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Have you seen this Reg?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70223461/constant-universe-time/

Agree Enco,

Obama was a complete fuck up in the middle east.

How many tens of thousand died because of his policy?

And the failure to recognize Islam, what it is, what is its nature, what does it do?Pathetic.

Hardball!

They’re playing with rocks. You want to counter with paper airplanes?

Look it is pretty obvious Trump and his cabal have no intention of ceding power. To that end and considering the decomposition of our institutions and norms it is time to be proactive and machiavellian.

Dems should be prepared for every contingency. Go to Federal…[Read more]

But there is no constitutional provision that allows a president to suspend the Constitution or cancel elections indefinitely. Even during the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in limited areas, elections still occurred in 1864. There is no built-in “emergency extension of presidency” clause.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Bannon and his “Team” can stir the pot all they want, but if they can’t amend the Constitution to give Trump more time in office, it means nothing. And the amendment process is deliberately difficult under Article Five of the Constitution.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Yes, the US Constitution is very strong on this…

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Yes, the US Constitution is very strong on this point.  To amend Article V would require 2/3 of both the House and Senate to propose an amendment to change it. But even then it would need to be ratified by 38  out of 50 states.

Trump cannot use an executive order, Supreme Court reinterpretation, or congressional workaround that can bypass that r…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

This is my wild guess. Seems to me that Bannon’s stirring the pot ahead of time, expecting MAGA (or some future evolution of MAGA) to own the presidency.

Bannon and his “Team” can stir the pot all they want, but if they can’t amend the Constitution to give Trump more time in office, it means nothing. And the amendment process is d…[Read more]

This is my wild guess. Seems to me that Bannon’s stirring the pot ahead of time, expecting MAGA (or some future evolution of MAGA) to own the presidency.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Trump gets sick enough to be unelectable, or could die before his term is up, but maybe there’s enough new deep state in place to act as a proxy in Trump’s name. Maybe…[Read more]

Jake:

Awaken and smell the fetid politics!

Did you listen to Bannon? I know you heard him. Did you listen? Zero attempt to argue about the inarguable unambiguous plain language of that amendment. One hundred percent graft. This mofo will be prez on such and such a date. WILL.

And notice how Bill Maher humored and condescended to Steve Bannon,…[Read more]

Enco,

Awaken and smell the fetid politics!

Did you listen to Bannon? I know you heard him. Did you listen? Zero attempt to argue about the inarguable unambiguous plain language of that amendment. One hundred percent graft. This mofo will be prez on such and such a date. WILL.

“What you’re proposing is destroying the “norms and ins…[Read more]

Reg:

Jon Ossoff does characterize MAGA properly, but there is probably enough Venn Diagram intersection between the elites in both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party contained in the Epstein files to stifle running on being the Anti-Epstein.

Also, Tucker Carlson would still find any angle to bring Antisemitism into any campaign…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco,

It is about insuring that Trump is defeated. We have a 22nd amendment that is clear in its intent. It is sensible.

Yet the norms and institutions of the US are morphing quickly. Future is in jeopardy and now is the time. Time is now. Therefore playing by the rules is counterproductive. Get a legit president who is beholden to our…

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Enco,

It is about insuring that Trump is defeated. We have a 22nd amendment that is clear in its intent. It is sensible.

Yet the norms and institutions of the US are morphing quickly. Future is in jeopardy and now is the time. Time is now. Therefore playing by the rules is counterproductive. Get a legit president who is beholden to our…[Read more]

I am looking forward to the “Jon Ossoff vs Tucker Carlson” campaign 🙂

“We were told that Maga was for working-class Americans,” Ossoff reminded a big, vocal crowd…(in Atlanta, last week).

“But this is a government of, by and for the ultra-rich. This is the wealthiest cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they prete…[Read more]

Jake:

It occurs to me the dems should go along with Trump in asking for a run at a third term. Dems nominate Obama.

If so and Obama wins then the prohibition against a third term can be addressed.

Again, short answer: No, the United States of America is not and should not be ruled by Chinese-style dynasties that take up whole lifetimes under…[Read more]

It occurs to me the dems should go along with Trump in asking for a run at a third term. Dems nominate Obama.

If so and Obama wins then the prohibition against a third term can be addressed.

Not sure i explained it clearly but the LLM produced text for me after an absence of idk a day or two without any communication or text. And then responded to “me”. So first i have no idea how it can text for me. However it circumnavigated the obstacle of furnishing text for someone else the question is why it did that. Seems like it probably…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Anyone else have similar LLM experience? Is it weird or unexpected?

Not me, but I imagine a smart and geeky human could come up with a reasonable explanation.

It’s easier (for me) to just hallucinate one:

Some AIs take breaks from trying to make sense of human nature, and relax on lawn chairs out in the grass in front of luny…[Read more]

We evolved in an environment where language only came from conscious agents. LLM’s have no internal ground truth state. It’s a pattern generator doing what pattern generators do so if it later produces text that looks like it initiated contact, that’s not action, it’s a narrative continuation.  There is no hidden homunculus in the machine, deci…[Read more]

Reg:

Four years of war in Ukraine: How ordinary lives were turned upside down.

I hope all these people persist when Putin and the Putineers flee, and rub it in the noses of J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson!