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The Federal government is going to draw up and execute its budget as if they had the funds anyway.

That's what I was getting at when I pointed out the fact that the feds print their own money. The federal government would be fine.

I was just running the thought experiment of "would this even do anything" under the assumption that it was successful. And it's a fantasy on its face, even in the best case scenario it accomplishes nothing.

And the best case isn't what would happen, because ultimately you're right and this won't be allowed. There are a lot of mechanisms the federal government has to compell the states to pay their dues.

I have no idea if this would even do anything.

The federal government prints money. If the states don't pay the federal government it doesn't actually mean the government will run out of money.

What will happen is the money supply will balloon, because federal payments are one of the ways the government controls the money supply. If those payments don't go back to the feds, the delayed payments will stay in circulation.

That might create inflation? Will it do anything else? Again, no idea.

Inshallah

He'd live way longer if he stopped eating McDonald's

Our vegan super soldiers are unaffected.

My understanding is that the reason LLMs struggle with solving math and logic problems is that those have certain answers, not probabilistic ones. That seems pretty fundamentally different from humans! In fact, we have a tendency to assign too much certainty to things which are actually probabilistic, which leads to its own reasoning errors. But we can also correctly identify actual truth, prove it through induction and deduction, and then hold onto that truth forever and use it to learn even more things.

We certainly do probabilistic reasoning, but we also do axiomatic reasoning i.e. more than probability engines.

Ending the filibuster would need to be accompanied by a rapid plan to essentially erase the Republican Party in its current form: mass political education, deep and broad electoral reforms, vast increases in small-d democratic participation, and probably many more radical reforms that would essentially rewrite the country.

But this would probably also erase the Democratic Party too, so they'd never do it.

They do no believe the world is going to last, so their plan is to squeeze every bit of juice out of it as fast as possible before the End.

Slime mold can solve mazes.

So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.

What? No.

Chatbots can't think because they literally aren't designed to think. If you somehow gave a chatbot a body it would be just as mindless because it's just a probability engine.

People are organizing in their communities to patrol for ICE and respond to ICE raids, which is quite a bit like the Black Panthers "cop watch" and community patrols.

I know it's not like when protesters burned down a police station in 2020, but things are happening.

Defying precedence is a rogue act, regardless of whether they can reverse engineer an argument for it or not. The Constitution didn't change, going rogue and declaring old decisions "wrong" delegitimizes their whole role. If they can just make up new decisions we don't have laws, we have opinions.

As to the attack on gender affirming care, sexual discrimination is federally prohibited by law because sex is a federally protected class. That's the law. If you read their decision, their argument is basically "it doesn't count because reasons" and it's entirely farcical. Another rogue decision.

And they just made a new rogue decision taking away habeas corpus from anyone sent to another country by ICE. Now Courts can't stop deportations, people will get deported to third countries and then have to argue that their deportation was illegal.

Stop defending the Court. It's embarrassing.

Just take some D₃ with lunch, it's fine.

Why do people even like daylight? It just gives you wrinkles and cancer, that shit sucks.

Right, that's the point of the "taxpayer" dog whistle. It trains people to think that poor people don't pay taxes, and implies they're lesser members of society because of it.

They certainly pay sales taxes, possibly property taxes too, they probably have to pay fines because the cops love to prey on the poor, and there's also fees to use government services. That's all taxes.

But there's this concentrated attempt to denigrate people with lower income as useless eaters that don't contribute to society, and so they don't think any of that counts.

They don't believe anyone under a certain income pays taxes. "Taxpayer" just means "upper income tax bracket" in their mind.

Overturning Roe was a rogue act, completely defying precedent. Just recently they ruled that banning healthcare for trans children is constitutional too, despite it clearly being discrimination based on sex i.e. a recognized class.

They're making rogue decisions all the time, they just occasionally rule against Trump so you don't start losing faith in the Courts and don't start looking for alternative solutions.

... but we were talking about the Courts?