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Sure keeps me up at night.
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And when debate collapses, power doesn’t disappear, it just becomes unaccountable. Truth becomes tribal. Institutions become hollow. People are left shouting across a void, each group certain the others are insane or evil. That’s not freedom, it’s fragmentation.
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When this happens at scale, it’s not just bad information, it’s a breakdown in how society makes decisions. We lose the ability to deliberate, to find common ground, to hold anyone accountable. That’s what disordered discourse really is, a collapse in collective reasoning.
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The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.
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After pointing out I didn't say that, it did, ChatGPT replied that it was able to infer it by my account username and what it'd learned from my skillset across various chats. Not 100% sure if that's actually how it did it. Either way, pretty cool, but also a little bit scary. 2/3
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Any moreso than American cars, these days?
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Sort of easy to get distracted by the circus in the white house, but the sheer size of the budgets and numbers of distinct various projects right now that are attempting to urgently decouple from the US in a pretty wide range of domains has absolutely not gotten through to the mainstream US public
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That's better, but something like "Balanced Courts" is the way to go.
"Why are there going to be 13 Supreme Court Justices, not 9?"
There are 13 Appellate Court districts. 1 justice for each balances the workload.
"Why 18-year terms?"
We want to balance, not permanent political justices.
Etc
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"top 1% globally" is meaningless bullshit if you don't adjust for PPP
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That's really neat!
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The number of people that counts as "enough" turns out to be wildly different.