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@Jarvisifyable @BachmannRudi So when the Republicans did the same thing in Virginia in 2010 to disenfranchise democrats they were just what exactly?

@BachmannRudi The issue with VA is that the California map already canceled out the gains from the TX map. But Virginia, which is a purple state that only went 52% to Harris, was able to disenfranchise nearly half of the state because 50.7% of voters said yes. A 10-1 split in VA is wild

Can conservatives from the US explain to me why the VA gerrymander (which was approved by voters) is not OK, while the one in TX and others in the South are? Please make a serious, good-faith effort. No German random posters please. PS: I think all gerrymandering is bad.

@Winstonplayer1 Youve got a lot of work to do before anyone will want to reproduce with you my dude lol

In 50 years when ill be crippled by alzhaimer and unable to remember the face of my own children ill take comfort on the one thing that will remain certain: Lukemino is the best ranked player in NA

@Winstonplayer1 Perhaps you need to self reflect instead of blaming everyone else constantly

Worst part about me being comm banned perma is that the majority of high elo player would rather have me comming than the people that report me in their team. Not a single soul on this earth would rather have exode in their team than jambon comming

@Winstonplayer1 Get a new hobby that doesn't make you so angry bro

Nukkster is weekday stacking in masters 1 banning otp of the enemy tank just to lose bro

@Simon_Ingari It's literally illegal to ask these questions in an interview and has been for some time now.

HR : Are you married? Planning on having children? Gen Z : What about you? HR : What does my personal life have to do with it? Gen Z : What does my personal life have to do with it? HR : Well, you're getting a job, aren't you? Gen Z : I'm an accountant, you're obligated to get me a job no matter what, so why do you need this information? ( HR Looks at the candidate, surprised) HR : What a generation... Gen Z : Indeed, such rudeness only comes from your generation. (HR looks at the candidate again, even more surprised)

@aip551 Does she not actually have allergies?

When I married my husband, his stepdaughter refused to let me bring my dog, claiming allergies. I brought her anyway. One day I came home and she 'rehomed' my dog to a shelter. I smiled, then revealed I'd already planned for this. My husband sided with her at first—said I was heartless. I held my boundary: no more coddling spoiled behavior in our home

@ricwe123 The US has had this technology since like the 60's? Cluster bombs and MIRV's have been around a long time.

Israeli experts are now sounding the alarm: Iranian cluster missiles can split into as many as 80 sub-missiles, hitting multiple targets simultaneously. They’re calling it an unprecedented weapon. The bigger question: how did Iran even get its hands on such technology in a country where scientists are constantly being assassinated? It’s hard to ignore the possibility that China and Russia handed this deadly know-how straight to Tehran.

@cwjones89 Because where is three times the work suddenly going to come from? More like I suddenly need 1/3 less staff.

I don't understand how so many people (across all fields) think the result of effective AI adoption in their workplace would be "I do less work" and not "my boss assigns me 3x the amount of work that I used to do."

@jlippincott Prices never go down my dude, only up more slowly. If they do go down that's deflation, which is the exact worst-case scenario the quoted tweet is worried about

I am going to keep saying this until I am blue in the face: The only way AI can "take jobs" is if the technology is more efficient than human labor. If it is then that means lower production costs and therefore lower prices and higher savings. Those savings will get converted into new lines of production and more jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living for everyone. The industrial revolution resulted in untold prosperity compared to what came before. IF (!!!) AI can deliver on its promises we could be in for major economic growth. That would be good!

@DrSuneelDhand Not everyone loses their jobs. There will always be a small amount of people left in charge to make key decisions. But we're probably talking about like a 50% reduction in corporate workforce staff headcount over the next 1-3 years

Nobody has yet been able to answer the question: If AI is going to cause mass unemployment and lack of income, then who is going to buy all of the stuff that is produced in the consumer economy? If nobody is there to buy anything, how will any corporations make money?

@JeremyDSchwartz @Citrini7 If you think companies are going to have workweeks instead of halving headcount you're not a very smart economist

Professor Siegel read the @Citrini7 scenario and felt compelled to respond with his economist POV > I am sure we'll talk more on this week's pod

@johnloeber He also killed millions more than needed to die because he made fun of people for masking and told the whole world we needed to research injecting disinfectant into our blood streams to kill the illness. Im not giving him credit for following Congress' lead

Don't forget that DJT was in office at the start of covid, greenlit the stimulus checks, and pushed operation warp speed for vaccine development He showed himself to be pretty quick and willing to bet big on problem-solving, which is pretty auspicious for this scenario too. I think he'd be much likelier to put his weight behind a practical large-scale reindustrialization plan than e.g. Biden, who earmarked tons of capital under various bills for industrial policy, but a few years later, little of which appears to have made its way into reality

@mtkonczal There's quite a lot more to the puzzle than the simple downward pressure on wages because of everyone getting fired. The kinda of people getting fired impact a disproportionately large amount of consumer spending.

