Notices by KINGofPDX (adhocster@synapse.cafe)

@quinn But is it an open question whether intransigence can be better navigated by AI than by humans? If AI can write e-mails with a high probability to placate more than inflame, then what role might AI play in mediating, moving, and manipulating climate-averse intransigence? If some paths are more probable than others, can AI find those paths, regardless of how strange and convoluted they may be? Maybe in the climate change wars, we are all flat-earthers, unable to fathom that a point to the east may be reached by heading west. Food (or maybe junk food) for thought.

@mathowie
LOL. I lived in several states before landing in Oregon. None of these other states had anything close to Oregon's anti-tax sentiment. Those eastern Oregon farmers that you mention enjoy roads that lead to their mailbox and a handful of others. They vote like these highways are private driveways that they paid for with personal funds. Nowadays in Oregon, anti-tax votes are cast by spinal reflex, an operation that requires only a synapse or two worth of signal processing. Teaching in a rural public school must be a tough job on so many levels.
#taxes #publiceducation