What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Zoupa]

Apparently there will be a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House for the 250th 

It's beyond parody at this point.

[HVC]

Apparently there will be a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House for the 250th 

It's beyond parody at this point.

Will free bread also be available to placate the masses?

[The Minsky Moment]

It's the revenge bill.

Understood.  Still, I knew Putin was cruel, and vindictive against the United States, but this is really over the top.

[Bauer]

Apparently there will be a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House for the 250th 

It's beyond parody at this point.

What comes to my mind is the Mandingo fight in Django unchained.

[Josquius]

Musk is talking about founding another party

Elon Musk's proposed new political party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats | Elon Musk | The Guardian https://share.google/2n2GDSHoFFrn1ek0K

This is why fascists usually have rivals killed.

[Admiral Yi]

New PBS/Maris poll has approval on Trump's immigration policy at 43%.

That's the same as his prexisting approval of 45.  Immigration has not moved the needle.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...

The White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.

China's platform giants are ploughing huge resources into AI too. The results are no more predictable.

But if there is any prospect that AI development poses a threat to the social and political order Beijing deems acceptable, can anyone be in doubt that it would be halted in its tracks?

That is what the humbling of the platform oligarchs in 2020 betokened.

What analogous guarantee is there in the west?

Time to disappear some tech bosses for a few months pour encourager les autres

[Oexmelin]

Jan. 6 rioter who encouraged violence against police hired to work in Trump's DOJ
A Jan. 6 rioter was caught on video encouraging insurrectionists to "kill" police officers. Now he has a job in the Justice Department.

Two weeks after Election Day 2024, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama assured the public that Donald Trump wouldn't choose "a criminal" for a governmental position. Soon after, the president started adding politically aligned ex-cons to his administrative team.

But the latest example of the phenomenon is the most breathtaking. The New York Times reported:

A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies. The former agent, Jared L. Wise, is serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group, according to people familiar with the group's activities.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Wise's new role.

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...

The White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.

Can you tell me what this means Shelf?

[HVC]

Robots are racist.

[Jacob]

Interesting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...

The White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.

Can you tell me what this means Shelf?

In a Liberal Western context- LLM cannot be relied upon to not endorse ethnic cleansing or undermining the rule of law and the like.

In a Chinese context, LLM cannot be relied upon to not challenge Xi Jinping thought.

[Solmyr]

In a Liberal Western context- LLM cannot be relied upon to not endorse ethnic cleansing or undermining the rule of law and the like.

[crazy canuck]

Interesting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...

The White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.

Can you tell me what this means Shelf?

In a Liberal Western context- LLM cannot be relied upon to not endorse ethnic cleansing or undermining the rule of law and the like.

In a Chinese context, LLM cannot be relied upon to not challenge Xi Jinping thought.

The first is true, scholars studying generative AI are beginning to think the second proposition is not also true.

[Josquius]

I have heard the experience of using the Chinese AI is rather interesting. I've not given one a go myself.
Apparently it will start to give you answers like "There are huge human rights violations happening with minority groups in western China" then suddenly run into a technical error where it can't give you the answer for some strange reason.

[Tamas]

Most of the risks around AI would go away if marketing people stopped pretending it actually thinks.