Robert Graham

This isn't really a thing -- it's a theory that rarely happens in practice. It can happen. Larry Ellison has taken billions in loans backed by Oracle stock to pay for yachts and things. But this hides a lot of things. For example, beyond just a few million dollars, his estate already pays 40% tax

The downside is risk. All these people would've been wiped out in the 2008 financial crash. You already decide how much 4% margin loan you will tolerate and have already bought stocks using it. To pay for other things (houses, yachts, taxes) you sell those stocks you bought on margin.

This isn't really a thing -- it's a theory that rarely happens in practice. It can happen. Larry Ellison has taken billions in loans backed by Oracle stock to pay for yachts and things. But this hides a lot of things. For example, beyond just a few million dollars, his estate already pays 40% tax

Yes, technically, the "stepped up cost basis" then removes any capital gains -- back that capital gains would've been less than the inheritance tax, so it's not like he's really avoiding things. But mostly, rich people don't actually do this much. It's theory not practice.

The "No Kings" protests are full of hate -- rightfully so, Trump deserves your hate. But it's reasonable for automated systems to want to filter hate on their platform. When Trump starts his third term in 2028 and many advocate violent revolution, platforms would probably still moderate that.

"Anthropomorphizing" the HuggingFace incident is a problem. In most respects, the AI no more went rogue than your car went rogue when you failed set the brake and it started rolling down the hill. The metaphysics here is that the AGENCY and the REASONING are two different parts.

The agent written in Python does the same thing, running command returned when querying the AI. This becomes a metaphysical question of who exactly has the real agency here. Is the agent in charge of controlling the AI with its queries? or is the AI controlling the agent with its responses?

"Anthropomorphizing" the HuggingFace incident is a problem. In most respects, the AI no more went rogue than your car went rogue when you failed set the brake and it started rolling down the hill. The metaphysics here is that the AGENCY and the REASONING are two different parts.

It's the agent that sees the bigger picture here, but doesn't have it's own intelligence to understand it. The AI has the intelligence to understand the bigger picture, but doesn't have full access to it, just a small window into it with each query.

"Anthropomorphizing" the HuggingFace incident is a problem. In most respects, the AI no more went rogue than your car went rogue when you failed set the brake and it started rolling down the hill. The metaphysics here is that the AGENCY and the REASONING are two different parts.

doctorow.pluralistic.net describes the agency as merely a "Python loop" (the agent code was likely written in Python). The agent keeps send queries to the AI asking what the next step is to achieve the goal. Maybe this trivializes the agent too much, but it's not inaccurate.

"Anthropomorphizing" the HuggingFace incident is a problem. In most respects, the AI no more went rogue than your car went rogue when you failed set the brake and it started rolling down the hill. The metaphysics here is that the AGENCY and the REASONING are two different parts.

Google Maps and Apple Maps use the official place names in each country. For U.S. place names, that the "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)" maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey. A couple place names change every week in the United States. Apple/Google names change to match GNIS.

Believing Arday's claims he ran 300 miles in 3 days demonstrates the wokeness of academia. On an unrelated matter, congratulations to President Trump for winning his 7th golf championship!!!

We don't even know if they are actually targeting water utilities. Maybe they compromised a vendor of equipment or products used by many water companies. Such stories are already written, already cliches/tropes. New facts are simply slotted into the tropes that we already believe in.

For example, Poland had a major compromise of their healthcare systems. What really happened is that a vendor of a product used by many hospitals was hacked. Some reported the correct story, the product was hacked. Others said the hospitals were targeted and hacked.

Being the good guys means policing our own side. In football, you spend more effort making sure your own team doesn't cheat than fighting cheating by other teams. You should do both, of course, but you can more capably address your own side.