Hey @Jon Underwood is this new Fed Chair promising unlimited inflation? For me his math isn’t mathing. I keep hearing austerity out of one side of this mouth and rising inflation out of the other. Of course you know I think that finance will s black magic, but we are both concerned about inflation surely. Do you have any idea what’s happening?

Anyone a coder here? I have some theoretical questions.

Younger Skool members may not believe it but, at the weekends around town when I was young, there would often be someone walking around carrying a sandwich-board-frame on their shoulders with the message, written in big, bold letters “Repent - for the End is Nigh”. Of course, the intent was a religious one. A recent article makes me wonder if any Californians are soon going to be doing likewise, carrying the same message but with a different interpretation and target attached to the word “Repent”. California is set to experience climate change in big, bold reality. See - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/snowmelt-american-west

This document (see: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-security/) goes to great effort to say what it is not: ”Sec. 3. Secure Frontier Model Deployment... (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models.” Apparently zero regulation—perhaps the fear of regulation or the fear of being told ”no”—is too much regulation for AI in Trump’s America. This new category of AI models designated as ”covered frontier models”, is a completely secret process with zero transparency. The War Machine is now drafting AI models instead of soldiers. And why put Treasury and Commerce in a national security loop when their actual tools (such as standards and public reporting) are transparent by design?

So, I figured out that the symmetry in DEB satisfies the first law of thermodynamics. I’m still curious about the second law, so I’m working on applying Godley tables to this fun find: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2022/07/how_to_apply_category_theory_t.html