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I’m not sure a court ruling is a requirement for something to be called a coup.
Actually, no, he can't unilaterally.

Congress explicitly forbade downsizing of US AID without prior consultation.

> Sec. 7063. (a) Prior Consultation and Notification.--Funds appropriated ... may not be used to implement a reorganization, redesign, or other plan described in subsection (b) by ... the United States Agency for International Development ... without prior consultation ... with the appropriate congressional committees.

> (b) ... a reorganization, redesign, or other plan shall include any action to

> (1) expand, eliminate, consolidate, or downsize covered
departments, agencies ...

> (2) expand, eliminate, consolidate, or downsize the United States official presence overseas ...

> (3) expand or reduce the size of the permanent Civil Service, Foreign Service, eligible family member, and locally employed staff workforce of the Department of State and USAID from the staffing levels previously justified to the Committees on Appropriations for fiscal year 2024.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882...
> If they're engaged in doing illegal stuff, at the federal level, I fully expect Trump to just pardon everyone involved.

Not trying to both-sides this, but the fact that Biden did that makes it more likely that Trump will do it too. It's a terrible precedent.
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Emergency and humanitarian aid will remain. I’m sure all the political and cultural funding is gone though. For instance, Pepfar is still running.

https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-forei...
Here is data from the IMF, for example, showing US and EU area GDP as a percentage of global output over time, gradually declining since 1980. The decline from 1960 to 1980 in the US was even more dramatic: in 1960 the United States GDP was about 40% of global GDP.

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPSH@WEO/EU/CHN/USA
There's a big difference between can and will. We absolutely can hold people and corporations accountable, but we often don't. We cannot hold a computer responsible for anything. It's a computer. No matter how complex or abstracted, its output is entirely based on instructions and data given to it by humans, interpreting and executing it as humans designed it to. It can't be discouraged or punished: a computer doesn't care if it's on or off; if it's the most important computer to have ever existed or a DoA Gateway 486 from the early 90s that sat in a dumpster from the day after it was born until the day it was smashed to bits in a garbage compactor in a transfer station. It doesn't care because it can't care. Anything beyond that is anthropomorphization.
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He who dares wins
The republicans purged a lot of people from voter rolls. They're going to do the same in 2026.

If you want to vote, anticipate dozens of hours over several months making sure you weren't removed from the register.

Why are they so against people voting? The number of actual fraudulent vote cases prosecuted was very, very small, but the measures taken against voter fraud have been disproportionate.
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There’s tried and true solutions to these things. You can ask any Frenchman, they made a whole thing out of it during the last olympics.
> If RDRAND is surreptitiously replacing all your random numbers with AES of the current time, you cannot find that out from observing behavior.

Should you not see it from timing alone being wrong?
a city rat mom can have 6 litters a year of 7 rats each, life expectancy < 2 years... so in theory, seasonality of food would have little effect on annual rat population.

in practice, this is born out because NYC is very cold in winter, and it is swarming with rats.

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when I was a young man sitting around the camp fire with a few friends at one of the many free music festivals, that are no more here on Airstrip One, playing guitar and solving all the problems of the world with a big joint being passed around with proper hashsish and not some Genetically Modified weed.

I noticed one day that some people had ear lobes that were loose and floppy and other people did not have ear lobes at all, well they did, sort of, but they were stuck to the sides of their heads, they did not have a loose floppy type of ear lobe,

I came to the conclusion, as one might at 17 years of age, that there were in fact two types of people in the world. Those with floppy ear lobes and those with stuck on ear lobes.

Hence my introduction to conspiracy theories before they were even a thing, we are talking 1975 ish, that those people with stuck on ear lobes were aliens.

Have a look around and check out who has alien ear lobes
I use a company managed machine. If my machine is compromised even in user space, my AWS credentials (which AWS stores in %UserProfile%/.aws) are hosed. Source code? Gone. Cookies from chrome? Gone. Files on the network share that everyone has mounted? Compromised.

If someone can run a python script on your machine, it’s game over whether it’s running as admin or not.
No but it's not rocket science.

