I could really use some glasses that just subtitle what people are saying for me. No camera, no bluetooth, no memory. But of course they'll way-overdo it with all that stuff.

You can get non-Luxottica eyeglasses at WalMart. If you want some basic black nylon frames they start at like $13.

"volunteer their time" isn't a direct quote from Amazon, it's language made up by The Guardian to mislead and upset people, because clicks and social justice.

Come on. You think Amazon is asking them to work for free?

The company has reportedly sent out a Slack message to its corporate workers in New York City, asking for "volunteers to help [it] out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on [its] biggest days yet." That message went out to everyone from engineers to marketers. Specifically, Amazon wants its officer workers to "volunteer" their time in two-hour shifts between 10AM and 6PM from Tuesday to Friday this week.

71 million people are on Medicaid and about to lose access to healthcare

I don't see why people are saying this. People on reddit are saying, "I'm on medicaid, I'm' going to die."

There are 71 million people on medicaid. It's getting a 12% cut, and that will harm some people. But how do you equate it to a 100% cut?

Look at this graph. Reducing medicaid by 12% takes it down to $700B which only rolls it back to the level of 2021 or 2022.

And this reduction is supposed to phase in over the next 10 years. That means it will never go that low unless Democrats never hold the Presidency and majority in Congress in the next 10 years.

Tax and redistribute

Sure. So everybody without income is basically kept as a pet of those who still do something and have income.

Well, that's not true. Trivially, AI includes randomization, which is something beyond pattern matching.

Anyways, give us all an objective definition of what intelligence actually is, and what precludes machines from doing whatever that is, and let's go from there.

Somebody downmodded you for that, but I can't tell if you are in fact arguing they are self-aware, or arguing that cogito ero sum doesn't really prove anything so everything is baseless...

I don't think the problem is with the Constitution. Any Constitution is just a piece of paper, unless people collectively honor it. You could say it makes the Executive too strong, but this has happened gradually as we allowed it, or asked for it, since Congress has become crippled with partisan politics. For example the Constitution gives the power to set tariffs to Congress, not the President. Yet look where we are now.

I think it's kind of delicious to see chess used as a benchmark of intelligence again. Of course the chatbot could be augmented with a chess engine that it knows how to invoke to easily beat any human. But using an LLM as a chess engine itself is a nice challenge. Maybe there's a way to do it, or maybe AI as we know it needs more visualization capability. Or maybe if the AI can write a good chess engine given the rules.

In any case a single guy trying to prove a negative by failing to do something (set up an LLM to play chess) is not very convincing.

"What did Paul Volker do to stop inflation? To subdue double-digit inflation, Chairman Volcker announced, in October 1979, a dramatic break in the way that monetary policy would operate. In practice, the new approach to monetary policy involved high interest rates (tight money) to slow the economy and fight inflation." Carter basically sacrifices political career by allowing this to happen. Then Reagan opened the floodgates of debt and made everybody feel good.

The economic numbers for the past six months must be quite painful for your worldview.

That's the point of eating your seed corn - it fills your belly, for the moment.

Specifically, he aggressively try to get rid of the fed chairman so he can arbitrarily push down the interest rate, which promotes further exploding the debt.

This makes me think how different solar systems have almost nothing to do with each other. If all the other solar systems (that is, 99.9999999% of the universe) disappeared tomorrow, would it have any affect on us whatsoever?

I actually think the difference between 51% and 65% is surprisingly small.