They heard INDOPACOM saying the PLAN was the enemy and they decided the plan was the enemy

As we all know, not collecting taxes is a core principle of MMT.

It certainly seems like *a* big issue. There are a number of sectors in government that simply cannot hire qualified candidates unless they are essentially volunteering out of patriotism.

I suppose there’s an argument that “not doing the job” doesn’t count as impeachment-worthy, but even leaving aside the “Congress alone decides” aspect, I think it does. Congress could obviously oust a president for e.g. refusing to nominate any ambassadors.

Their one real responsibility is to be ready to take over for the president on short notice, so dinging them for not staying up to speed seems fine to me.

I’m reminded of another funny “do multiple at once” hypothetical where the house or senate can de facto call early elections with a 2/3 vote on a motion to expel every member.

Arguably the Senate can consolidate impeachment votes since nothing suggests they can’t, so this probably works.

Seems unlikely that a VP would have no clue what the president was up to, and if so I imagine you’d impeach them for not paying attention. (lol)

But I suppose in principle you might be impeaching a president immediately after inauguration when the VP hasn’t even had a chance to do anything wrong.

Failing to report the president’s crimes to Congress, etc etc

You can get through an impeachment pretty fast if it’s pro forma. And it’s wrongdoing in the eyes of Congress. Choosing not to resign as VP when the president started committing crimes, for example, would be a straightforward impeachment charge.

Not really sure there’s an actual problem here. If Congress doesn’t want the VP to be president they can throw them out too.

Settling at a higher risk than the Red Sea would be pretty bad, as traffic through the Red Sea is still down considerably from before the Houthi attacks began. Shipping has other options than the Suez though, and there is no other option for getting out of the gulf, so it may be different here.

It was probably pre-industrialization, but it was certainly untrue as of the start of the Inclosure Movement. By that point traditional rural smallholding farmers were contributing so little that city-centered elites didn’t see a point in having them continue to exist.

I wonder what modern occupation is actually closest to historical farming. Hard to come up with anything even remotely similar.

Modern agriculture has no real relationship with ancient agriculture as a cultural practice. It is an industrial process with deep and technologically advanced supply chains that happens to use some of the same terminology (“planting”, “harvesting”, “farmer”) for historical reasons.

The rationale should generalize beyond integer multiplication of large integers to any exact decimal arithmetic of decimal numbers with thousands of incompressible digits of precision.

@colin-fraser.net suggested bounding by the context window, but I think we can set the bound a bit lower than that.

Based on the size of embedding spaces today being generally low thousands of dimensions and the imprecision of their floating point nature, I predict that for at least the next year LLMs will struggle to exactly multiply integer values greater than 2^ 10,000 without tool assistance.

I’m inclined to agree, but for true falsifiability I think we need to establish how big “big” is.

No matter how large context windows get it will always be true that almost all numbers are too large to fit in the context window, so that’s a bit too easy.

Probably at least one human other than myself has been conscious at some point in history, since people have been discussing this phenomenon longer than I have been alive. By looking at historical writings of isolated cultures you might even be able to show multiple conscious people have existed.

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Well, that verse was in the present tense. Perhaps the situation has changed since then.

Still doesn’t work because if it hasn’t happened by the end of the first day then you know it will happen the second day.

Best workaround I ever saw to this was a guy predicting a 48 hour range in which the rapture would occur.

Bluesky school of philosophy

The principle of least privilege extends all the way to zero. If there’s some action that should never be done, nobody should be able to do it.

Pro tip: Nothing and nobody needs permission to delete databases, either your primaries or your backups. It simply never comes up except by mistake. Don’t allow any credential sets to exist that can do this. If for some reason you ever need to you can create one then.

There is an unfortunately kind of easy to make terraform mistake where you put the backups in the same configuration as the primary data store and lose them both to the same bad apply. So many ways to avoid this, yet constantly this gets people.

We require additional tungsten

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