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luminalflux posted:It’s good but Chipotle Cholula is better This is the truth
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https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1656376934996099072 she clearly had a stroke
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I’ve had shingles in the eye. It looks a bit like that. It’s the worst thing in the world. Feels like your eye is about to explode. This is an unusually long recovery period, though.
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Vegetable posted:I’ve had shingles in the eye. It looks a bit like that. It’s the worst thing in the world. Feels like your eye is about to explode. This is an unusually long recovery period, though. are you a thousand year old supporter of the confederacy?
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May 11, 2023 01:41
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thats a stroke op
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Vegetable posted:I’ve had shingles in the eye. It looks a bit like that. It’s the worst thing in the world. Feels like your eye is about to explode. This is an unusually long recovery period, though. I’m not exaggerating when I say that both eyes look equally bad in different ways, so I can’t begin to guess which one had shingles Did the side of her mouth also get shingles?
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I'm looking forward to having her steady hand back on the tiller of the ship of democracy.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I’m not exaggerating when I say that both eyes look equally bad in different ways, so I can’t begin to guess which one had shingles Shingles can effect one side of the face yes.
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quote:“There has been no slowdown,” Feinstein wrote in a statement last week. “I’m confident that when I return to the Senate, we will be able to move the remaining qualified nominees out of committee quickly and to the Senate floor for a vote.” She is just awful.
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May 11, 2023 05:15
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I wonder if we can ever get to the point where instead of electing people to positions, we just use AIs. The code and training models will be open source. The AI reads every bill up for a vote and summarizes it into a page. There can be three modes by which people vote. The first mode is that every citizen gets presented a summary of each individual bill, and can vote yea or nay. Some people may simply not want to vote on every bill, so the second mode is that they tell their general opinions about different issues to the AI. Before voting, the AI sends them a digest of all the bills they're voting on and the voter can choose to review its decisions and the voter's approval or disapproval is used for fine-tuning future decisions. The third mode is a mixture of the other two, where someone can choose to review all bills on a specific topic and default to the AI for everything else. Maybe you really want to manually review and vote on environmental bills but don't care about kidney dialysis. If you regularly review and vote on bills in a specific area, you can be noted as an expert and other voters can also choose to go with your decisions. E: ironically I think this would converge back to a representative democracy, as people defer decision making to authorities, but the difference of this system is that representatives are chosen and eliminated much more easily and quickly. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 07:00 on May 12, 2023 |
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May 12, 2023 06:52
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there's a lot that I could say about this (novel ways of doing stuff are always great avenues for misinformation) but the idea of a centrally controlled AI which learns from your voting patterns is one that must be trained on your past preferences, from which people could reasonably derive the trends of your voting history. Keeping your actual vote anonymous is essential to running elections with less fear of coercion or retaliation. The alternative, of course, is a popular app that people just keep on their phones (or print out and carry on voting day but can keel their choices secret) and can keep their likely voting decisions private.
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America Inc. posted:
Rephrase that to "your AI" and we're on to something.
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Yeah the more I think about it the less I like the idea of an AI making decisions for you. Perhaps the AI would be more of an assistant that summarizes bills and provides explanations and context. The broader idea is to do away with voting in people every few years or so and to instead have a system where people are continually choosing their representatives (if they choose to have someone represent them) and they can be recalled at any time. Then you have the separate issue of who is proposing the bills in the first place and lobbying for them.
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America Inc. posted:I wonder if we can ever get to the point where instead of electing people to positions, we just use AIs. The code and training models will be open source. This sounds like something a 12 year old would come up with for social studies B-
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May 12, 2023 07:26
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"AI" is text prediction engine like autocomplete, that fully depends on underpaid human beings for everything it does. It's not actually AI. But boy are people eager to condede their entire lives to an idea from techbros.
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May 12, 2023 07:33
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America Inc. posted:I wonder if we can ever get to the point where instead of electing people to positions, we just use AIs. The code and training models will be open source. Further, I have a lot of complaints about our state government, but the committee process is not one of them (Well, I have complaints there too, but only because they're not as thorough as they could be). Sometimes the committee process results in bullshit, but many times it helps shape bills to be better based on feedback from various groups. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if "AI Assistants" are eventually developed in the private market for elected representatives. Tools that can summarize feedback, pools, opinions, and create highlights along with drawing scores to further influence decisions in voting for various legislation. I'd say the parties are probably working on this, but the more I think about it why would they give up their power and coercion to an AI? They'd embrace the current systems; if anything they'd only develop analytical AI at the top level and keep such out of reach of elected party members. BeAuMaN fucked around with this message at 07:45 on May 12, 2023 |
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May 12, 2023 07:43
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AI is fake, OP.
