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Traditionally one role of government has been to provide legislative oversight to temper unadulterated pursuit of profits. Lobbying and the related ills have definitely undercut that role significantly. But the theory is that government provides the guardrails within which business should operate.

Interesting, the UHC stuff would have led me to believe otherwise. What is the current Hegelian dialectic?

My issue with this idealistic and understandable perspective is that it completely ignores all historical precedent in the modern age. That is to say: if you think the government is going to use this as anything other than an opportunity to turn all those little dots on the GPS tracker into fully-authenticated names and profiles they can keep tabs on 24/7, I have a bridge to sell you.

And if you think the third parties they contract out the tracking to won’t sell that info/access for profit, I have some magic beans as well.

I support keeping kids protected. I’m just not naive enough to think the current governments of the world have any interest in achieving that goal while maintaining any semblance of privacy for their citizens.

In such a way that they rarely spread infectious diseases to humans, fwiw.

Which forms are legally required to have on file whilst traveling to the bank to deposit it?

FWIW, my understanding is that there just isn’t a real drop in replacement for the Google Index. Kagis focus on LLM seems targeted to me, and I wonder if they’re trying to figure out how to put it to work indexing for themselves, more than providing the search results to the user.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think “reasoning” and “conveying that reasoning via writing” are quite as siloed as you suggest. Many people write long and complicated sentences in a first draft, but it is the subsequent drafts where that initial block of mental marble is carved and honed into a compelling argument. I believe it is in fact that very act of redrafting — seeing one’s work through the eyes of others — that leads to one’s own greater understanding. Skipping that step with AI limits that potential to whatever ended up in the first draft, and Hemingway’s words apply to far more than fiction.

Yes. Censoring is an action, the power dynamic at play is not relevant to whether something is or is not censoring. What you’re asking is “is this specific act of censorship somehow immoral or illegal?” And the answer is no, as I expect you already believe.

But it wasn’t censored for no reason, and it’s entirely reasonable to question the motives that led to this specific act of censorship.

Mailmate may be just what you’re looking for. It’s fabulous for handling an enormous amount of accounts and emails at once imo, and the filtering tools for power users are second to none. So performant. And you can make it as pretty as you like if you know what you’re doing.

Just discovered the synctrain iOS beta which is extremely promising.

Huge user, and very interested in anything that makes life simpler. Will check this out tomorrow/Wednesday and report back!

Take a look at these, which provide exactly that:

1. https://docs.alto.so/mac 2. https://montaigne.io/

How does this compare to Google Workspace built in Mail Merge function?

By this measure, one would be compelled to start with the banks. Which is not to say I’m opposed in theory, just that I hope such sentiments are applied equally.

FWIW as a counterpoint, I’ve been giving them money for 2 years now and every cent has been worth it a hundred times over. A shame that effective search is now a luxury item, but it is what it is.

What you describe constitutes an ideal scenario, frankly. Similar to paying taxes for using roads for deliveries.

We’ll call em moving pictures and show em off to the public for a dime a seat!

How are Rule 506(b) offerings relevant in a post government world?

The point I’m trying to make here is that you’re assuming certain structures will outlive the governments that created the rules in the first place, which seems unlikely given the significant divergence between the goals of government and the goals of for-profit industry (in theory, at least).

For example: I wonder who will tell the folks with nuclear weapons what to do, and insist Rule 506(b) offerings that don’t benefit said folks be respected? Probably something lost in my gulf of misunderstanding. I sure hope so!

Whom decides what the requirements are re: the accredited investor thing analogue? The corporation? Because that sounds like reinventing feudalism.

In this proposed world, whom decides what constitutes “reasonable”?

Arguable in general, but certainly not if you’re the American government, which is what is being discussed here.

I think the prior commenter’s point might be more clearly stated as “why hold rank and file employees responsible for overall conditions within the company, rather than those actually responsible for overall conditions within the company [management].”

Also notable: the first was accomplished under a fascist government intent on violent world domination, and the latter was completed under a (arguably less fascist, depending on exact time frame) different government, specifically because in the meantime there was a large scale critique of the people running the aforementioned initial government by (roughly) the rest of the world.

So I believe your point leads to the conclusion that critiques at this time of the ruling authorities within this company might lead to a reorganization of control, such as might best position any further advancements to benefit a wider population in more pro social ways.

(von Braun being a clear “A-Player”, not a CEO, given the terminology at hand)

This looks very useful, and beautifully presented — looking forward to being able to use with local model.

Acting is very similar and has a similarly motivated crowd fwiw.

One day Neal Stephenson will be dead. How will we find the next one?

The trouble being that replacing drafts people creating options for the Art Director with AI creating options instead is that it removes a central path by which artists gained skill and experience in their industries (and the same is true across all disciplines). All will go well so long as people who came up the old ways are the ones using AI. Eventually they’ll be gone and all the experience and discernment will go with them.

To put it in more immediate terms: the goal of business is profit. Cutting costs is a great way to do that immediately. It’s only over a longer span that things like Boeing reveal the issues. The goal of artists and the art industry is to create art that moves other people, at acceptable costs. Cutting costs with AI is a great way to do that immediately…

You see where I’m going. Sure maybe we’ll have figured out an entirely new economic paradigm by the time this bill comes due. But I wouldn’t count on it.

And hey, maybe you think art isn’t a career path worth any sort of consideration on this front, and that society will keep humming along just fine when AI takes over in that regard. I sure hope so, because that seems like the obvious conclusion of all current incentive structures.

There’s a screenwriting markdown variant called fountain that has underlining and basically works perfectly for nearly any writing. Wish it were more widespread.

FWIW, usb-c hubs work on usb-c port iOS devices too.

Impressive work! One thing that would make this exponentially more useful immediately: if it could export the cut list as an FCP or Adobe XML, for import into a real editing program. Being able to use this as a very basic rough draft automator is a real potential niche.