Even the worst Kessler syndrome scenarios don't stop new satellites from being launched through the debris-containing altitudes to reach clear orbits.

As a Canadian, an "apology tour" would feel like this to me.

If the next administration wants forgiveness it'll have to show real progress on fixing America's broken system of government and its broken culture. That'll take longer than four years so the next administration should not expect forgiveness. The best it can hope for is to get started on eventual forgiveness.

In the meantime we need to keep diversifying away from America and building defenses against them because there's no reason to extend the benefit of the doubt. They elected not-Trump after the previous time Trump was elected and where did that lead them? Back to Trump.

A common cause of this kind of problem is lots of people simply default to whatever the "best" model is and throw every problem at it. The best model can handle those problems, sure, because it's the best model. But it's also the most expensive model.

A better strategy is a multi-model agent that breaks tasks down into smaller sub-tasks and then uses the minimal model that can manage each of those tasks. The high-level program architecture can be figured out by Fable 5 or whatever, but then each of the functions and classes can be written by a cheap local model like one of the Qwens, for example. An AI that's been told to find correlations in a large corpus of documents could make use of a smaller model to analyze each of the documents to filter out the ones least likely to be useful and only actually "read" the most promising ones. And so forth.

This is something that's an area of very active development. The harness is going to be just as important as the model, if not moreso.

Ah, I see where my misunderstanding lies, I had the wrong "they're."

That would make them useless for cheating.

If that was the case, why is it useful for cheating?

The word "slop" has lost all meaning.

The older the jpeg the more likely it is that he's moved on to another job by now.

It was something I read in a Reddit discussion. Rather than rely on that, I figured I'd go to the horse's mouth and read the Kentucky constitution directly. Section 152 covers how to handle vacancies. Unfortunately it's in old-timey legalese and is rather lengthy and complicated. So I had ChatGPT break it down for me.

Turns out there's an interesting wrinkle.

The Kentucky constitution is quite explicit; "Vacancies in all offices for the State at large, or for districts larger than a county, shall be filled by appointment of the Governor". A Senate seat counts as an "office for the State at large" because they represent the entire state.

The argument that the statute is unconstitutional is fairly straightforward:

• A U.S. Senate seat is a statewide elected office.
• Section 152 says statewide vacancies "shall be filled by appointment of the Governor."
• "Shall" is mandatory language.
• The legislature cannot override a constitutional command through ordinary legislation.

The problem is the 17th amendment of the United States constitution, which was ratified years after this section of the Kentucky constitution went into effect. The American constitution supersedes state constitutions. The 17th amendment was about how state legislatures choose senators, and it says the state legislature may empower the governor to do so. Which apparently gives final say as to how senators are appointed to the state legislature. So maybe the legislature can make that decision now, even though the state constitution says otherwise.

Nothing's ever simple. :(

I dunno, I'd recommend the governor at least try appointing someone. Stuff like this never gets sorted out until it actually goes to court.

I don't trust them to, of course not. I'm just pointing out the actual legal situation. The law is blatantly contrary to Kentucky's constitution.

They passed a law saying that, but the Kentucky constitution still says otherwise. So we'll see what happens.

Ah, so this is an entirely self-contained belief system. He chose this option because he's "eurocentric," and he's eurocentric because he chose this option.