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  • The term “super intelligence” paints a halo around a highly fallible technology. The fantasy narrative that elites have built around AI has, at bottom, served a financial end.

    Just as we are conditioned to accept our teachers/professors as having superior intelligence to respect and obey, and something to seek out in what to read/listen to, and (speaking to my narcisim) possibly even deserves to be listened to. Higher intelligence can be used to sell lies or teach truth. Only one of these pays well.

    Super conveys a deserved authoritarian truth. Superior. Fraudster in chief, blantantly lying the most of any public figure every day, is not the most trustworthy source to provide a halo for fraudster bond villains who are more guarded/frank about fallibility risks.






  • Yet another mental/sycophancy problem with Trump that is a 25th amendment disqualifying reason for presidency. You can’t just have surrounding lackeys just praise his renaming of things, but especially absurd to declare an enemy anyone who doesn’t follow the absurdity. Can’t have a super dumb (with a b) Fuhrer defining super intelligence.

    Some stage of AI could earn the label SI. A panel of experts, instead of fraudsters colluding with fraudster in chief would set a standard, IMO, higher than current LLM capacity. IMO, SI would be a status/standard beyond AGI, which is still a somewhat amorphous definition, but one for experts to debate.

    Promoting SI as an exaggerated marketing buzzword, with bonus unquestionable obedience to terminology, gives AI and our super high IQ ruler, deserved unquestioned obedience. Why would you want to regulate/slow down super intelligence trying to help us get to skynet?



  • It’s not doubling down, but rather claiming all of a sudden that it would be a bad thing. Nazi cronies originally excused it as “the left can’t take a joke” because tone/words seemed to obviously welcome it.

    California happens to be one of the safer distance-wise places from Iran missile range. Even if a missile from Iran could reach California, one with a heavier bomb would reach eastern sea board, or Israel.

    Fundamentally, peace with Iran is the logical conclusion from this phantom fear. Instead of continuation of illegal permawar. Massively other negative consequences well within Iran demonstrated capability occur as a result of permanent war/oppression of Iran. Zero benefit to Americans.






  • Think of it this way. The portion of the salary they COULD have paid you, they instead keep from you to pay for your health insurance.

    That’s my core point. Unions also tend to prefer 30% higher cost health plans because its non taxable to their membership, and life being shittier for the rest of us, is reason to apply to join their union.

    Once we get beyond this mode of thinking we can realize that we can, instead, delegate the government to pay for our health insurance.

    Yes. And and both polls and “marketing” of M4A ignore this principle.


  • Elohim is the name of the Mormon God, although his name is not to be uttered (oops!). The Jewish God bears the same name, amongst various other names, depending on which Rabbi’s argument is presented.

    El was head of multitheist pantheon of all Levant tribes. Elohim just means El the greatest. Allah is the same reference. Abraham would name his children IsraELites. Moses, the foundation of Zionism, would later declare that there is no god above Yahweh (one of El’s minor sons charged with small Iraelite tribe affairs) with orders to go conquer all who disapprove of Moses killing them. The entire basis of monotheism is a song by King David’s (non priest) musical director where Yahweh sentences to death all of the other gods. Though the incohrence of most not believing turns into his mother Asherah to become his wife, and then stories of Yahweh’s resentment of shrines to his mother/wife.

    Elohim vs Yahweh to Jews is a point of confusion, but reconciled to manufacture coherence for Jews as the same God that Christianity/Romans also adopted. Jesus’s heavenly father, and general humanist principles, suited El over Yahweh (warmongering genocide) as a descriptor. So, a problem with our religious order is taking the same chosen people Yahweist Moses, and declaring new chosen people based on victories and destruction of Israelite temples, or later manifest destiny fabrications.

    Yahweh is at best an extremely impotent god. Moses/exodus claims that Yahweh lied to Abraham to pretend to be El. The only possible timeline of Noah is 6100BC, and then having any traceable lineage from Noah to Abraham can’t be that long. Moses is 1600 BC, and eventual 1010BC King David, ruled over a small shithole of Jerusalem/Judah, and paid tribute (biblical confirmation) to Philisitines that were the ones who actually drove Egypt out of Judah. So an all powerful god that predetermines all outcomes, is just a pathethic loser that led Israelites to declare their empire of shit under vassal control of Philistines, after 5000 years, to be a crown achievement of that all powerful god.


  • Still remarkably low,

    When told such ⁠a single-payer model would eliminate private insurance plans

    There are medicare advantage supplements provided by private insurance that would continue. I’m sure the only people who like private health insurance are ones where employer is paying the majority share.

    The best question would be would you prefer an after tax raise as a result of M4A? (based on following table)

    Coverage Type Average Employee Share Average Employer Share Total Annual Premium
    Single Coverage $1,440 $7,885 $9,325
    Family Coverage $6,850 $20,143 $26,993

    where a 4% income tax surchage for a M4A plan that saves overall economy $1T, $60k salary would net $7500 as single plan, and $23500 in family plan in extra disposible income, when employer passes on their savings as extra salary.

    $1T in savings also means $1T in additional disposible income for non-healthcare/insurance economy, and more employment/business profits in “useful economy” that multiplies to more economic growth.

    So, the proper poll question is do you want a big after tax salary increase, with huge economic growth that gives you more job/raise opportunities, or do you want a corrupt extortion based healthcare system with private AI/death panels that denies you coverage?




  • toxic sludge is good for you

    This is perhaps obscure, but a reference to a famous PR book from the 1970s. Datacenter harm is mostly about electricity scarcity pricing for rest of US, noise and sometimes water use, and financial loss. There can be pollution/global warming associated concerns, but its not a major health care issue.

    stop treating oligarchs like they don’t have something to gain by supporting each other.

    This is indeed the core issue in America. Israel first rulership is part of the support circle, and much more so, since 2024.

    That $1B budget is unlikely to be TV advertisements for datacenters. It’s likely to be bribes that get all of the pre-election candidate opposition to projects go quiet after election.



  • What makes me angry is their “example voter” asks “I’m left on immigration, tell me about the candidates”

    1. Dumb basis for election. Only impeachment will stop wanton murder and overreach on fascist show of force roundup of everyone tanned, and deportation to gulag host countries.

    2. Congress will not create new legislation, though at best perhaps there will be some media circus over ICE abuses, and some conditions on funding which Trump will ignore.

    3. gpt response is detailed support of Trump for GOP side, with zero information about Dem candidates or possible outcome/curtailment of Trump determined abuses of existing legislation.

    I’m angry at both how stupid low information the voter is, regurgitating GOP “election focus issues” that are irrelevant to surivival, and have zero impact on WV, and the response that doesn’t cut through the irrelevant BS of that election issue to compare individual candidates. Only balance of power party supermajority in house can overcome BS.