New, in which I go hard tankie on the Citrinis viral essay. (That is I approach it with a Two-Agent New Keynesian model.) There were 2 predictions from the essay that sounded true to me. But only one survived putting it under a model during this learning exercise. /1

@mtkonczal Mike, I think you're ignoring the part where citrini talks about this spreading to mortgages & housing because people with bulletproof credit are defaulting on their loans in droves which freezes up the financial systems plumbing. No amount of rate cuts saves us from that

Bonus, if you can make it to the end, you can read the first prompt I put into every AI art product. 3/3

@RobertMSterling Right idea but wrong explanation. Success in the real world depends on agreeableness. If society only cared about results smart people wouldn't struggle so much because they know how to deliver. It's the social games and learning to get people to like you that's key.

Most of the highest IQ people I know have nothing to show for it. They work dead-end jobs and spend their spare time playing video games and arguing over Star Wars minutiae on Reddit, contributing little to the world and producing nothing of value. It’s not because they’re misunderstood geniuses, whose brilliance is incomprehensible to us normies (as much as some of them would like to think this to be the case). It’s because the culture and the incentivizes of the K-12 school system and the academic world failed to teach them what society actually values. If you’re naturally smart, you can sail through the education system with ease, even at the post-grad level. You go to class (or don’t go to class, as the case may be!), write an occasional paper, study a little bit the night before your midterms and finals, and walk away with pieces of paper attesting to your a status as a Certifiable Smart and Capable Person™️. Because this is the only world you’ve known for the first 22 to 25 years of life, you mistakenly believe that this matters, that the broader world—the one in which, unbeknownst to yourself, one must create value for others in other to receive value for oneself—will appreciate you simply by virtue of your natural gifts. It’s not your fault for believing this. But it’s wrong. Because, as we normal people know, what our society—whatever every flourishing society in human history, for that matter—value is output. Deliverables. Product. Things of utility to other people, be they economic, cultural, intellectual, or any other nature that someone, somewhere, will be willing to exchange some measure of value to gain access to. (Side note: Let’s be honest, it’s all economic in the end.) Your natural talents—your high IQ, your analytical capabilities, your creativity, etc.—are INPUTS for these outputs, not outputs unto themselves. And, in a world that rewards production, not consumption, inputs only matter as a means to the end of delivering said outputs. So you now find yourself in a competitive environment, where the gifts that brought you heretofore in life are no longer celebrated for their own sake but are valued only in as much as they are useful in delivering work. For many, it’s a brutal awakening. But there’s a second lesson you’re about to learn that’s likely even more painful: Work requires… work. As in a work ethic. Discipline. Grit. Accountability. And you likely never developed those things. You didn’t need to. You were rewarded—celebrated, even—by virtue of NOT needing them. This is why gifted education in the K-12 system is so critical. It’s not just so that smart kids “don’t get bored” (though that, in its own right, is certainly important!). It’s because, if the best and brightest of our youth aren’t tasked with work commensurate with their abilities, they won’t be forced to actually work. And they’ll never won’t develop the skills and personality traits that society requires until, for too many of them, it’s too late. If we want more Isaac Newtons and fewer disgruntled Reddit trolls, that’s the change we need to make to our education system and the investment we need to make in these kids’ future.

@t_blom Because datacenters need cooling and deserts famously have difficulties with water

So much of the Western United States looks like this. Why aren't we carpeting it with solar farms and colocating data centers & grid-scale batteries?

I don't think knowledge workers are prepared for what's coming. Claude for Excel is insane. 90% of what a business does can now be easily automated. Finance, Accounting, Analytics, are all about to become skeleton crews whose job is tending the AI. Expect the first waves in May.

@Winstonplayer1 He's quite the master baiter just like you

Some of u could learna thing or two about baiting from this guy

@BaldingsWorld Their central government is smart, and heavily subsidized generation construction in anticipation of the AI data center and robotics booms. They've also very heavily invested in renewables, as well as having a lot of fossils generation too.

Break it down for me, my followers are smart. Why does China have low electricity costs?