langley is chaos right now since the cia is getting fired so if you see someone posting "therapists are a psyop to carry out capitalist emotional labor alienation but yall aren't ready for that conversation" this week you know they're just doing it for the love of the game
I couldn't resist.
"Wait, so under the American system, all three branches of government and all other processes can be short-circuited by something called an 'Executive Order' that lets a president just instantly override all of it?"
Well, here's the thing about that: No
Wow maybe theres a reason Bernard Arnault is the richest person in the world
Hey Siri, what is "whataboutism"
Oui, approcher la chose en disant qu'il troll est sans incidence sur la chose.
Car dire c'est troller ou exagérer est un voile rhétorique derrière lequel se cacher au court terme. Et quand le Overton Window à bougé, on avance ce qui est un troll ou une blague à plus haineux.
Penser de cette manière est assez nocif. La manière que les propos haineux sont rendus digestibles est avec un voile de négation plausible.
Souvent c'est "oh il blague" ou "oh cest juste du théatre"
Voir ici: www.bellingcat.com/news/america...
Je pense pas c'était un troll? Un troll est fait pour fâcher les autres. Il à fait ce geste pour signifier l'unité avec un groupe de son audience (hint: regarde son expression faciale après)
Me: Hey can you do your dishes
My roommate The Buddha: Perhaps your problem is not my dishes but your attachment to a clean sink
Me: Alright man
Those are coincidentally not the kind of people who become doctors.
the most important survival strategy we can adopt in this new world is to pick one guy to blame for everything going wrong and really just tear his life apart. this brings me back to the subject of Jared Leto,
Jeff Lawson, founder of Twilio, is singlehandedly saving internet humor
OpenAI is clearly going down the tubes internally.
Signed, a historian.
The whole paragraph is very elucidating.
i really thought this country would say no. instead, it shouted yes
Things are grim enough that Alito has stopped pre-drafting his opinion that the Midwest’s electoral votes have to be scrapped
Why would anyone want to live in Ohio
Geoff Hinton won the physics Nobel mainly for giving physics postdocs decent job options
Crazy thought: this service that costs $30/TB/month should have a service at least as good as my NAS, where drives cost $20/TB/forever
I thought AWS S3 had a shitty, user hostile API.
But, wow, Google Cloud Storage is so much worse. You can't even download files without downloading a command line tool
NYT playing the rubber banding role as usual
That's necessarily always the case - a lot of financial products will be collateralized or margined against those stocks, and the 10% drop will trigger margin calls.
Also, while people are saying the economy is doing great, the markets are overvalued:
www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc24...
I'm a true polyglot
I can write shitty, slow code in any language
You can find it here:
economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
David Autor might not be as plugged into tech as Acemoglu is, but he has great papers on the effect of all of this on workers and inequality as well.
Great episode, but you missed an opportunity to ask him about the effects of all of this on inequality, which is a thing he's a real expert on.
One of the best papers in all of econ is by his colleague David Autor called "Work of the past, Work of the future".
Search really needs to go back to non-content based signals - the original pagerank did that decently enough.
The thing is that indexing based on content has been a bad idea for a long time. With good AI text generation is just completely kills it.
Google search rannking is both the metric and the target in the Goodhart's law case for search. SEO is just the failure case.
