Fuck off, bigot.

A data center is like a flat windowless office building without people in it, and more computers. ...roads? These are immobile computers. They're offering money because people are showing up to city meetings and crying about them a lot because of stupid shit they read online about not even data centers, something something AI. Nobody is browsing realtor.com looking for data centers in the town. If your house is right up against an industrial/commercial zone, that's the best neighbor you could get among the other options.

In the immediate vicinity I get it, if there were zoning changes being asked for next door to make that happen, you should consider it and go to city meetings, be informed. Over a far wider area there could be electricity rate impacts when new large scale power users come in, of course, another reason to stay informed, fight for protection from rate increases to pay for a few pigs. But depressing home values, that's a stretch.

No, there's lots of room to improve, and I don't mean the singularity bullshit, the opposite, it's more and more expensive. They're threatening to stop spending on new model development unless the ladder gets pulled up behind them. Simple as that.

There's tons of juice to squeeze in just harness improvements alone.

The hell these aren't. It's like doing auto crash testing and some wheels keep flying off and causing accidents on a nearby active highways.

I'm not saying the testing is itself a scheme, and if you fuck up you should be honest, what I'm saying is they're fucking things up on purpose and they're really quick to talk about it and act like they have no control. The intended audience is people that want to believe AI is really really dangerous, and they're buying it up. The goal is to get the government to raise the barrier to entry and lock out competitors.

OpenAI and Anthropic and all need that to justify spending shittons of money developing slightly better models while the field keeps widening, distillation attacks keep creating close but good enough cheap models, open models, etc. New model development is expensive and good enough is always right behind it, that's the fundamental problem they're trying to solve with this manufactured crisis.

In short, it is a scheme. All these fuckups keep happening in their "safety" labs while millions of their customers are using their systems every day asking how do I get MY agent to be that clever, how come tens of thousand of agents working nonstop for a week on Navier-Stokes didn't hack a bunch of websites, or any of their other projects running 24/7, it's always some bullshit from an "AI researcher".

AI companies have been playing this "it's so dangerous only we should be allowed to do it" game from the BEGINNING. There is a mix of weird culty fucks that actually believe in singularity theory, and some that sees you know, it would be convenient if only we were allowed to do this. Meantime, development continues. Or it stops and starts monthly. If you believe that bullshit. They probably mean make these "safety researchers" STFU a minute while they continue work on actual model improvements.

The president held a vote on his social media platform (can we all work together to make that never have to be written again?) over what to call it, Superior, Supreme, or Extreme Intelligence. He went with Super. Trump is also an unwashed mass, so babble it is.

No. There is nothing even half as fucking dumb from the left as this, a fucking AI Force. What can you even say before he starts truthing uniform ideas.

It's just fucking stupid dude. You don't need to defend it with the equal or greater stupid theory, because that doesn't make something less stupid even if it were true. This guy is the dumbest president we have ever had.

MIDDLE SCHOOL READING COMPREHENSION!

Sorry, got excited, I got bingo on that one

Ok Homer

You don't even live here, which makes this really weird to read.

Ok QAnon

This... *gestures towards Middle East* was trying to solve something? LOL

Then you renegotiate it like any other treaty. Duh.

Write an executive order saying the government must refer to the 45th and 47th former presidents as Orange Man.

Obama and Biden have been the most normal presidents over the past what, twenty five, years. Bush, other than 9/11 and what followed might I guess be normal for a Republican President. His dad too. Clinton for the democrats, again normal. A fair question is why don't Republicans have a normal alternative to Trump.. how's that supposed to work?

Unitary executive theory, bringing independent congressionally created agencies under direct political influence. Because when your political views run counter to professional experience, obviously that has to go. Only the federal reserve was deemed too important to be fucked with, and God knows how long that will stand, but this SC is anything but consistent so maybe for quite some time.

The DOJ is now the presidents lawyers. Would be shocking in any other presidency.

Sweeping tariffs without congressional approval. Or just in general claiming emergency powers, to hurt people, and being repeatedly getting defeated by the Supreme Court. There's a long list just in this category.

Federalized national guard deployments against state and local wishes. Another imaginary emergency shot down by the Supreme Court, but big enough to call out.

Reimagining the 14th amendment. Simply, it does not say what it says, because I don't like it. Actual Supreme Court testimony, read the transcripts and prove me wrong.

Kicking the press out of the whitehouse and pentagon for unfavorable reporting. Should really raise some eyes in any other presidency, but it's blown out by the crazier stuff.

Executive orders targeting specific institutions over petty grievances, all waived away if they capitulate and donate to the president's pet projects.

The war on drugs is still hot, but gambling and money laundering are super cool. I think you can do stock backed crypto now, without dealer/broker registration. It's getting wild, but when law and order meets extreme deregulation, things were bound to get weird.

The weird immigration exemption for white South African immigrants, while cutting other refugee programs. Cutting legal immigration pathways in general really, then narrative has shifted from illegal immigration to just making everything harder for immigration of any form. As you put it "infinity immigrants", Republicans no longer have a reasonably law and order narrative against illegal immigration because it's morphed into immigration bad. Not knowing, looking, or caring about the actual numbers, any restriction is good because infinity is a really big made up number. That's by definition extreme, and radical.

I could keep going...

Republicans LITERALLY brought you Trump by way of their big tent experiment with like twenty crazy candidates in the 2016 primaries, and failed to stop a populist demagogue. The front runners at some points forgot the names of the umpteen whole departments of our government they wanted to cut, like five? entire Department of *somethings*, generally outcrazying each other, with Trump and his own brand of crazy. There WERE sane primary candidates in the 2016 GOP primaries, they were all washed out by the crazy. I remember 5/5/5 guy, he didn't seem too crazy, then there were you know, normal politicians, I bet you can't even name any. Guy famous for a bridge thing, another guy with a weird suntan. But MAGA won, and the cruelty was already evident. My Republican friends were already practiced at saying "pay attention to what he does not at what he says" by that point, the concern had not set in, but they were prepared.

The Democrat's big tent experiment in 2020 brought you a pair of milquetoast senators as front runners, and you got both as pres and vp. The 2016 democrat primary wasn't big tent fyi, that one was all about Hillary, you know, a milquetoast senator, lawyer, secretary of whatever, mainly famous for stuff she didn't do like supergirl into Benghazi or use the right blackberry.
Followed by the no primary 2024 election with the sitting President and then his VP, the same boring former senators, or lawyers, whatever.
You know, the candidates that were _famous_ for "I don't know what his/her policy is", controversial for taking naps and being a former prosecutor.

Look, you now know why you got modded down so hard, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt because maybe you weren't tracking politics back in 2016. The MAGAs are in power, and for a second term. Whatever you think is "as radical" as they are, it wasn't Biden or Kamala, or Hilary. Or explain how a bunch of center-left lawyer/senators are radical, because that's what's been on the ticket. The prevailing complaint has been not knowing their policies, because undecided voters basically can't read. Help me understand where you're coming from.

We can say this, but why's it such a pronounced problem NOW? It's always been your duty to be an informed voter, there's no one else to blame. It's like "we used to be able to trust the news" which to me is an admission of "we used to not use critical thinking before so why should we now". Because when the blame starts being thrown around, it all turns into why didn't somebody just tell me/them what to think.