@ItsThatDeafGuy she hates the substances that bring you clarity.
what if Donald Trump is dead and the guy in the White House is Jeffrey Epstein in disguise?
just asking questions. do your own research.
SEO has been the art of manipulating search engines to influence human behavior.
What name will we give to the practice of managing training data + agentic web search results to manipulate LLMs who may increasingly provide humans with information (or misinformation) that conditions their behavior?
the most basic fact of fiscal policy is it’s not how much you spend that matters most, but the quality of activity and distribution of goods, services, and safety that results from the spending.
if at 11:11 we are supposed to make a wish, what must we do at 4:04?
(too late — it's 4:05 now.)
"They failed to understand that there’s a big difference between accountability and revenge, and that Trump is only interested in the latter." @ddayen https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-15-jeffrey-epstein-is-policy-issue/
wait ‘til he gets them to stop removing the cocaine too.
finally something literally Mt-Rushmore-worthy!
philosophical disturbances bleed from the epistemological to the ontological.
my new artificial wisdom platform exceeds human performance on all the benchmarks.
@Phil I mostly agree. I don’t think we need to sever ties with China where we don’t much care about sourcing and have alternatives. But batteries, semiconductors, aviation, rare earth, communications, strategic industries we want ideally to be domestic or at the very least subject to highly diversified “friendsourcing”.
@Phil “we should encourage China to build battery and auto plants in the United States, just as China enticed leading U.S. companies to set up shop there over the past three decades… choose the battles that we can win (semiconductors) or those we simply cannot afford to lose (rare earths), and make the long-term investments to reach the right outcome.”
i’m sure there is ongoing IP theft, but that horse left the barn long ago. the US no longer defines the technological frontier.
@Phil I think you’ve misread the piece. The authors absolutely want to bring back manufacturing, not just R&D. But they want to be discriminating about what manufacturing to bring back.
They don’t address IP theft or US support of China’s development I think because it doesn’t matter. However China gained its current advantages, and we our current incapacities, those advantages and disadvantages are the contemporary facts.
“On our current trajectory, we might just get those jobs making tennis sneakers.”
// an excellent piece on China, encouraging sane industrial policy in the US, by #DavidAutor and #GordonHanson
// (good luck with that under the current administration)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.html
ht #BradSetser, #GregIp
The Constanta Cazino and waterfront, next to the port, sunny and pretty today.
@DocAtCDI If I had a hammer joke…
all constructs are invalid, but some constructs are not so invalid as to render them entirely useless.
(riffing on George Box, all models are wrong…)
“creativity” may prove more susceptible to automation than taste.
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@admitsWrongIfProven representative democracy exists to absolve people of the information burdens of complex governance.
our problem is that we don’t (especially in the US, but also in general) implement representation in meaningful, tractable forms.