It’s what models people have access to and how they use it. If you are not specific and overly broad it a search engine. If you move to the other end of the spectrum it can be incredibly powerful.

I tend to build projects with very limited sources for it to draw answers from and use complex instructions to guide how it interacts with the source material. It’s a tool. If you learn how to use it you can become extremely proficient/productive with it.

For example, stacks of PDFs may make sense to you and I as repositories of information. But is that the best format for AI to interact with the data? Probably not unless the actual formatting of the information on the page is relevant. I have been converting large groups of sources into databases containing page, line, and text data for groups of references for a given topic. Then you feed it the database and ask it to review and cross reference related lines of text. That serves as your “brain” for questions on a given topic.

Totally understand the point you are trying to make, but help me understand why it makes sense for someone left of the DNC to compromise their political beliefs to fight fascism but not for the DNC to do the same? Doesn’t that logic apply equally?

Also the greater good logic is why we are where we are. Why does more of the same = change?

Edit: for clarification…why isn’t the focus on the right leaning DNCers that would defect to MAGA if the DNC shifted left?

You are expecting them to do the job you think they singed up for. They are doing the job they think they singed up for. What makes you think they are on your side or share your world views?

You keep making a dentist analogy. The problem with it is when you pay the dentist they work for you. When you pay your taxes the military works for the government. You are at odds with your government. Not a party. The entire government. Liberal Zionists Are Evil Shitbags CAITLIN JOHNSTONE The current fucked up reality we are in is a capitalist/western government creation. It’s not the fault of a single political party in one government in that system.

So assuming you are really calling for a physical overthrow of the current political order… my reason for not actively engaging in violence is it’s not bad enough for me yet. The only people who have come close to stepping up are either dead or in jail. Personally I am responsible for to many others that cannot take care of themselves to entertain any hero fantasies. My trip wire is when their wellbeing requires action on my part.

So instead I do what many people suggested in response to your comment. I train, I learn useful skills, I pass those on to my family, friends, neighbors. I don’t assume that some other group of people are going to magically come to my rescue because I pay taxes to a government that has been operating this way for its entire existence.

I appreciate the sentiment, but just to paraphrase what you just appear to have said…

I am waiting for a group of people that I was never a part of and know nothing about to come save me.

This mentality is one reason nothing has happened yet. It’s not quite so bad that you (or I) or a critical mass of anyone else feels the need to put our lives on the line to respond.

I guess my point is, as bad as it is now, it’s nowhere near as bad as it needs to be to make happen what you appear to have already written off.

If you are going to rely on someone else’s oath to protect your rights, they were never your rights to begin with. You read that as an oath to an ideal. Those in power read that as an oath to them. The people that took that oath currently feed themselves and thier families by allegiance to power. The system is working as intended.

I admire your optimism. Out of curiosity, what was it that stopped you from leading the charge?

Guess without any evidence based on the sparse information available…

federal plea + motion to dismiss state case on double jeopardy grounds. If successful, keeps his time federal and makes a possible future pardon less complicated?

I could see pardoning him grabbing a large number of votes based on his popularity?

Just guessing though

How’d that primary strategy work out in 2024?

You are voting 3rd party in the primary but somehow fail to realize GOP and DNC are owned by the same interest. The illusion in the cave is that you think the DNC is left. (You call the DNC left of center above).

Voting to center right (DNC) when you want to be left of center will never shift American politics left. Trump is the boogeyman that gets you to abandon what you claim to stand for (progressivism).

MAGA co-opted the GOP by refusing to compromise. This shifted the GOP even further right. When progressives compromise the entire American political spectrum bell curve just shifts further right.

I understand that you think your approach will produce an immediate harm reduction. I am sure it will look that way, but the steady march to the right won’t stop if the left side of the spectrum caves while the right does not

Have you ever considered the reason we are here is because you haven’t learned yet?

Chuck Schumer Eats Shit

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The study surmised that autonomy, personal values, and the desire for freedom are some of the strongest predictors of a satisfying single life.

My take as a dad… prior to kids and marriage I had time to pursue hobbies and interests outside of work. Now, as the revenue generating cog the family machine, my time is extremely limited. Combine that with the fact that over the last 100 years the cost of living has risen faster than the average wage. This means the money maker in the family system barely has time for family interaction, not to mention personal time.

Under those conditions, to enjoy being a dad means you have to put your children’s happiness above your own all the time. If a person prioritizes “autonomy, personal values, and the desire for freedom” it’s going to be a bad fit.

I think this is what my own narcissist father meant when he told his three children “you weren’t worth it.”

As for the impending demographic problem… "Life, uh, finds a way.”

Consider whether it was left out for a reason.

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