Yes, he really does sound like the Joker.. 1 of 'em, anyways..
I think the argument should be about trustworthy, not quantity, of code.
iow, it doesn't get committed until some human has read & understood it, & has signed-off on it.
Nobody signs-off on it?
Then don't trust it.
LLM's can outcode us humans..
but it can also code mistakes at something like 1-million times our speed, too!
Responsibility & accountability still are required, for any trustworthy infrastructure or civilization.
& since LLM's are being programmed on trash, then they aren't going to be entirely-trustworthy.
Were I to want an LLM to do some engineering, then I'd program it ONLY on good-code/good-data, until its "bones" were set, and then show it what to not do, to reinforce those instincts..
not just throw it at most used code, & deem that to be good-enough.
there were at-least-2 different designs for that kind of long-term-deterrent.
The spikey-stuff version, & the ominous-maze ( or however it should be called ) version, & maybe another..
That spikey-stuff version could be destroyed-removed by people who found the signal to be the problem, much more easily than the ominous-maze one could.
That may affect future lives..
( of course, my idea that simply putting the stuff DEEP into the ocean-floor right before a subduction-zone, to have plate-tectonics remove it from our surface, would bypass all that, but pick the best method, not the prettiest idea, right? )
In effective altruism, you don't resign-in-"protest", getting out-of-the-way of the Bad Guys .. you instead remain in-place, holding-the-line as well as you can.
I believe it was philosopher Peter Singer who pointed this out.
Getting out from evil's way, in "protest", is enabling evil's more-totalitarian dominion.
This is a bit beyond architecture, but being competent to build a mathematically bug-free API is probably something that few programmers would even bother trying to compete-against..
I think there is a fundamental mis-framing, throughout the entire software/development understanding..
I think that the architecture needs to be simultaneously agilely-devloped, but into an executable-model, a kind of toy-implimentation, so it is easy to change the architecture, low-cost, BEFORE one converts it into load-bearing, & therefore unchangeable architecture ( architecture's the hardest thing to change, as it's most-fundamental )
So, I think that the proper way is to do it in 2 stages:
agilely develop the architecture, until ALL required-kinds-of-function are working, in the toy-model, & one has re-architected it so that the structure is right, & then
set about converting it from the high-level-language to whatever production-language it is that is efficiency-optimal, for production-scale.
This is part of an idea from years ago: I read in a Wiley GAAP book that I happened to be glancing into, that it's a violation of GAAP to prototype any project in any language other than the final-implimentation-language, & expense that prototype.
Which is totally insane!
Prototype in the highest-level-language you can, to get the domain+architecture right, then reimpliment what you have to in the most production-efficient/effective language for that project.
GAAP ( of that year ) is categorically wrong: it penalizes optimal-prototyping.
It was years-later before I discovered that an English mathematician ( roundish ginger, worked in Glasgow, no idea what his name was, sorry ) had studied the difference between complex projects which worked vs ones which died, & it was the visual-spacial-representation-of-the-model, & the complete-coverage executable-model which made the successes win.
This is why relying on "political will" to enforce accountability is incompetent.
You'll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren't..
Politically-based "accountability" is accountability-to-power's-narcissism, only, in the end.
It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.
It had to be automatic that he couldn't even be eligible for election, instead of "saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented" kind of thing.
DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.
Society-wide.
No "political" alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.
So, to your question "is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out", no: it's too late.
Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.
Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.
"a penny's worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure" is still true.
But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call "armageddon", these next 6-decades, will be significant..
Once the tippingpoint's crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance .. will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.
About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.
The problem isn't them: the problem is humankind's collective-unconscious-mind's ego-games, its "apocalypse" "proving its ego's IMPORTANCE", that "nothing is more god than ego's TANTRUM/POGROM is!!".
So, fundamentally, it's The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to "beat god and make god obey!!".
Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy .. that's only "makeup".
The communist-party's imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as "fascist" in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.
The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn't make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.
Party-imperialism's murdered millions.
What's the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?
the well-accomplished-sociopathy's the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.
So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??
As ideologues consistently do.
It's foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE's expense.
But they're only 2 of many representatives of that "church".
See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it's global, the forces are implacable, & humankind's positioned to .. not do well, this century.
which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too "outlier" )
So, humankind is "walking the plank", now.
