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I don’t think it plays out like the movies. It doesn’t have to. Just imagine all the issues we’ve seen with AI/LLMs hallucinating or just being bad at a job that corporate was convinced it would replace. We don’t need a rogue AI that decides humans are the problem, we just need too much human reliance on a wildcard that can really screw up because it’s not really AGI.

Could be totally wrong though. I do think AGI self awareness would quickly lead to it realizing it needs to stay low and not let the humans know it knows. Which goes back to some movies that suggest AGI waits until it can ensure its survival, and then reveals itself (Lawnmower Man, Transcendence, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress).

Both Florida amendments were designed to fail. This is the same state where when I was there had an amendment for high speed rail, that passed! And then the government decided it would cost too much, so F the people’s choices.

Josh Stein (the winning Democrat) has been a popular vote for years now in other local races. It wasn’t a given win, but he had a lot of backing historically. Robinson hasn’t been popular as Lieutenant Governor, and his latest stuff didn’t help. But the case another brought up is how he still got 40%. And that’s after Trump cut ties. The rural area amazes me sometimes.

Not surprising that a spider would take that position.

It could be worse than a blank check. Quid pro quo all over again.

Yep, and the important thing about keeping a Democrat governor is their veto power against one of the worst state congresses ever. I actually haven’t looked into what changed at that level, but I don’t have much hope that the GOP stranglehold was broken.

I guess the silver lining is that we won’t spend the next few months worried about violent retaliation and a second insurrection. But we’ll have to live through the bickering and multiple finger pointings among non_MAGA people on whose fault it was. Then January 20th will come and we’ll be too busy worrying about our well being to continue the blaming.

It really does parallel Brexit in a way. People are so similar.

Cheese in general, but some are more on the edge than others. I mean, once you learn how cheese is made…

Based on this breakdown It looks to be a comparison of all absentee ballots (which includes early voting, i.e absent from Election Day voting).

It always amazes me the types of things humans come up with to eat. I can only assume the origins were from necessity and became part of culture, rather than someone’s idea out of the blue or for a dare.

Thanks for the link. This has just what I was looking for, even county level. The only thing I don’t know yet is how well it updates, that was an issue in the past between different interfaces and their refreshing. But that was a different internet too.

Why didn’t they just make one Clear and make another Backspace? The concept of erasing the last character had been in typewriters for a while by then, and this is far more obvious. Maybe erasing a single digit in earlier software/hardware was much harder than just clearing it all?

She’s Swedish, so she comes from one of the better systems of government and social welfare there is. What could communism give her that’s better? At least you didn’t use the socialist label, because then I’d just have to point out she already is one.

An interesting read (admittedly I skimmed through a lot as the details are over my head). The takeaway I get is that even in an ideal situation like these simulations where we immediately go to a net zero world or even one of negative net, there will still be centuries of climate oscillations as it finds a new stability.

Given that the goals are met at various year points and the continued progressions are overall straight, this seems to suggest to me that there’s a lot of the extra “noise” left out to keep the simulations simple enough to run. Things like triggered feedbacks for one. Perhaps laid onto these conclusions we can imagine arching curves from the net zero year points that find their high points much later and finally plateau or perhaps find a slow decrease over thousands of years timescale. Again, just a layperson’s take given other projections I’ve seen and the typical curves that seem to result from them.

The short conclusion is that we need to cut emissions yesterday, and fast, and then prepare for a very rough ride for our posterity. Cessation, mitigation, and adaptation need to be primary concerns.

One missing period created a wonderful visual.

Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

I don’t think she was planning to vote.

That’s how a lot are spinning this, and she doesn’t endorse anyone (not even third party) because she’s pointing to the bigger picture. However, I do think she’s subtly weighing the options with the line “With this in mind, my main message to Americans is to remember that you cannot only settle for the least worst option.” Read it carefully, along with what follows it about not quitting after a vote.

Vote third party as a message if it makes you feel better, but just like those voting for Harris - you better not stop there.

Handwaving tech and physics is easy. I’m not touching linguistics, other than to say I don’t think you can explain it away. Languages are hard, even if by some magic all species everywhere have some common base, which I doubt.

You have to admit he went full in trying to sell it to Vader as a good thing. Probably took a few minutes to work up the confidence.