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Neal Parikh

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Teaching AI policy at Columbia. Previously Director of AI for NYC. PhD from Stanford AI Lab.

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I literally told my friend it looks like an unkempt Hitler mustache

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Yes I agree. There is negative value to it. I just felt like insulting them.

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Was absolutely terrified for a second (people constantly misspell my name) then realized

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These are the first jobs I would replace with ChatGPT. That is trivial to do. Bret Stephens has written the same shit about campus politics like a hundred times. They probably just write it 20 minutes before and file it.

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The writing, selection of topics, authors, everything is just abysmal and the regular columnists are clearly just so lazy and have some weird kind of tenure. WHO is still reading Maureen Dowd? It’s just *so* bad.

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Annoying as shit, agree with all

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I remember when my parents finally got their green card after many years of hell. The immigration officers started saying “welcome home” when flying in. All these things mean a lot to people.

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Nice one from Ken White today.

www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth...

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Really nice post, thanks.

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I think they’ve gotten out of control. I often just don’t use the service if they have those really annoying complex long ones.

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I don’t like complaining about the debate because I don’t think most people respond to things being unfair. He should have known it was unfair and not done any debate. There is no point debating Trump especially with these kinds of moderators and audience. Take the heat on that instead.

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I would maybe reverse them and go hard on Supreme Court

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But I have to speculate, because as you know she refuses to talk to anyone about this.

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I think she’s also very stubborn and not very smart, which is a bad combo. This happened with that weird episode with that judge she kept trying to appoint too.

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I think she dislikes every kind of toll on cars and has not really been honest about her views on the policy, and also is very sensitive about the House elections screwup in NY, and also is sensitive about Cuomo. I just think she’s never liked it and wanted to kill it.

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You just don’t get a sense that anyone in this whole system is intelligent at all. ChatGPT can string together a bunch of crap too.

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I am not a lawyer. But the overwhelming impression one gets is that the GOP judges will both believe and push the envelope on these, and the Dem judges will defer to the brain worms out of a misguided obsession with institutionalism. See eg Katyal endorsing right wing nominees.

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One Flew South in Atlanta is good but the airport is a pain in the ass and the place is in the international terminal

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There’s a scene in the West Wing (I know just give it a minute) where Toby asks the President for leave of absence after an attack. Then he goes, I just don’t know why it feels like this, I’ve seen murders before. “It feels like that because that wasn’t a murder, it was a lynching. That’s why.”

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But I agree. They genuinely are super into him.

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I think it’s not unlike how evangelicals claim to describe Trump, that he’s flawed personally but was sent by god to enact their agenda. I mean they say stuff like that.

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It’s not, because they love Trump. They don’t want to disagree

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Lol, I just posted this on Twitter in response to that: I remember in high school when Bush won and I went to my American History class and the teacher just sat down and sighed and goes, “Ralph Nader just pulled down his pants and masturbated in front of the American public.”

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What happened? I see people complaining

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I couldn’t agree more about increasing size of the House.

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There were some very good agriculture accounts on Twitter that were themselves farmers that routinely talked about this

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Let’s not help the antivax people please but you’re right

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This is very funny. I live in upper Manhattan and the community board is also fighting 5G towers.

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I mean, you said it *much* more nicely, but this is really all I was saying.

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What a funny, pleasant photo.

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The only way to win those voters is on cultural issues that cannot be compromised.

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The impression I’m under is that literally no matter what the policy was, you would be saying the exact same thing.

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No, that is not the impression I’m under.

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That isn’t what the policy proposals are. Bernie Sanders had a rural broadband proposal in 2015. Literally no one says the thing you’re saying. I voted for him and it!

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Thanks. :)

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I don’t think so, but I’ll take your word for it and deleted it.

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I do not think being unclear about how much subsidy they get is helpful either. They are the welfare queens of America. And I don’t have any issue with people pointing that out and changing those policies. But of course the policies can’t be changed because they can’t survive.

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I think they should cut all the funding to rural areas, which the urban areas pay for, to provoke a debate about the actual sensible and fair policy. What a load of horseshit that they get nothing.

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They get tons and tons and tons of money. Tons. With no return whatsoever. So what are you advocating? I think all the funding should be cut.

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I agree. Democrats do a lot for rural people. For one thing, many rural people are poor and they do a lot for the poor. But those people don’t care. Frankly I’m sympathetic to people who advocate for doing far less.

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Democrats do a lot for rural people. They just don’t care.

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Don’t debate

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Go after their business too, not just their coverage.

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I agree.

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I agree. It is impossible

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Conservatives are anti-American. They don’t believe in America. Even that shrew of a wife of Alito flew the flag upside down. The shrew of a wife of Thomas encouraged insurrection. I am first generation and I fly that right side up. Fuck that.

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Uh, Apple Weather is fine? Carrot is funny.

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Hard agree, including the flag.

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What would it do with “Maman died today.” (The Stranger, Camus)

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This is insanely depressing. Also like that sentence is not hard.

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