A very bad law. The Washington state legislature just passed SB5599 (D-6, R-0), which allows the state to take from parents, the children who want to have "gender-affirming care", the euphemism for genital mutilation or puberty-blocking hormones, because of their mental illness. Parents have no say in this matter, and I can't say enough how awful that this got passed. Matt Margolis calls this "state-sponsored kidnapping," which it is. Time to leave the state. But not to Oregon. Nope, because the idiots in Oregon are working on the same kind of law. Groomers in the schools must be beside themselves with glee.
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Portland city council is confused about their ranked-choice voting procedure rough draft. Commissioners Mingus Mapps, Rene Gonzalez and Dab Ryan raised some concerns about how byzantine the process is, but Charter Implementation Transition Manager Shoshanah Oppenheim said to just trust the outside experts that the City consulted. They know best. Ranked-choice voting is flawed. It's a way to keep the voters of losing loony candidates to stay in the game, and redistribute their votes to their second-choice less-loony candidates that remain. Voters who voted for more sensible candidates can only watch in horror, as the 3rd, 4th and 5th place candidates end up getting more votes with each round, and overtake the candidate that won originally, but just not above the 50% cutoff.
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Portland city council is confused about their ranked-choice voting procedure rough draft. Commissioners Mingus Mapps, Rene Gonzalez and Dab Ryan raised some concerns about how byzantine the process is, but Charter Implementation Transition Manager Shoshanah Oppenheim said to just trust the outside experts that the City consulted. They know best. Ranked-choice voting is flawed. It's a way to keep the voters of losing loony candidates to stay in the game, and redistribute their votes to their second-choice less-loony candidates that remain. Voters who voted for more sensible candidates can only watch in horror, as the 3rd, 4th and 5th place candidates end up getting more votes with each round, and overtake the candidate that won originally, but just not above the 50% cutoff.
South Korea has a hikkikomori problem, too. This is why their fertility rate is the lowest in the world - even lower than Japan's.
AI as administrative assistant. Terry Tao is happy with using GPT4 as his admin assistant. It's still not a user-friendly process, but will be soon. People who are employed doing menial services should be very concerned. The world will no longer need this to be done by a human.
Don't have friends? No problem. Just replace them with your custom chatbot. As you can see, setting this up is much like running Linux on your computer back in the 1990s. But things will get easier eventually. I had not heard of Modal before - offering up serverless GPU cloud space. Great business model, which will grow, I'll bet. But machine learning models degrade over time, and require retraining and "constant access to ground truth data" so you may still need to keep your real friends around.