True, Trump's zeal might fizzle out, once he has suitably humiliated his foes. The worry is the people around Trump who would carry on government in his effective absence. (View Post)

My working hypothesis is that everyone involved in the Trump administration thinks that they are exploiting other members of the Trump administration for their own ends. They can't all be right,… (View Post)

Story that was new to me, from the Orign Story podcast on AI. https://openai.com/index/faulty-reward-functions/ The AI boffins were training their AI on a video game that simulated boat races... The … (View Post)

One of the curious ways that the new right is like the old left. Incremental improvement is not only impossible, but undesirable, because it delays the inevitable revolution. (View Post)

The 5D chess version of this would be that, by throwing out all these terrible appointments, everyone is distracted from the routine grift that is the real object of the exercise. But the Occamite so… (View Post)