kreskin

We have the tech right now to do direct democracy. We dont need to hope some representitive surfaces our needs someday. Politicians and lobbyists need to be job categories that get eliminated due to tech improvements. Then we wont need political parties either and we can end them entirely. No more dems, no more repubs.

Slotkin will do whatever is best for Israel, every time, as will Schumer.

agreed, the new wedge issues havent dropped yet.
Who knows what they will tell us to think about for this round, so excited.

You got me on that one. For a brief second till I saw the snark tag. Well played.

Surely the Dems wont blow this on some terrible tactical decision around optimizing corporate and foreign government bribes, ignoring what their constituents want, and reflexively beating up their left flank.

Edit: I’m an idiot.

Same here. Nobody knows what the eff they are doing. Especially the people in charge. Much of life is us believing confident people who talk a good game but dont know wtf they are doing and really shouldnt be allowed to make even basic decisions outside a very narrow range of competence.

We have an illusion of broad meritocracy and accountability in life but its mostly just not there.

I work in an company who is all-in on selling AI and we are trying desperately to use this AI ourselves. We've concluded internally that AI can only be trusted with small use cases that are easily validated by humans, or for fast prototyping work.. hack day stuff to validate a possibility but not an actual high quality safe and scalable implementation, or in writing tests of existing code, to increase test coverage. yes, I know thats a bad idea but QA blessed the result.... so um .. cool.

The use case we zeroed in on is writing well schema'd configs in yaml or json. Even then, a good percentage of the time the AI will miss very significant mandatory sections, or add hallucinations that are unrelated to the task at hand. We then can use AI to test AI's work, several times using several AIs. And to a degree, it'll catch a lot of the issues, but not all. So we then code review and lint with code we wrote that AI never touched, and send all the erroring configs to a human. It does work, but cant be used for mission critical applications. And nothing about the AI or the process of using it is free. Its also disturbingly not idempotent. Did it fail? Run it again a few times and it'll pass. We think it still saves money when done at scale, but not as much as we promise external AI consumers. The Senior leadership know its currently overhyped trash and pressure us to use it anyway on expectations it'll improve in the future, so we give the mandatory crisp salute of alignment and we're off.

I will say its great for writing yearly personnel reviews. It adds nonsense and doesnt get the whole review correct, but it writes very flowery stuff so managers dont have to. So we use it for first drafts and then remove a lot of the true BS out of it. If it gets stuff wrong, oh well, human perception is flawed.

This is our shared future. One of the biggest use cases identified for the industry is health care. Because its hard to assign blame on errors when AI gets it wrong, and AI will do whatever the insurance middle men tell it to do.

I think we desperately need a law saying no AI use in health care decisions, before its too late. This half-assed tech is 100% going to kill a lot of sick people.

I mean its fair, no one uses semicolons -- except for you evidently.

Yes, but he also would have supported the genocide same as the centrists. Otherwise I love the guy.

So even before the primary we can only choose Vance or Newsom huh. Can you make this into a trolley problem I can visualize?

The hatred of trump might propel a dem who otherwise has no chance. like when Biden won. Against any competent republican he would have been clobbered.