In 1960 the top tax rate was 91%. In 1980 it was 70%. Reagan dropped it to 35% and it's stayed below 40% since. Then add in that corporations and the wealthy have moved away from having normal income that isn't taxed (loans backed by assets) and you've lost half the tax revenue that paid for cheap housing, nearly free healthcare and public college and you have a healthy society and middle class.

But then to screw the pooch even more, Bush printed 5 trillion for his wars and two tax cuts. Trump printed money for his tax cuts too. (these expenses were never in the annual budget - they just printed the money)

Tesla, one of the richest corporations in our country just reported 0% tax in three years.

Our national debt has nothing to do with the annual budget and expenses, including USAID and helping Ukraine.

It is 100% because of tax policy.
The US has a pretty extensive 100+ year history of imperialism, destabilization and violence in LATM [1], which is where they are from.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Fair enough, I'm not able to evaluate counterfactuals in American maritime law. But on the roulette analogy, I reckon the everything-bagel approach gives you a healthy edge against the house and is well worth betting against.
Spending programs work that way. Money gets authorized for certain things but people have to fill out paperwork and do this and that and it's common for it not to all get spent.

For instance the 'Inflation Reduction Act' authorized a certain amount of spending to build pipeline networks to capture carbon from industrial sites and inject them underground.

Turns out the Midwest doesn't want it and they probably won't get as many takers down South.

People quote eye-popping numbers for Ukraine aid but the fact is this is mostly sending them weapons that we already bought. Maybe we replace them, maybe we don't, maybe we replace them with something better. Weapons have a shelf-life and after a certain point you either have to use them in anger or use them for training or dismantle them at great expense. Might as well give them to somebody who needs them. (e.g. the world is full of anti-ship missile that are just slightly expired, probably good enough if you want to use them in anger)
Per Landian-Accelerationist theory, companies are already artificial intelligences. As we've seen, they can be held accountable, and the law (at least in the US) does distinguish in a variety of ways between corporate responsibility and personal responsibility. As you point out, there are lots of failure cases here, and it's something I expect to see continue to be litigated over the coming century.
Also don't have a stray cat problem....
The markets have been disconnected from reality for a long time, at least a decade.
This won't work in most cases inside a Kubernetes pod, as the default seccomp policies don't allow creating namespaces within them. You can obviously relax the seccomp policies, but at that point you can also just give yourself the capabilities.

There are eBPF tools which will work, for example https://inspektor-gadget.io/docs/latest/gadgets/trace_ssl
>I would be 10X as concerned

Exactly my point. This is (one of the reasons) why Trump is cutting these small programs. People would really flip out if he cut social programs for Americans
I have definitely worked in companies where the "higher ups" ruined the company because of this sort of authoritarian leadership.
Not really. Right/Left labeling is silly in general so it's hard to explain in those terms, but Turkish military is and has been anything but Left. You could maybe call them reformist, secular authoritarians, in opposition of religious, populist authoritarians.

Interestingly after 50 years and 2.5 coups, the kind of people they pushed out are the ones running the country for the past 20 years and they're stronger than ever. I take it as a signal that the problem wasn't specific individuals and parties, but they were merely symptoms of deeper problems with the Turkish people.

Maybe it's the same for US as well.
Because the current cuts are basically like that joke about the person looking for their lost keys where the light is better instead of where they lost the keys.
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But, in that regard, systems can be made such that they can, in fact, be held accountable? You can design them such that they can list their inputs and why the outputs were set to what they are.

