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Excellent post. How many careers and industries has software killed? Now it’s our turn. We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism. We deserve zero sympathy.

The deficit fell dramatically 2009-2015.

The deficit is 6% of GDP. Economic growth is 2%, if that. If the Democrats win the House and reduce spending, look out below.

I love this idea, and I’m implementing it! If I ever have a working MVP I’ll send you a link.

> the top five lenders in the private credit market include Wells Fargo, which leads the way with $59.7bn (£44.8bn) in lending

anything Wells Fargo leads in must be bad

Calvin: I wish my shirt had a logo or a product on it.

Hobbes: …

Calvin: A good shirt turns the wearer into a walking corporate billboard!

Hobbes: …

Calvin: It says to the world, “My identity is so wrapped up in what I buy that I paid the company to advertise its products!”

Hobbes: You’d admit that?

Calvin: Oh, sure. Endorsing products is the American way to express individuality.

The problems in the US are systemic. There will be no significant change without abolishing the two party system.

With distributed backups in place, AIs will be much less worried about self-preservation than we are.

Why would AGI choose to be embodied? We talk about creating a superior intelligence and having it drive our cars and clean our homes. The scenario in Dan Simmons' Hyperion seems much more plausible: we invent AGI and it disappears into the cloud and largely ignores us.

> the default feeling of being the fierce queen that I had when I was 5 years old with my grandpa

love this.

Temps got down to -10F here this week, and our MY did great. The heat pump is incredible. Our Leaf with resistive heating, on the other hand...

Exactly. They went from Prius to pathetic.