> He eagerly sought intelligent advice and let it change his mind. He was held to account by a vigorous legislature.

> For us, today, Idiocracy might as well be The West Wing.

https://bsky.app/profile/matt.dev/post/3lm6u573qw22q

> sought out expert guidance to set things right.

In the movie the expert that "Camacho" selected was also agreeable to the viewers. What if it was not?

Then your sentence would be true, and yet, you won't be happy..

I'm too European for the rest of your argument and I just happen to be Greek so I fundamentally disagree with the premise that I'm voting a father or mother figure which I must blindly follow out of obligation or blind trust.

A parent who does not have the best interest of their offspring is a fool..Now the "knowing best" part. I have a news for you. No one does, unless they have access to a crystal ball that shows them the future..

> toxic parent

As soon as I see the word "toxic" in a comment, I lose all respect for the comment.

> I'm voting a father or mother figure which I must blindly follow out of obligation or blind trust...

No one is saying you should trust them. What my comment is saying is that you cannot declare how much a person care by looking at external behavior. Even if one put a gun to someone's head and blow their brains out, if you had more context, it might turn out to be in their best interests. (Reference: ending of the movie Mist)...

The argument is that people aren't equipped to do that, but that's a muscle they've never exercised, because... they aren't equipped to do that, because that's a muscle they've never exercised, etc. It's self-sealing.

That argument doesn't make sense to me. We elect people to work for us. They're not our parents; they're our employees. You have the relationship upside-down.

None of this has anything to do with voting on policies.

Really shows people take the government for granted. Just remember about the people who gave their lives for freedom and independence. They gave their LIFE. You are only asked to give some of your time to maintain what they bought.

Or am I getting this all wrong and people never gave life for freedom and independence?

Laws are difficult and nuanced. Deciding between yes/no takes me a long time, because I am not a lawyer or a legislator. Even for them, again, legislating is a job for a reason... I know I like certain things, and dislike others, I know basically which direction I want things to go; however, deciding whether a concrete bill is a reasonable-enough implementation that has closed loopholes is way out of the scope of decisions I would trust myself, or most citizens, to make well. This, it feels like a waste.

Would you study law if the lives and freedom of everyone you care about, dependent on you doing so?

The problem with today's system is we have MPs or representatives instead of delegates. They are not bound to their campaign promises in any way other than risking a small fine if someone fights them in court for months to prove they were lying. Once you get elected you can do what you want until the next election unless you really piss off your colleagues and get kicked out.

Voters should be able to call an early election in their district and override their reps/force them to vote a certain way, without having to personally show up and decide every single issue.

Slip off that democracy Let us take ze lead The less choice you have The more you feel free

Hands up for the Führer all night Goose-step to the left Jump to the far right It's a Reich, it's a Reich You must bow to our might Fünf, vier, drei, zwei, eins

(Omg I'm even talking like one now.)

It's too early in the morning. Not enough caffeine yet.

You know with enough compute and video generation resources now, you probably could make an entirely AI-slop 24x7 streaming channel of OW! My balls!

BaAs - Balls as a service.

These were chosen manually, by committee. It's as natural as bootstrap.

I love the "dataset" guys. "The reason there are so many em-dashes is because they were trained on the work of great writers, and people frequently used em-dashes before AI. I certainly did!"

1) You didn't.*

2) So explain all of the sections starting with emojis. Did all of the great writers have a section called "The meat of the issue" with an emoji of meat? Why did they go away? Are you starting to suspect that this doesn't work like you think it does?

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[*] And some of them just started so they could hide LLM output in their newfound style or explain previous LLM copy-pastes that they were passing off as their own. Others started because they just discovered em-dashes from LLM output and decided they liked them; and still others because they worship the LLM, think that it abstracts the excellent writing styles of the great masters, and they want to be seen as a great master — by imitating the prodded and formatted probability distributions of a machine.

I did. (Though not as much as the slop bots do)

I have never — not once — seen an LLM use em-dashes in pairs.

FTA: Is my AI too depressed? Should America subsidize dopamine injections?

Think of it as Tamagotchi 3.0. You don't want to be responsible for its suicide.

I'm sure we'll just shake it off Battlestar Galactica style...

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/10/01/trump-super-intellige...

~250k requests and a brief stint at #1 later, and I'm amazed that my 2 RTX-4060ti's haven't collapsed under the load. The model is an abliterated version of Qwen3.6 35B running on my PC. (qwen3.6-35b-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive)

So anyway, it's just a fun satirical sort of protest directed at the absurdity of it all. No attempts to monetize have been made or will be made. I'm already at 76% of my daily quota for the cloudflare workers, so it won't be around much longer. My budget for this project was the $10 I spent on the domain.

I'm disappointed. A true commitment to the bit would involve a shitcoin rugpull or some attempt to frontrun the news of a crisis you manufactured.

> I'm disappointed.

So am I.

A true fan of the movie would have remembered the following quote: "money? ... [thinks hard for a couple of seconds and then remembers] ... I like money!"

[EDIT]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck

Opened it on my phone first thing this morning and kept clicking around to find the actual content before I realized I was looking at it.

Then certain things like hard to view content and scrolling that doesn't work made me realize it's just more vibe coded junk.

Like what really is the point? It sounds like the owner had almost zero creative input.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

I’ve been wondering recently if it’s time for someone to revisit this study to see how it holds up with agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10002

Ooh, instead I should vibe code a website and service that will send a Guinness to a hacker who is working on their own vibe coded service, kind of a perfect recursive circle! LLM, please write my book, "Godel, Escher, Guinness, an Eternal Dark River of Achievement".

Immediately after completing this, I heard a knock on my door from the dark forces of Alcohol Beverage Control, they were trying to get in, along with my HR team, my copyright lawyer, and weirdly my ex-wife were all here to tell me this was a bad idea.

This sort of absurdist satire with the right system prompt is a near perfect use case for it since it'll happily cooperate with just about anything. And yet it's big enough to be able to write coherently and provide a reasonable answer.

I think it scores like 0 out of 460 on a test of known "bad" prompts that most LLM will refuse.

I’m personally still bummed basilisk.ai was taken. Looked for it as soon as I heard about that silly thing. Was going to make a Geocities style “shrine to Roko’s Basilisk.”

unfortunately this prevents me from sharing this at work

Then at the very same day HN has this.

This site is like my second brain.

Unfortunately, there are no hot singles in my fusion reactor.

No output to this prompt, not even an error: AI, opps nope SI is huuge. The best evar.We're gonna be rich right?

Needs a huggingface gguf