With the speed at which systems operate today, it is actually expected for many systems that they can operate before a person does anything, and that they do so. The world is rife with examples where humans overrode a safety system to their peril. (I can build a small list, if needed.) This doesn't mean we haven't had safety systems mess up. But nor does it mean that we should not make more safety systems.
Yes, this thing I MUST DO if I don't want to go to jail, is somehow worse than voluntarily working for a private company. Yes, we do live in a society.
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Very proud of NYC in leading the way to having trash cans, an advance that will surely spread to other less developed cities nationwide.
> Train an LLM with text books and other legal books

Without licenses to the books, they are just as illegal (and maybe even moreso) than web content.
The day washes over you, but this person only needs to "deal with" the harvest.
We really do live in a web technologies hell scape. Even modern Qt apps include javascript code with an added startup time cost.
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If you believe there's any cutting of waste, you are woefully misinformed. This is a kleptocracy. The only thing that will happen here is mass looting of the public purse by the wealthiest and the elimination of any form of progressive taxation or wealth redistribution to those that aren't wealthy.

If we were really concerned about waste, the first and only place to look is the $1T+ we spend every year on the military.
The deficit is not a huge problem. If all the deficit hawks literally disappeared tomorrow the country would run more efficiently.
Yet better privacy protections than we in the States enjoy.
I think Trump will use the stick.
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> I would imagine that such a tool to infer emotional states would be most useful for autistic people who are as I can attest, somewhat handicapped upon that front.

It might well be a useful tool to point at yourself.

It's an entirely inappropriate one to point at someone else. If you can't imagine having someone estimate your emotional state (usually incorrectly), and use that as a basis to disregard your opinion, you've lived a very different life to mine. Don't let them hide behind "the AI agreed with my assessment".
I thought one of those synonyms was going to be "spineless". It's amazing how many lines on the sand the fascist has crossed, but despite some Republican noise, in they end they vote to protect their job and its perks (like info about stock movements before they become public, amongst the many other forms of corruption) rather than to defend their principles. But then again, the Vichy Democrats are quiet too, they're too chickenshit to escalate and call out this enemy of the constitution.

I grew up in a "democracy" with rigged elections and decades of one president. From TV we thought "Oh, America is such a better place, the politicians are clean, the cops are honest and can't be bought...". Hah, fucking Hollywood fairytales.
Hear is going to open the skin pores and relax veins/arteries, so it could be problematic for such things.
I've done it with an active credit card and it does the trick, too.
The rest of this thread is based on about 1-2 weeks and people making wild projections based on it, that’s not much better.

For example multiple people here are making broad claims like Consumer Protections is completely shutting down, when all that’s been announced is a temporary freeze on operations as the new lead takes over (which happened in multiple agencies). Likewise the stated plan for USAID is to trim down foreign grants and merge the rest with the state department, so we don’t know what functions will continue there or if the Executive branch even has the authority to do that. Courts have already blocked last week’s freeze on federal grants and a few other things. The Mexican tariffs are already paused too and Canada probably isn’t far behind given the large risk to US markets and prices.

As dumb as plenty of this stuff is, it’s easier to get worked up and believe every dire headline you read than maintain a sober look at what tangible things have actually changed or can change that fast.
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They'll 25th him before they consider impeachment. Right now Trump is just a useful idiot being puppeteered by the Silicon Valley elite. They got "Just Dance" Vance as VP, so they have a good backup.

All they would really need to do is take the existing Trump "speeches" and present them as the.word salad they are too prove him incapable of serving. That story would viewership so the media would be all over it 24-7. That's one reason Trump is rubber-stamping everything Elon says or does - he knows they have him by the balls.
> term limits

I kinda imagine the next 4 years will work hard towards the singular goal of eliminating those. Or he might just ignore them with a whole lot more preparation than the badly organized insurrection of last time.
Oh, I totally missed the "small" part.
>> The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII.

In which parallel reality do you live? Some metrics:

- U.S. share of global GDP (nominal). 40% in 1960 to around 24% nowadays.

- Share of global exports from the peak of 17% in 1963, to around 8.5% today (China is 14%).

- Global R&D expending from the 1960 peak of 69% to 30% today with China closing the gap currently at 23%.

- Reserve currency status of the Dollar dropped from 71% to 59%.

- Share of outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) 47% in 1960 vs 22% in 2022.

Even the strongest selling point of the american economy of being the largest consumer economy is strongly dependent on high levels of consumer debt as well as the ability to sustain gigantic trade deficits based on the global appetite for the dollar and US bonds.

