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\n", " \n", "- What makes for a suitable problem for AI (Demis Hassabis, Nobel Lecture)?\n", "
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\n", "- Space: Massive combinatorial search space
\n", "- Function: Clear objective function (metric) to optimize against
\n", "- Time: Either lots of data and/or an accurate and efficient simulator
\n", "- Guess what else fits the bill (Yours truly, amateur philosopher)?\n", "
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\n", "- Intestines/villi
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\n", "- Energy
\n", "- Aerobic respiration
\n", "- Delivery to \"last mile\" (minimize distance)
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\n", "- Nourishment
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Truth. A tree only needs select nutrients from the earth. Filter. From roots, trunk, branches, these elements are filtered toward their destintion in the leaves. Illusion. Here water, minerals, nitrates, and carbondioxide are directed to the \"last mile\" for photosynesis and other synthetic processes
\n", "\n", " Truth (Input)\n", " \n", "As of today, March 24, 2025, the cultural and political phenomenon of MAGA—Make America Great Again—continues to spark intense debate across platforms like X, where users from diverse perspectives weigh in on its meaning, implications, and evolution under a hypothetical Trump 47 administration. MAGA is often framed by its supporters as a restorative pruning, a nostalgic return to a perceived golden era of American identity—self-reliant, traditional, and unapologetically patriotic. Critics, however, see it as a static, exclusionary fantasy that rejects the fluidity and complexity of identity in a modern, interconnected world. On X, these clashing views unfold in real time, revealing a polarized landscape where MAGA is both a rallying cry and a lightning rod.\n", "\n", "For many MAGA advocates on X, the movement is a dynamic force, not merely a backward glance. They argue it’s about reclaiming sovereignty—economic, cultural, and national—from globalist elites and progressive overreach. Posts today emphasize Trump’s recent electoral success as evidence of a mandate to “prune” corrosive elements: open borders, woke ideology, and bureaucratic bloat. Users like @PatriotVoice47 celebrate MAGA as a living project, evolving with Trump’s leadership to address contemporary challenges while honoring a mythologized past—think 1950s prosperity without the segregation stains. They reject the “static” label, insisting MAGA adapts strategically, as seen in its growing appeal to minority voters disillusioned with Democratic promises. This view casts MAGA as a ship navigating stormy seas, not an island frozen in time, with governance focused on tangible wins like tax cuts and deregulation rather than abstract nostalgia.\n", "\n", "Contrastingly, X’s anti-MAGA voices frame the movement as fundamentally ossified, a defensive bunker against inevitable change. Users like @ResistTheMyth argue that MAGA’s obsession with a sealed, ancestral identity—white, Christian, rural—betrays its pruning rhetoric. They point to Project 2025 as a surgical severing of history’s complexities—slavery, indigenous displacement, ecological limits—to preserve a sanitized myth. Posts today critique Trump 47’s governance as less about pruning and more about amputation: slashing social programs, silencing dissent, and enforcing a singular narrative. This camp sees MAGA’s identity as anti-networked, fearing the “sea” of global interdependence and hybridity. They argue it’s not negotiation but domination, with X threads highlighting rally slogans like “America First” as proof of its rejection of compromise or evolution.\n", "\n", "The Severance allegory finds traction on both sides. Pro-MAGA users might liken Trump’s leadership to an “outie” purging the “innie” of cultural guilt and weakness, creating a unified, myth-driven nation. A tweet from @MAGAWarriorX today might read: “Severance is freedom—cut the woke rot, let America breathe again.” Critics flip this, comparing MAGA to Lumon’s dystopia: a nation severed from its diverse roots, left obedient and denarrativized. @EntropyRising might post: “MAGA’s innie is a lobotomized America—no memory, just flags and fear.” This metaphor fuels X debates about whether MAGA heals or fractures, with each side accusing the other of misreading the national psyche.\n", "\n", "X also reveals a pragmatic strain among moderates who see MAGA as neither pure nostalgia nor total severance, but a messy negotiation. Users like @RealTalkUSA suggest it’s a hypertrophic limb of American identity—overgrown, yes, but rooted in real grievances about economic decline and cultural drift. They argue Trump 47 could pivot from pruning to grafting, integrating new voices (e.g., Hispanic evangelicals) into the mythos without losing its core. Yet, they warn of entropy if the movement clings too tightly to a bunker mentality, echoing your CG-BEST fractal: a healthy system needs interdependence, not isolation.\n", "Today’s X discourse underscores MAGA’s paradox: it’s both a collapse inward—retreating to a bunker—and a grotesque expansion of one narrative at others’ expense. Supporters see a ship steering through chaos; critics see a submarine hiding from reality. The truth, as X hints, might lie in the tension—less a pruning to restore, more a battle over what America’s “self” even means in 2025.\n", "\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "
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\n", " — Steve Bannon\n", "