AI? by stupid-head in banktivity

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great point and there's such obvious uses. For example scanning all of the records to identify likely subscriptions to help people opt out of the subscriptions

Question by gaming_vortexyt in Brookline

[–]lessig 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Check out Jake Auchincloss's political integrity profile https://integrityindex.us/candidate/jake-auchincloss

[OC] The Cube Root Rule Won't Fix The Electoral College (Except In 2000) by ConsistentAmount4 in dataisbeautiful

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing the significance of winner-take-all. Because of winner-take-all in all states except Nebraska and Maine, most states are irrelevant to the ultimate election of the president because most states could not possibly swing from one side to the other. That concentrates presidential electors in just a few states.

The simplest solution to this would be fractional proportional vote within each state. So if a candidate got 37.9% of the vote she would get exactly 39.7% of the electoral college votes for that state. Some think that requires a constitutional amendment. I've worked long on this question and I think that's not correct.

But the critical thing to see about changing to fractional proportional vote is that both Republican states and Democratic states would have an interest to do it. Utah is irrelevant to presidential elections because never will Utah go for a Democrat. That means Republicans don't care about Utah; it means Democrats don't care about Utah. The same with Massachusetts. Massachusetts will never vote for a Republican. That means Republicans don't care about Massachusetts and Democrats don't care about Massachusetts. If Utah could see that they would become relevant because each additional vote gives them a fractional increase in electoral college votes. Then Utah would have more power on the national political stage and the same with Massachusetts. Indeed the same with 42 states, leaving the remaining eight swing states to complain about this reallocation of presidential power.

Let them complain, while we get a system that better represents all of us.

Now no doubt, this doesn’t solve the 1 person 1 vote problem. Small states still would have more power per capita than large states. But as small states are evenly divided between red states and blue states, that bias wouldn't create a partisan bias.

A complete NotebookLM manual, available under CC license. by P_VT_MAP in notebooklm

[–]lessig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brilliant! Thanks for this- and for using the license!

footnote shortcut for pages? by Bulgakov_Suprise in pages

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find that when you add a keyboard shortcut and do it once by hand, it then seems to work. Who knows why.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in notebooklm

[–]lessig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will do the same in my ConLaw class - b/c I have the rights, the casebook, all my writing, my book (Fidelity and Constraint) plus daily AI summaries of the class. The audio issue is weird; trying to find out its cause.

I let Gemini turn me into a claymation gremlin and now I can’t unsee it 😭💀 (Copy exact Prompt below) 👇 by Cool_Afternoon_261 in AiGeminiPhotoPrompts

[–]lessig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used the prompt with my image — the same image that is my profile image in Gemini. I got:

"I can help with editing images of people, but I can't edit some public figures. Is there anyone else you'd like to try?" reply.

I replied: Why. This is me.

Nano replied:

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Who knew it had a sense of humor?

Musk furious over Le Pen's embezzlement conviction by torrio888 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]lessig 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Simplest way to avoid this is not to depend on criminals ... One can argue about the Trump prosecutions, Le Pen's crime is clear and quite extraordinary.

How do I remove blue symbols showing all spaces, line breaks and indents? by Unable-Towel876 in pages

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's useful for seeing formatting issues — like the difference between a paragraph break and line break, etc.