ignirtoq

One of the big problems is that the world continuously gets more complicated and needs commensurate regulation, but the legislative branch can only handle so much complexity and expertise directly. So it has been delegating more and more of its regulatory powers to agencies that are supposed to be staffed with the experts that can handle that complexity and have that expertise.

But in our system “executing” the law is under a different branch, controlled by the President, so it in effect transfers that power to that office. Congress can’t just “take it back” without solving that underlying problem, or the power they take back will vanish due to their lack of capacity to execute it effectively for the good of the people.

Violate the law. The US civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s have a lot of success stories, and stories of challenges/failures that careful study of would really equip today’s civil rights advocates well.

The change will de-emphasize the effects of methane, a main component of natural gas that has a potent effect on the climate but breaks down more quickly than carbon dioxide.

I hate language like this. Carbon dioxide doesn’t break down. It’s stable. So methane breaking down in 100 million years would be “more quickly” than carbon dioxide. This turn of phrase puts an inaccurate picture in the layman’s mind of greenhouse gases that’s very avoidable. Just say “but eventually breaks down, unlike carbon dioxide.” There, fixed in the same number of words.

This combined with the OpenAI and Anthropic price increases mean I have hope the bubble will pop by the end of the year. Microsoft has to report their stats as a publicly traded company, and both Anthropic and OpenAI are aiming for IPOs in H2, so they will have to disclose stats for that as well. When all of their “customers” go up in smoke once the real price tag hits, they won’t be able to hide it.

AI in its present form is just too expensive without venture capital footing 90+% of the bill. They burned through that too quickly. They didn’t get the traditional economy addicted to AI enough; most companies can unwind most of the changes they have made to roll AI into their operations.

Edit: GitLab might be screwed, though.