In isolation, setting aside everything you know about Trump’s character and the reason he hates these people, Trump comes off as honest and morally serious while Douthat reveals himself an impotent bully who crumbles when his gambit doesn’t work.
If you just want to see the moment when Ross Douthat earnestly tried to save Trump’s soul, here you go.
youtube.com/watch?v=fUcHRU…
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Douthat gives no reason he should forgive, “you’ve had a blessed life” is irrelevant. But more fundamentally, he can’t rebut Trump’s point that he *can’t* forgive. He can’t choose a mental state contrary to his judgment, not without a lot of work destroying his mind first.
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This doesn’t portend well for other ways he’ll make deals with Congress but on the plus side it is incredibly funny
Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay.
Follow: @AFpost
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I can’t get enough of this sort of niche hyperspecific cultural benchmark
Religious Jews are already asking AI the questions they once brought to a rabbi: Shabbat, kashrut, mourning, how to treat people.
Nobody has measured which way these models lean.
Introducing HashkafaBench: is your AI stringent or lenient?
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Thank god they’re too disorganized and incompetent to play to his vanity like Mamdani and get their entire substantive agenda passed.
Bernie Sanders: “Trump is a funny guy, I don’t think he’s all that ideological. I think he’s a politician and I’m not so sure that he will react all that negatively to a progressive agenda, believe it or not.”
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Shea Levy retweeted
I understand the idea of taking legislative action to help Haitians with TPS status remain in the country.
I don't understand the idea of doing it by _extending TPS_.
If you want their status to be non-temporary, just... grant them a non-temporary status?
I don't understand the idea of doing it by _extending TPS_.
If you want their status to be non-temporary, just... grant them a non-temporary status?
The fight to protect our Haitian neighbors and pass my bill extending TPS for Haiti will gain even more momentum with a Democratic majority in Congress.
I’ve stood by our Haitian community and now look forward to working with my new colleagues to get this done.
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Shea Levy retweeted
The democrats were wrong about demographics is destiny and the republicans have been psyopped, somehow, into believing it
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The only entities on this planet who solved my last challenge are me and the frontier models.
I've spent a month reviewing AI solutions. LLMs are capable of handling extreme operational complexity. Well beyond what I can do. Certainly well beyond what you can do.
If you disagree, go fail to solve my challenge and keep your worthless opinion to yourself.
But the outstanding reasoning capability of AI is a double-edge sword. Humans get good solutions by managing complexity and breaking things down into pieces, creating easy-to-maintain invariants etc.
AI isn't motivated to do any of that. It just loads everything simultaneously and operates an extremely convoluted call graph. Which results not only in overly complicated solutions, but also in very non-trivial bugs. Lots and lots of them.
AI isn't intimidated by complexity and so it doesn't approach it properly. Basically, the superhuman capabilities of modern AI are offset by its extreme arrogance.
And even then it's more capable than the majority of actual experts when it comes to small self-contained tasks.
I didn't expect any of that when I was creating the challenge. I was dead certain LLMs wouldn't solve it.
I was wrong. Those things are freakishly intelligent, in an alien way. And yes, dumb as fuck at the same time. Quite a scary combination.
I've spent a month reviewing AI solutions. LLMs are capable of handling extreme operational complexity. Well beyond what I can do. Certainly well beyond what you can do.
If you disagree, go fail to solve my challenge and keep your worthless opinion to yourself.
But the outstanding reasoning capability of AI is a double-edge sword. Humans get good solutions by managing complexity and breaking things down into pieces, creating easy-to-maintain invariants etc.
AI isn't motivated to do any of that. It just loads everything simultaneously and operates an extremely convoluted call graph. Which results not only in overly complicated solutions, but also in very non-trivial bugs. Lots and lots of them.
AI isn't intimidated by complexity and so it doesn't approach it properly. Basically, the superhuman capabilities of modern AI are offset by its extreme arrogance.
And even then it's more capable than the majority of actual experts when it comes to small self-contained tasks.
I didn't expect any of that when I was creating the challenge. I was dead certain LLMs wouldn't solve it.
I was wrong. Those things are freakishly intelligent, in an alien way. And yes, dumb as fuck at the same time. Quite a scary combination.
Ladies and gentlemen, new Haskell challenge.
This one is really easy to understand, which means anyone can now enjoy failing to solve one of my challenges.
Link in thread.
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Shea Levy retweeted
the year is 2026
an imaginary boogeyman invented by fan fiction writers on the internet in the 2000s has found its way to Congress and is crashing the stock market
an imaginary boogeyman invented by fan fiction writers on the internet in the 2000s has found its way to Congress and is crashing the stock market
Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence.
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Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
Everyone is predicting a massive midterm backlash, and while I can’t pretend to have enough of a prediction of the enduring economic impacts or their relevance to voters I *do* know y’all are underestimating the left’s ability to beclown themselves with unforced errors.
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