Please tell me you are younger than the TSA

Back when this kicked off, Putin even cited a bunch of laws the UN drafted to justify the Iraq invasion.

And every single liberal should be protesting this in all the ways they’ve been saying Russian civilians ought to.

Can’t train one though. That’s what the datacenters are for. That infrastructure could put to more useful research, and the current owners are digging themselves a pretty deep hole…

Maybe after the bubble pops, we can have the public ownership all them datacenters. Let grad students run… I don’t know, statistical analysis of particle physics? Folding proteins?

That’s a joke, of course. We’ll foot the bill to fill the hole, but all the infrastructure will stay private.

Problems AI companies would like you to imagine (what if their product is too good?!) VS problems AI companies would very much prefer you not think about (their product isn’t actually AI)

This is my working assumption for all those teenage dystopias.

Hunger Games? World outside the US is fine. Better, now that the hegemon is more interested in watching it’s own population murder each other for television ratings.

Don’t want me making that assumption about your story? Maybe mention anywhere outside the continental US at least one [1] time. At least Handmaid’s Tale acknowledges Canada. And I guess heaven forbid Mexico ever get a mention.

I like this button layout. If one of the face buttons is gonna be used more than all the others, why shouldn’t it be bigger?

Yeah, Trump’s ideology is that of whomever had a polite conversation with him last. The only thing he actually believes in is television ratings.

It’s why his first administration’s policies were tamer than this one; there were slightly more ‘moderate’ (or, in a normal country, ‘hard right’) Republicans. This go round, he’s only surrounded by deranged sycophants and dorky natzi-fetish staffers.

most yankees don’t have coherent political views

He was a mormon kid who wanted people to be nice to each other. And shot someone about it. That’s not really right or left.

Nobody in US political leadership wants to set the precedent of facing legal consequences for their actions while in power.

State terrorism is a contradiction in terms. Legally, terrorism is violence carried out by a group that is not recognized as a state internationally. States cannot do terrorism, the term exists to protect their monopoly on legal violence. George Washington was a terrorist until the British empire recognized and began doing business with the constitutional United States. We see a similar change occurring with Taliban members and the present government of Afghanistan.

More importantly, though. You claim liberal democracy is fundamentally incompatible with authoritarianism, yet if we dig into the present and recent past of the United States, we find policies that match the list you have provided.

The Lavender Scare and Hoover’s FBI, the Red Scare and COINTELPRO, the police response to Kent State anti-war protests in 1970, the police response Columbia’s anti-genocide protests last year, the ongoing existence of privately run labor camps and prison farms.

Each model is allowed 2000 tokens to generate its clock. Here is its prompt: Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting.

are you using the same prompt?

Sorry, do you think a business failing is only possible with government coercion?

And what government coercion gave Google near monopolies on web search and video? Microsoft Windows accounts for 70% of desktop computers, did a government give them that? Whom did the government coerce for Amazon to have such domination of server hosting and online retail?

I don’t think you’ve been paying close attention to whats been happening in your lifetime.

In a free market, competition has end results. Buisnes don’t just keep competing with one another ad infinitum. One of them eventually cant keep up and closes shop. It’s competitors expand into the space it previously filled. This process repeats until you have fewer and fewer firms that account for more and more of their sector of the economy. New business do not have resources to eke out space in an already filled niche.

Under a long enough time frame, a free market creates less competition.

wow, yeah. At least pennies have the excuse of being actually useful when they were first introduced.

The article mentions that pennies almost never get pulled from circulation because they almost never get spent. New rolls of pennies get distributed, the coins are handed out as change and then… nothing. The vast majority of them never get used after that. Cant pull an old coin from circulation if it never makes its way back to a bank.

Yeesh, talk about purple prose

no, it’s $30,000,000 worth of pennies.

Valve is notably better (not good, but better) than the other companies you’ve listed.

That is, of course, an anomaly. A good monarchy lasts only as long as the monarch. A good company that exists for longer than the average human lifespan will quickly become no different from its peers.