It’s also where that person got stabbed on a bus. The news story that chuds blew up to show that white people are being hunted in the streets. Part of this ICE thing is overall crime, not just crime caused by immigrants. Chicago ICE just bragged the other day about lowering crime across the board.

We have also had (for me) very rewarding discussions on many other topics, for example the prospects for Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, multi-layered neural nets, automation and robotics, singularity, and related matters, exploring the claims and predictions and looking closely at the results that have been achieved, their intellectual contributions and social import. We have also discussed many other issues, ranging from intellectual history, to world affairs and contemporary geopolitics, to foundations of mathematics, to such matters as recent discoveries about communication in the plant world. He has also tried, so far with limited success, to carry forward my wife Valeria’s efforts to introduce me to the world of jazz and its wonders. Whatever comes up, Jeffrey not only has a lively interest but also unconventional and challenging ideas and thoughtful suggestions.

These people elevate their own banal conversations to the heights of philosophical inquiry. They get together over a $400 dinner and say the exact same shit anyone of us says about AI. Well, minus the giddiness of how we can profit from it through our investor friends. The conversation you have with a friend while smoking a blunt after watching a science documentary is just as informed and insightful as what these people talk about. But since they’re rich and can summon a pop-sci author to their dinner table, they convince themselves that they’re intellectuals. It’s just Joe Rogan. Talk to a bunch of “experts” and you become an expert. They don’t have challenging ideas because they don’t have any ideas of their own.

Chomsky, someone who does have some intellectual chops, despite being an establishment stooge, accepts this sophistry at currency. He does this because despite his intellectualism is still impressed by power and money. He’s just happy to be at the dinner table.

Case in point:

THCa is just back-door legal weed and it would suck if they removed it. It’s also going to wreck all the people who started head shops and farms over the past 10 years. Trump is slaughtering all the striver entrepreneur gigs. Wholesalers, drop shippers, and now hemp.

He had actual child porn as well. He did not stop at 12. Their next argument will be that okay it was children but that’s actually trad if you look at the 1800s.

These people learned nothing from Kirk and “I’m going to say ludicrous shit in public” is only going to bring more hilarious results.

Oh I see. It’s more of a common man’s pedophilia like American Beauty. It’s not really an elitist pedophilia like True Detective.

If congress votes to release the DOJ files then we might see stalling or a court battle. If then the files are released, it won’t really be a smoking gun. We will get some more insight into how wide this is, like we did through the email release yesterday. It will allow people to construct a speculative story but nothing concrete. Then it’s over. Maybe down the road we get a Warren Commission when it’s safe and the government needs a distraction. I think Trump and all will get away with it just like people have gotten away with other deep events. The same group who is trying to use this as political leverage against Trump will turn and be making fun of you for believing it 10 years from now. Just like with 9/11 truthers or JFK people. Jon Stewart and Colbert will be like “Epstein files? Um, okay? Let me guess, you also think the moon landing was a hoax too, right?” The only reason we’re getting as much as we are is because it’s politically convenient for libs.

I think the Dems got ahead of them this morning with the 3 emails. This release feels like an attempt by Republicans to say they released the files. Sure enough the WH press secretary said as much today. However there are still the DOJ files, that everyone has been asking about for months, to be released. Those will only come after a congressional vote now that they’re all back.

The Cheney stand-in and Americans being climate refugees in Mexico were pretty funny.

For me it’s that under capitalism, waste will be a problem. The government and private industry have already proven they are careless with waste and will skimp on properly containing it. You can say that they can design a plant with no waste but if that plant costs $3 more than one that does, you can bet they’ll go with the cheaper one. In the US we can’t couple a deregulation mindset that everyone in charge shares and do something that requires the utmost regulation. Can that be applied to every other form of energy generation? Yes. That’s the point. They cannot be trusted with anything. Even coal plants dump waste in rivers and natural areas that will poison it for years.

Even if you consider a non-American government like Japan and Fukushima. They were housing cleanup workers in shanties right next to waste. Workers weren’t told about the risk. They kept changing the definition of contamination so that it meant less work. They didn’t have anywhere to put waste, granted it was a black swan emergency but still. There was rampant wage theft for clean up workers. So much malice and incompetency went on during the cleanup while the world kept portraying this image of positivity. Japan is way more open to regulation than the US yet they too had so many problems.

Now put several nuclear power plants in each US state. How much planning do you really think would go into mitigating disasters and keeping waste storage above board? Do you think they’ll just let the federal government regulate it or break it up between the states? How easy is it going to be for a power company to massage those state regulations like they do already with traditional power sources?

The supposed payoff is that we no longer have to use coal, natural gas, or oil. I don’t think that would happen. The government certainly wouldn’t outlaw fossil fuels regardless of how many nuclear plants we have. At that point we would have a very dangerous timebomb of nuclear disaster and then we wouldn’t even get the reduction in fossil fuels.

Wolff suggesting that Epstein blackmail Trump for political favor. That’s the part which will allow Trump to shrug this off like everything else. He will say Wolff (and the Democrats) were trying to blackmail him. Since the libs welcomed Wolff to the resistance in 2018, it’ll be easy.

We have great ammo but now it’s tainted because libs can’t help but to praise and welcome any corrupt fucker that criticizes Trump, making the criticisms look weak.

Love how there’s a lottery ad disguised as a news story right above the article on affordability crisis.

I don’t think you can make these decisions without having to build it. You won’t know if you need a three-way framework until you get to the point where you’re building that framework. By then you might learn something new and have a better idea or find a reason why it wouldn’t work. Something can sound really good in theory and have no problems but then problems somehow appear in practice. I encourage anyone to get some friends and try to carry out a big project together. You’ll start to see why it’s not as easy as finding the right answer on paper first. It’s not really an ideas problem, it’s an organization problem. It’s getting people together, synchronized, and focused on one goal despite the hiccups that will appear. It’s also being able to keep those people together and focused when things go wrong and you have to change the plan.

Brb starting a secular, modern, free-market loan service called “Serf.”

It can’t all be on the unlearned though. If people are more stubborn and less enthused to learn then that means the teachers and thought-leaders have screwed up somewhere along the line as well.

I’m actually wondering if people treating theory as parables is a problem. It tends to gloss over the specific context in which events happen in favor of crafting a tidy and appealing (biased) narrative. If you’re trying to use theory that way, and you want people to get a certain message, you will bend the theory to fit that message. You will ignore the things that don’t support your analysis in favor of things that do.

Seeing Trump tweet something like “Radical communist Hasan Piker, who has been brainwashing our great children, is trying to return to the US after attending communist lessons in China. I am asking customs and immigration to keep him out of our beautiful country!” would be pretty wild.

The humble black bean veggie burger.

Can you post this stuff to c/electoralism in the future? That’s the purpose of that comm, American electoral stuff.

Episode 2 spoilers

“Do women be shopping?”