Notices by Jake Miller (jakemiller@federate.social)

@heidilifeldman I found it jarring that the court now privileges partisan gerrymandering. To overturn this map, Alito demands plaintiffs produce an alternative map that produces as much partisan advantage and less racial disadvantage.

@futurebird If you haven’t seen this article already… it really reshaped my thinking on humanoid robots as well as a lot of other “AI problems.” Need the right sensors, and the right kind of training data…

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

@GreenSkyOverMe @futurebird Chalk up one advantage for NFTs.

@grimalkina For my dad, the Zelenskyy meeting was the big shock. We have to keep trying to expand those openings when we can find them. I’m also emphasizing that the tariffs are taxes and they kept telling us that taxes are bad…

@mekkaokereke Thanks for your insights. Your mobilization/swing argument and prediction was in my head last night, and helps make sense of this. I will be curious to see how many Republican voters actually did switch and how that compares. It seems at first blush like Independents didn’t vote as “centrists,” but on a different axis.

@futurebird @sidereal @alloydflanagan @hazelnot My take is that Biden is a centrist *in process* and center-left (at least) in personal policy preference. And where a lot of discourse is about him being pressured into certain good policies, I see those “pressuring actions” as providing him cover to enact those policies while holding the coalition together. And while he needs to mobilize the left, drawing swing voters is also critical.

@clacke I do think that anthropomorphizing computers helps us create mental models of them, which is useful. However, that has been used as a critical marketing trick by AI promoters. Today’s tech is both amazing and also overhyped, deliberately so. Even if we continue to talk about loops as conscious intention, I propose that we intentionally stop using this language in the “AI” context.

@thomasfuchs I am starting to believe that The Onion might actually be America’s finest news source.