Yes. Frankly, you could get that on r/science.
Shankar Sivarajan
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political maneuvering that should not be taken literally.
Or perhaps it’s more like the story of the Jews reading the Stürmer because only there do they control the world: they want it not to be business-as-usual, for him to raze the institutions (“Drain the Swamp”), subdue their enemies both foreign and domestic, etc., and generally to serve as the Flail of God, but they can see it plainly ain’t happening, though it’s sometimes still fun to LARP as though it were.
There is an xkcd comic, xkcd: 1122 (and an updated xkcd: 2383), about how every presidential election is unprecedented in some way. The same is true of presidential administrations and presidents themselves: you can always construct some metric by which they are unusual or unique. It may be more useful to simply criticize whatever you think is bad, even if, say, Lincoln, either Roosevelt, Kennedy, or whoever did something similar but worse.
doesn’t have direct metrics, so we have to come up with proxies of some kind.
See also: McNamara procedure
the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can’t easily be measured or given a quantitative value. The third step is to presume that what can’t be measured easily really isn’t important. The fourth step is to say that what can’t be easily measured really doesn’t exist.
ignoring/disobeying court order
How do you determine whether instances of this are executive overreach or judicial overreach?
why is it off-limits to make comments discussing the implications of that
Spending the better part of two decades harping on about how precisely that is the mind-killer makes it a little tricky to reverse that position.
For all that they’re now playing coy, they were clearly implying the President had given unlawful orders, and were calling on the military to disobey him.
To them, that’s what Safety™ means. It would be like if they said about you “Oh, just because it’s been mathematically proven that the AGI will act in humanity’s best interests, you’ll support its development even though it occasionally, I dunno, says slurs or something.”
There is also a seventh book planned.
Yes, Minister lists a very similar set of diplomatic options.
Do nothing.
Issue a statement deploring [whatever the other guys just did]
Lodge an official protest.
Cut off aid.
Break off diplomatic relations.
Declare war.
and basically concludes that the first half makes them look foolish and weak, and the second half are counterproductive or look like over-reactions.
Clarifying “Responsible AI” at the DoW — Out with Utopian Idealism, In with Hard-Nosed Realism. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and social ideology have no place in the DoW, so we must not employ Al models which incorporate ideological “tuning” that interferes with their ability to provide objectively truthful responses to user prompts. The Department must also utilize models free from usage policy constraints that may limit lawful military applications.
I’d potentially risk quite a bit more for a stranger than for some friends
See also: Sen. James Inhofe (2015).
it’s confusing because 3x sounds like it’s more important,
I agree: use the word “rank” somewhere, and it’ll sound right.
what they talk about during the general election needs to be
The enemy gets a vote. Whatever you plan to make your focus in the general, if there’s some unpopular-with-the-middle position you take in the primary, that’s likely to be what they attack you on.
Pet cloning. It’s been around for ~20 years, and the price has stayed in the 50–100 k$ range.
voltair
I like the name.
Reminds me of the Andy Warhol quote about Coca-Cola.
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
I of course don’t know what he meant, but what I took it to mean is that there are probably cases in which you have everything else but just lack the will to do the thing, and was an exhortation to muster it and act! As has been said, “Hesitation is always easy, rarely useful.” Seeing as it was posted this time of year, I figured it was a personal take on New Year’s Resolutions.
See also: Seldon, H. Proc. Tran. Math. Soc. (12011).