It’s amusingly revealing that the Russian interference accusations enrage Trump so much.

Unlike virtually everything else in his career, there’s no evidence of impropriety and nobody’s accusing him of anything - they’re just stating that the evidence shows that Russia attempted to interfere in his favor.

And the problem is simply that his bloated and terribly fragile ego can’t cope with that. He desperately needs to believe that he won because he’s the bestest president ever in the history of ever.

If he wasn’t so destructive and such an existential threat to the US, he’d just be pathetic.

Yeah… this is an interesting angle on all of this.

And for context, it’s likely worth noting that this followed on the heels of Trump threatening to fire Jerome Powell.

While Trump is obviously the prime mover of the ludicrously obvious wholesale destruction of the US, more and more I don’t really blame him. At heart, he’s really just a thin-skinned ball of insecurity with the emotional development of a toddler driven by primal instincts to attack everything that he considers a threat, which is pretty much anything and everything.

I think more all the time that the lion’s share of the blame for all of this is more legitimately placed on the thousands and thousands of people who all have access to authority with which they could stand up to him, and who are just too craven and cowardly (or complicit) to actually do it.

I have no doubt that this is real, and we can expect to see much, much more of it.

LLMs, by their very nature, not only can but will, if so prompted, reinforce delusions.

The current “AIs” do not think or reason in any way, shape or form. They have no understanding of their output because they’re not actually intelligemt, or even aware. They’ve just been programmed to combine words with other words in ways that are statistically likely to be relevant to the prompts they’re given.

And that means that a person who’s sufficiently determined can, without conscious intent, feed an “AI” prompts that will lead it to treat whatever delusion they feed it as real, and even to surround it with enough other strings of coincidentally meaningful words and phrases that it appears, to the incautious mind, to be revelatory.

Yes - I’m sure he thinks it’ll be a boon.

But that’s because I’m sure that, like virtually every executive at every film, TV, music or game studio in existence, he wouldn’t recognize real creativity if it walked up and punched him in the face.

The only reason that they support LGBTQ is because it gives them an opportunity to pretend to be leftists in spite of being center to right on basically every single other issue. And because it’s okay with their megarich donors.

If the donor class opposed it, they wouldn’t even support that.

Centrist Democrats Are the Actual Traitors to Their Party

To be sort of fairish, I get the impression that anyone who would say that is the sort of person who could read a book cover to cover and manage to not get anything more than a rough outline of the plot out of it anyway.