You aren’t wrong that putting money into the economy raises inflation. However, the inflation from SNAP disbursements is inconsequential compared to stuff like putting tariffs on everything or allowing corpos to raise prices out of pure greed. There’s really no point in examining SNAP’s effect on inflation when there are much more consequential concerns to focus on.

Everytime it’s brought up, Republicans shoot it down. The GOP made this bed, so now they gotta lie in it.

Team Airbud is just mad the opposing team got their own dog now. Dems tried to get dogs banned from playing, but when all the legal channels to instill fairness have been blocked, you gotta train up your own dunking dogs.

Kamala Harris did not lose because of those qualities. She lost because she ran as a diet Republican, going for a marginal victory.

Doing an interview with an LLM trained on a real person feels like libel.

I too wish that laws still mattered. Thankfully, they still matter a little bit, so there’s still a chance for us to turn things around.

You can’t post about what doesn’t exist. For positive posts about the Democrats to exist, the Democrats first need to do something positive.

Lmao. Iran has been very clear that if you are homies with the US, you are not friends with Iran. “Third party” is crazy. Again, none of this would have happened if the US didn’t force Iran’s hand.

Iran didn’t start the war. Any benefits Iran is currently getting are a result of US initiative.

In the prequel, the songwriter was told, “Imagine it’s been 10,000 years. What does French sound like?” And then she was asked to do that for multiple other languages and it’s awesome.

You gotta be a gold medalist in mental gymnastics to view the US bombings as legitimate preemptive action.

“We knew Iran would respond to our bombings, so we preempted their response to our preemptive bombing with a prepreemptive bombing.”

I must be misunderstanding your meaning because it sounds like you are claiming this tech will eventually become advanced enough to kill people all on its own. I’m making the argument it’s the people controlling the tech who will kill us, regardless of what the tech can or cannot do. The tech is largely irrelevant here.

The danger here is not the tech developing into an uncontrollable beast that will kill us all. There is no way that GenAI can advance far enough to develop conciousness; that’s a completely different tech tree. It is not a baby whose development we need to guide, it is a puppet dancing on strings.

The danger is the people in positions of power who are pulling the strings. The idiot C-level admin who thinks GenAI will magically develop consciousness and replaces a bunch of essential staff. The incompetent CEO who can’t write an email to save their life believes GenAI is just as useful for all their workers and forces workers to babysit AI Agents. The unscrupulous politicians who relax regulations to allow AI companies to suck up resources that the rest of us need. These are all people who will benefit from the GenAI boom at the cost of literally everyone else.

The focus should be on these irrational, powerful people who are destroying the planet and ruining lives to make their puppet dance a little more convincingly.

GenAI doesn’t “know” anything. A 15 year old who spends a year copying his friend’s physics homework will learn a tiny bit of physics. GenAI is just generating something new without actually learning information.

It’s a fancy auto-complete that looks at the entirety of human writing and guesses what word should come next based on statistical probability. That isn’t learning, that’s rolling dice 10,000 times and seeing what number comes up most often.

GenAI cannot “intend” anything. It cannot develop consciousness any more than Akinator or a Tickle-Me Elmo can. The correct way to handle this technology is to treat it with reality: as a tool that can quickly look at a lot of stuff and not as a developing mind.