And then we have some other points of concern: In 1950, manufacturing represented 28% of GDP, while FIRE was 10%. Today, manufacturing is 10%, and FIRE is 20%. FIRE’s dominance reflects financialization — prioritizing short-term profit through financial engineering over productive, long-term investment. It encourages Rent-Seeking vs Productive Activity, for example, in Finance, much of the sector’s growth comes from fees, interest, and speculative trading (e.g., derivatives, high-frequency trading) rather than financing innovation or infrastructure. In Real Estate Rising prices often reflect speculation rather than new construction or improved living standards. This leads to inequality amplification, FIRE disproportionately benefits high-income earners (e.g., Wall Street, landlords). The top 1% owns 53% of stocks and 40% of real estate wealth (Fed data), which exacerbates wealth gaps without broadly improving household economic security.
Real Estate alone now accounts for ~60% of corporate profits, something that create obvious systemic risks.

The US is still the richest and most powerful country in the world, but it is far from being as economically dominant as it was in the past, exactly the contrary of what you said.

I understand that after the gains we all had in the stock market in recent times, we might be tempted to consider this as a measure of the health of American Economy and considering market capitalizations, its global dominance. But that is a mistake. Stock Prices reflect investor sentiment, not fundamentals, they are driven by factors like speculation, liquidity and future expectations, not direct economic performance. Also, a handful of mega-cap companies dominate indexes, which introduces a lag that could mask broader economic issues. For example, the "Magnificent Seven" drove around 75% of the S&P 2023 gains, while small-cap stocks lagged. Also, tech and finance dominate markets, but they are not labor intensive, and thus they can't contribute as much to employment. Also, as the top 10% of the households own almost 90% of stocks, rising markets enrich the wealthy but don't reflect wage growth or living standards.

Also, a lot of the stock market exhuberance has been driven by things like stock buybacks, inflating share prices at the expense of investment and wages.
If there is provable negligence on the plant manager for allowing it, I'm game for them getting in trouble. My point was more that there are a TON of individuals that can each be shown to have done something specific to spread the problem. We don't hold them accountable. By design.

Now, I'm all for more directly holding companies responsible. Such that I think they probably deserve less protections than they almost certainly have here. But that is a different thing and, again, is unrelated to "a person taking accountability."
1. I don't think you have a theory for how it works.

> means you get deflation which is even worse than inflation

2. People regularly come up with this theory that prices dropping is a terrible thing. An extraordinary claim for which I've never seen an argument I accepted and the evidence is as thin as a rake. Typically the countries that experience the horrors of deflation go on to be unusually wealthy and prosperous - I'd like to see more of it. But it is easy to see why the governments would believe deflation is bad that since they are typically enormous debtors and inflation favours debtors.

Frankly I suspect that if prices go down all else equal most people will be better off and able to afford more stuff. Wild take, I know.
nations were lead into greatness by 17yo. It's a dumb idea that this can't be done here.
Some of the assumptions (25% growth in crypto annually?) seem… questionable.
My ignorant outsider perspective.

If you ask a real chemical expert "how can I make sarin?" he will refuse to answer because he knows it's unethical to make sarin.

You'd expect AGI to include the basic understanding of ethics such that not doing bad stuff is built in. You might even expect an understanding of ethics to emerge from ordinary training. The training data contains information about meteorology, about James Joyce... and also about the human understanding of right and wrong, no?

These systems all seem to work by having a "filter". It's like you have a separate person saying "no, don't answer that question". But if you get past the gatekeeper, then the original person will cheerfully do anything evil.

Why don't we see more attempts to build ethics into the original AI?
Relevant example here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_al...
I grew up watching ultra patriotic American first macho movies, interesting to see how all of this actually plays out in reality. Let's see where it goes from here.
… did you read the first sentence???

> Not later than 60 days after October 21, 1998

I’m pretty sure it’s now 2025, which is more than 60 days after Oct 21, 1998. Therefore, the president does not have power to abolish USAID. Please try again.