(I mangled this badly trying to edit it down)...

Could even make the party act out the program and go from room to room, each room corresponding to a cell on the tape.

The wizard's tower containing a puzzle, the solution to which requires the determine the number of steps that longest running, terminating program possible to encode on a turing machine of N symbols.

we need to retask them all with being in prison. these people are not reformable.

Yeah what if that?

We don't have to pick one thing, but we also don't have to pick everything. I'd rather we didn't waste even more of our society's resources trying to retrofit cars with sensors and computers to make them drive themselves, when we have better, more efficient, cheaper ways of doing public transit.

Self driving cars are a dead end for traffic safety. We shouldn't make robits, constantly circling around looking for passengers. It creates more vehicle miles and chances for crashes.

If we care about safety the solution is public mass transit and reducing cars so people can bike or walk safely.

I got suspended from bluesky, merely for referencing a song called "I plan to do specific violent acts against named individuals," which I also wrote and composed.

"We have made a robot that outputs frequent errors. Then we can selectively decide whether to go with what it says even if erroneous, or ignore it due to the error."

It's like when they make laws that everyone breaks. It's designed for selective enforcement.

This is just to say,
A grand jury found me
Guilty of felony solicitation.

I know you were probably saving it
For pretrial diversion

We are not going to beat the fascist threat with squishy corporate dems who refuse to fight, is the whole point. I'm all for a popular front but everyone involved needs to have a backbone, and so far we haven't seen much of that.

Yep the "smart and never has to study" thing is nice in middle school but when you get to a level beyond what you can intuit, you'll wish you learned to study. The average intelligence person who had to study and build those skills is going to be way better off than a genius who phoned it in.

Public restrooms not existing is a big part of the war on homeless people. They get rid of them for the same reason they fence off sidewalks and close down parks: anything that's free to use might be used by a homeless person. And rather than house people, we prefer to make our cities inhospitable.

All that to say, I think the centrist dems have very little constituency and the party structure is rotten, but against a well organized incumbent like we saw in for example Minneapolis, they can still be challenging races. Not to say we shouldn't try, just to say we should avoid over fitting.

They both had the advantage of pretty weak opponents: AOC was running against a well connected guy but he had a very bad ground game and hadn't been campaigning very hard. And Mamdani was against one of the most hated guys in new York despite his connectedness.