Saturday, February 21, 2026

SatStats

 


The tariffs have been ruled unconstitutional. Efficiency will not trump process yet. 
This will result in a wonderful boondoggle that will be mediated by a feeding frenzy of countless predatory lawyers and their predatory assistants.

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Is ICE itself a problem, or is it the power of the government and its efficiency and integrity in using that power?

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Over the last two seasons, Ke'Bryan Hayes is the only player to record at least 900 plate appearances and an OPS under .600.

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And beyond alignment, I think an additional strategy should be to work on modifying the constraints that AI faces, to minimize the degree to which humans and AIs are in actual, real competition over scarce resources.
One potential way to do this is to accelerate the development of outer space. Space is an inherently hostile environment for humans, but far less so for robots, or for the computers that form the physical substrate of AI; in fact, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others are already trying to put data centers in space.--Noah Smith

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Pirate outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia's nickname is 'the password.'

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SatStats

Google Play Store has over 2.6 billion apps and games

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Bill Gates' total land holdings are widely estimated between roughly 242,000 and 270,000 acres nationwide, making him the largest private farmland owner in the U.S.

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By one estimate, almost 80% of Venezuela’s oil revenue is collected in stablecoins like tether, a local economist, Asdrúbal Oliveros, said on a recent podcast.

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Today, a simple vial of blood can be used to measure more than 13,000 different proteins; ten years ago, this was nearly zero.

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Superintelligent AI would be able to use all the water and energy and land and minerals in the world, so why would it let humanity have any for ourselves? Why wouldn’t it just take everything and let the rest of us starve?
But an AI that was able to rewrite its utility function would simply have no use for infinite water, energy, or land. If you can reengineer yourself to reach a bliss point, then local nonsatiation fails; you just don’t want to devour the Universe, because you don’t need to want that.
We can trust it to do the right thing.

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Among the cohort who began college in 2004, 38% never took economics. Among the 2012 cohort, only 26% took economics.

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Spending Distribution at the Federal Level:

From 1959 to 2024, the portion of federal government outlays that were spent on:
--national defense and veterans’ benefits declined from 55% to 17%.
--social programs—including healthcare, income security, education, housing, and recreation—rose from 20% to 60%.
--general government and debt service—including the executive & legislative branches, tax collection, financial management, and interest payments—rose from 17% to 25% and then declined to 18%.
--economic affairs—including transportation, general economic & labor affairs, agriculture, natural resources, energy, and space declined from 8% to 3%.
--public order and safety—including police, fire, law courts, prisons, and immigration enforcement—rose from 0.3% to 1.2%.
Regrettably, there is no section for theft.


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