidency has enormous power at this point, and when it comes to enforcing regulation the power is actually granted by Congress

All the president has to do is convince these few companies that they’re actually in danger of operations being shut down, even temporarily. They will respond a lawsuit to block this if they think that would be the easier path, but there’s any number of ways to bring them in line. They’d lose an enormous amount of money for every day they’re shut down… If they believe cleaning up their operations is going to be the cheaper path, they’ll make changes unbelievably fast

The presidency also has enormous soft power… If the president calls a company out publicly for food safety, the share price will drop, grocers will switch suppliers if they can, and it’ll affect sales

It all hinges on reputation though… It might take following through on a threat to bring the rest in line, but once they see food safety as the cost of doing business with no cheaper option, they’ll absolutely fall in line

I think it’s more that some datacenters were using significant amounts water in places where there already wasn’t enough to go around

The truth is datacenters don’t even always use water cooling, and even when they do it’s not a ridiculous amount of water

But people latched onto the water thing, even if it’s not true, it’s spiritually true. They are using up insane amounts of resources… Just not water specifically

Well of course they outperform them if they’re specialized to a purpose… Theres a like 3B model that plays Minecraft and generally kicks the ass of all the more general llms

And in general, the big models are primarily better at remembering instructions and context… An 8B model can hold a basic conversation or perform simple tasks on a similar level to a frontier model

Really, really depends on what they’re specialized to do though

I agree with all that, and it is certainly both a distraction and class warfare, no doubt

My only point of contention is that it’s not a step in a process of class warfare, it is a tool of class warfare

But after you clarified I think that might just be a matter of phrasing

Also, while the system is set up against us, there’s reason for hope. Progressives are coming out of the woodwork and snatching up elections, especially locally. Things could change for the better

But even aside from that - I don’t mean self interest is going to magically win the day. What I mean is that personal suffering causes unrest

You can form a coalition of hatred short term, we’ve seen that people will even hang onto that while the leapords are actively eating their face

The hatred might not go away, but the unity goes out the window the second people can’t get their favorite brand of Oreo (or lose their livelihoods)