@534afeaa I remember when my state was considering its own "defense of marriage" act. Before the SCOTUS smothered those laws in their crib and rendered the whole conversation legally moot.
They always try to tell you the worst case scenarios won't happen. That's in the playbook.
It's incumbent upon the educated public to both game out the worst-case abuses of the law (because someone will choose to use the law as a cudgel; someone always does) and to recognize that downplaying those risks is always the play the supporters will make.
@40cd5708 The issue is that AI is like the word "technology":---once it's working, it's no longer AI.
Amazon getting our packages to us in like two days max in 95% of the US is AI; they built a ridiculously powerful flow solver and demand predictor to get the package into your town before you know you want it. But since it just works and a smart person who's trained in it can sketch it on a sheet of paper double-sided, it's not "AI" anymore.
@8fcc91a6@3967703f I have said it many times to whoever will listen, but few do...
The student loan debt bubble will make the housing debt bubble look like a ripple. If people hated the housing market crash, look forward to the point when demographics means people die with these loans on the books and no estate remains to pay them.
These loans are modeled as rock-solid value (because of the legal encumbrances to discharging them in bankruptcy), and if we've learned nothing from the housing crash and don't update those models to account for "This is not a country that passes debt to next-of-kin..." Oh boy! Exciting times!
I'd estimate abooooooout.... thirty years or so, give or take.
@edc128e6 Ugh. Not only is it word theater, it tramples on existing definitions.
Feedforward is already a thing in control theory, the place the term "feedback" comes from. A 'feedforward loop' is predicting how the system should behaved based upon an idealized model of it and outputting the relevant commands to get the desired result assuming the system matches the idealized model.
... in other words, extrapolated, it's either planning or micromanagement.
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