was it a pivot or a flip-flop?
in Russia as in the West, the people at the top of the social pecking order become obsessed with life extension research. people used to getting whatever they want still face mortality like the least of us. they do not like it. http://www.rferl.org/a/33104121.html ht @SocraticEthics
“Predicting the future is almost impossible, but one of the few predictions that I feel very confident in is that, a century or so down the road, people will look at modern car-centric America with the same disgust that we feel when we hear about old timey cities without modern sewage systems, where everyone just dumped their chamber pots in the street.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country
@Zamfr (i wasn’t “subtooting” yesterday’s indictment, but i certainly agree that people like Tim Pool are bad faith actors regardless of whether they knew who was funding them.)
“All this is leading to the emergence of new economic divides between those who control the means of summarization, and those whose properties or livelihood risks being summarized into effective non-existence. Large swathes of our old political economy risk being torn up at the roots, as maps infect the territories they delineate.” @henryfarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai ht @ryanlcooper
we are always in collapse. we are always in renewal. it’s all about adjusting the relative pace.
[new draft post] Income driven repayment of fixed capital https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/04/income-driven-repayment-of-fixed-capital/index.html
@louis you put yourself in the position of the accused, then you wonder…
Can you be a bad-faith actor if you don’t know you are a bad-faith actor?
A good industrial policy endows competitive industries, not national champions.
“Generative models support the idea that the ‘completed page’ is a commodity, whose value is in what someone else pays for it and not in the subjective experience of whoever produced it or consumed it.” @robhorning https://robhorning.substack.com/p/commodified-incuriosity
yes, LLMs might be bullshit machines.
but automating bullshit jobs would be a giant disruption!
q: why did the science officer dislike her dinner?
a: it failed to replicate.
@mediocratese you then are extraordinarily precocious!
@alysondecker i’m going to just watch this all day and be happy.
@inquiline we talk too infrequently about reversing the trend. you know, raveling.
@inquiline slithering?
if someone refers to “the twenties”, which century do you think?
“Economics, therefore, captures maybe 10-20% of what’s important about trade agreements like NAFTA while lying about it in the name of the plutocrats the entire time. Good work.” #chill #quoderat #EpiceneCyborg https://www.technologyasnature.com/2024/09/03/everybody-knows/
(this author goes by several pseudonyms)
@dpp oh definitely. i’m condemnable. execrable too!