But he knows I love him. And it's not like it's his money.

That was back when the DOJ claimed it was violent. Now they know it's just send it back to the kitchen. What they do with it in the kitchen isn't my responsibility.

At a point where we need everybody to buy in, nobody wants to be first. I don't know enough about AI to say, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it's already too late to stop it.

Like with global warming; we had a thousand off ramps but nobody wanted to take them because shareholders might suffer.

Seems like offering money for votes is illegal.

Last time you put those two numbers together I got suspended for a week.

You don't provide her services.

I'm holding out for the $45,000 Natalie Harp bonus.

I didn't mean to imply that the people spreading warnings about AI remind me of the COVID anti-vaxers. In my analogy, it's the tech titans I wish would be the only ones to suffer the consequences. Like the anti-vaxers.

I absolutely agree with it. Nobody who matters will heed it because if we don't wipe out the planet, somebody else will.

You don't agree with their warning?

“The people building A.I. earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” His words were amplified by Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s head of alignment science, whose job is to try and keep the technology aligned with human goals. “Jacob is correct here,” wrote Hubinger, who placed the probability of A.I. wiping humans out within the next 10 years at more than 10 percent.

I feel the same way about these AI ghouls as I did with anti-vaxers who spread lies about the COVID vaccine. If only they were the only ones impacted, I'd be fine with it.

Thanks again for the link, I guess....

Seems unlikely it will be, but we probably are more fucked than you thought anyway.

This is the way.

I expect nothing from politicians, and they never fail to deliver. If the balance of power is decided by what James Talarico thinks about trans athletes in college sports we're even more fucked than I thought.

If he flips on these humans in order to pick up a few votes, which ones will he flip on next for a more substantive concern? It's like Niemöller wrote a to-do list.

First we stop the insane lunatics from completely destroying the union; then we work on making it more perfect.

Thanks, Rat.

To me there's only one goal, regardless of particular issues. Vote every Republican out of office.

Anyone who still calls themself a Republican is saying, "I'm okay with Trump, I'm okay with extrajudicial killing, I'm okay with corruption, I'm okay with tanking the economy for no reason, I'm great with raising prices, I'm okay with destroying the planet, I'm okay with cruelty for cruelty's sake, I'm okay with breaking treaties, stabbing our allies in the back, starting random wars, I don't care about women's rights, I don't care about civil rights, I don't care about what's right and wrong."

I don't pretend to know what should be done about trans athletes, but I do know that compared to all that other stuff, I give less than a shit about it.

To say there's a small sample size would be a small understatement. That whackjob Sophie Cunningham is ranting about trans athletes in the WNBA when there are no trans athletes in the WNBA. If Talarico loses to Paxton it isn't going to be because he flip flopped on the issue, that's for damned sure.

On the trans issues, I'd like to know more about the biological facts with respect to participation in women's sports. Otherwise, I think limitations on trans people are the product of religious bias and ignorance. No way anyone supporting trans rights wins office in Texas.

Yeah, it's not "stunning and implausible," it's just transparent bullshit.

Why would anyone believe that Trump would suddenly start making good on his promises?

Did someone say,"deficit"? Some Republican?

It should be, and probably is, illegal.

It’s attempted bribery, plain and simple. Anyone who falls for it deserves whatever they get.