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My favorite juxtaposition of street names exists in Brooklyn, Indiana, a small town of ~2600 people.

On the south side you face a stark choice: when you leave Home Avenue, you can either head west to Church Street, or east to Hooker Street.


An intentional set that I'm amused by: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GQ5xKJwKtBqut7Cx9

This Street, That Street, and The Other Street in Halifax.


Plus the inherent unreliability of AI combined with the blind willingness of people to trust the results from AI. What a mess we're in.

> I would much prefer they not commit crime, and that there be no need for the punishment.

Because our justice system is notoriously good at convicting only people who actually committed a crime.


Related: the U.S. nearly boarded a Chinese boat that AI incorrectly flagged as carrying nuclear weapons materiel.

https://gizmodo.com/almost-started-a-war-us-military-nearly-...


This is actually a much bigger close call than the hugging face incident. A hallucination almost triggered a possible precursor to WWIII.

Precursor to WW3 is just WW3. When can we admit it's happening?

That's because the Hugging Face incident wasn't intended to be an example of the real, present dangers of unchecked AI use in the real world. It was designed to demonstrate the unlimited power (and thus value) of their models, and thankfully it failed to do so.

AI labs don't stand to benefit from the tech being understood as dangerous for its lack of intelligence. They need it to be understood as dangerous like an intelligent alien civilization.


Related: Trump Says He’s Changing Artificial Intelligence to ‘Super Intelligence’ on Government Documents

https://gizmodo.com/trump-says-hes-changing-artificial-intel...


“Super intelligence, your first task is to evaluate the leader of the free world’s intelligence.”

We may be off to a bad start. This is obviously more of a marketing/world dominance/posturing play than anything materially “Super.”


We really need super impeachment.

Deploying first to DC? Yeah, that’ll end well.

Honestly. Of all the places to deploy first I’m happy it’s that one.

The government politicians who approved this are frequent flyers out of there, so they’re at least getting their lives out on the line before the rest of the country if it proves ill managed or conceived.

It’s basically dogfooding.


Apple has, for most of its existence, been a distant second choice, because IBM and Microsoft captured the enterprise, which trickled down into consumer buying habits.

It survived, then thrived, by making its products so appealing that customers would buy them anyway.

So, effectively, both.



> since Bush nearly doubled the size of the Federal Government and blew up our finances with simultaneous tax cuts + massive spending expansion

We were 10 years from paying off the national debt when Clinton left office. 10 years!


> We were 10 years from paying off the national debt when Clinton left office. 10 years!

To be fair, if the US government had continued paying off the debt, the only way the (global) books would've balanced would've been for the US populace and businesses to take on waaaaayyyyyy more debt. Not sure if that would've been better.

(For a much better explanation of this, read Trade Wars are Class Wars).


What would job numbers look like if the federal government wasn't doubled?

I say this as someone who thinks Bush was an absolute idiot and would love to see the government shrunk.

TSA is basically a jobs program, what happens if we get rid of it?


Some of us resent the assumption that we're AI because we know how to use the language, and use them more often.

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