I prefer the idea that there is no set number of justices, every president gets to appoint one judge per term. Obviously they should still be approved by the Senate. After the Senate approves the judge, that's it, someone dies, to bad wait a few years for the next term or president. Sure we might end up with 20 justices if a bunch of young people are appointed but that just opens up the term limit conversation, and that would be great since lifetime appointments shouldn't be a thing for any position.

Right there with you, diagnosed about 25 years ago and I've never heard of "visual exhaustion" even though I understood it from lived experience before I finished reading the comment.

We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

How long have you been waiting to use your combined knowledge of restaurants and finance in a comment? I imagine this opportunity doesn't come around often.

You can not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that God exists.

Issac Newton saw an apple fall and then dropped other objects to prove the existence of gravity.

God = belief.

Science = evidence.

We have a warp core breach, doctor Crusher lead the crew to the escape pods while myself and the senior staff take the ship into that nebula.

If we get lost, we'll just dock somewheres and ask directions.

I promote the use of AI since I've seen massive benefits since I started using it, also I feel like everyone should learn to use it since I believe it's here to stay. That being said, I do hope open source models, and the hardware to run them become more accessible and we move to self hosting our LLMs and only offloading certain tasks to a providers API when appropriate.

I think we're on the same side politically, we just have vastly different approaches. You do what you feel is best, as will I.

Just food for thought, I took two days to reply because I saw a wall of text and found it overwhelming. I suspect that is the reaction of most people. If you feel you absolutely can't leave anything out, consider at least putting a few points in a bullet point list, if nothing else it breaks up the text and makes it seem a bit less overwhelming.

You say you are used to tailoring to your audience, let me share something that it took me far to long to understand. Those that can express their thoughts calmly and concisely, will always be more well received.

On the commercial AI and Epstein class, yes many of the top people in the industry are involved with that. But why limit your self when you have the same tool your enemy has? Is it not better to use AI to develop open source alternatives that will bring them down? Would the irony not be the sweetest if they were brought down by their own tool?

Do with these thoughts as you wish, disregard them if they have no meaning for you.

Leaving my previous comment.

New season.

Such a good podcast, I can't wait for the new one now that he's announced it.

Straight white male here, as another person said Voyager and Lower Decks both had strong female leads and both were great shows that I've watched every episode of.

The hate for Discovery is because it betrays the cannon built over decades by people who clearly didn't understand Star Trek. The has nothing to with the gender of the main cast, it's the terrible writing and betrayal of what Star Trek stands for.