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Everyone reported he didn't have the authority to shut down USAID. How did that go

Destroying USAID isn’t within his powers either. Try to call them on the phone.

“Why can’t the Chinese de-escalate the dumbass thing I started” is so Trump

America must embrace the traditional masculinity of right-wing incels living in their parents' basement, and reject the soft and feminine lifestyles of professional football players who protest social injustice.

Yes, it’s 100% comparable. LLMs walking into schools killing kids for 30 years.

“That everyone believes him to be an idiot means he is uniquely suited to keep working for me”

Medicare never covered pregnancy or childhood or most of the population but I am sure the 83yo dude figured all that out and was conservative. I am so fucking tired of populism.

Relatedly: always cracks me up when people go “but AI *hallucinates*, doesn’t that bother you” And I’m like, dude, I have read shit written by humans that comes up on Google’s first result page for 20 years. So no, it doesn’t worry me.

A major reason ChatGPT became so popular comes down to Google slowly losing the SEO war, increasing the advertising noise and growing shittier at a slow but very steady rate.

The small-government freedom party. Also, free markets and no new taxes.

It is a funny thing about LLM criticism that so much of it has been obsolete for more than a year and you would know if you used it even once.

What a fantastic show this was.

Central economic planning and arbitrary taxes in the hand of one man, as the founders intended.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

The Marie-Antoinette presidency

At this point, I think we have to refer to it as the Overton Barn Door.

The Golden Age is coming at us pretty hard.