As I recall, the bill contains a 90-day sundown clause, affer which it becomes ineligible for judicial review under the Constitution. So unless you file your action challenging the constitutionality of the bill within 90 days, it becomes settled law and cannot be overturned on constitutional grounds.

Good luck getting standing to challenge the law within 90 days.

How can Congress put anything into a law saying that the courts can't override it? Doesn't that impinge on separation of powers?

The text of the bill hasn’t been published and this “sundown clause” in itself would be unprecedented and unconstitutional. You are talking out your ass here. I frankly suspect you are trolling especially given your comment history.

That's clearly a human's job. The AI's job is to do the programming.

Hence "assault weapons" which are not a particular type of gun but a list of scary characteristics associated with military weapons—bayonet lugs, folding stocks, and the like—used by legislators to FUD their way into being seen as "doing something" about guns.

In the United States we even have a word for an assault weapon on four legs—pitbulls. Most breed-specific legislation, where it exists, targets pitbulls which are not a single breed nor group of related breeds, but basically any large muscular dog with a short snout and blocky head. The American Pit Bull Terrier is one such breed but far from the only one targeted by BSL.

I think it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi who said something like, the law is not obligated to logic, but it still must be followed.

In Canada a gun might be banned as an “assault” weapon when a slightly different version of the same gun is still legal with the only difference being that one of the guns is painted black, and the other (still legal) has a wood coloured stock. One looks like a “military” gun while the other one is a “hunting” rifle when in reality they are exactly the same weapon and the only difference is cosmetic.

I am all for sensible gun regulations but that is almost never the case in practice.

That's coming. The death knell is sounding for general purpose computing in the developed world. And nothing can be done about it.

> And nothing can be done about it.

Don't give up so easily.

People won't revolt even for genocide so why would they do anything about their computers?

We'll pay the subscription and be done with it. Those who can't will suffer.

We live too comfortably and independently to risk it all for the thousands of paper-cuts eroding our lives. The capitalists learned from history: isolate us and change into the dystopia little by little and there will never be enough resistance.

GP's right in pointing that out even if it hurts to read it.

I've never seen kabuki live, but it looks fun as balls to attend in person. People shout and cheer at their favorite actors and characters, Rocky Horror style. I also perceive a cultural throughline from kabuki to the flashy costumes, cool poses, "transformation sequences", heroic themes, and so forth in modern Japanese media like anime and tokusatsu. The stylized action, line delivery, and visual language of the costumes, makeup, and scenery are all over the top (esp. when compared to the more subdued and austere aesthetics of noh) and that tickles some deep inner geek in me. Maybe some of the original "punk" ethos of kabuki (kabuku = "to lean", or metaphorically "to be odd") was preserved in all those layers of tradition.

The difference is that fibre is infrastructure, LLMs are an application. Who knows, maybe they will pass and leave behind that server infra, and that's where our digital consciousnesses will live once our bodies die.

> The difference is that fibre is infrastructure, LLMs are an application

When I zoom out, I see “token generation” as an infrastructural layer, with applications built upon it.

> But even that is mostly imagination and fiction... although convincing others of that isn't necessairly an argument worth making.

There was a Japanese visual novel in the 2000s about a girl who was your personal maid, and was so devoted would always take your side in any conflict, accept and support you just the way you are, even if you were a horrid person to your friends. It turns out she was a ghost, or a kind of yokai, or something. Anyhoo, back on 2ch she attracted a fandom, and there was a second group of people on 2ch who labelled her a "useless person manufacturer" because if you actually had a person who always accepted you just the way you are and never pushed back, that can be actually a trap that prevents you from developing.

It's a theme that's relevant today when people have AI servitors that always glaze them. It puts even certain utopian AI fiction, like Richard Stallman's story "Made for You", into a whole new light.

My family accepts me just the way I am a bit too much. I can't bring myself to blame them, when past "reformist" pressures have been misguided/misapplied and backfired, but I recognize the trap. It'd also be hypocritical to blame them, when I also accept me just the way I am a bit too much! I'd like to think I'm decent enough to people, but I'm certainly more useless than I'd like to be. (Un?)fortunately, I'm not in a position to suffer, and I'm at least aware of the problem!

One of the ideas I've toyed with, even before all the AI hype, is a dumb, semi-adversarial servitor. Something to nag or taunt me about chores not done, to interrupt me when I'm doomscrolling, to use as a vessel for precommitment, to challenge me in various ways. I've been too lazy to build it thus far. Many tools overlap the problem space, so I shouldn't be using that as an excuse - perhaps I should give StayFocusd another shot.

Conflict and other stressors - in moderation, within the limits of one's ability to handle - are important for growth and health. A tree shielded from wind is weakened as it fails to develop stress wood and structural strength. A good debate can sharpen my thoughts and mind, walking to lunch keeps my cardiovascular system healthy, rising to life's various challenges gives me the security of knowing I can rise to the occasion and gives me more skills.

Which VN is this?

It was called Suigetsu

Marcuse wrote in the 1960s that the only way to prevent another Hitler from rising is to give the left free rein and cage and muzzle the right. So by extension, anyone who supports rightists being able to spread their ideas freely, let alone implement them with real political power, is a fascist in effect even if they disclaim identification with Hitler's or Mussolini's political philosophy.

I think the other way to say this is every time the right is given free reign to implement their ideas with real political power, they end up implementing fascism. Therefore, we might prefer to temper that by not allowing them to have free reign. This does not imply giving the left free reign (as you could say the same about them), as there's ample room for consensus under this model.

Thought it was all the Rust catgirls.

I recently spun up Gemma 4 26B-A4B on my local box and pointed OpenCode at it, and it did reasonably well! My machine is 8 years old, though I had the foresight to double the RAM to 32 GiB before the RAMpocalypse, and I can get a little bit of GPU oomph but not a lot, not with a mere GTX 1070. So it's slow, and nowhere near frontier model quality, but it can generate reasonable code and is good for faffing with!