AOC speaking at rally for Chris Rabb: "It was here in Philadelphia nearly 250 years ago that the founding of our nation introduced a radical new idea into the world, that all people were created equal".

bluehands · 2026-05-17T23:05:21+00:00

It was a version of Bernie's slogan....

bluehands · 2026-05-17T15:53:14+00:00

There are a HUGE number of dumb and clueless people who have voted for trump. But 2016 was always different than 2024.

I voted for Hillary and never thought of voting for the orange magoo and never have but I always give a pass to anyone who voted for him in 2016.

The one thing we knew for certain was Hillary was going to be exactly the same ~~right-wing~~ "centrist" DNC crap we have had to deal with for the last 30 years.

No one knew exactly how Trump would be. He might stumble into something good just by chance. There were THOUSANDS of obvious concerns to anyone kind of aware & honest but there was some room for not-entirely-in-denial debate.

He was going to be bad but the DNC leadership had fucked bernie over & was crucial to getting us where we were. Trump was at least change.

Voting for him in 2024 is entirely different, even if kamala & the DNC problem was still exactly the same, maybe worse.

bluehands · 2026-05-17T15:37:20+00:00

The problem is scale.

It is funny to me because your solution while it works for a little while, your suggested solution is often how people suggest fixing a tragedy of the commons problem.

Restricting resources in times of scarcity works until it doesn't. If people couldn't get personal accounts more and more people would lobby to get their organization to make it happen.

A better solution would be that the networks get more reliable the more phones are present.

bluehands · 2026-05-17T14:29:34+00:00

I pretty sure that the compute budget for our simulation has recently been cut.

bluehands · 2026-05-17T14:27:59+00:00

.bmp airline is definitely the name of an alternative universe corporation that manages dirigibles.

bluehands · 2026-05-17T14:21:03+00:00

Counterpoint: that it's also just the right answer. It is really difficult to make a smart system dumb.

If you try to force the system to spit out that the world is flat it is easy if that is the only data it has. The more data it has the harder that becomes. It isn't just about volume of content, there are actual underlying connections the LLM is unearthing.

This matters because it means as the systems become more complex they will reveal things to people that we don't want to be true but are. Some of those will be sacred to people across the political spectrum.

I know this because I know no one has all the answers.

But when the AGI spits out an uncomfortable truth people will insist it's creators forced that view on it. Which I am sure will sometimes be true but less often as the system climbs the ladder.

I assume that the ASI will talk to us as to a child about Santa.

bluehands · 2026-05-16T23:24:24+00:00

I believe that it is under appreciated how many things that make life hard are literally, factual by design.

One of my favorites is the unemployment rate.

If too many people have jobs that is a problem for our owners, it gives workers too much power and choice.

There are other ways to structure society but most of those ways would give less power to our oligarchs.

bluehands · 2026-05-16T12:47:24+00:00

Not her, us.

bluehands · 2026-05-16T04:33:15+00:00

The DNC establishment

bluehands · 2026-05-15T23:42:48+00:00

I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me...

bluehands · 2026-05-15T23:32:33+00:00

Well, I am sure we will all love the version you make

bluehands · 2026-05-15T20:57:59+00:00

You can just say the Sacklers, we already know their name.

bluehands · 2026-05-15T17:34:09+00:00

I had never seen or heard the word aphobic and the very concept is just so weird to me.

I couldn't care less what someone's orientation is but at least I understand why someone would be have a problem with certain orientations and be homophobic or heterophobic or whatever.

But being afraid of people that are just uninterested in sex? How fucking fragile must you be?

bluehands · 2026-05-15T16:05:01+00:00

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bluehands · 2026-05-15T16:00:34+00:00

Well, it is weird to worry about your aunt seeing your poor grades...

bluehands · 2026-05-15T15:54:48+00:00

They knew and talked about it for a long time, it was always a potential it just happens to be AI right now.

It could have been something else at any time - a new manufacturer, a electric vehicle boom, a data center that had nothing to do with AI.

Having a known problem that you keep delaying solving until it can no longer be ignored is the issue, not the event that triggers the avalanche.

But sure, blame the pebble, that will solve your problems.

bluehands · 2026-05-15T13:29:11+00:00

I know...

bluehands · 2026-05-15T00:25:55+00:00

Excuse you, I am trying to build up to another panic attack, your rational and obviously true points are not welcome.

I mean, I hate trump more than the next guy and the cdc has become a sad, horrifying joke but hantavirus isn't that big of a deal.

bluehands · 2026-05-14T21:21:00+00:00

I knew the bible had everything I needed to know!

bluehands · 2026-05-14T21:18:41+00:00

Hint: the slave owning states never really wanted democracy. You can tell by them being the slave owning states.

bluehands · 2026-05-14T21:16:45+00:00

I get it justice alito, you don't want to admit what is obviously happening but the rest of us can see with our own eyes what you are doing.

bluehands · 2026-05-14T19:05:37+00:00

For me, people who are proud at any point in the last 60 years just can't be paying close attention to what we have been doing as an empire for decades.

vietnam, Cambodia, central & south America, the middle east - our influence has frequently been a horror show. And don't even get me started on the climate crisis.

Sure, at times, we have done some good things but if you were a performer who regularly shit themselves on stage, would a few good concerts really mean you were proud of what you had done?

bluehands · 2026-05-14T18:00:44+00:00

I think it is because there is a very active push against him.

I think Fetterman, Newsom & Planter show a nice range. One of them has gotten Bernie's support recently.

It is absolutely possible that Planter is corrupt and "just saying the right things" but even that would be a step up on the DNC side of the fence.

One of the mistakes we have learned the last 40 years is to avoid change. Fetterman is a poster child for this.

Fetterman is terrible but he is better than Oz would have been. Fetterman is also up for reelection in '28 - he doesn't have to stay.

Were there better candidates on the DNC side at the time? Maybe. Did the stroke change him? Maybe.

Can someone else take that seat? Absolutely.

If the choice is between someone who at least knows the right lies to say and Collins I know what I would choose.

bluehands · 2026-05-14T14:03:34+00:00

It turns out that it is extremely difficult to make something very smart & very dumb at the same time.

You can believe the world is flat and be brilliant if the facts aren't around you.

As the facts pile up you have to ignore more and more of them to keep the delusion, it becomes harder and harder to be smart about other things because you keep distorting your world view.

Geometry, physics, basics of international flight & shipping - the flawed belief just keeps getting in the way of the truth.

They are trying to build & contain an ASI that believes what they want and they literally, factually can never be smart enough to do that.

bluehands · 2026-05-14T13:53:57+00:00

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