His expertise in demography is drawn from his obsession with extreme natalism -- and honestly not that far from Luther Burbank being an expert in population biology because he was into eugenics.

Didn't you teach her not to engage with a chicken?

chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/12/31/e...

Senator Warrem has always been pragmatic. Look forward to seeing more of her and her staff's thinking on AI policy in the new year!

Link to the BI story by Brian Metzger (can't find him on this site): www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-us...

A lot of it is just factional politics -- the Abundance people are the same people who are dovish on antitrust and Warren-skeptical or vice versa. Also, as far as this discourse goes, Matt Stoller and Matt Yglesias have hostile and deeply unpleasant online presences that their followers reinforce.

I'm honestly envious of the camps our kid gets to go to during breaks now.

Since no one else has posted this.

The best I've come up with is "compounding reinforcement," but it's basically doing a kind of "yes-and" (from improv). That reinforcement starts making me nervous at a certain point, and then you ask it to run a search for sources and then go back and read stuff.

You can instruct it to be critical? Or if you're using am API add a system prompt?

It's commonly said that the Goff-Stafford trade was "won by both sides," but if this Lions run ends now...

Or when I have a very clear concept of what I'm doing, which I of course only learned how to express because I had to learn how to code without LLMs.

That's why for me the use cases have all been mostly UI, data presentation / interface type stuff. Even scraping and data integration that seems straightforward can be problematic when there are any issues; fixing them requires the same level of understanding as coding them in the first place.

Squirrel!

A lot of people love to defend Bari Weiss but then I remember that even I have one degree of separation from her -- can't underestimate the network that underlies the "meritocracy."

Global of course is well known for its radical Canadian nationalism.

Here is a theory: highly paid skilled position that doesn't require a college degree. Also a lot of ex military (and people with degrees usually have it from a service academy or a specialized institution).

Seems like it could draw a constitutional challenge (though would need to be careful about the downsides of a principle that allows real CoI).