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Most Americans are not MAGA. If this guy gets back to a US court, and he can deliver testimony about what Trump's DHS is doing, and what things are really like in this Salvadoran gulag, that's the kind of primetime drama that gets people's attention.

I for one agree that kind of sexualized criticism is inappropriate. I think a reasonable person would read it as trying to demean Schumer by associating him with other-than-straight behavior.

I dunno pretty sure they consume groceries

Yeah but how do you get the information from the IRS into the systems that manage this hypothetical program? How do you get your parents' and grandparents' IRS data correlated with your own? What about people who don't file taxes? The risk is that all that work falls on the applicant. Or if the program administrators do all that work, that's where the overhead costs come in.

This is something which happens with existing public assistance programs, where so many requirements have been put on the aid application that people give up trying to to prove they made less than X dollars in the last 12 months, or lived in the state for at least 5 years, or have passed a drug screening, and so on. Too often that's done intentionally to stymie a program, but the phenomenon exists regardless of motivation. The more complicated the program requirement are, the more people will fail to get aid they should, and the more it costs to administer.

Has it worked well for France? I've been arguing that such an approach would work much better for the US.

Using self-identified racial identities for aid programs is too easy to argue is itself racially biased. Even if you can make good contextual arguments that race-based aid is a compensation for race-based oppression, either current or historical, that's not a winning political position.

Using metrics like generational wealth, income, education is a much easier argument to make, even if in effect it would disproportionately benefit these identity groups.

The primary downside seems to be that administering such a program is more complicated, which means more of the expense goes to overhead, and more people will not get the benefits they could because of the difficulty of navigating a more complex process.

Maybe that's all it is.

Sometimes I think the last great problem to solve in anarchist theory is how people get this confused about what anarchism is.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll

Did they ever go back to the metal? I think the last album I listened to was Shadows of the Sun. At that point things had only gotten more experimental. I wasn't really able to get into either Blood Inside or Shadows of the Sun, so I haven't listened to their even newer releases.

Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Perdition City are both permanent parts of my psyche.

If our definition of intelligence is something like the ability to represent a sufficiently complete mental model of reality to allow description and prediction of the real world, then I think the approach of trying to create a mind in a purely textual bubble is probably hopeless. I suspect the best you could get is some kind of pseudo-mind capable of producing text as if it were an intelligence with a useful model of reality. It's only mental model is of what text has been written about reality. It can only be a disconnected, imitation of a mind.

But I actually do think that the weighted neural network model has a fair shot at producing intelligence. We only have one example of one type of system that produces intelligence, and this approach wisely takes that as it's inspiration.

Which brings me to your point. I'd wager the missing piece is the variety of inputs that natural minds use to develop their own mental models; sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and also the symbolic inputs we get from language.

I understand that the current ML models use tokenized words as their input, and I have no idea how one could adapt that system to synthesize values from that kind of diversity of inputs, but I suspect the answer to that problem is the missing piece.

I didn't see anything about a violation of election law. All it said was she was known for pro-Kremlin, and anti-Semitic positions. I hope there's more to this story or Romania is going to damage the credibility of their elections.

They won't have sharpened edges. There are too many events that don't allow sharps.