TIRM
2hr ago
This guy is the founding author of the project, and has been its primary maintainer for 30 years.
The vibe is that older retirement aged or approaching retirement aged people excessively love AI and are somehow blind to its faults.
It is a reversal of tech adoption in which the old are hyped and the young are hesitant.
TIRM
12hr ago
And then he workers as a mercenary to kill more people and described his group as being for killing. He's not a subtle man.
TIRM
14hr ago
California is shamefully slow at counting ballots. They are always this way. There doesn't seem to be a correlation between higher taxes, more state workers and actual state capacity.
My problem with them is all the ballot harvesting.
TIRM
1d ago
There's some amount of chest compression that will kill a person. As they beg minute by minute saying they can not breathe.
I'm imagining a Roman looking up at a criminal on a cross and saying "if you can talk, you can breathe" as the criminal very slowly asphyxiates.
TIRM
1d ago
My opinion is a good one and I easily hold it. I also want cops to give medical attention to stab victims. I never said otherwise.
TIRM
1d ago
Thinking about the Obama administration: malicious tax audits of non-profits, Operation Choke Point debanking conspiracy and Citizens United outright censorship. So yeah I don't have to imagine very hard.
TIRM
2d ago
Their policy manual and official department rules do not supercede the law. A cop can follow their procedure to the letter and also be convicted for his actions. Their procedures are something they made up and very much not the law.
We can have sanctioned violence with law enforcement follow the law rather than the "official rules" their department made. State legislation defining murder is not inferior to department policy.
TIRM
2d ago
They are okay for summarizing research. But if you think it may be wrong, it can't back its facts up. Or you tell it you think it is wrong so it pivots with equal confidence to a new set of claims more in line with your demands.
Your post well could be correct. But with low confidence.
TIRM
2d ago
excited delerium
I thought this was a fake thing cops made up. I'm sure their internal documentation refers to it and recommends methods of dealing with it. Pretending as though it was a medical diagnosis they are sensibly dealing with. That way when they get caught behaving in an unjustifiable manner they can use procedure as a shield from criticism. A procedure they made up and may not be legal if actually applied. As seen by this cop following procedure and then being convicted of murder.
TIRM
2d ago
Did you copy-paste Grok output? This might be correct or approximately correct. But I have low confidence in raw LLM output. I use these things at work and they say weird stuff and I demand a citation and they cannot find one. I'm pretty skeptical of these things.
TIRM
2d ago
staff are trained to always take the side of racial minority complainants
The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence.
Paper bag testing people and blindly siding with white suspects is dumb. This, doing the opposite, is just as dumb.
TIRM
4d ago
threat of release to the 'public domain' or open-sourcing
Off the top of my head: make the released version of code so complicated and obscured that people can't effectively use it.
Out of curiosity I googled and found Washington state passed rent control last year.
Washington state has sweeping statewide rent stabilization laws limiting how much landlords can increase residential rent. Most rent increases are capped at 7% plus inflation (or 10% total, whichever is lower). The Washington Department of Commerce sets the precise maximum cap, which is currently limited to 9.683%.
Of course they did. It is a bit more nuanced than this, but strictly bad with some nuance softening the blow of terrible policy.
"Democrats are the technocratic party" proven wrong again.
TIRM
8d ago
Seriously, who looks at the present system and says "the problem with that is that landlords have too little political power"?
That would be me. Renters protections are excessive. Rent control is destructive and sadly becoming more common.
TIRM
9d ago
Yes to your points and also the matter under dispute was if the Federal government can ban a documentary that was critical of Hillary Clinton. The government's representatives were arguing that they can and additionally have the power to ban books that have even a small portion political advocacy. Even one sentence of political advocacy is enough to trigger this power. They claimed they hold these powers during election season but not during other times.
It is a travesty that four justices agreed that the government can strip us of our first ammendment rights if a group makes something critical of Hillary Clinton before an election.
TIRM
10d ago
Their apartment gets rattled by that train. I thought that was some east coast thing. I don't specifically know about Seattle but I don't suppose they were getting rattled like that by light rail in the 90s. Google backs up my vague feeling and says Seattle had no light rail or commuter trains in the 90s.
TIRM
10d ago
We just break the law. Mass disrespect of the law and youth alcohol consumption are common. Starts in high school for most. College is awash in alcohol.
This is the replication crisis. And it wasn't just one metastudy. People try replicating published results from prominent journals and keep finding around half don't replicate. And of course for psychology it is a vast majority not replicating.
I think I've said it before here: given the replication crisis a single published paper is a very weak unit of evidence. No one should significantly shift their views based on so little and so weak of evidence. If many papers by different researchers all point in the same direction then we should seriously consider the results.
My early 2000s history teacher had some point about how our generation no longer had a clear script to follow regarding relationships. And how that made dating and relationship forming harder for us. But he was optimistic that new norms would develop and future youths would find this easier.
Too bad he was wrong on that point.
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