The back and forth on H1Bs is one of the last struggles between the Trumpian populism and his new technocrat handlers.
Its been heartening to see young people across both the left and right start to recognize Thiel, et. al. as the ghouls they are.
One of my buddies overheard this and set his joint down and said declaratively "yeah let's fuckin' do it". Good moment.
Trump is dumber than box of brick bats.
ofc his corollary points about implications for American power are debatable; but we are now living for the first time in our history with an alien intelligence that in some cases exceeds our own, and its reasonable to consider how we deal with that on a cultural and political level.
Artificial doesn't, necessarily, mean limited, though. It means that it's man-made, which is an accurate description of these objects and systems.
Yes, even bringing into scope the debate which did Biden in, he was more coherent than Trump.
The price of diesel skyrocketing[1]. The producer price index, a leading indicator of inflation, doing the same[2]. Consumer sentiment cratering[3]. Real weekly earnings plunging[4].
These things aren't even normally the president's direct fault, but in this case it 1000% is.
So it's understandable why he's desperately jangling every set of keys he can get his hands on as the mid-term elections are happening. It can and will get dumber for this lame duck.
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASDESW
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO
but as the title of the paper implies it works much better when it's a covert means of in-group identification, allowing prisoners-dilemma style cooperation without tipping off counterparties about affiliation. When it's no longer a covert signal but more of a compliance test I suspect it rapidly tips into negative utility.
fixed that for you
We can call an average person a genius. Even though we all agree on the new name we should still remember to assign only average person workloads to our newly minted genius.
Even if the name changes substance doesn't.
From Emmanuel Goldstein's work:
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM [0]
PDF download: [1]
History must be rewritten to support the party.
As a web page: [2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli...
[1] https://archive.org/download/the-theory-and-practice-of-olig...
[2] https://genius.com/Emmanuel-goldstein-the-theory-and-practic...
They only do as a social contract, as long as power structures agree to enforce them.
The regime has been undermining that social contract for years, and their enablers for decades. Who's gonna stop them?
Rules get broken all the time, including in the US, especially by this admin. Constitutional checks have failed many a time in history. Your country isn't special. If you're not careful and keep thinking rules that were agreed to generations ago automatically retain their power, you're in for a lot of pain down the line.
"They only do as a social contract, as long as power structures agree to enforce them."
is absolutely true. I've said many time "The Constitution is 'only a piece of paper' at the end of the day." Ultimately it's down to us, "we the people" to enforce this stuff.
Unfortunately the culture in the USA these days is sick. And not just a little bit sick... We are truly staring into the abyss right now.
> All he can do is mandate that government employees use his favored term.
He can also say $0 will be given to anyone who uses the term AI. Let's say that applies to the NSF, now every AI researcher in the country has to use SI in their research if they want federal grants, which they all do. That'd be worse than a chilling effect, it'd be forced speech.
Will that hold up in court? Probably not. But in the meantime, researchers go without research dollars, labs are shut down, projects are mothballed, students are fired, and a court ruling doesn't bring any of that back or undo any damage.
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