I think it makes sense to distribute the federal government across the country, rather than centralizing it all in Washington DC. Especially for something like agriculture. What's the downside?
Reminds me of a video I saw where there were 2 AI bots meant to interview a candidate, then at one point the AI bots started interviewing each other. It ended with both AI's stuck in a loop of saying 'Have a great day' to each other.
About 9 months ago I was working on building an Icecast server from scratch, with the gimmick being that between songs there would be AI-generated DJs that would give the normal corny banter you hear on the regular radio. I was initially using OpenAI for everything, but TTS from OpenAI ended up being kind of pricey.
So I started looking into models I could self-host for this stuff.
I can't remember which model it was, but one of them was kind of amusing because it would be two DJs signing off endlessly
DJ1: "Thanks for listening to WTOM, this has been Greg, signing off for tonight"
DJ2: "You said it Greg, it's been a great night, this is Bill, signing out"
DJ1: "Absolutely Bill, playing you out on a July evening this has been Greg from WTOM"
DJ2: "You better believe it, have a great night everyone! From WTOM this is Bill, wishing you a lovely Wednesday"
And it just kept going. Out of morbid curiosity I just let it keep going for an hour one day and they never stopped "signing out". I found it endlessly amusing.
I think this is blatant sexual discrimination. I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but it's discriminatory. Maybe if someone can request a male driver instead of female it MIGHT eventually balance out, but I don't see this surviving judicial scrutiny.
It's a start, but it's woefully inadequate. Just take the ARRL, which is supposed to be a nonprofit organization for ham radio. They waste money on lobbyists working on absolutely pointless endeavors, and achieve nothing. But don't worry, all of the executives are well paid.
For five years, I ran a healthcare nonprofit, and the problem is much worse than you think. For C3 nonprofits, for which donations are tax deductible, you have a lot of rich people who just flush cash through them to take is a tax deduction. Then they dictate to the nonprofit what political issues they want pursued. Executives are paid exorbitant salaries, and very little actually goes to what it is intended. Many of the nonprofits that I worked with claim each other's work, when there's a victory, they claim it as their own, and they relentlessly fundraisers so they can pay themselves more. The c3 system is desperately in need of an overhaul.
"At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War" recounted that the United States added a Trojan horse to gas pipeline control software that the Soviet Union obtained from a company in Canada. According to the author, when the components were deployed on a Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, the Trojan horse led to a huge explosion. He wrote: "The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."
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