rational_lib

Non-billionaire controlled so far. It's a public benefit corporation, which is vulnerable to being Altmaned. Once it becomes valuable money will find a way.

As I use copilot to write software, I have a hard time seeing how it'll get better than it already is. The fundamental problem of all machine learning is that the training data has to be good enough to solve the problem. So the problems I run into make sense, like:

1. Copilot can't read my mind and figure out what I'm trying to do.
2. I'm working on an uncommon problem where the typical solutions don't work
3. Copilot is unable to tell when it doesn't "know" the answer, because of course it's just simulating communication and doesn't really know anything.

2 and 3 could be alleviated, but probably not solved completely with more and better data or engineering changes - but obviously AI developers started by training the models on the most useful data and strategies that they think work best. 1 seems fundamentally unsolvable.

I think there could be some more advances in finding more and better use cases, but I'm a pessimist when it comes to any serious advances in the underlying technology.

That's what they did this election, and we got fascism and the DNC doesn't matter anymore. So now what?

Do a hostile takeover of the GOP instead. Many states don't care why party you register as, and if they do just register as a Republican and vote in their primaries. Pick a socialist candidate and get them to run as a Republican, and vote for them. This is in essence what Trump did, but of course he did it for fascism and got Nazis to vote Republican. The same strategy can work for anyone else. This can start in safe blue states where no one votes in the GOP primaries and spread from there.

This is a far more realistic strategy because third parties are vulnerable to the spoiler effect and will always fail due to people being worried about electing Republicans.

Network effects, boomers being unable to figure out how to switch

There will be Fox News appearances.

Who could see this coming, other than literally everybody

Yes I do think it was championed by conservative people. And if that statement pisses anyone off, my evidence is that Fannin County GA, where this took place, voted 82% for Trump. It's almost as if the whole "government overreach" thing is just empty marketing for policies that make rich people richer...

Imagine if there was a hack so bad that it caused everyone to become unable to develop in C and C++.

Classic "let's just make the cure worse than the disease" mindset among security enthusiasts.

I think this is intended as satirical but given the multitude of illogical reasons some give for supporting Trump it's hard to tell.

It will be hugely unpopular. It's not clear whether that will translate to Trump or Republicans becoming unpopular though.

Well last time they tried to get rid of it, but John McCain sank that effort as if failed 49-51. Just before he died of cancer.

Now all the John McCains have been purged from the GOP and they will have a bigger senate majority, and likely a significant house majority too. So if there is an effort to repeal the ACA, it'll very likely pass.