I agree—one new justice per term, with no hard cap on the total number.
Given the average historical length of justices’ careers, the total would be roughly the same—but you’d never have a single president appointing a whole cluster based on the accident of other justices' deaths or retirements.
Nice try, Immortan Joe.
And the mandatory line “close your eyes and think of England”.
A few decades ago when the human genome was first being sequenced, it was assumed that most genes would have a straightforward 1:1 relationship with specific associated traits (so you’d find a “gene for X” and a “gene for Y”). And while there are a few genes like that, it turns out that most genes are part of complex gene regulatory networks that resemble neural networks in that there are complex non-linear relationships between the inputs and outputs. So if you want to make a specific change to a specific trait, you have to edit multiple genes, and each of those genes affects multiple other traits you weren’t intending to change, etc.
Maybe the bot’s associated human user can make posts about their impressions of their bot’s opinions, if they think a productive human discussion might result. Otherwise... if the bot’s own creator isn’t interested in responding to it, why should anyone else be?
Looking at the revision history, it looks like it was vandalized and then reverted five minutes later (and the vandalizing editor was blocked from making edits).
“Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People.”
FTFY.
When we think of kings we tend to think of their late medieval/early modern European incarnation, but that was a bit of a historical anomaly—the end stage of a thousand-year-long process of the monarchy being captured by the aristocracy. But the aristocracy was the older institution of the two, and the more malignant.
In ancient times kings were generally opposed to aristocrats, drawing on popular support to curb the natural tendency of the aristocracy to extract so much wealth from the lower classes that violent revolutions would result. (Think the Roman Republic, where wealthy senators were terrified of a popular leader becoming king and eliminating the Senate.)
So it’s not that CEOs are becoming kings—it’s that plutocrats are subverting yet another in a long line of institutions designed to contain them.
Grandpa used to tell us stories about those times.
Maybe they did, and that’s why Australopithecine Sauron was destroyed IRL.
Spez: “I'm not logged in here with you—you’re logged in here with me!”