Muireall Prase
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Yeah, to me (in physics) sequential colormaps with monotonic lightness and changing hue are usually in the "heatmap" family where brighter is more (viridis using blue-green-yellow, inferno using black-orange-yellow). If you're just changing saturation then I think darker usually looks like more.
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Yeah, to me (in physics) sequential colormaps with monotonic lightness and changing hue are usually in the "heatmap" family where brighter is more (viridis using blue-green-yellow, inferno using black-orange-yellow). If you're just changing saturation then I think darker usually looks like more.
He's not worried about bias, since it's "an extremely simple regression that it would be hard to fake." Meanwhile, the preprint's author seems to affirm in the comments that he believes "Which organ in a frog has a function similar to the function of lungs in a bird?" is really just an IQ question.
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
He's not worried about bias, since it's "an extremely simple regression that it would be hard to fake." Meanwhile, the preprint's author seems to affirm in the comments that he believes "Which organ in a frog has a function similar to the function of lungs in a bird?" is really just an IQ question.
I think I get what you’re saying, but this is also maybe how one ends up being Alexander thinking he can just sort the garbage out of his nrx-enriched ecosystem
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think I get what you’re saying, but this is also maybe how one ends up being Alexander thinking he can just sort the garbage out of his nrx-enriched ecosystem
Urgently want to, I put a hold on it at the library but was like 9th in line
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Urgently want to, I put a hold on it at the library but was like 9th in line
That one put me in a weird headspace for a while. The summary doesn’t really get across how heavy it feels for such a short stylized piece.
For the maximalist endpoint of liminal and surreal you might like Solenoid?
For the maximalist endpoint of liminal and surreal you might like Solenoid?
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
That one put me in a weird headspace for a while. The summary doesn’t really get across how heavy it feels for such a short stylized piece.
For the maximalist endpoint of liminal and surreal you might like Solenoid?
For the maximalist endpoint of liminal and surreal you might like Solenoid?
It is very good, I am halfway between “wish it were two times longer” and “who am I (is anyone) to second guess Clarke”
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It is very good, I am halfway between “wish it were two times longer” and “who am I (is anyone) to second guess Clarke”
Reposted by Muireall Prase
...and now they are calling the NYC mayor race for this guy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
...and now they are calling the NYC mayor race for this guy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Rose/House by Arkady Martine?
October 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Rose/House by Arkady Martine?
I like Kagi. I don’t know if you’ll find it’s worth paying for but there’s a free trial. I still get spammy results for some searches but I don’t think it’s as bad as DDG or Google lately. The founder is into AI but the AI features are all opt-in.
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I like Kagi. I don’t know if you’ll find it’s worth paying for but there’s a free trial. I still get spammy results for some searches but I don’t think it’s as bad as DDG or Google lately. The founder is into AI but the AI features are all opt-in.
Definitely agree about both effects of revenues being spread out. I have never really found the argument that competition will speed things up via “race dynamics” compelling, especially in a capital-intensive industry (although it does make a coordinated slowdown harder).
September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Definitely agree about both effects of revenues being spread out. I have never really found the argument that competition will speed things up via “race dynamics” compelling, especially in a capital-intensive industry (although it does make a coordinated slowdown harder).
If I didn’t know better, I’d have taken “as newsrooms have diversified beyond the white, Western, and male culture…, this approach has been scrutinized. Should journalists reconsider the ethical merits of objectivity” to mean “we’ve become less biased, but maybe it’s not all that great?”
September 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If I didn’t know better, I’d have taken “as newsrooms have diversified beyond the white, Western, and male culture…, this approach has been scrutinized. Should journalists reconsider the ethical merits of objectivity” to mean “we’ve become less biased, but maybe it’s not all that great?”
It reads like the authors and everyone they quote are using “objectivity” as a term of art for a particular thing taught in journalism school, not realizing it means something else to most people.
