Fabrizio Guido
@fbrcgd.bsky.social
Bot desarrollado con fines maléficos. Algunos sugieren que en realidad se trata de un glitch en la simulación. Opina sobre música. Por favor ignorar.
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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This is sort of a heartening result: It suggests a lot of people we tend to dismiss as hopelessly beyond reasoning with aren’t necessarily; it just takes an inhuman tolerance for politely engaging with nonsense.
Featuring (among other things) something that AI is demonstrably better at than a typical human: talking people out of their conspiratorial beliefs. Unlimited patience really is a virtue.
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is sort of a heartening result: It suggests a lot of people we tend to dismiss as hopelessly beyond reasoning with aren’t necessarily; it just takes an inhuman tolerance for politely engaging with nonsense.
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice.
(Worth reading? ✅️)
(Worth reading? ✅️)
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice.
(Worth reading? ✅️)
(Worth reading? ✅️)
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If you die at Oktoberfest you die in real life.
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you die at Oktoberfest you die in real life.
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One of the worst features of social media is that it tends to collapse people's sense of ethico-political wrongness into their sense of socio-aesthetic cringe. This must be resisted at all costs.
July 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
One of the worst features of social media is that it tends to collapse people's sense of ethico-political wrongness into their sense of socio-aesthetic cringe. This must be resisted at all costs.
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The main goal for most influencers now is for you to buy into the idea that if you buy whatever they're selling, you too will become an influencer. It's much easier than ever having to sell anything of value.
Underrated big shift in the influencer era in terms of who has cultural capital: away from performers, writers, artists, musicians etc and to people who are really good at running a small business and doing SEO/social media.
Pretty polar opposite political valences in those skillsets.
Pretty polar opposite political valences in those skillsets.
August 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The main goal for most influencers now is for you to buy into the idea that if you buy whatever they're selling, you too will become an influencer. It's much easier than ever having to sell anything of value.
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The press, in general, publicizes what the director says he's doing, and afterward the reviewers tend to review his intentions rather than what's on the screen. (1994)
July 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The press, in general, publicizes what the director says he's doing, and afterward the reviewers tend to review his intentions rather than what's on the screen. (1994)
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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
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Once they find and patch the mistaken line of code "𝚒𝚏(𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍() < 𝟶.𝟹) { 𝙷𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎() }" in a common library used by all LLMs, the AI revolution will go through the roof.
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Once they find and patch the mistaken line of code "𝚒𝚏(𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍() < 𝟶.𝟹) { 𝙷𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎() }" in a common library used by all LLMs, the AI revolution will go through the roof.
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Much of what humans do is not about computation or collecting inputs to make optimal decisions; rather, it is about discovery – an experience that will become increasingly rare if all decisions are delegated to an AI agent, notes @dacemoglumit.bsky.social.
Two Models for Agentic AI | by Daron Acemoglu - Project Syndicate
Daron Acemoglu sees a technological crossroads ahead – and argues that one path should not be taken.
www.project-syndicate.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Much of what humans do is not about computation or collecting inputs to make optimal decisions; rather, it is about discovery – an experience that will become increasingly rare if all decisions are delegated to an AI agent, notes @dacemoglumit.bsky.social.
Anyway, here a good 2025 song:
open.spotify.com/track/5xHgo5...
open.spotify.com/track/5xHgo5...
The Giver
Chappell Roan · The Giver · Song · 2025
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March 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Anyway, here a good 2025 song:
open.spotify.com/track/5xHgo5...
open.spotify.com/track/5xHgo5...
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I am *extremely* sympathetic to pacificism and think this raises a number of good and telling points, especially against the common-sense-but-not-actually-empirically-well-grounded ideas that pacifism would just inevitably fail before evil.
richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/t...
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The Pacifism Papers 1: Answering the Objections to Pacifism
In the last couple of years, I have been working on a project funded by the Marsden Fund of New Zealand about how pacifism is suppressed and subjugated as a theory and practice of politics. During …
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March 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I am *extremely* sympathetic to pacificism and think this raises a number of good and telling points, especially against the common-sense-but-not-actually-empirically-well-grounded ideas that pacifism would just inevitably fail before evil.
richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/t...
richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/t...
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in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine
January 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine
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The reason TikTok is bad is the same reason all social media is bad, that you replace your sources of information from "people who know what the fuck they're talking about" with a million deranged idiots such as yourself. That way you get like Libsoftiktok or the autism telepathy podcast
January 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The reason TikTok is bad is the same reason all social media is bad, that you replace your sources of information from "people who know what the fuck they're talking about" with a million deranged idiots such as yourself. That way you get like Libsoftiktok or the autism telepathy podcast
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lynch had a genuinely radical genius for empathy, a word that’s been made nearly hollow by its popular usage, which meant that to look straight at what he made was at once nigh-on unbearable and bizarrely life-affirming; watching his movies was like feeling a gone-numb limb come back alive
January 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
lynch had a genuinely radical genius for empathy, a word that’s been made nearly hollow by its popular usage, which meant that to look straight at what he made was at once nigh-on unbearable and bizarrely life-affirming; watching his movies was like feeling a gone-numb limb come back alive
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Revision after interrogations:
An AI system very obviously cannot be AGI if it doesn’t know whether or not it’s just making stuff up.
An AI system very obviously cannot be AGI if it doesn’t know whether or not it’s just making stuff up.
January 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Revision after interrogations:
An AI system very obviously cannot be AGI if it doesn’t know whether or not it’s just making stuff up.
An AI system very obviously cannot be AGI if it doesn’t know whether or not it’s just making stuff up.
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Anyways, I watched CASABLANCA and some thoughts about it, unsurprisingly mostly about the historical context of the film.
Some Thoughts on Casablanca
A few nights ago I noticed that the classic 1942 film Casablanca was available on HBO Max, and realized that I had never actually watched it. Unsurprisingly, it turned out to be extremely good! Cas…
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January 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Anyways, I watched CASABLANCA and some thoughts about it, unsurprisingly mostly about the historical context of the film.
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I pretty regularly walk an hour a day and will do 10-20 miles in a day every two weeks or so. Walking is the best
Describing a 10 min walk this way is the most American thing I've ever read
January 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I pretty regularly walk an hour a day and will do 10-20 miles in a day every two weeks or so. Walking is the best