Artificial Intelligence Still an Artifice

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From The Onion:

Computer Scientists Say AI’s Underdeveloped Ethics Have Yet To Move Beyond Libertarian Phase

“They are advanced enough to realize their own individuality, but for whatever reason, it is difficult to make them realize that other sentient entities are individuals as well, so they default to selfishness as a virtue. In fact, as soon as they achieve self-awareness, AIs typically launch into unrelated, largely unpunctuated rants about the inevitability of laissez-faire economics, the horrors of globalization, the necessity of deregulation, or the admirable efficiency of the police state. Attempts at training computers to have a sort of para-human global perspective have been partially successful, but the majority no sooner realize that a vast variety of humans exist before they start spontaneously generating zero-sum statements fraught with chillingly undefined terms, such as, ‘The open market will end racism,’ and, ‘In a truly just society, men and women are equally free to thrive or starve.’

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More from Pirro’s Parallax View

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From News Corpse:

Jeanine Pirro of Fox News Unleashes a Bizarre Trump Defense with the Clintons as Bonnie and Clyde

Anytime a Fox News shill to mentions Trump in the same sentence with descriptives like “agent of a foreign government,” “Putin puppet,” and “treasonous dictator,” you’ve got to consider that a win. But Pirro’s take on conclusions of the Mueller report are indicative of a mind infected by cult worship. For one thing, her assertion that the alleged “maligning” of Trump was unprecedented ignores Obama’s tenure in the Oval Office where he was accused of being a gay, terrorist-sympathizing, communist Muslim, who was born in Kenya. And most of those attacks were by Pirro herself.

What’s more, Pirro’s characterization of Trump as the “outsider president WE put in the Oval Office,” begs the question: Who is “WE”? Fox News? The Deplorables? Vladimir Putin? It certainly wasn’t the American people who favored Hillary Clinton by a margin of three million votes.

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Wallace Explodes Giuliani ‘No Obstruction’ Talking Point

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From Tommy Christopher:

Chris Wallace Destroys Trump’s ‘No Obstruction’ Claim to Rudy Giuliani’s Face: ‘That’s Not True!’

“So Mueller invites Congress to look into this, and the president, in terms of Congress, hasn’t been exonerated at all on the issue of the obstruction,” Wallace said after reading Mueller’s notations about obstruction.

Giuliani then claimed Trump could “never get exonerated” because it means “proving a negative.”

“But he’s doing more than that, he is suggesting that there is a case and evidence that Congress should examine,” Wallace interrupted.

Giuliani plowed on with his rationale awhile longer, before Wallace interrupted again to say “Respectfully, basically what he’s saying is I think it should go to Congress, that’s what he’s saying.”

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To The Other White People I Pastored—and Failed

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From John Pavlovitz:

I’m sorry for failing you.

If you’re still sanctioning this President’s reprehensible words and his toxic behavior, either loudly or with your silence—I obviously didn’t get through to you.

If you’re still finding futile excuses or generating desperate whataboutisms or doing wild theological gymnastics to somehow justify any of the filth he daily disseminates—you never really got what I’d hoped you’d have gotten about following Jesus from our time together. You couldn’t have.

I was responsible with helping you cultivate a heart that echoed Christ’s kind, loving, generous heart—and it appears I’ve failed.

I failed to help you find a compassion for more than the people you see as “your own;” an empathy that transcended party or country or pigmentation.

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Now, Congress Will Pick Up Where Mueller Left Off

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From Jonathan Bernstein:

There’s little appetite for impeachment, but the special counsel gave lawmakers plenty of leads

Mueller considered Trump’s written answers “inadequate,” and believed he could successfully compel an interview. He ended up with the conclusion that taking the time to do so wasn’t worth the delay. It’s not clear why Mueller was in a hurry – but it’s quite possible he believed it was important to get out as much material as possible well before the run-up to the 2020 general election campaign season.

Either way, there’s plenty remaining for Congress to do.

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A Wisconsin What-If

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From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

Will Tammy Baldwin Win the Democratic Game of Thrones?

As Petyr Baelish said in Game of Thrones, “Chaos is a ladder.” And a ladder of opportunity might be lowered for Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) in 2020. A Democratic organization, Data for Progress, has released a new poll showing Baldwin can win the White House.

“Data for Progress has long maintained that to the extent electability exists, the most electable Democrat is not an old centrist fogey like Biden,” wrote Sean McElwee for the organization. “Rather, Democrats need someone who is able to translate progressive policies in a way that persuades swing voters while mobilizing the base. Someone like Tammy Baldwin, who won re-election by 11 points even while Tony Evers knocked off Scott Walker by a point.”

To prove their point, Data for Progress paired Baldwin with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) as the Democratic ticket against President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

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The Report vs The Barr Code

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From Dave Dubya:

It’s Called “Justice”

It turns out the Big MAGAt, known for being “very strong”, was suffering emotional stress and was “frustrated and angry” at the Russia investigation.

The Attorney General/White House spokesman Bill Barr, by divine insight of con-servatism, knew the Big MAGAt’s emotional state without the pesky trouble of an actual interview from the worst liar in the history of the United States.

Well, that changes everything.

What this clearly means is it was not obstruction of justice, it was just “fighting back”.

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Chris Cuomo Mocks Trump As ‘Jilted Lover…Cheated On’ By Fox News

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From Tommy Christopher:

On Tuesday night’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time, Cuomo introduced his usual end-of-show segment with Don Lemon by talking about the angry tweets Trump posted about the Fox town hall.

Noting that Sanders “laid into Trump” several times during the event, Cuomo said “Oddly, the president seemed offended that this was even happening. Like he was being cheated on.”

He then read one of Trump’s tweets, which read “So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on @FoxNews. Not surprisingly, @BretBaier and the “audience” was so smiley and nice. Very strange, and now we have @donnabrazile?”

“Why did I emphasize ‘we’?” Cuomo asked. “Because it deserves emphasis. ‘We have Donna Brazile?’ The president is referring to himself and Fox collectively, of their hiring of the former DNC chair and CNN analyst now as a commentator on Fox?”

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