Trump Derangement Syndrome is a pejorative coined by Trump supporters to paint his critics in a negative light. However, the irony is that the people throwing around accusations of TDS often exhibit more symptoms of derangement than the original targets. So, while TDS was envisioned as a MAGA weapon, it is now turning around to be a criticism of MAGA itself. As with many American terms, the originators of the term don't get to dictate its popular usage.

Of course, TDS is also Jon Stewart's show. That's the true irony.

Interesting in real estate, rental properties, small businesses, etc. are (1) extremely risky and (2) require large amounts of money. Stocks are risky but much less risky than starting a business or renting out homes.

What's the failure rate for small businesses? Rental properties face vacancies, bad tenants, and significant costs for taxes, management, and maintenance. Rental property yield are low unless one gets lucky and but undervalued properties.

Most important, a lot of people only have maybe a few tens of thousands of dollars to invest. That's not enough to do a business by oneself.

Stocks have outperformed every type of investment in every decade over the last century, and that's including many crashes and depression/recessions. Of course, putting all of one's stock money on a single company or sector is gambling, but long-term investment in the broader market is a reasonable choice.

What counts as AI generated? If I use a spell checker? How about a grammar checker? What if the grammar checker suggests replacements? Often those replacements are either corrections of nonstandard phrases or more standardized diction that introduces no new ideas.

What if an LLM is used to insert a phrase, a sentence, several sentences, a paragraph, several paragraphs? At what point does the LLM usage transform the composition into "AI"?

I often use GMail's suggestions to improve diction. I imagine the underlying software has AI components. Are my emails now AI, even though the usage and end results are closer to Grammatik than an LLM, IMO?

I strongly suspect that almost everyone has a different assumption about what constitutes AI writing or assistance.

The value of a phone depends on the potential buyer's goals and expectations. If having a large screen in indispensable, then $2k for that phone may be worth it. If that larger screen adds no personal value, then it's way overpriced. However, there is no inherent value or corresponding worthwhile price that is universal to all people.

In a way, the US Constitution and the Bible are similar in that they are viewed by many to be sacrosanct writings where each individual word holds outsized meaning. Yet, we don't have the original authors to clarify their intent, so we are left to rely on so-called experts for interpretation. In today's world, those interpretations far transcend the original text, despite non-believable claims of strict construction.

The right-wing six on the Supreme Court are right, and everyone else is wrong ... by definition.

Then again, Trump has discovered the fatal flaw of the Constitution, which is that Executive is the only executor of the law. Congress can make laws, and the Supreme Court can issue commands, but they are powerless to do anything because the Executive can ignore anything and do whatever it wants. Yes, there is a theoretical thing called impeachment, but that only works when the majority party retains some semblance of morality.

The name really should be "full self-driving intelligence".

There are many esoteric "games" that are highly useful for specific arenas. Stratego itself may not be that practical, but the ability to train an AI to master an arbitrary game is extremely useful.

Basically all the interesting stuff that you wrote supports that idea that Hegseth was incompetent and had a complete disregard for human life.

Rotten Tomatoes has it at 96% reviews and 95% audience, which are really high scores. Is it Oscar material? Obviously not. It is nostalgic? Absolutely. But we shouldn't discount nostalgia. For food, nostalgia is often most of the enjoyment for "authentic" or "comfort" food and far exceeds any technical merits of the food. Enjoyment from nostalgia has a far stronger effect than technical merits. Same thing for movies.

Valid point. But the more important question is whether AI made those people stupid, awaked latent inherent pathways to stupidity, or if the people are just inherently stupid and would have made similarly stupid decisions in the absence of AI. Remember that the US bombed a school in Iran completely without the use of AI.

Of course not, because providing fiber to small towns and isolated homes is not profitable and arguably not efficient. However, they are aggressively rolling out fiber to homes now in many areas, including Silicon Valley. The homes less than 0.5 miles from us had fiber many years ago. This past summer, AT&T not only installed fiber but send hordes of salespeople knocking on all homes in our neighborhood. I'm glad that we now have an alternative to Comcast to provide some price competition. I just switched to AT&T fiber at $50/month for 1 Gbps plus a $200 gift card.

Sure, Amodei is calling for slower AI development. He's also plunging head-first into a potential $2 trillion IPO. A slowdown of any magnitude compared to many competitors that are going full-steam ahead might impact the IPO. Guess which motivation is going to win out? Sure, Amodei is saying all the right PR stuff right now, but is Anthropic AI development actually slowing down? Amodei could have announced that Anthropic is unilaterally slowing down AI development, but he didn't and won't. He's just trying to attract the PR while cashing in on the IPO.

These AI glasses do have practical uses, and in some cases, life-changing uses, like for blind people. The estimates of the number of blind people using AI glasses are in the tens of thousands. Unfortunately, the abuses, including perverted uses, are too numerous. The privacy invasions are arguably not even the biggest problem. The bigger problem is that the good uses will be killed by the abuses.

Unfortunately, the reason for Trump doing what he did was simply that he could. He had the power to do something that no one else in the world could do, so he did it to show that he could do something that no one else could do. The great irony is that Trump is consumed with his appearance and yet his actions make him look bad. The only reason he doesn't recognize the obviousness of the badness is that he has surrounded himself with yes-men and carpetbaggers that inflate his already enormous lack of awareness.

The Bay Area is famous for extreme microclimates. While San Francisco may be on the chilly side, Livermore in the East Bay is the opposite. In the past month of August, it experienced 15 days of 90+ weather, plus another 5 days of 88-89 weather. That's not that unusual for the East Bay.