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whats the ai equivalent of "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer"
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May 12, 2023 08:33
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Remember how we were going to have real self-driving cars by 2018? Uber remembers.
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Ranter posted:Remember how we were going to have real self-driving cars by 2018? Uber remembers. Why can't the techbro dorks in Silicon Valley invent self-delivering burritos?
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May 12, 2023 13:48
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Come to think of it, I haven’t seen the delivery robots in soma in a few years.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Why can't the techbro dorks in Silicon Valley invent self-delivering burritos? Introducing soylent, now available with authentic burrito flavor
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jokes posted:They should remove all identifying characteristics from political candidates. Democrat and Republican are technically identifying characteristics OMGVBFLOL posted:whats the ai equivalent of "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer" There is no AI, it's just someone else's homework
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Democrat and Republican are technically identifying characteristics All elections should be decided based on: Burrito preference 1d6 dice roll Vibe Check
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BeAuMaN posted:
This is a hilariously bad idea since the force or law and it’s exact meaning often turn on the usage of a small set of specific words (“may” vs “shall”). A summary of a law is as good as dogshit because whether it explodes in your face or not is dependent on extremely specific wording.
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jokes posted:All elections should be decided based on: I'm running on the mandatory pineapple on Al Pastor tacos platform
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America Inc. posted:I wonder if we can ever get to the point where instead of electing people to positions, we just use AIs. The code and training models will be open source. Managed Democracy, they call it.
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FilthyImp posted:This is literally a world-building data point in Helldivers, the game where mankind wages an endless imperialistic campaign of expansion in WH30k amor suits. Democracy As a Thank You For Your Service
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El Mero Mero posted:This is a hilariously bad idea since the force or law and it’s exact meaning often turn on the usage of a small set of specific words (“may” vs “shall”). yeah; the kind of legal clerking they're describing is extremely advanced stuff. natural, meat-based intelligences go through decades of education to even begin to be able to do it, and it's a lifelong practice they never perfect. ai can't even drive a car without crashing, something that takes a couple hundred hours of instruction and practice for even the most inept morons
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Its funny about AI and law when
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Rolling Stone has an in-depth on Feinstein's dementia. quote:One person who did not want to be named recounted Feinstein asking a staffer for a memo, then responding with bewilderment when the memo was turned in the next day. These issues are longstanding: last summer, almost a year ago, one person who had worked with her and asked not to be named said “her days are all bad days now.” Feinstein’s acuity gets worse as the day goes on, multiple people told Rolling Stone, and staff have long tried to avoid her having any engagements after mid-afternoon.
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She's functionally a potate after 1pm but man, from 4-8 she can pretty much potty by herself!
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See alsoquote:Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that in recent years Feinstein’s office had an on-call system — unbeknownst to Feinstein herself — to prevent the senator from ever walking around the Capitol on her own. At any given moment there was a staff member ready to jump up and stroll alongside the senator if she left her office, worried about what she’d say to reporters if left unsupervised. The system has been in place for years.
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I'm no fan of Feinstein but this is elder abuse.
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First of May posted:I'm no fan of Feinstein but this is elder abuse. Yeah it's just really sad and frightening, as pretty much all dementia/alzheimer's/etc is. Feinstein is a terrible person with terrible opinions who's done terrible things but those are just more reasons she should be out of the halls of power, not justifications for her to be marionetted around by staff. It's loving stupid too because Feinstein not being around has actively hosed over the Dems' nomination agenda and it's not like she's senator for some conservative shithole state with an R governor who would gleefully replace her with somebody from the GOP: she's from loving California and after the Padilla poo poo he will parachute in whoever the party wants to replace her. I honestly do not understand why there hasn't been a more concerted effort from the party itself to dislodge Feinstein, it's not like they haven't locked ranks to force one of their own to resign before. Maybe it would have been a difficult prospect a decade ago when Feinstein was one of the primary power brokers of the DNC but now I cannot imagine somebody who by all accounts is functionally a vegetable by midday would be able to put up much of a fight.
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First of May posted:I'm no fan of Feinstein but this is elder abuse. Same except "and" instead of "but"
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Sydin posted:I honestly do not understand why there hasn't been a more concerted effort from the party itself to dislodge Feinstein, it's not like they haven't locked ranks to force one of their own to resign before.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Seniority. Precious precious seniority. She's 3rd in the Senate overall. What does that mean, functionally? What does seniority specifically get you in this regard?
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iirc committee-related poo poo real useful when you can't show up to those committees
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And yet people vote for her
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