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This is the death of a functional society in five simple bar graphs.
It’s a portrait of a society whose members share less and less in common with their neighbors and spend more and more time alone, sparring with shadows.
People who differ with you become the devil because the algorithm normalizes paranoia.
You are happy to use the power of the state against your neighbor because your “online community” of Chinese and Pakistani bots feels more real than the people who live next to you.
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST
The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
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The idea that large language models aka “AI” can “think” or “create” in any meaningful way was based in a robotic mis-apprehension of the nature of human consciousness, which was powerfully elucidated 40 years ago by thinkers like John Searle. Large language models are machines, and human beings are flesh and blood. Its only 25 year old autists who don’t understand the difference or see how and why it matters.
No, AI doesn’t “think” — and it’s not going to destroy the universe, let alone write a decent rock and roll song or a novel. At the same time, it’s a powerful advance over previous knowledge based tools with amazing applications throughout the sciences and with the capacity to help us rewire everything from the professions to our educational system. The data centers that power these new tools are the equivalent of electrical power plants a century ago.
The impulse to ban these new technologies or bring them under centralized government control is like opposing electricity or demanding that the government hold a monopoly on steel production or radio. It’s at best a dead end, and at a worst a recipe for tyranny.
History, both ancient and recent, has taught us that there is no group of selfless experts in white coats who act in the public interest. COVID was only the latest reminder. As our founders wisely taught us, society is made up of competing interests which should check each other’s claims on power.
No one cares about Dario, his wife, or Sam Altman’s IPO. Its all noise. If they wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on a mechanistic idea of consciousness, they should have read John Searle back in college. That’s not my problem, or your problem, or society’s problem. Its their investors’ problem.
What we should be thinking and talking about now is how to use these powerful new tools to make ourselves and our society freer, healthier and more open to human creativity and protential. Bust up the knowledge monopolies. Make higher education free and available to everyone. Make access to the best legal and medical knowledge equally available to rich and poor alike.
Big social transformations are already afoot. Its time to man up and be Americans, get out of the big cities and their conformist group-think bubbles, and make a new Eden.
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Fourteen moves in eight days
The psyop to create hysteria to manipulate Congress into regulating AI.
Almost everyone involved is affiliated with Coefficient, Open Philanthropy, Anthropic, and/or OpenAI -- all who serve to benefit financially from creating regulation.
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Miami-Dade County is the 7th most populous county in the United States, and BY FAR the 1st biggest county with a Republican voter registration advantage.
Ron DeSantis did this.
Show some respect for America's governor.
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Americans Who Cowered Under Government Oppression For 2 Years Urge Ukrainians To Die For Freedom buff.ly/6MZ1RyC
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Healthy relationships depend on mutual respect. Ukraine and Europe don't respect us; they look down on us. America never had any obligation to protect Ukraine. And now we're asking why we should continue to spend our money, and put our lives on the line, to protect Europe.
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Democrats Demand Transparency From Man Who Posts Literally Everything He Does On The Internet buff.ly/3EEelPL
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Today we learned that Federal Employees ride tricycles around the Limestone caves to fetch the Government employee retirement documents.
WHAT IN THE WILLY WONKA HOBBIT IS GOING ON HERE 💀
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We went from NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem at the Super Bowl to them being visibly emotional during it alongside President Trump.
We didn’t just win the election in November. We won the culture war.
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JD Vance just dropped the quote of the year today.
“Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.”
USAID has been completely unaccountable for decades, run by bureaucrats with agendas who believed they answered to nobody.
Here are a few more of the ridiculous projects on which they spent YOUR money:
— $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”
— $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
— $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan
— $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”
— $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
— $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”
— $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”
— $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group
— $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
— $6 million for tourism in Egypt
— $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam
— $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam
— ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab
— $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax
— $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”
— $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”
— $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers
— $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
— $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem
— $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America
— $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)
— $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon
— $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans
— $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda
— $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”
— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa
— $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”
— USAID’s “climate strategy” outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-agency” approach to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”
For decades, USAID bureaucrats believed they were accountable to no one — but that era is over.
President Trump is STOPPING the waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Remember how the Rebel Alliance found the single weakness in the all-powerful Death Star, which was an exhaust vent leading straight from the surface of the Death Star directly into its reactor core?
I'm starting to think USAID is the Deep State's exhaust vent, and DOGE just dumped a proton torpedo down it.
"Use the Force, Elon."
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The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.
They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.
Not even once.
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There is no justification for doing this if you actually want to enhance enforcement.
The purpose of the provision is to stop enforcement.
It weakens current law and practice significantly.
Florida becomes a de facto sanctuary state. This is a betrayal of the voters.
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In their own way, both Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. represent parts of the new coalition in our party.
To say they’re unwelcome in the cabinet is to insult those new voters.
To reject their confirmation is to reject the idea that President Trump decides his cabinet.
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Just a reminder that an illegal alien burned a woman alive on the subway just a few weeks ago, and all your friends crying publicly about deportation said nothing.
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Trump was impeached because he asked Zelenskyy on the phone about the Biden family criminal cartel.
Today, Joe Biden, as his final act in office, pardoned his entire criminal cartel family.
They were criminals all along.
And they tried to take Trump out for noticing.
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Carrie Underwood sings 'America the Beautiful' a cappella after the soundtrack didn't turn on.
Perfectly executed.
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OMG. go to whitehouse.gov
