@mike805 This one's worth a look if you haven't seen it. https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-the-media-is-honest-and-good Usually when the media establishment lies to us, they have lied to themselves first. Which is why we should try to build a very diverse sort of media establishment, one not monoculturally prone to the same kinds of confirmation bias!

we used to talk about truthiness, but today's world is beset by falsiness, a pervasive sense among much of the public that things that are likely true are really shams or hoaxes, sheeple.

asserting that a claim is mistaken does not constitute a debunking.

i hope my kid starts referring to me and his mom as “the regime”.

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@cliffwade@androiddev.social also @tootapp!

@mariofusco we are each of us unique and vewy complicated!

in the sixties music journalism was just mopaganda.

A long but excellent critique-from-within of #EffectiveAltruism https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/54vAiSFkYszTWWWv4/doing-ea-better-1 ht @sarahtaber

@0xabad1dea i wanna know my ancestress’ bad-ass profession if my last name is monster.

@Gargron happy birthday thanks for all this!

a fun experiment might be a client that does sentiment analysis and colors the background of posts, kind of a mood-ring.

i don’t know whether i’d actually like this: it would short circuit the prerogative of text to surprise and speak for itself, might spoil or confuse irony, etc.

still it seems like a fun thing to try.

people who think we’re living in a simulation are silly we’re living in an #emacs buffer.

let’s not say purge, let’s call it “layoffs”.

@chrisp i think that’s right. i’m not looking for a precise answer, just trying to provoke some wondering about whether software is a kind of work that would be better directed by intrinsic incentives than market incentives.

@chrisp if it’s truly a “U” bi, of course there can be no conditions attached. in that case, would people who like software do better or worse than our current army of employed programmers? but i’d also consider a case where there’s some light filter for grants to people who promise to program, so they are paid, accountable for being able to demonstrate some degree of activity, but otherwise self-directed.

if software development was financed by something like a UBI, would we do more good in the world than we do now (net of the considerable harms that we now do)? does the software job market direct our talents well or poorly, on net? would we coordinate at all the scales that are importantly productive? would we just not do enough, without all the carrots, sticks, and managers?

if progress is made quickly enough in life extension, we may have a boomerang.

#ActivistGPT would be a trip.

Pregnancy and childbirth could and should be free. cf #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/01/19/it-would-be-easy-to-provide-universal-pregnancy-coverage/