I couldn't imagine working in DC and staying sane, but working in the Science, Space, and Technology Committees is probably one of the ways to do so. Sounds super cool and interesting!

Go big or go home, that's what I sometimes say

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Hmm, it's a bit over my head, but does this factor into the OP_CAT debate? I imagine the security tradeoffs are similar.

I also just tried this on ChatGPT o1. It got the right answer, recognizing it as a degenerate triangle and getting x=1. All I did is upload the image and tell it to give me the length of AD.

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Fair enough! Though I don't know if astrology is rooted in any truthful logic, whereas I'd say generational cycles are.

WSJ headline article yesterday was also about Russia cutting undersea cables in the Baltic Sea.

I smell a psyop. Gearing us up for more naval spending, maybe?

I think the definitions are all kinda loose anyway. I don't know how much Strauss and Howe really believed in the specifics of their prediction, but I think the logic of generational cycles has a lot of truth to it.

Actually, the idea itself is not really new. Thomas Cole painted about it, and I remember learning that the ancient Persians were aware of this idea (strong king builds great empire, it's maintained by his successor, but the third generation brings ruin... that kind of thing)

Yeah, I know because I tried to build my own RAG system and it was kinda difficult to get it working well. It's a bit more complex than simply downloading something from HuggingFace and hitting play. And then I realized that OpenAI has a tool for this already, and realized I was wasting my time trying to build my own.

Building your own might be something you only do if you want to keep your documents and interactions with the AI private.

You can learn a lot about a group by listening to the introductions to their speeches. And in one speech by Stephanie Kelton, she started with the idea that governments don't need to "balance their budgets the way households do," because households can't simply print money to fulfill their obligations, but governments can. THerefore, the political analogies that debt hawks use about balancing budgets doesn't need to be listened to.

She said this as if it were some deep insight. Then, she went on to admit that the main constraint against money printing is inflation. She just so happens to think that we aren't at excess capacity and so more printing won't lead to inflation.

Based on this, I realized that my main disagreements with MMT are:

I just find it so ironic, because governments are the biggest sponsors of terrorism around the world, not to mention the amount of foreign and military aid that actually ends up in the hands of terrorist groups.

You beat @Rothbardian_fanatic by 1 minute!

Then you realize how much money Microsoft makes and you not just hate yourself you hate the world

It wouldn't be easy, nor worth the cost.

Existing AI providers like OpenAI already have the ability for you to do this, i.e. upload a corpus of documents that you want it to answer from. And it would probably be cheaper to use their services than for you to set up and train your own model.

It may seem that way, but as an educator I think online education absolutely wrecked a generation of kids... and it was worst for the most vulnerable, who didn't have access to quiet spaces and fast internet connections and parents who could help fill the gaps in learning.

I think I'd qualify COVID and the reaction to it as perhaps qualifying for a 4th turning level event... especially since I think it was a lack of virtue and strength that made people so accepting of the policy responses from the government

What if we're literally in the midst of it?

Nah, it's because of these things I learned what a file system is. Kids these days can't find a directory on their computer and don't know what a file extension is.

This is a good metric, really illustrates the financialization of the economy.