Ravi Veriah Jacques
@ravihvj.bsky.social
Post-Covid ME/CFS since March 2021. Before then, a life I loved.
Stanford History | 2021 Schwarzman Scholar
Stanford History | 2021 Schwarzman Scholar
No new American frontier AI labs have emerged this year, so cue Moonshot AI. And apparently there are several other Chinese labs in the mix beyond Alibaba and DeepSeek. China’s unique blend of innovation - produce things to roughly the same quality as the West at a fraction of the cost
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
No new American frontier AI labs have emerged this year, so cue Moonshot AI. And apparently there are several other Chinese labs in the mix beyond Alibaba and DeepSeek. China’s unique blend of innovation - produce things to roughly the same quality as the West at a fraction of the cost
Zach Polanski is clearly far more skilled than the Your Party lot at articulating the defining problems of modern Britain. But I’m deeply unconvinced that he has any of the real solutions. 1/2
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Zach Polanski is clearly far more skilled than the Your Party lot at articulating the defining problems of modern Britain. But I’m deeply unconvinced that he has any of the real solutions. 1/2
This election is the one time I’ve appreciated the American penchant for endless democracy. Give me another 100 days. I need more Curtis Sliwa. Far more. Even more of Cuomo’s public humiliation kink. And above all more and more and more Zohran.
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This election is the one time I’ve appreciated the American penchant for endless democracy. Give me another 100 days. I need more Curtis Sliwa. Far more. Even more of Cuomo’s public humiliation kink. And above all more and more and more Zohran.
I absolutely hate that this illness has made me semi chronically online as I have so few other distractions. It’s one of the most off-putting things someone can be. I miss when it felt like I existed as much in the 19th century as our own, in the books I read, the music I played and listened to.
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I absolutely hate that this illness has made me semi chronically online as I have so few other distractions. It’s one of the most off-putting things someone can be. I miss when it felt like I existed as much in the 19th century as our own, in the books I read, the music I played and listened to.
AI is a tabula rasa onto which people can project their views. Like the rise of the internet, AI is so far-reaching that anyone can find a whole range of data points to support their worldview. As a result there is a lot of noise, far less understanding.
October 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
AI is a tabula rasa onto which people can project their views. Like the rise of the internet, AI is so far-reaching that anyone can find a whole range of data points to support their worldview. As a result there is a lot of noise, far less understanding.
If China is a ‘national security threat’ to the UK, then what on earth is Trump’s America?
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If China is a ‘national security threat’ to the UK, then what on earth is Trump’s America?
The one thing I like about AI investment vs the internet - a v large proportion is being spent actually building things. Makes me a little more sanguine about whether we’re in a bubble (which we probably are).
October 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The one thing I like about AI investment vs the internet - a v large proportion is being spent actually building things. Makes me a little more sanguine about whether we’re in a bubble (which we probably are).
Too much disability history and theory is written by people for whom disability supersedes impairment. I want histories written by the severely disabled - the people who don’t end up in academia
August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Too much disability history and theory is written by people for whom disability supersedes impairment. I want histories written by the severely disabled - the people who don’t end up in academia
UBI will continue to be a dull, wonkish debate until it’s quite suddenly the only feasible policy standing in the way of societal collapse. Which isn’t even an exaggeration if we’re talking about a 20-30% unemployment rate in coming decades
August 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
UBI will continue to be a dull, wonkish debate until it’s quite suddenly the only feasible policy standing in the way of societal collapse. Which isn’t even an exaggeration if we’re talking about a 20-30% unemployment rate in coming decades
Afterlife - a case where the intelligentsia has a radically lower opinion than the majority of the population, and is fundamentally wrong.
August 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Afterlife - a case where the intelligentsia has a radically lower opinion than the majority of the population, and is fundamentally wrong.
Miranda Priestley would fix me
July 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Miranda Priestley would fix me
By the time these studies are published, the models are always about 2 years out of date… And 2 years of AI progress is *a lot*
July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
By the time these studies are published, the models are always about 2 years out of date… And 2 years of AI progress is *a lot*
Goddamn does a lot of the literature on disability and capitalism idealise feudalism
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Goddamn does a lot of the literature on disability and capitalism idealise feudalism
Difficult to think of an institution that needs AI more than the NHS.
July 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Difficult to think of an institution that needs AI more than the NHS.
In the West, we default to interpreting China through the frame of autocracy partly because there’s truth in it but mostly because it makes China instantly knowable and intelligible. When in actual fact most of us know next to nothing. So so so many more interesting and powerful frames.
July 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the West, we default to interpreting China through the frame of autocracy partly because there’s truth in it but mostly because it makes China instantly knowable and intelligible. When in actual fact most of us know next to nothing. So so so many more interesting and powerful frames.
The rewards are of course distributed anything but evenly, but the propensity of the American economy to just grow, grow, grow is so impressive.
The main reason China won’t surpass America in the very near future.
The main reason China won’t surpass America in the very near future.
July 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The rewards are of course distributed anything but evenly, but the propensity of the American economy to just grow, grow, grow is so impressive.
The main reason China won’t surpass America in the very near future.
The main reason China won’t surpass America in the very near future.
Mamdaniiiiiii. Extraordinary how much better that campaign was than Kamala’s
Zohran ❤️❤️
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Mamdaniiiiiii. Extraordinary how much better that campaign was than Kamala’s
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Clips from The Golden Girls (1989): Dorothy sees a neurologist after months of #MECFS symptoms. He tells her there’s nothing wrong, it’s just ageing — and suggests a psychiatrist. She begins to doubt herself—until Rose comforts her saying “Doctors don’t know everything.”
June 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Clips from The Golden Girls (1989): Dorothy sees a neurologist after months of #MECFS symptoms. He tells her there’s nothing wrong, it’s just ageing — and suggests a psychiatrist. She begins to doubt herself—until Rose comforts her saying “Doctors don’t know everything.”
What matters in terms AI and medicine is not that AI hallucinates or even a raw hallucination rate - but how AI performs vs doctors and when+why it hallucinates.
AI and medicine - incredibly exciting. The frontier models are already substantially outperforming doctors
May 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
What matters in terms AI and medicine is not that AI hallucinates or even a raw hallucination rate - but how AI performs vs doctors and when+why it hallucinates.
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i would choose alejandro garnacho over ruben amorim
May 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
i would choose alejandro garnacho over ruben amorim
All I want is for footballers to pay me £50,000 a year to advise them not to go to Chelsea or above all United. I’d be worth every cent
May 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
All I want is for footballers to pay me £50,000 a year to advise them not to go to Chelsea or above all United. I’d be worth every cent
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The BMJ have a long history of being anti-ME/CFS and the recent opinion piece has been disheartening. Ramsay mentioned this and Wessely in a letter just months before he died in 89. That said, it’s been good to see such strong pushback in the responses
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
May 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The BMJ have a long history of being anti-ME/CFS and the recent opinion piece has been disheartening. Ramsay mentioned this and Wessely in a letter just months before he died in 89. That said, it’s been good to see such strong pushback in the responses
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
If United stick with Amorim, back him heavily in the summer, and he doesn’t come good having finished 16th this season, heads should roll. All of them frankly - Berrada, Wilcox, Brailsford. INEOS have been shambolic so far.
May 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If United stick with Amorim, back him heavily in the summer, and he doesn’t come good having finished 16th this season, heads should roll. All of them frankly - Berrada, Wilcox, Brailsford. INEOS have been shambolic so far.