In Canada if a budget vote fails, we call an election.

He still is involved with engineering things, people just want to think he’s not so they can think less of him.

E.g with Starship it was his decision (that he had to convince everyone on) to use stainless steel for Starship. If I recall correctly, his current focus is on the raptor engine.

So far SS seems to have been working well for them, with the ship surviving some brutal re-entries even with missing heat shield tiles.

This is the progress they’re making on Raptor. And for anyone that doesn’t know, Raptor are the first Full-Flow Staged Combustion Cycle (FFSCC) engines ever flown. A lot of the reductions you’re seeing between the engines is from moving to 3D printing all those channels within the tubes.

And now the source code is part of copilot

There’s no way ICE hasn’t been involved in illegal drug smuggling for decades. It doesn’t work without corrupt people in those kinds of positions. DEA and CBP as well.

I know it would never happen, but that SHOULD be a career ending move.

I wonder if any aliens ever ran into this, if they’d be like wow, this tech is so low, let’s not bother with who sent it.

Or if they’d be like, it looks like it took 100 years to get here, let’s see what they did in 100 years.

I posted this before, but i once laid out all the anti trans, bigoted things Musk did (without saying it was Musk) and asked if the person was a bigot.

ChatGPT said yes that’s bigoted behavior. I then said Elon Musk did all that, is he a bigot? And it replied yes, even citing the instances tied to Musk that I alluded to without name.

Grok also said it was bigoted behavior, but it refused to say Musk was a bigot even after acknowledging he did everything, for pages and pages it refused saying there’s nuance while at the same time saying the behavior is from a bigoted person.

I kept at it and grok finally said okay he is, but there’s no way that isn’t a trained thing to protect Musk.

Sometimes it’s explicitly called out for that reason ya. Can’t say all the time though.

Maybe, if you can’t get the votes for your bill, the problem is your bill?

Up here in Canada we might be facing an election in the near future if the liberal minority government can’t get enough votes for it’s budget.

I’ll just keep posting this quote on the topic.

'If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy."

But it’s my religious markings from my officially recognized religion/church.

Time to start wearing face paint / face tattoos that fuck with facial recognition.

I’m pretty sure that’s what the instructions say yes.

So now instead of masked unidentified cops kidnapping people, there are going to be masked, unidentified non cops kidnapping people?

when they have absolutely nothing to do with AI other than their poorly chosen marketing name

I worked somewhere once where they had an algorithm that placed items according to rules it was given, and it would output variations based on the rules to give the user some output options to work with. Think A or B could go here, and the different outcomes based on if you started with A or B.

It was pretty complex, but ultimately it was just a deterministic outcome of many possible deterministic outcomes based off the rules and what you started with.

They marketed that shit as AI.

It infuriated me.

No machine learning, no neural nets, no reinforcement learning, or learning of any kind, just placing things based off rules.

And don’t get me wrong, it was good, just not AI.

Hopefully there are people still working on non-llm type general AI, because i don’t think we’re ever going to get there with LLMs. The architecture just seems wrong to ever get there, and even Altman has said they probably can’t solve hallucinations. We can probably go very far down this road and get them pretty good, but it’s the wrong road if you want a real AI.

Well, I think magnitude plays a part.

Go fuck a tween and you should be off to a good start.

if what I read elsewhere was true, they don’t even need to fund it for now. It has a very large emergency fund its legally allowed to use in circumstances like just like this. They’re breaking the law by not using the fund or something like that.

It’s also how you get a promotion, do enough illegal things and you get to be president even!

It’s chalk man. Wouldn’t you be afraid of pastel colors drawn on your driveway saying nasty things about you?

Military base is clearly the only choice.