Lexical Closure

What benefit is this stuff supposed to provide? Quantity aside, won’t it be washed away by shampoo?

This might be a reference to Pedro de Valdivia. He probably didn’t die that way, but there are stories …

Say what you will about the meaning, but that is a fantastic photograph.

“What’s your dissertation about?” he asks. I tell him and he says “I thought it was supposed to be a piece of original research.”

Jokes on him because I completed my degree anyway.

Foreign visitors usually miss the stunning labor force exploitation. Ask around: what hours are people working, how much are they paid, how much time off per month?

"Life is so convenient in China!" Yes, if you're so fortunate to have lots more money than the average worker.

Following your example: I only read on a computer and when I exhaust what’s there to read I hang it up for the day. I took the apps off my phone and the 2FA I have for social media is enough of a pfaff to keep me logged out.

The Air models might be for other markets. I see a lot of very sleek and thin Android phones in China that make the usual iPhones look like fat slabs of tech. Now Apple has something to compete with that style.

Yes to all that you've said. Plus, it's a silly concept from (of all things) video games, so it has all the emotional impact of identifying someone with one of the main characters from "Friends."

Every time I try to reread just the beginning, I end up rereading the entire essay.

Slay them with cold precision.

The same thing you do every night? Try to take over the world?

Can two political extremists share an apartment without driving each other crazy?

Sustain sufficient sleep for a year; change your life forever.

That (truncated) quote misses the point of the article, which is exactly the motivations you described. The rest of the quote is, ".... And so fundamentally anything that threatens to cut off traffic to the actual Wikipedia platforms threatens all those things."

Great video by Dr. Collier. Vibe history must be even worse than vibe physics since people distort history to score political points (witness authoritarian countries having "memory laws").

Hidden away in the attic, there’s a painting of RFK Jr that looks terrific.

She's thinking about love, the robot's thinking about the Roman empire.

Perfectly written, not a single extra word, 10/10 would laugh again!

I fondly remember feeding a calculus problem into my calculator and having it dash out the answer, all while I didn’t learn any math at all. Oh, and my calculator calling itself “Hitler.”

Also, the Bill Ackman who's made $9B is different than the Bill Ackman who's *going to* make the $9B.

It's interesting the mythologies these people need.

This is hardly important, but normalizing wearing a ball cap to every public appearance also not great.

there, there, it's going to be ok

Thank you! It's worth reading for its larger point, although the AI specifics ignore other possibilities, such as the current AI push being a dead-end and thus a large wasted effort.

We will likely compete in replies to this for which JCO piece turned us off forever. For me, We Were the Mulvaneys was the end.

It would be risky to reduce money for investment if capital were scarce, but capital is abundant (gesture to Gen AI bubble). We instead have inadequate demand. The wealthy save/invest and the rest can't afford or have to borrow.

A balance between investment and consumption is best.

Thank you for starting this podcast.

There's already a podcast out there called 开门见山 so listeners be sure to connect to the new one.

Actually was, but didn’t realize it at the time.

I was in Liverpool recently, saw a sign for Everton, and thought of your passion for the team.

I read threads like this and wonder why people subject themselves to such troubles.

Recently listened to Bridget Read, author of Little Bosses Everywhere on the Time to Say Goodbye podcast talking about the roots of this "it's all up to you" culture.