china ai tech hawks hardest hit

this paper is so good

Anything we can do (society), we can't afford (society)

Halfway through an old edition of G. at the moment...it's interesting. Not entirely sure how I feel about it yet.

What I'm specifically interested in here is to what extent we can say that 'reasoning' models are learning inferential relationships, or perhaps, extracting such relations from a much looser semiotic soup. The basic thought is at the end of this piece: deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...

cathedrals turning into bazaars

"Editor at @WorksinProgMag and @StripePress."

Did the president of the United States post alien porn?

slightly disheartened watching someone I knew seem to increasingly fall into the "model welfare" camp

The next james bond should be Brian Eno and it should be entirely about Sigint and just hardware

God invented mankind to manipulate symbolic systems under florescent lighting

Datacenters don't get a lot of love here for obvious reasons. Power, water (due to power) are the main reasons. Opticore has figured out how to get around those issues using light to do the linear algebra underlying LLMs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRa...

a wild flower over any gold bar world over; your heart weighed against vaults and ceilings vaunted high eyes sans market clearing price

Cronenberg's The Shrouds rules so much

Densification and electrification in 1930s New York altered daily cycles by making the nights less dark. House at Dusk (1935) captures the hinge hour when the rising city glow meets the last light of domestic life.

It’s a little too on the nose that the guy running Palantir in the EU/UK is… Oswald Mosley’s grandson. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

drunk ama

Chekhov's automatic stabilizers

Nothing ever happens

i need to become weirder

oh. Ok.

basically, w/ LLMs, my job is turning much more into feeling like gardening a complex system rather than feeling like writing code.

PUP sale haul

As much as I feel this. apparently Nothing Ever Happens

Karl Over Knausgaard's My Struggle: The Anime

Keynes, on military keynesianism

Amtrak Roll

I'm going raccoon mode frankly

After spending a year in Europe I still cant get over the culture shock of coming home and seeing huge, lifted, absolutely pristine pick up trucks all over the place. my eyes have been opened.

Oh ok, that was quick bsky.app/profile/sung...

we need to return to proper paperbacks: books with paper backs which fit in back pockets, jacket inner pockets - all kinds of larger pockets.

unironic question: does anyone have evidence that post-2020 was caused by big spending as opposed to supply shocks?

a clownier empire, for a less civilized age

I do prefer my design

I assume the air travel I am doing now might be the last time in a hot sec cause it'll just be expensive. Like - there's so little coverage about the fact Europe is about to start rationing jet fuel?

"Structur(alism) powers intelligence"

model welfare? yeah that's what microeconomics is for

Borges-ass roommate

my new startup is automating emotional intelligence

“Central bankers must be strong enough to listen” etc. with the implication that the same moral obligation does not bind presidents.

RIP, picking up MONEY AND GOVERNMENT at the bookstore probably changed my life in ways I didn't fully appreciate at the time

"...Ken Burns' 2030 14 part Clavicular documentary..."

sites that allow for and encourage thoughtful user reviews of media are i think not respected enough. the form/forum of the letterbox or good review provides a space for the user to publicly journal and practice writing in what is oftentimes a semi-off hand way yet which is still deeply productive.

we live in a corkboard

oh? The world Bank is Friedrich List maxxing? Ok

lets be clear: the narrative of an "ai arms race" was and is a cynical and/or naive ploy to boost valuations with a lot of useful idiots drawing the horse carriage forward

What's your all-time favorite line in a movie?