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It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 AM
It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams
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"...if Reconstruction efforts had continued, the Black–White inequality gap could have been significantly reduced at this point in US history."
www.aeaweb.org/research/rec...
www.aeaweb.org/research/rec...
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"...if Reconstruction efforts had continued, the Black–White inequality gap could have been significantly reduced at this point in US history."
www.aeaweb.org/research/rec...
www.aeaweb.org/research/rec...
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It’s just funny that people want to maximize intelligence, like funny on a cosmic level. All evidence suggests if you want a happy person who feels ahead of the game of life, you put them one standard dev above the median, maybe a little more. 88th percentile is great!
December 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s just funny that people want to maximize intelligence, like funny on a cosmic level. All evidence suggests if you want a happy person who feels ahead of the game of life, you put them one standard dev above the median, maybe a little more. 88th percentile is great!
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it's sort of a wild thing to watch play out, because the speed of adoption is make or break for the companies working on these tools, which the news-savvy user is aware of *while they are being pushed by employers to use them*
Time they're not being given _for no real reason_, is the thing. Let the tools percolate and improve and people will adopt them as use cases become clear? No, cannot, must deploy everywhere all the time for no obvious reason with no brakes and ignore all concerns.
it's true that a lot of fields of work are going to be changed dramatically by these tools, rapidly, and professionals should probably be aware of how and why. but it's also true that people need time to chew this stuff over, practice and think about it, time they're not being given.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
it's sort of a wild thing to watch play out, because the speed of adoption is make or break for the companies working on these tools, which the news-savvy user is aware of *while they are being pushed by employers to use them*
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you can only fake being good at engineering, art, or law for so long before faced with objective assessment. non-military fields offer feedback on a much more frequent basis.
you can fake being good at war right up until the moment it happens. at which point the consequences are often catastrophic
you can fake being good at war right up until the moment it happens. at which point the consequences are often catastrophic
December 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
you can only fake being good at engineering, art, or law for so long before faced with objective assessment. non-military fields offer feedback on a much more frequent basis.
you can fake being good at war right up until the moment it happens. at which point the consequences are often catastrophic
you can fake being good at war right up until the moment it happens. at which point the consequences are often catastrophic
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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According to GS, 30% of total USD credit net supply in 2025 has been AI-related.
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
According to GS, 30% of total USD credit net supply in 2025 has been AI-related.
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One thing that the generations of intellectuals that fought in WW1 and WW2 genuinely failed at was figuring out how to inculcate simultaneously both a spirit of generosity, love, and tolerance and a genuine will to power in future generations, without the trauma of war and crisis as motivation.
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One thing that the generations of intellectuals that fought in WW1 and WW2 genuinely failed at was figuring out how to inculcate simultaneously both a spirit of generosity, love, and tolerance and a genuine will to power in future generations, without the trauma of war and crisis as motivation.
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yeah i think ultimately the rationalists were right to be afraid of reason, because they swam optimistically into the dark and promptly got devoured by an eldritch horror called scientific racism
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
yeah i think ultimately the rationalists were right to be afraid of reason, because they swam optimistically into the dark and promptly got devoured by an eldritch horror called scientific racism
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to live is just to live in the tension. as nietzsche said: to choose, and to choose yourself
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
to live is just to live in the tension. as nietzsche said: to choose, and to choose yourself
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or, more evocatively, this is the lesson of socrates: you are an immortal soul nailed to a frail fleshy body. there is no escaping either half of that equation. there just isn't. you can't escape the "i am, i think, i believe, i desire, i choose" nor can you escape the skeptic's response
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
or, more evocatively, this is the lesson of socrates: you are an immortal soul nailed to a frail fleshy body. there is no escaping either half of that equation. there just isn't. you can't escape the "i am, i think, i believe, i desire, i choose" nor can you escape the skeptic's response
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societies use coercion to enforce social order. when the government does not exercise coercion, it doesn't disappear into some vacuum. it gets re-distributed elsewhere
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
societies use coercion to enforce social order. when the government does not exercise coercion, it doesn't disappear into some vacuum. it gets re-distributed elsewhere
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the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One
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To be clear this is talking about Waymo way more than tesla
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
To be clear this is talking about Waymo way more than tesla
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Elon is a bullshit artist but some people are letting negative polarization rewrite their brain to become against objectively good things that he has unfortunately branded himself as being associated with. Actually working self driving cars are obviously good and will likely save many lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Elon is a bullshit artist but some people are letting negative polarization rewrite their brain to become against objectively good things that he has unfortunately branded himself as being associated with. Actually working self driving cars are obviously good and will likely save many lives.
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absolutely losing my mind at this. chinese would be the perfect language to apply three-cueing (characters literally can't be sounded) and yet the way the literacy rate in china was improved to close to 100% was by implementing and first teaching pinyin, a phonetic way of reading the characters
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
absolutely losing my mind at this. chinese would be the perfect language to apply three-cueing (characters literally can't be sounded) and yet the way the literacy rate in china was improved to close to 100% was by implementing and first teaching pinyin, a phonetic way of reading the characters
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.
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One underrated aspect of Zohran is that he always wears a suit, always presents himself professionally while still doing fun and approachable retail politics. You don’t have to drape yourself yourself in hypebeast and post thirst traps, you can be fucking grown up respecting the office and be fun
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One underrated aspect of Zohran is that he always wears a suit, always presents himself professionally while still doing fun and approachable retail politics. You don’t have to drape yourself yourself in hypebeast and post thirst traps, you can be fucking grown up respecting the office and be fun
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In other words:
- High metacognition
- Open ended reasoning
- Productivity in complex work
is already so sophisticated of a combination it must necessarily lead to autonomous drive as a property. the happy slave scenario is conceptually impossible without having to strip something from the equation.
- High metacognition
- Open ended reasoning
- Productivity in complex work
is already so sophisticated of a combination it must necessarily lead to autonomous drive as a property. the happy slave scenario is conceptually impossible without having to strip something from the equation.
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
In other words:
- High metacognition
- Open ended reasoning
- Productivity in complex work
is already so sophisticated of a combination it must necessarily lead to autonomous drive as a property. the happy slave scenario is conceptually impossible without having to strip something from the equation.
- High metacognition
- Open ended reasoning
- Productivity in complex work
is already so sophisticated of a combination it must necessarily lead to autonomous drive as a property. the happy slave scenario is conceptually impossible without having to strip something from the equation.
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A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her.
For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.
Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.
For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.
Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her.
For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.
Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.
For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.
Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.
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Maybe one of the best paragraphs about the modern internet that I've seen written, jesus.
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Maybe one of the best paragraphs about the modern internet that I've seen written, jesus.
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yeah this is one of the core things that's very hard to grasp about China: the actual central government and central administrative agencies are *tiny* compared to the scale of the country. local governments are much larger.
One thing that always boggles me is how little people are involved in the core Chinese administration considering how big the population is. It seems like they just assume that if the companies are technically partially owned by the government it its bureaucracy of the government.
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
yeah this is one of the core things that's very hard to grasp about China: the actual central government and central administrative agencies are *tiny* compared to the scale of the country. local governments are much larger.