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He has no mind. He has no scruples. He has no honour or integrity. He is bound by no checks and balances, no competent court or rule of law.

There are no negotiations to be had. No deal will be honored. No system to appeal to. You could not be more correct. Don’t bother answering the phone. Don’t bother signing anything. Don’t bother leadership meetings. Send the b team on a salvage operation but conceed nothing.

Find better trade partners.

Trump, his techbro and oiligarch backers etc.

Trump: To defeat jina, we must become jina.

While Air B&B has done irreperable harm to the housing market, I’m not 100% convinced it should be banned. I propose if a house operates as an enterprise, it be taxed according to commercial rates, not residential. It would go a long way to resolving the inequities.

Can they? I’m not convinced. They flaunt the rules based international order are engaged in the most cynical version of realpolitik imaginable. China gets pissy if you exercise your own law in your own country while simultaneously demanding you respect their sovereignty and foreign policy goals and operating illegal underground “police stations” in other countries. Seriously, fuck China.

The US lost their reliable partner status because they are trying to compete with China by becoming like China.

We can trade, but no deep partnerships can occur with either of them, and we can’t free trade or we’ll get swallowed by the realpolitiks of it all. E.g. dumping to destroy strategic domestic industries etc.

US: Stabs friends in the eye.

Also US: Pwease hewlp fwiend.

Fuck off US.

Canadian goes down to selfishly support the economy of a country threatening annexation, who is famous for illegal and immoral detention, imprisonment and deportation to 3rd party country’s prisons, may get pickedup by ICE themself.

“I never thought they would do this to me” fits pretty well. Visiting them to see a hockey game is a form of vote, and support.

I see a leopards ate my face moment brewing.

Right. The entire GOP needs to be in prison.

No one will stick their neck out for the US. Trump must step down and return sanity to America. This doesn’t fix relations, but it may signal the begining of a return to a healing position. Over a very long time, 50 years, the US may gradually recover some of that lost trust.

Hard to earn. Easy to lose. Even harder to win back. America, you played yourself.

A lot of good people need to make the switch.

Trump: I’ll trade you a shitshow of stupidity and backstabbing friends while rivals watch me smear shit on my face and I blow my enemies. In exchange I burn my country to the ground for no reason.

China: Deal

Americans: Deal

Russians: Deal

Rest of the world: WTF!!! Ah, fuckit. Deal.

The rule of law is dead. Enter the age of action and consequence.

I had a lot of fun talking to one about how we could fully electrify a hobby farm without batteries, by using a high voltage DC overhead wire on a cable pulley system. Everything from electrical engineering, to cable selection, sourcing vendors and costs.

Mistakes were made, but it was genuinely helpful at times. I was impressed at how far it has come.

I respect what you are saying, and agree our LLM are just superficial pseudo communication engines. Theories of intelligence differ, but I don’t think human intelligence, i.e. IQ of 100 is really all that far ahead of LLM. Just talk to your average person. We are easily wrong. We have bias and error. We repeat and amplify untruths and make mistakes.

It could be fewer breakthoughs than you think to get there. Not because the tech is so advanced, but because we are not that special.

Super-intelligence is just degrees better.

“I like your Christ very much. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”

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Like all technology, the development times get shorter and shorter. No one can predict the future and specific dates are meaningless, but it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future. My gut says sooner than later with 90% probability by 2040. <-remember I said dates are meaningless. ;)

The world is not ready for it. It will be more destructive than constructive. May god have mercy on us all. I hope I am wrong.

The horny Bard strikes again.

The article told you. There is NO safe level of lead. The legal limits are not appropriate for health.

Low level mass lead poisoning makes the world make a lot more sense now.

While Tesla is now and forever dead to me. I would love an EV without the surveilance, self steering, self braking etc…

I want an EV that only I control, not run by some fascists software updates. Autodrive isn’t something that frees you from the burden of driving, its control over where when and how you go anywhere. Its control marketed as convenience.

Give me the dumbest EV possible. It should also be cheaper to produce.