Similar vibes to a single, older, creepy gentleman telling a group of young school children at the park not to talk to strangers.

I swear it is like we stumbled into a real life PKD book.

Probably A Scanner Darkly but I’m also sure parts of The Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer will come true too.

Police abuse of power in the US is a systemic problem. Your opinion is akin to thinking the Catholic church bears no burden for all the diddling they neglected to observe.

Do you make any distinction between sheriff's departments that are elected into their office (e.g. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office) vs commissioned LEOs?

I personally wouldn't, both positions are going to attract the same personality and be working in the same culture with the 99% the same influences. Maybe elected sheriffs are a bit better on average, but certainly not enough for it to show through ancedotaly or trust them in any capacity.

Honestly, a great question that I would have to think on. Whatever limits both their power, haha. Not really an answer, but I think what it boils down to is accountability. I work with a lot of state and federal cops. They are good people for the most part with good hearts. I am still incredibly weary of police on the whole. It seems that both commissioned and elected LEO lack the right level of accountability and we would do well to curb their immunity.

Thanks for the thoughtful answer and not kneejerk snark and downvotes like I'm getting elsewhere in the thread.

I think that I agree to a large degree, but with the caveat that elected sheriffs that don't serve their communities get voted out. Incoming elected sheriffs know well why their predecessors lost their seat. In theory, but to a much lesser degree, this should also apply to commissioned LEO, but often in large municipalities there's only one pool you can pull candidates from.

This isn't perfect, but it does largely function in places with sane government/electorate. Also it kind of just follows that in such cases abuse of power (and who it is abused against) is at the direction of voters.

These abuses happen because at some level, we want them to. Just not to us.

Aside: I would like to see more departments where the boss of cops is not just an appointment by politicians, but an elected position accountable to voters and not controlled by other political office.

The blind leading the blind. These companies and Sam are both devoid of any sort of ethical code aside from C.R.E.A.M.

protect ya neck is also one of their main ethical concerns

Hard agree. There was a time when I really enjoyed these packs of tan, grid moleskins that had covers you could also sketch on. Really convenient. But the pricing was too much. Paying a premium for what is essentially a designer notebook.

If Anthropic disappeared tomorrow due to running out of cash it would cause a great panic, no?

For who? A bunch of financiers that gamble with pension funds? The real panic is when they IPO and force 401Ks to buy into it.

Even so, it has a weird aftertaste that lingers on the palette. All sugar-free elixirs I have found to be subpar.

Some people are super tasters and they'll always have that problem. But most people stop noticing the aftertaste after a week or two of regular consumption. But I agree, when I started sugar free that aftertaste was nasty.

Now, the aftertaste of sweetened drinks is nasty, the lingering coy sweetness is vile.

Living forever sounds awful. For one, I am extremely curious what happens when I die. Without death, life becomes a hollow shell, or at least I imagine it would, as you would lack urgency.

I’ll answer that question for you for free. Here’s what happens:

I medically died a couple years back. I don’t remember a thing, so perhaps you are right. Still curious.

I've had procedures at the hospital two ways...

One is general anaesthesia, where you are "out"

The other is with something like fentanyl where you could have a whole conversation during the procedure, but when you finish the procedure, you don't remember it.

The experience afterwards is pretty much identical, but philosophically both seem very different.

The concept of “medically died” is kind of ridiculous. Are you alive? Then you weren’t dead.

It is a clinical term, you are arguing over semantics. Cardiopulmonary death to be specific. My point is: no one knows, not you, not me, and not my dog.

I don't know what's behind a wall I'm sitting next to right now, but I'm reasonably sure there's a street. I'm also reasonably sure the comment about "you've been dead" is also a very accurate prediction.

That wall is concrete and material. Death is not so much. I am reasonably sure you can do that with great accuracy while still having zero idea what lies in wait for us after we die. A false equivalence.

> concrete and material

Are as abstract as death. Names that we use to label certain phenomenon. You need more to demonstrate that the equivalence is false here.

"Semantics" is literally "what words mean" so yea, arguing over semantics is pretty important! Not something to dismiss.

I don't quite get your position.

On the one hand you say without death life would lack urgency, yet you seem to be open to life after death. If there was life after death... wouldn't it lack urgency?

If there isn't life after death, you simply don't exist anymore and there are no more possibilities open to you. So I'd be more than happy to postpone finding about out for as long as possible.

Life without death would lack urgency. I do not know what happens when I die, ergo I am curious. Not mutually exclusive.

Thanks, I get it.

You have already been dead. It feels exactly like it felt before you were born.

It is funny how concerned and uncomfortable people are with death, but how little they think about pre-life, if at all

This is conjecture. No one knows.

It is the simplest explanation. It is the conjeture that it feels any different that needs a proof.

Just like "life after death" but entire religions have sprung up around knowing this unknowable thing.

I don’t get this perspective at all. Why die? Do things forever.

How about if I chase you down the street with a stick? I mean, to impart urgency to your life, save you from existential malaise.

Worth note their leaders and allies are bereft of morality.

I personally disagree on the first point. Claude code in a terminal with vim is much nicer. I just don’t see the need for the bloat of an IDE when the CLI versions work so damn well now.

They have Cursor CLI.

Cursor is essentially all the Claude Code products but without the horrible bugs of Claude Code products.

You can transfer from CLI to web and it actually works.

And Claude can use CLI too. It's the perfect environment for coding agents.