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As someone running diffusion and autoregressive models both in my basement and at work, the drive to create open-source models as a method of competition certainly makes me feel like I’m winning as a consumer.

“simple majority” is a technical term in this context, it refers to any number >50%. In the context of the Senate, that’d be a 51/49 split, or a 50/50 split broken by the VP.

There are some procedural measures that explicitly only require this simple majority to pass; most bills require a 60/40 in practice because that’s the threshold required to bypass a procedural filibuster. They at the very least require a simple majority + 0 members of a body opting to invoke filibuster.

Say what you will about the people we’ve currently elected; I just stand by it being a sound procedural practice.

I try to keep my commentary as apolitical as possible, so what I’ll say is:

If you believe that the current ticket is the Cthulhu/Lucifer ticket, imagine what they could accomplish if every bill only required a simple majority.

There are a lot of moderates that are hesitant about AOC. She’s expressed ideas like getting rid of the filibuster, which would be great while “your” party is in charge, but is one of the very few checks available for a minority party to halt truly controversial legislation. The extra steps are kind of dumb, but the foundational idea that legislation should at least require a 60/40 majority most of the time enforces an idea of compromise and representation in almost every bill.

I would shudder to think what a bad president could put through if unchecked by the opposition party in an essentially 50/50 politically divided populace.