Yuuuuuuuuuuuup. I've mentioned before that when I was, like, 10, my IQ was very important to me. The older I've become the more I've recognized IQ is, if not just plain nonsense, then a wildly limited way to understand how one's brain gets along in the world and with other humans.

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…And I was today years old when I put it together that maybe my getting really hung up on the fact that shoelaces were more like a snake than a bunny, and why did we need a bunny anyway, why couldn’t they just show me how the shoelaces went until I got it – maybe that was my dash of autism at work.

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every "why does AI behave this way" inquiry boils down to the fact that it is not conscious and can not reason and is just guessing and that the guessing will get worse the more AI starts to train on it's own shitty writing.

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Before Citizens United, the top 15 political contributors spent just $15 million on the midterm election. Now, the top 15 have spent $962 MILLION. That's up 6,400%. THIS is why our system is so rigged. We really, really have to end Citizens United and tax the rich.

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So what this means is that any Dem who responds to the fusillade of transphobic attacks by saying something like "uhh I don't support men in women's sports!" is not just being immoral but engaging in bad politics. It just reiterates their opponent's attack, accepts the framing, and spreads it.

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