I’m begging folks to understand that not everything Dems do is because they’re weak/craven/evil/hate Americans. Everything that happens in Congress is part of a negotiation.

OMG, no that's not what's happening. He's saying stupid stuff on purpose to a) drive left nuts, b) test loyalty of right, and c) media finally choosing to ignore some of the bait in the distraction traps

Just did a search for farmkind on the effective altruism forum. The top post is a principled argument against donation matching like this. Another post asks that people donating anyway not use the site. I will withhold judgement. If they move major money, great. If not yeah shut it down.

All of what your saying makes sense but I'm unsure. Indulgences or the thin end of the wedge? There's currently such a bonkers moral landscape. A large majority of my social circle cares about animals but just will not stop with the goddamn eating them.

I think offsets have a decent track record for *fundraising*. "Companies and individuals spent $1.7 billion last year voluntarily buying carbon offsets". Meanwhile farm animal charity spend is $10-40m total. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/c...

Babbage's 1864 quote about his Difference Engine. Don't be fooled into thinking AI is different!

You should think about how the algorithm was created. In the case of chatbots, it was feed in the entire internet and train it to print responses that a consumer user would find pleasing. The chatbot replies sound like a person because it is pleasing to the user, NOT because the algo is personlike.

When you talk to a chatbot, you are not talking to a person. You are passing a prompt to an algorithm. Subconsciously you should be thinking "Let's see what the algorithm generates if I enter this text: [your question to the chatbot]."

The effect is that the police can pick and choose whoever they want to pull over. Not ideal

It seems possible that's true. I think the advantages with buildings doing it are that they have much more information about what's going on with their trash. They also have the power to make changes immediately (I can only imagine the legal battles about where the public bins would go).

Not an expert on how this will work. But I do enjoy finding furniture on the street on trash days, and the big buildings don't put trash out every night.

It seems worse to me to have a bunch of curb space (which is limited in NYC) taken up by permanent trash bins. It would also involve way more planning for the city to figure out what trash can to put where on each block. Just letting New Yorkers figure it out themselves is less engineering right?