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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨

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I have a degree in Physics and a master’s in philosophy. Starting my PhD in Philosophy. Interests: philosophy of science and technology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of color. I have a YouTube channel about ideas I find fascinating. Luddite

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A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

02.08.2025 12:14 — 👍 1013    🔁 266    💬 23    📌 20
El tercer amor | Hiromi KAWAKAMI
YouTube video by NEKODEARU El tercer amor | Hiromi KAWAKAMI

El tercer amor es una gran novela de Hiromi Kawakami publicada por @alfaguara.bsky.social Una mujer en el Tokio moderno sueña con las vidas de mujeres que vivieron siglos atrás...

Mi reseña:

youtu.be/SmlSbI1lLxo?...

03.08.2025 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Solaricks — Curva Finita Solaricks, primer episodio de la sexta temporada de Rick y Morty… Pues aquí vamos: WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB

Solaricks

Primer episodio de la sexta temporada. La ciudadela está totalmente destruida y nuestros "héroes" están varados en el espacio. Por suerte, Rick tiene una hija espacial...

cuonda.com/curva-finita...

03.08.2025 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Curva Finita Un podcast de Rick y Morty presentado por Pedro Jorge Romero y Paco Casado.

Una de las cosas que hago es un podcast sobre Rick y Morty con mi amigo @devuelta.bsky.social Es muy irregular y vamos despacio, pero aquí estamos: Curva Finita

cuonda.com/curva-finita

03.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Ahora tengo que verla

01.08.2025 07:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

dudes rock

01.08.2025 04:30 — 👍 218    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 1
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Que ya existe una palabra

01.08.2025 00:06 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

19.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 9745    🔁 3188    💬 163    📌 354

Reality does not have such limitation

31.07.2025 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Science fiction is always optimistic because it posits a least one rational agent in the story 😀

But it may be the “reader”

31.07.2025 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AI to predict prisoner attacks on officers Tech can assess risk level posed by inmates amid rising violence against staff in jails

Have we considered the possibility that Black Mirror was the optimistic version of the future?

31.07.2025 11:22 — 👍 174    🔁 46    💬 8    📌 10

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

31.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 5630    🔁 1438    💬 84    📌 37

Acompañados de unos “es porque dejamos que cualquiera vaya al cine”

30.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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30.07.2025 03:46 — 👍 60    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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James Gunn’s ‘SUPERMAN’ is now the highest grossing solo Superman movie at the domestic box office, passing ‘MAN OF STEEL’

Read our review: bit.ly/SupesDF

30.07.2025 03:16 — 👍 839    🔁 132    💬 18    📌 43
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La cuestión de fondo es la de siempre. Dices estar "oponiéndote y luchando contra ciertas ideas", pero en realidad estás creando contenidos, y la creación de contenidos tiene una lógica rara vez alineada con la supuesta intención

Alienear lógicas de redes sociales con los fines correctos es difícil

30.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yo daría un paso más. En algunos casos, el original es tan abyecto que no deberías repetirlo ni aunque la posible crítica sea perfecta. La abyección va a ganar...

30.07.2025 10:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

En Superman, en el mundo pasan cosas

Hay una escena de varios minutos, donde Lois Lane y Superman charlan de lo suyo con una tremenda pelea de fondo

Superman simplemente sabe que sus compañeros superhéroes se pueden ocupar de esa situación y listo

Es un universo habitado

30.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Un contraste curioso entre Superman y 4F es que en el caso de 4F el universo parece estático, reducido a ese equipo en concreto. No pasa nada que no esté relacionado con ellos. Una historia cósmica constreñida.

30.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
werner: does it tell you you're here at San Vincente, close to Sunset Boulevard:
interviewer: yeah, it's basically like a Google map
werner: but what does pokemon do at this corner here?
interviewer: you might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world.
Werner: when two persons in search of a Pokemon clash at the corner of Sunset in San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder?
interviewer: they do fight, virtually
werner: physically, do they fight?
interviewer: the people or the....
werner: yes, there must be real people if it's a real encounter with someone else

werner: does it tell you you're here at San Vincente, close to Sunset Boulevard: interviewer: yeah, it's basically like a Google map werner: but what does pokemon do at this corner here? interviewer: you might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Werner: when two persons in search of a Pokemon clash at the corner of Sunset in San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? interviewer: they do fight, virtually werner: physically, do they fight? interviewer: the people or the.... werner: yes, there must be real people if it's a real encounter with someone else

Werner Herzog considering Pokemon Go from an interview in 2016

28.07.2025 15:26 — 👍 281    🔁 49    💬 8    📌 4

Sí, está claro lo que pretenden. Por eso me fastidia un poco que no profundicen más en lo que plantean. Es el contexto ideal

28.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would watch the movie

It sounds great

28.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Por ahora, el comentario sobre "la inteligencia no es este bien absoluto que crees que es" se lo queda Superman

28.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Un punto positivo es que se trata primero de una película de ciencia ficción y luego, si acaso, es de superhéroes

28.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ni por ahí ni por nada.

Encima, Julia Garner como Shalla-Bal está asombrosamente desaprovechada. El CGI de la cara es tan malo que uno se pregunta por qué se molestaron en contratar a esa actriz

28.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No se atreve a salir y plantear nada más que no sea la aventura, bastante genérica, que va a contar.

Por ejemplo, se plantea que la inteligencia de Reed le hace pensar todo tipo de escenarios horribles. Sue da a entender que eso en sí mismo es un problema. Pero nada más, no se sigue por ahí

28.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Poster de la película The Fantastic 4

Poster de la película The Fantastic 4

Los 4 Fantásticos bien. Eran mis superhéroes preferidos de la infancia, así que estoy predispuesto. La ambientación retrofuturística estupenda y los actores, sobre todo Vanessa Kirby y Ebon Moss-Bachrach, bastante bien

Pero la verdad es que esperaba más. Se queda encajada en sí misma

28.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Part 1 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman gives her father a "#1 Dad" mug, which he refuses for a more exact mug.

Part 1 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman gives her father a "#1 Dad" mug, which he refuses for a more exact mug.

Part 2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman gives her father a "#1 Dad" mug, which he refuses for a more exact mug.

Part 2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman gives her father a "#1 Dad" mug, which he refuses for a more exact mug.

Promotional image for SMBC's "Not significantly different from a good dad" mug.

Promotional image for SMBC's "Not significantly different from a good dad" mug.

Available in the SMBC store in "mom", "dad" and "parent" variants.
Credit to Richard McElreath for the language and graph on the mug.

MUG ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

27.07.2025 22:30 — 👍 186    🔁 31    💬 3    📌 12

youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?...

27.07.2025 18:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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