Gerard Saucier

Corvallis 10,000^
Kings ZERO

*guesstimate of course

IOW, stop trusting credentialed and accomplished experts in favor of self-appointed ones.

Kind of like...

...him.

Yeah, I think most elites do not really have ideology or beliefs so much as a desire to be perceived favorably by whatever institution or group they’ve embedded themselves within - that’s how you become an elite! So asking “who are they trying to impress” is a great way to understand their behavior

"mortality salience"

There's some research literature on it.

Avarice is never satisfied.

"Me and My Rich-Invester Friends First."

"confidence-man" -- later shortened to "con-man"

USA is a macro level Stanford Prison Experiment

So laws now have been demoted the status of "traditions"?

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

Do they have a "Nobel Piece-of-work Prize"?

Like the CEOs and the university presidents, they are being leveraged.

"The scientists must be destroyed...journalism as a neutral vocation...extinguished."

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - License to Kill (Official Video)

Who's gonna take away his license to kill?
youtu.be/HRrlFYg2QkI?...

Seems to be an inflection point hidden between elections, c2010. Explanations?

Tea party (circa 2010) inflection point. Why?

Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus. One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?

Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton now critiques pure LLMs—echoing @garymarcus.bsky.social . Time to move beyond science fiction and refocus on scientific rigour. #AI #LLM #Neurosymbolic #RichSutton #GaryMarcus

garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...

Power over principle.

The unconscious mantra revealed.

The moral hazard of "fair and balanced between 2 sides" arises when 1 side distinctly has slid into corrupt, unethical, or evil behavior.

At which point it becomes following them in the downslide, halfway.

Social (non-financial) capital

Really useful graph. From low environmental damage/impact from the left, to high damage/impact from the right.

Food impacts on species extinction risks can vary by three orders of magnitude - Nature Food What we eat, as well as where and how it is grown, impacts species extinction risks through agricultural land use. Using a new global biodiversity impact data product, this study estimates how many sp...

🥗 Food and extinction risk

A new study found that producing 1 kg of different foods can differ in species extinction risk by up to 1000×. Animal products and tropical crops are especially harmful, while grains & vegetables are far lower impact

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s430...

#SciComm 🧪 #Biodiversity

Evidently, she worships that mammon, er, man.

More surprising that it survived the Bronze Age...more violent.

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Expansive political liberty invariably upsets right-wing cultural and social pattern preferences. That's why, while the American right has always talked in the rhetoric of liberty, it didn't just not actually mean it, but it would've in fact been ideologically incoherent for it to mean it.

As in the slang "killer". Examples: a killer performance, a killer smile.

These do all have a perhaps intended undertone of violence, though.

With a would-be pharaoh at the top.