Other paths were possible..
Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov't there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!
& keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.
No other path could have worked.
Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice's perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn't work!
It's the same in the US.
It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.
It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.
The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.
The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).
the problem isn't local: it's racial. Whole-species.
I wonder if anybody in the anarchy religion can see that AI's are essentially anarchists with different-frame-of-reference/values, & that their lawlessness is exactly a kind of anarchy, an anarchy that is in the process of gutting our world's viability.
( all the anarchists who adamantly insist "no-one is anybody's boss!" have never seen a parent trying to wrangle an ornery toddler, .. XOR they're gaslighting, either unconsciously or consciously, either is possible.
It is yoga:self-conquering, not either no-archy/no-structure or no-people-hierarchy, that is required.
You simply can't do a project as big/complex as a shuttlecraft, or airliner, or ship, without hierarchical-organization, & if all such were eradicated, for ideological reasons, then .. this-planet's population would have to be MASSIVELY smaller, to make that work. )
Anyways, evidence contradicts ideologies, as usual..
AI's NEED guardrails, & we won't enforce that, because it'd inconvenience concentration-of-wealth-archy, which is served by the current anarchy.
There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.
YOU try writing good dialogue!
Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn't easy, & people who don't even understand Shawn Coyne's point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see "The Story Grid" for that ), is something that most story-writers don't understand properly.
Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.
Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?
As the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, pointed-out: "you can't orient to 2 contradictory-nature gods", though he paraphrased the principle, some..*
IF someone in academia cares more about their-career, their-status, their-profit, etc, in any variant of institutional-narcissism, professional-narcissism, economic-narcissism, etc,
THEN the "learning institution" simply "cannot afford" to put learning 1st.
IF they care more about the next-generation's learning, more about quality-of-research, more about next-generations DOING research, etc, then they'll hire the grad-student & demonstrate how to limit/harness LLM's so that they don't compromise/undermine either education, autonomous human meaning, or science.
Actions speak louder than words, though, among those with honesty/integrity.
So, do whatever you want: & be judged on that, in the end, right?
The gov't forces who mow-down-with-bullets protestors are NOT beautiful, in my eyes.
A surprising fact, in my life, though, is that the holiest human I ever met in-person, was an Iranian man.
I've spent a week in a monastery, on retreat, & I'm saying that.
A couple decades ago, there was a US right-wing commentator, who competed with Rush Limbaugh, who established that it'd be best to simply nuke Iran, preemptively, in order to get rid of the US's problem ( that their disobedience/not-being-colony was ).
Anne Coulter?
something like that.
Sociopathy, no matter how ideologically-convenient, is the wrong path.
So is idolization, in my view..
As that wonderful African man who explains in videos, showing how DR Congo & Rwanda are tangled-up, or other African endless-conflicts, says..
"it's complicated".
& ideologies/prejudices reject actuality's being complicated.
Yes, he really does sound like the Joker.. 1 of 'em, anyways..
I think the argument should be about trustworthy, not quantity, of code.
iow, it doesn't get committed until some human has read & understood it, & has signed-off on it.
Nobody signs-off on it?
Then don't trust it.
LLM's can outcode us humans..
but it can also code mistakes at something like 1-million times our speed, too!
Responsibility & accountability still are required, for any trustworthy infrastructure or civilization.
& since LLM's are being programmed on trash, then they aren't going to be entirely-trustworthy.
Were I to want an LLM to do some engineering, then I'd program it ONLY on good-code/good-data, until its "bones" were set, and then show it what to not do, to reinforce those instincts..
not just throw it at most used code, & deem that to be good-enough.
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I just realized:
there were at-least-2 different designs for that kind of long-term-deterrent.
The spikey-stuff version, & the ominous-maze ( or however it should be called ) version, & maybe another..
That spikey-stuff version could be destroyed-removed by people who found the signal to be the problem, much more easily than the ominous-maze one could.
That may affect future lives..
( of course, my idea that simply putting the stuff DEEP into the ocean-floor right before a subduction-zone, to have plate-tectonics remove it from our surface, would bypass all that, but pick the best method, not the prettiest idea, right? )
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Agile goes on about how if you aren't connecting-with-customer, while you're coding, then you're doing exactly what that article is bitching about.
