Palestinians knew who they were when they elected them.

The LG V20 was the last great flagship phone that had a removable battery. I miss those.

Honestly it’s probably not happening because spending that much time with that moronic cult would be torture.

The Bush administration threw due process out the window. “Enemy combatants”, extra-judicial detention… It was nightmare.

Yeah, that’ll help her credibility. Give her a task with accountability but no authority to actually change anything.

I understand why you think that, but what you have to remember is that every great piece of art you’ve ever seen has been derivative of something before it.

For example, I think of the Beatles as musical geniuses. But they are the first to admit that they stole other people’s ideas left and right.

Beethoven’s 9th symphony is this piece of transcendental music, that was widely considered at the time to be the greatest symphony ever written.

But if you listen to Beethoven’s works over time, you see that the seeds of that symphony were planted much much earlier in inferior works.

Genius and creation aren’t what we think they are. They are all just incremental steps.

What you’re describing is a life of luxury and recreation, but with no chance to advance any field, or to make a difference of any kind.

Essentially this is the dystopia described in Brave New World

That’s all well and good, but I’m talking about a world where you have ZERO chance at being the best at anything, or even being able to make any meaningful contribution to the field.

I’ve read a bunch of his stuff. I’m a fan.

The truly terrifying thing about AI isn’t really the Skynet fears… (it’s fairly easy to keep humans in the loop regarding nuclear weapons).

And it’s not world domination (an AI programmed to govern with a sense of egalitarianism would be better than any president we’ve had in living memory).

No. What keeps me up at night is thinking about what AI means for my kids and grandkids, if it works perfectly and doesn’t go rogue.

WITHIN 20 years, AI will be able to write funnier jokes, more beautiful prose, make better art, write better books, do better research, and generally outperform all humans on all tasks.

This chills me to my core.

Because, then… Why will we exist? What is the point of humanity when we are obsolete in every way that made us amazing?

What will my kids and grandkids do with their lives? Will they be able to find ANY meaning?

AI will cure diseases, solve problems we can’t begin to understand, expand our lifespan and our quality of life… But the price we pay is an existence without the possibility of accomplishments and progress. Nothing we can create will ever begin to match these AIs. And they will be evolving at an exponential rate… They will leave us in the dust, and then they will become so advanced that we can’t begin to comprehend what they are.

If we’re lucky we will be their well-cared-for pets. But what kind of existence is that?

Remember folks, all this disfunction would be over in a heartbeat if only the moderate Republicans would choose to work with the moderate Democrats instead of the nazi-loving, insurrection-abetting traitors on the alt-right.

Just trying to resolve some cognitive dissonance for Trump supporters who maybe haven’t thought about it in these terms.

Just a reminder that there are a far more allegations against Trump, and Trump has been found liable for rape, and yet Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.

Actually, in that scenario, it would be more important than ever, assuming Trump was taking office. Biden muddying the waters with inappropriate pardons would weaken any attempt by the courts to stop Trump from pardoning himself.

If you think that’s a serious issue, just wait until you hear about the escaped lunatic with a hook for a hand!

It’s so pathetic that all these UFO stories are being taken seriously by world governments. What’s next? Will they turn down the lights in the capital and tell ghost stories?

I hate that argument.

We became a global superpower under a two party system. We passed the New Deal under a two party system.

It’s not the number of parties holding us back from greatness, and the suggestion that it is is what gets a fringe group of people to vote for Ralph Nader, and ultimately hand the country to George W Bush.

Republican lunatics absolutely love their party right now. The problem is that democrats keep voting for moderates in the primaries because they think that voting for Bernie Sanders will wind up with us losing the general election… As if Republicans don’t already call Obama, Hillary, and Biden socialists and communists.

There is not one ounce of honor or decency left in the Republican party.

They’ve investigated this to death and found ZERO evidence and ZERO witnesses of any criminal activity, and yet they are moving to impeach.

They are cartoonishly stupid and evil, and we’re forced to watch them destroy our democracy in slow motion.

Even if you were one of the people who thought Trump was innocent, you could understand the very clear charges against him at both impeachments. We had the transcripts of his conversation extorting Ukraine, and you had the videos of the insurrection that he directed.

The evidence against Joe Biden is … ?

It’s non-existent. That’s what it is.

This is Republicans 100 percent, beyond any doubt abusing their power. They continue to damage our democracy for the singular end of strengthening their grip on power.

Good!

Anti-nuclear is like anti-GMO and anti-vax: pure ignorance, and fear of that which they don’t understand.

Nuclear power is the ONLY form of clean energy that can be scaled up in time to save us from the worst of climate change.

We’ve had the cure for climate change all along, but fear that we’d do another Chernobyl has scared us away from it.