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Software engineer (Node.js, Python). Pro-HDI. Pro-institution. Pro-NATO. "Development as Freedom."
Have you seen Optimus do literally anything? It can like, pick up bottles from a tray I guess? Can it even open a door?
April 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Fuck. Not good.
April 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social do not underestimate Trump. Look at his actions and restrictions and extrapolate a goal.

Trump is unable to withdraw from NATO unilaterally (he requires congressional approval and NATO is still popular in the US). He's trying to get the US ejected from NATO.
April 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Natural resources: why are we imposing tariffs making imports more expensive if our goal is better access to natural resources?

National security: by undermining allies who could help us deter Russia?

The singular goal here is to dissolve NATO. Trump has expressed said goal many times.
April 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The threat of invasion makes no sense. The reasons given are "natural resources" and "national security". That's incoherent. The real strategy is to get NATO members to see the US as increasingly hostile and re-evaluate whether the US belongs in the alliance.
April 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
@briantylercohen.bsky.social please recognize that this is probably all a ploy to get the US ejected from NATO. Congress made it so the president can't withdraw unilaterally via NDAA.

Why is Trump threatening Greenland and Canada? Why is he being economically hostile to allies?
April 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
@atrupar.com I think this is all an attempt to destroy NATO. He's not allowed to unilaterally withdraw the US from NATO, Congress passed legislation ensuring that. He's using tariffs and threats of military invasion into Canada/Greenland to get the US ejected instead.
April 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
What happens if we ask ChatGPT how we, as president, could withdraw from NATO without formally withdrawing from NATO?

chatgpt.com/share/67f2c9...

Yikes.
What Congress Has Done—and What It Still Needs to Do—to Protect NATO
Congress has barred the president from exiting NATO unilaterally. But someone still needs to enforce it.
www.lawfaremedia.org
April 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This has never been about national security or imperialistic conquest. If it were, what good would undermining our allies do? Why would we limit the importing of valuable natural resources through tariffs?

This is very clearly a circumvention of Congress through a loophole.
April 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Owning a rocket company makes you a rocket scientist?
December 26, 2024 at 4:04 PM
This is true, but I don’t think democrats can afford to give up the anti-Billionaire rhetoric. In fact, it’ll probably be advantageous to double-down on it with Trump’s cabinet.
December 22, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Of course they'll say, "what, you don't like freedom of speech?", and ignore the fact that their "freedom of speech" exists inside of a game.
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Bot nets plague certain networks. Pundits are also rewarded with views, likes, and algorithm boosting. These are all perverse incentives to "tat".

This is what it means to live in a "post-truth era". In fact, the post-truth era could only ever exist with a "free market place of ideas".
December 21, 2024 at 12:18 AM
To reward Player 2 with no punishment, while they routinely "tat" out of self-interest is akin to not punishing people for driving recklessly.

See: "tit for tat" systems.

The questions they ask serve their interests; e.g. shadow money from the Russian state funding "US influencers".
December 21, 2024 at 12:10 AM
When pundits ask the wrong question, they are participating in a game. The game is a stop light, and they do not hesitate to run the red light. There are no consequences. In fact, they're often rewarded.

Perverse incentive structures exist in every game.
December 21, 2024 at 12:03 AM
This is the "game theory" of the "free market place of ideas". It's like questioning the legality of stop lights because they limit your freedoms. Coordination in a shared space requires rules to maximize efficiency.

It's the "tragedy of the commons" of "free speech".
December 20, 2024 at 11:58 PM
I can and I must.
December 15, 2024 at 8:32 PM
My class tried using an LLM service as a study guide for the final and it did not prepare me at all. It was terrible, but also probably not set up correctly.
December 14, 2024 at 11:31 PM
I do need to look more into it. It seems like he was defending Zucker, and Zucker seemed like he was running an operation where he was attempting to push kids in a particular direction. This was a good write-up I found.
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December 14, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Fair enough, but which part of my description don't you agree with?
December 14, 2024 at 12:41 AM
From reading the article it seemed like he was defending Zucker who comes across as pro-conversion with some evidence of a preference in the cisgender direction.

I could understand the rationale being to give children an opportunity to explore, but that didn't come across in what I read.
December 14, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Are you anti-HDI? Or anti-institution? Or is it just the NATO thing (e.g. helping Ukraine defend itself). Or is it Node.js?
December 14, 2024 at 12:03 AM