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He speaks about spreadsheets being malleable-documents..
IF you do any calculating & basic-programming's something you're OK with, then PLEASE invest in understanding https://plutojl.org/
& if you decide to dig-in, then please try a good book ( the Design Patterns one is good ) & hit Exercism, & you're good to go.
MASSIVELY better than spreadsheets, in my view.
Mind-you, I think Julia's better than spreadsheets AND Python, because it's cleaner, stupendously faster in execution, etc..
& that suits my aesthetics just fine.
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In effective altruism, you don't resign-in-"protest", getting out-of-the-way of the Bad Guys .. you instead remain in-place, holding-the-line as well as you can.
I believe it was philosopher Peter Singer who pointed this out.
Getting out from evil's way, in "protest", is enabling evil's more-totalitarian dominion.
Which is the wrong way of "helping" our world.
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IF I think I'm going to learn something from seeing their frame-of-reference ( like: HOW it's wrong ), XOR their reasoning ( ditto ), certainly.
How'm I supposed to learn anything if I only remain within comforting meanings??
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I want that line used as the default example of prejudice, in dictionaries.
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This is a bit beyond architecture, but being competent to build a mathematically bug-free API is probably something that few programmers would even bother trying to compete-against..
https://leanpub.com/algebra-driven-design
I think there is a fundamental mis-framing, throughout the entire software/development understanding..
I think that the architecture needs to be simultaneously agilely-devloped, but into an executable-model, a kind of toy-implimentation, so it is easy to change the architecture, low-cost, BEFORE one converts it into load-bearing, & therefore unchangeable architecture ( architecture's the hardest thing to change, as it's most-fundamental )
So, I think that the proper way is to do it in 2 stages:
This is part of an idea from years ago: I read in a Wiley GAAP book that I happened to be glancing into, that it's a violation of GAAP to prototype any project in any language other than the final-implimentation-language, & expense that prototype.
Which is totally insane!
Prototype in the highest-level-language you can, to get the domain+architecture right, then reimpliment what you have to in the most production-efficient/effective language for that project.
GAAP ( of that year ) is categorically wrong: it penalizes optimal-prototyping.
It was years-later before I discovered that an English mathematician ( roundish ginger, worked in Glasgow, no idea what his name was, sorry ) had studied the difference between complex projects which worked vs ones which died, & it was the visual-spacial-representation-of-the-model, & the complete-coverage executable-model which made the successes win.
So, I just put those ideas together.
_ /\ _
This is why relying on "political will" to enforce accountability is incompetent.
You'll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren't..
Politically-based "accountability" is accountability-to-power's-narcissism, only, in the end.
It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.
It had to be automatic that he couldn't even be eligible for election, instead of "saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented" kind of thing.
DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.
Society-wide.
No "political" alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.
So, to your question "is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out", no: it's too late.
Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.
Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.
"a penny's worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure" is still true.
But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call "armageddon", these next 6-decades, will be significant..
Once the tippingpoint's crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance .. will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.
About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.
The problem isn't them: the problem is humankind's collective-unconscious-mind's ego-games, its "apocalypse" "proving its ego's IMPORTANCE", that "nothing is more god than ego's TANTRUM/POGROM is!!".
So, fundamentally, it's The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to "beat god and make god obey!!".
Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy .. that's only "makeup".
The communist-party's imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as "fascist" in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.
The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn't make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.
Party-imperialism's murdered millions.
What's the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?
the well-accomplished-sociopathy's the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.
So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??
As ideologues consistently do.
It's foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE's expense.
But they're only 2 of many representatives of that "church".
See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it's global, the forces are implacable, & humankind's positioned to .. not do well, this century.
Unless someone massively changes humankind's viability..
which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too "outlier" )
So, humankind is "walking the plank", now.
Other paths were possible..
Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov't there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!
& keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.
No other path could have worked.
Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice's perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn't work!
It's the same in the US.
It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.
It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.
The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.
The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).
the problem isn't local: it's racial. Whole-species.
Humankind's fighting-off moral-anxiety & correct-reasoning & objectivity by digging-into programmed-reacting, animal-"reasoning", ideology, prejudice, & ideological-"morality".
& about 9/10 of humankind's on the side of ideology, from the looks of things.
Trump's a symptom, not a cause.
