Oh noo. Oh yes.

That’s a known coping strategy (1). “My broken leg isn’t a problem, the problem is that other’s legs aren’t broken”.

I prefer someone with neither napoleon nor jesus complex.

No

Just like mom used to buy

When life gives you baked beans and gelatin

Man I love a good stick so rare these days

In a hierarchical society, those on top will use any existing govt structures to their benefit

That’s exactly why there’s separation of power! The idea being that executive, legislative and judiciary are of equal power. One can block or strenghten the behaviour of the other on an independant, case-by-case basis. Those properties should, imo be strenghtened, not weakened.

people affected by a decision should be the ones to make it, not merely to vote for those who promise to do right by them.

Samesees. My utopia would be liquid democracy.

But even here, there would be law! It’s a necessary good, to combat arbitrary prosecution, imo.

Would you say we’d be better off by merging executive and judiciary, doing away with legislative?

Yes! Same with trains:

• Can’t even drive on roads: they have to have their private infrastructure no one else is allowed to use.
• Can’t drive around even the smallest of problems.
• Tremendous noise and environment pollution, blasting entire mountain sides, destroying habitats, just cause a train isn’t nimble.
• Very dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists, wildlife. Breaking distance is ridiculously long.
• Extremely inefficient, as they usually only get goods and people halfway where they need to be.
• Often are diesel gusslers

I think about it quite similar to you. I’d even go a bit further: shortsighted and bad laws are the biggest source of problems.

Often the kind of law that a populist gains popularity/notoriety through.

Plenty of examples where both public and executive and legislative would’ve deemed certain behaviour problematic, yet the perpetrator, of marginal power, walks free.

I’d say the law also gives power to the marginalized, when the judicial behaves independently, as they should.

I agree with you there are perversions to this ideal, such as elected judges, plea bargains.

There’s never been a time where the world was conflict free, and people merrily skidoodled around.

Happyness is as much internal, as it is influenced by your environment. It takes both. And the relationship is bi-directional.

Blaming the latter for the first, is a dead end.

Birds of a feather flock together

I think RAG will be surpassed by LLMs in a loop with tool calling (aka agents), with search being one of the tools.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

Converting free text to standardized forms such as json

Yes, a full mathematical proof is required.

When you’re in the top 5% it doesn’t really matter where you rank

Top 5% of the world is 250kUSD (1)

Of course. My work and my friends are quite international is all. With my family I speak my native tongue.