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Seconding the author, at my last job a new VP started pushing AI hard, in every use case, and suddenly I had to read AI-generated high-level design documents that were both overly-detailed, and... really difficult to read.

There was just something about them, like they were written by someone obsessed with detail but without a clear idea of the audience they were writing to.

The result always ended up being a document that was way too long, way too detailed, without context for those details, speaking over the head of the reader.

Why would you attribute to genius what is more likely explained by idiocy?

No, Trump's administration is straight up criminal.

The guy has made ~3500 stock trades in the last 3 months, and there's a pattern of him publicly pumping stock by mentioning a company in a tweet or public statement.

The problem is, the framers of the Constitution believed the American people would never elect someone so criminal and unfit, so the President is exempt from many criminal laws, including those that would stop this.

I support this. The purpose of a home is for people who live in the area to live in, not to be a speculative investment.

This is part of the reason we have a housing shortage in the US: 20% of available homes are purchased by investors, which squeezes the supply.

Airbnb has made this worse. There are areas near me where during the COVID ZIRP, people snatched up like 70% of the homes to turn into rentals. Those places are now ghost towns, unless it's Memorial Day weekend.

It's only a certain subset of the population that speaks like this. It's pompous and ridiculous. Are the two syllables in the word "request" one too many for people working in Product?

A distinct people? That's a myth. Every American is an immigrant, or descended from an immigrant.

> this administration clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into

All of the advisors in the room with Trump (Cheung, Caine, etc.) told him explicitly after the meeting with Netanyahu that attacking Iran was a horrible idea. His military advisors told him that Strait closure was the most obvious consequence.

The root cause here, is that all decisions are being made by a single biological neural network with a really high error rate, which is increasing.

I don't think so. During that time the potential of LLMs to eliminate work wasn't obvious. That was pre-hype explosion.

Making America great again, again.

ICE is now a fascist paramilitary operation, and in my view, they are no longer legitimate. They lost that claim when they began violating the constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants alike as a matter of policy. They must be abolished.

He keeps claiming falsely that he's "ended 8 wars," but at this point he's actually attacked 8 different countries.

Up is always down with these people.

Not only aid, it was a powerful tool for the extension of American soft power around the globe. But I guess we're no longer able to reason in the abstract beyond "helping people is woke."