Notices by Jake Miller (jakemiller@federate.social)

@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.