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Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I thought the 1 vote had to be ~~the Zodiac killer~~ Ted Cruz, but no:

The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

Did he just not get the memo, or is he that paid off?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So unless my math is wrong there are 100 senators. And if the only yes vote was my own lovely senator Tillis, Cruz voted against his own thing?!?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup, even Cruz voted against it. Reality is truly stranger than fiction.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

maybe check from openai didn't clear

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

And how does anyone vote for something that's 99-1 unless you happen to be the first? Some things you should make a principled stand sure, but that's not this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

is that the self proclaimed black Nazi?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I don't think he'd won his election; I also think it was a local election, rather than a federal one? But, I'll admit, I hadn't been following his race very closely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I don’t think so? Dude looks like he’d be a WASP if he wasn’t Catholic. Unless he was doing some internet sock puppet shenanigans or something.