Sheesh, I hate that we're at the point where I feel bad for Mitch McConnell. This is elder abuse.

Thanks, but I can't claim credit - it's a Simpsons quote (Sideshow Bob complaining about being charged with attempted murder for trying to kill Bart).

Why would there be? There isn't a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry.

Especially given that you can only be prosecuted for a crime after you've actually committed it.

Yeah, I get the impression that this is a clickbait "hey you know that thing that's kind of annoying/problematic/whatever? Well now AI can do it too!" Sort of news story.

AI didn't "reinvent" sending large amounts of unsolicited email. It was never deinvented in the first place.

...you just did.

This article is from yesterday. How many elections have there been since then?

Girls can totally be dudes or bros. It's a state of mind.

Anyone who manages to lose an election to Donald J. Trump should in a rational world never show their face in politics ever again.

Heck, I've been using them to untangle years worth of me working on codebases. I've got a lot of random little scripts and "applications" and whatnot that I threw together to perform various tasks on my home computer over the years and most of them were extremely sloppy because "who cares, this is just for me and just for this one weird thing I need to do." I've been pointing my AI agent at these things and telling it to clean them up. I'm hoping this isn't putting me a lot higher on Skynet's naughty list when the time comes for the robots to punish all those who have been mean to them.

I wasn't great at exams, but I think if I re-did university today I'd still do much better because my personal learning style is best when I talk through the material with someone. Sitting in a lecture listening to someone monologue at me, reading a static textbook, those weren't great. But with LLMs every student now has full-time access to a "live tutor" with infinite patience and no sense of social risk from asking it dumb questions. It's absolutely my perfect learning environment.

Progressive and socialist platforms are very popular, in hindsight. It's just that propaganda can make people who rely on, say, the ACA vote against "Obamacare".

In two sentences you first tell me that a thing is popular, and then explain why that thing is not actually popular.

People fall for propaganda. Evidently Democrats haven't been very good at countering it, and they really need to win some elections soon. So if countering the propaganda isn't working they may have to live with it. Doing the "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the voters who are wrong." Simpsons meme thing isn't going to work.