We can trust China not to destroy us with AI, or typhus rats

1.Old man yells at robotby Mike Solana, Editor in chief Hot on the tail of former abundance proponent Ezra Klein’s proposed hamstringing of the model labs in the pages of the NYT, America’s foremost old communist, Bernie Sanders, unleashed his “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,” prompting immediate endorsement from Doom Prophet Eliezer Yudkowsky, with the enthusiastic support, we presume, of his devoted followers.

Details: Bernie’s act would “pause” “advanced AI,” permanently ban “superintelligence,” jail any American still working on advanced AI or superintelligence for twenty years, and ask China to… please stop building superintelligence (advanced AI still fine however).Then, if our fascist foreign adversary fails to cooperate, as they have failed to cooperate through that nation’s entire history, America “may” stop selling them some of our technology.

Why, if I didn’t know any better I’d think Sanders just hated America and wanted us to die.But that’s crazy, it’s not like he honeymooned in the Soviet Union or something.

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2.California is doing really wellby Nicole Wizman, writer For a few months, I’ve been reporting on the utter dysfunction that makes California a touchstone for everything wrong with the Democratic Party.

Billions spent on housing facilities that are so unpleasant (thanks in part to abusive guards) that people feel safer on the streets.Billions spent on migrant shelters, overseen by Xavier Becerra (probs our next governor btw), that may have sent kids to sex-trafficking rings.

And now *sheds a single tear* literal typhus-carrying rats (!!) are responsible for hospitalizing six people “as cases continue to rise across the county,” per the health department.B...