I think this is the clearest signal that the era of the ‘modern web’, which started with the indexing of its disparate contents, has finally come to a close

I think this is just vim

Not surprising, but nonetheless disappointing. US bills are some of the worst designed in the world (so bad that the BEP lost a lawsuit to the American Council of the BIind requiring them to redesign the bills, which they haven't yet done), and have only ever featured men.

Summarizing is really important to building expertise, too - there's a reason that, e.g., humanities PhDs make their canditates read over a hundred books and write notes over them in preparation for qualifying exams. You can't be an expert without having done hundreds of little tasks like that.

Hacking and sawing at the cables on the bridge because standing on it makes me think i can't possibly fall into the chasm

Managing my risk by betting half on black and half on red

AI is great. It's allowed software developers to build their towers taller and taller. Soon they will reach Heaven and greet God

In death as in life, I suppose

Looking and sounding extremely normal, Mr. Thiel, sir

Emacs is “what if house of leaves was a text editor”

"Trumpy but not fascist"

This is known as the Thucydides Bluff

Very ironic that he has helped to create material conditions that should massively improve his business but has created even stronger cultural headwinds against himself. Total Max Weber vindication

This is pretty concerning, and worth pointing out that the really grim scenarios with AI have more to do with it enabling bad actors (malware groups, lazy or malicious management, anti democratic ideologues) than they do with the various speculative basilisks and grey goos

John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism. funny dude wist.info/galbraith-jo...

I remember hearing that Obama had gotten elected in the middle of the night in Berlin; I ran out of the bar I was in and there were people (Americans and Germans) out in the streets cheering and drinking in little clumps. That was less than twenty years ago, but it feels like another world.

Hm. Well, maybe I’ll wait

How many phone numbers do you know off the top of your head? How many did you know in 1995? You should be extremely skeptical of automating your core cognitive skills for exactly this reason

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

People are mad about data centers because they’re a real site of externalized costs - big drags on local environment and infrastructure. They’re also a metonym for the ills of the AI buildout at large. You can argue that some of that resistance is misplaced, but it’s fairly easy to understand.

All of our devices already send telemetry to US firms; what would I care what BYD knows about where I go? They're not the ones serving me targeted ads or using "dynamic pricing" to make my plane tickets more expensive!

Seems like the real takeaway here is that "independent" voters are more swayed by what dominates the media; another way of reading this is that the Democrats' core problem is that all of the dunces are arrayed in a confederacy against them