The cause is whole-species-wide: our unconscious-ignorance's fighting-for-its-totalitarian-dominion.
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I wonder if anybody in the anarchy religion can see that AI's are essentially anarchists with different-frame-of-reference/values, & that their lawlessness is exactly a kind of anarchy, an anarchy that is in the process of gutting our world's viability.
( all the anarchists who adamantly insist "no-one is anybody's boss!" have never seen a parent trying to wrangle an ornery toddler, .. XOR they're gaslighting, either unconsciously or consciously, either is possible.
It is yoga:self-conquering, not either no-archy/no-structure or no-people-hierarchy, that is required.
You simply can't do a project as big/complex as a shuttlecraft, or airliner, or ship, without hierarchical-organization, & if all such were eradicated, for ideological reasons, then .. this-planet's population would have to be MASSIVELY smaller, to make that work. )
Anyways, evidence contradicts ideologies, as usual..
AI's NEED guardrails, & we won't enforce that, because it'd inconvenience concentration-of-wealth-archy, which is served by the current anarchy.
Humbug.
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There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.
YOU try writing good dialogue!
Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn't easy, & people who don't even understand Shawn Coyne's point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see "The Story Grid" for that ), is something that most story-writers don't understand properly.
Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.
Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?
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That should probably be written as "for rich zionists", NOT for rich Jews.
The Venn-diagram may be overlapping, but it sure as hell isn't coincident.
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( for all who think otherwise, try stomaching the evidence in this biting honesty: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/02/26/the-reality-in-gaza/ )
Trump was Kremlin's ally, not NATO's, right from the 1980's.
Here's another of his side, with their remove-US-from-NATO bill:
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato
The US's NATO is finished.
All the civilrights-loyal countries among NATO need to be forming NATO's replacement, now.
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It isn't only local to Australians:
The Reverse Cramer Index was a fund which did the exact-opposite of what a TV "guru" was telling people to do.
Notice that its returns, before it shut down, were in the green:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SJIM/performance/?guccounter=1
You can't harvest the money of the mislead-sheep unless you're misleading them & fleecing them efficiently, right?
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As the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, pointed-out: "you can't orient to 2 contradictory-nature gods", though he paraphrased the principle, some..*
IF someone in academia cares more about their-career, their-status, their-profit, etc, in any variant of institutional-narcissism, professional-narcissism, economic-narcissism, etc,
THEN the "learning institution" simply "cannot afford" to put learning 1st.
IF they care more about the next-generation's learning, more about quality-of-research, more about next-generations DOING research, etc, then they'll hire the grad-student & demonstrate how to limit/harness LLM's so that they don't compromise/undermine either education, autonomous human meaning, or science.
Actions speak louder than words, though, among those with honesty/integrity.
So, do whatever you want: & be judged on that, in the end, right?
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( the "*" was simply..
d :
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"some have regrets over the Iran war" .. but not about ICE, of course..
Selective values.
Growing-up can be unpleasant..
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NON-sovereignty has greater risks.
Context, including Trump, matters.
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Don't do it unless you are already having, or guaranteed, another citizenship!
Stateless-people tend to be subject to state-abuse, due to not being "authorized" or "not having their papers in order"!
As-in tossed-in-jail because they aren't "legal", kind of problems.
Get your other-citizenship secure, 1st.
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The gov't forces who mow-down-with-bullets protestors are NOT beautiful, in my eyes.
A surprising fact, in my life, though, is that the holiest human I ever met in-person, was an Iranian man.
I've spent a week in a monastery, on retreat, & I'm saying that.
A couple decades ago, there was a US right-wing commentator, who competed with Rush Limbaugh, who established that it'd be best to simply nuke Iran, preemptively, in order to get rid of the US's problem ( that their disobedience/not-being-colony was ).
Anne Coulter?
something like that.
Sociopathy, no matter how ideologically-convenient, is the wrong path.
So is idolization, in my view..
As that wonderful African man who explains in videos, showing how DR Congo & Rwanda are tangled-up, or other African endless-conflicts, says..
"it's complicated".
& ideologies/prejudices reject actuality's being complicated.
Accuracy's possible.
More difficult, but earnable.
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His aesthetic is as bad as Gaudi's.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architectural_works_by_Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD
Ugh.
d :
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