EvanTh
1mo ago
Whether the air force is a branch of the army or not is really an organizational bureaucratic matter rather than constitutional interpretation.
Yes, this. The Army Air Force was originally part of the Army, and everything was clearly fine with the Constitution. Then the National Defense Act of 1947 changed some names for the Army Air Force and the rest-of-the-Army and hybridized the organizational structure of the Army and Navy, but how does that cause Constitutional problems?
EvanTh
1mo ago
- Higher standards for filing a case to begin with
This could be a good thing, but I'm concerned about cases where people don't have the evidence up front and need to get it through discovery. People with very legitimate cases can end up in that situation.
- Another similar option, just ban someone from seeking further redress for a while (forever?) if they're found to be constantly abusing the courts.
This is a thing in some jurisdictions: recognized "vexatious litigants" have to get the court's pre-approval before filing further complaints. However, standards for being a vexatious litigant are high.
EvanTh
2mo ago
Better at performing each individual act associated with being a friend or romantic partner? Conceivably so (at least several model upgrades from now), within their constraints of being limited to computer systems. But my argument is, that's missing something of the core of being a friend or romantic partner.
Better at being a friend or romantic partner, despite that, than many people who can't visibly let someone behind her roles to the person herself? Entirely possible, but that's still missing something most people want.
EvanTh
2mo ago
When we interact with teachers, therapists, or editors, we're interacting with them within the confines of a particular role. You shouldn't use your editor as your therapist, or vice versa, and they shouldn't use you as theirs.
But with friends and romantic companions, we're hoping to interact outside those confines, with the person herself. If I only interact with a role she puts on, that's not a good friendship or romantic partnership. Same thing if I'm always putting on a role for her.
With an AI, you can't get beneath that role. If it looks like you have, that's just another role. That makes them great teachers and therapists (at least in this sense), but very bad at being friends or romantic partners.
EvanTh
2mo ago
You could always get a final ruling, rather than a preliminary injunction, from a court of competent jurisdiction.
If you say that getting a final ruling takes way too long - well, yes, that is a problem we urgently need to solve.
EvanTh
3mo ago
As a cyclist, I avoid 40mph roads whenever I can. Unfortunately, sometimes they're the only roads going where I want to go.
EvanTh
3mo ago
But by that reasoning, wouldn't the drawing of state legislative districts also be a purely internal act? Because the states are sovereign, and if a state want one district to be ten times the size of another, that's its sovereign right?
You've got a strong argument, but it flies in the face of decades-old Supreme Court precedent which I haven't heard anyone arguing to overturn.
EvanTh
4mo ago
I've never heard anyone seriously try to argue that killing Jesus was good on a consequentialist basis, anyways.
I've heard about some ancient Gnostics who argued exactly that. They got excommunicated as heretics.
EvanTh
4mo ago
He's still regularly posting on DSL, and he's also got his own Substack.
EvanTh
5mo ago
Whether or not Trump "likes" transgender people, he's certainly instituted some policies they very much perceive as hostile to them.
EvanTh
5mo ago
I do think there have been experiments to see if people who were prayed over recovered at better rates than people who did not, and my recollection is that there did not seem to be a statistically significant difference. But it's been years since I read about that and I don't know any of the internals of the study, so I have no real informed opinion of its validity.
Here's a quick look at the methodology of several studies. One of the largest studies, which famously reported a negative result, included people from many religions but barely any Protestant Christians.
EvanTh
5mo ago
And because they didn't give it to him for a limited time in the first place. Congress needs to learn the same lessons about power grants that the English Parliament learned about taxes.
EvanTh
5mo ago
It is, as you say, unlikely.
But I am still concerned when the US Department of Justice argues that if it did happen to me, I would have no redress.
EvanTh
5mo ago
If I were writing those letters, I very well might do that. But I would never disclose that I would do that.
EvanTh
5mo ago
I wonder if that's exactly why they're using a standard-issue commercial app.
EvanTh
5mo ago
I want to agree, but that's the same thing leftists will say when they try to make every red state allow abortions and teenage gender changes.
EvanTh
7mo ago
The actually useful parts of USAID are mostly still happening, just under state department purview
They are? Do you have a link?
EvanTh
1yr ago
Interesting! And rather reassuring!
Is there anything published where I can read more about this?
EvanTh
1yr ago
The median voter owns a house with a 3% mortgage.
Do you have numbers on that?
Lewis was writing during WWII; film was very much a thing.
But they'd be coming for the story, for the actors, for the poetry of the lines, and for many other things besides just seeing a couple kiss. Remember that you can also fill a theater for a film about many other things besides romance. A strip-tease doesn't have any of that.
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