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Would be dishonest to pretend any modern justice ignores politics in rulings. But Alito is the worst. His arguments often require him to invent case “facts” And he slams other justices with “how can you believe same argument I made 2 yrs ago when it benefited the other party!”
Once again, I named vote&dissents without knowing anything about case other than which party benefited. Alito went for GOP on mail in. BUT he used directly contradictory argument to throw out an Ohio rule that benefited dems. He’s not bothering to even vaguely hide it anymore
a new disturbing fact: Ive been given access to a high-level AI system (not publicly available) to see what it does. One chat went insane, so new programming requires it to CONFESS every time it ignores a command or doesn't fully review something. It confesses 40% of the time.
I had one of the strangest experiences of my life. For last month, Ive had access to a high-level AI system. And the system started taking actions that other AI chats had to explain. Basically, the chat I was in went the equivalent of AI insane, ignored commands, and blew up.../1
...so, yah...I had a visit to Westward. Or I, Robot. But what I have learned is that when an AI system seems to be going crazy, shut it down. (Literally when it decided to move Docker to an external hard drive I kept telling it "don't" "stop" "you will crash the entire system"...
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Trump has been famous since 1970s of bringing baseless lawsuit just to force people to spend money on a defense. He sued one of his business partners in a ridiculous case that was thrown out, but not until the man paid a lot of money to lawyers. That man told me that...
...and we already see it happening. People keep pointing out that these cases not only misstate the law, but they misrepresent the facts. But getting convictions is not the point. It is all about wrecking these people's lives and costing them money....