What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Zoupa

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

It's beyond parody at this point.

HVC

Quote from: Zoupa on July 04, 2025, 03:11:42 PMApparently there will be a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House for the 250th  :lol:

It's beyond parody at this point.

Will free bread also be available to placate the masses?
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Grey Fox on July 03, 2025, 02:19:47 PMIt's the revenge bill.

Understood.  Still, I knew Putin was cruel, and vindictive against the United States, but this is really over the top.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

Bauer

Quote from: Zoupa on July 04, 2025, 03:11:42 PMApparently there will be a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House for the 250th  :lol:

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.
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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)...
QuoteThe 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 :ph34r:
Let's bomb Russia!

Oexmelin

QuoteJan. 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.
Que le grand cric me croque !

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Sheilbh on July 06, 2025, 01:05:14 PMInteresting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...
QuoteThe 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

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Jacob

Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 06, 2025, 07:59:43 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 06, 2025, 01:05:14 PMInteresting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...
QuoteThe 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

Quote from: Jacob on July 06, 2025, 11:44:39 PMIn 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

Quote from: Jacob on July 06, 2025, 11:44:39 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 06, 2025, 07:59:43 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 06, 2025, 01:05:14 PMInteresting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...
QuoteThe 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.
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Tamas

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