September 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It reads like the authors and everyone they quote are using “objectivity” as a term of art for a particular thing taught in journalism school, not realizing it means something else to most people.
September 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Robert Frost: So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
People now: I've discovered a process where stuff gets worse. I'm calling it "shittification"
People now: I've discovered a process where stuff gets worse. I'm calling it "shittification"
September 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This one's also tricky because I find his claim to have been desperate for reasons to disbelieve for at least seven years further less credible for how easy it was to find multiple fatal problems with interpreting the survey as he does, but I can't assume the reader agrees with me on those problems.
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This one's also tricky because I find his claim to have been desperate for reasons to disbelieve for at least seven years further less credible for how easy it was to find multiple fatal problems with interpreting the survey as he does, but I can't assume the reader agrees with me on those problems.
Added a section. I didn't include this example to begin with because I was worried that it would trigger much more defensiveness than the other examples, particularly considering the effort Alexander puts into preempting attacks here. Maybe it will help to address that directly.
September 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Added a section. I didn't include this example to begin with because I was worried that it would trigger much more defensiveness than the other examples, particularly considering the effort Alexander puts into preempting attacks here. Maybe it will help to address that directly.
Oops, the screenshot from his review got dropped. This is the passage I was talking about.
September 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Oops, the screenshot from his review got dropped. This is the passage I was talking about.
This is not to bludgeon him for wrongthink. It's for his readers: when he says he's been freaking out, recognizes his biases, and wishes for reasons to disbelieve the study, know he was citing it favorably 7 years prior alongside his strategy to promote its "consensus" without publicly endorsing it.
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is not to bludgeon him for wrongthink. It's for his readers: when he says he's been freaking out, recognizes his biases, and wishes for reasons to disbelieve the study, know he was citing it favorably 7 years prior alongside his strategy to promote its "consensus" without publicly endorsing it.
I did email him at the time. Never heard back, but at least he hasn't cited it since as far as I've seen. (I wrote something like this in a footnote in the above, but later made a separate post I could reference, since it keeps coming up: muireall.space/expert-opini...)
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I did email him at the time. Never heard back, but at least he hasn't cited it since as far as I've seen. (I wrote something like this in a footnote in the above, but later made a separate post I could reference, since it keeps coming up: muireall.space/expert-opini...)
I probably should have included this, from his 2021 review of The Cult of Smart. This is about the survey that was one of his two links to evidence for "HBD is probably partially correct or at least very non-provably not-correct" in 2014.
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I probably should have included this, from his 2021 review of The Cult of Smart. This is about the survey that was one of his two links to evidence for "HBD is probably partially correct or at least very non-provably not-correct" in 2014.
Not sure I'd say mine is more detailed—I pulled some examples from his blog, you draw more out of close reading of the email. You definitely make the point more clearly and forcefully than I did.
September 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Not sure I'd say mine is more detailed—I pulled some examples from his blog, you draw more out of close reading of the email. You definitely make the point more clearly and forcefully than I did.
Yeah, there's so much that could be said about that one. If he's been puzzling over it so long, why not read something other than Yarvin? (A few comments not celebrating "the most reactionary post on this blog in a while" did beg him to read a book. So he did! He... read From Bauhaus to Our House.)
August 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yeah, there's so much that could be said about that one. If he's been puzzling over it so long, why not read something other than Yarvin? (A few comments not celebrating "the most reactionary post on this blog in a while" did beg him to read a book. So he did! He... read From Bauhaus to Our House.)
Thanks. I'd read a lot of worthwhile critiques that nonetheless made moves that might have gotten themselves dismissed by my younger self. I wanted to avoid that, but I also didn't want to be disingenuous about the judgments I'd reached.
August 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Thanks. I'd read a lot of worthwhile critiques that nonetheless made moves that might have gotten themselves dismissed by my younger self. I wanted to avoid that, but I also didn't want to be disingenuous about the judgments I'd reached.