This is excellent, esp the Sackler angle. And while I appreciate Colin's restraint in not mentioning Black Mirror's "Be Right Back" (2013) I'm afraid I must. I haven't watched it in many years so not sure if the depiction of and desire to resolve grief is more on-point.

cc: @aelkus.bsky.social

Extreme carceral Buddhist government that sentences you to 2 consecutive life sentences so when you die in prison and reincarnate into a random pond frog they find it and throw its ass in the slammer too

I wanted efficiency improvements then I found efficiency improvements and Jevons knows I'm miserable now

cc @greglindsay.org and @changeist.bsky.social this makes my decade-old writing about Pokemon Go seem positively rosy 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Mythos is actually a Greek restaurant in CDMX's Condesa neighborhood, hope that helps, thanks & you're welcome

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap.

Well, this happened. @felixsalmon.com was kind enough to invite me on Slate Money to talk about risk-maxxing. Banter was had. Acronyms were flung. Suffixes was -maxxed. open.spotify.com/episode/17zB...

We shouldn't try to use AI for everything. We should try to build everything so you don't need AI to use it.

ICYMI, @mrprudence.bsky.social

i always give a shout-out to "Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence" (Briggs, 1985) when stuff like this come up, even if it's not quite right 🙃 www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Knowle...

Reminds me of the classic exam question joke: Define 'universe'. Provide two examples.

The whole "why do orcs know what a menu is" thing is a non-issue Hobbits are a metaphor for rural English nobility. It figures that orcs represent their hated enemy: the French.

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

i have had this little folk theory for years that a lot of conduct gets misdiagnosed as procrastination when there is actually a better explanation for it like don't get me wrong, i think procrastination is a real and legitimate concept, it just only applies to a subset of the cases where it's used

such a good interview, thank you @spavel.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

If only more people understood this

Here we are again, with yet another paper pointing to the centrality of the social sciences in any kind of environmental action. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

today in 'you can just do things'

remarkable that i've not yet seen anyone assert that this seems like a good opportunity for the Board of Peace to make its debut

me: if z is the length of a slice and a is the area of the pie, then pi(zz)=a PhD advisor: this is what you’ve been working on for three and a half years?

on the question of 'men will do ___, except go to therapy': thanks to this cascade of QTs, we can finally assert that men would rather go to therapy than be interviewed by Chotiner

this is pretty much how I am using Claude Code and while it takes time and some compromise, the results are solid. another confounding factor is that the CLI modality delivers better results but is a higher barrier to entry for non-technical users (vs using the desktop).

It's an extremely weird thing, the implications of which are not commented upon often enough, that three of the four men who have/will* rule the US in the 36 years between January 1993 and January 2029 were born within 66 days of each other. *unless, etc.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now. you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me. i

Tired: learn to code Wired: study the blade

Also hundreds of people who learned Claude Code still got laid off, because the layoffs have nothing to do with AI skills (whatever that is) and everything about late capitalism eating itself

I wouldn't dismiss anything with "AI" in it if it was presented to me as a product designed to satisfy a very specific purpose. There is no need to say "AI" if you can clearly say what it is for and I can clearly see that it actually does that thing. Specifically. No general purpose bullshit.

Dixie Flatline but for posters www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

If your definition doesn't allow you to call it what it is until it's too late, your definition sucks.

hmmm, too much Hardfloor vs too much Plastikman? 🤔

awful to consider the extent to which my undergraduate class papers meet this cri-de-coeur

the mold grows toward food not because it knows where food is but because it dies everywhere else call that intelligence call that art call that the only freedom that matters the shape left by everything you couldn't do

Or as Milan Kundera put it: "Unity of mankind means: No escape for anyone anywhere."

There's multiple senses in which this line of thought is relevant. But part of me wonders if the insistence that models feel, are conscious, whatever, is a devil's advocate approach. I mean, if you think Claude is conscious, why are you making it do your code for you? Shouldn't you leave it alone?

put *this* in your ARC-AGI pipe and smoke it

attn @thomasarnold.bsky.social x.com/simonw/statu...

everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyuR...

"But the deepest driver may be temporal compression — the sense that the future has shrunk." thanks for an excellent piece 🎯

how is this not from the Sharper Image catalog

They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it

it is now more important than ever to become an enormous snob

Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?