one way to understand the LLM boom is that we have finally, actually, invented Ask Jeeves.

“Or, they might learn the lessons of the FHA windfall profits scandal. To once again quote the 1954 Senate report, there is an alternative to subsidizing speculation: ‘It is better that the Government build such projects itself.’”

i would like to see how the Chotiner interview with Jesus Christ would go. (today being the rapture, it might be very timely!)

i suppose there might exist a liberalism so catholic it would encompass Adrian Vermeule. but it probably wouldn’t be what most of us mean by liberalism.

youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g

anyone wonder if the writers might be up to something, having the US promise to bail out Argentina while the price of gold goes 🚀

any advance reporting from europe on the rapture?

i see people are mocking him, but it’s the biggest breakthrough since ivermectin.

has anyone else noticed that acetaminophen sounds a whole lot like azerbaijan?

With Trump v United States, it was clear he was going for it. The mask is off, there’s no pretense of balls and strikes. Either the legalized corruption, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and vindictive executive succeed in preventing any real transfer of power, or they know they are at grave risk.

Perhaps I owe some duty to Hanlon’s Razor, but I think he’s quite the opposite of incompetent. He set on a project as early as the Reagan administration and has spent decades bringing it to reality. Plutocracy and a powerful executive to enforce it. No one has been more effective.

basically the world’s policeman is now a mob guy.

oh.

representative democracy can be good democracy, but it has to be participatory representative democracy. representation on autopilot becomes corruption however noble the intentions of the representatives.

i thought i’d made a mistake but i was mistaken.

whatever else is going on in the world, this is about as gracious as a person in this situation can be. credit where due.

seems like a pretty mutually cooperative endeavor!

entirely orthogonal to the question of whether it's right or wrong, AGI-ism behaves precisely as a millenarian cult. much can be dispensed with or tolerated, because ultimately all that matters is what we know will come.

now it’s in the Oval Office.