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… lead to the histories we write. Here is another really good call in the ‘the trap of our mental models’ camp: For the love of reason and rationality, please, we implore you this insanity isn’t going to end until you people STEP UP and do your jobs. Give us a better story to replace…
… his t-shirt should’ve accurately said ‘Zuck miserabilis est adulator’ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/27/politics/big-tech-ceos-donald-trump-election/index.html What ever, tough guy…
The United States hitched its cart to Elon Musk. Now it’s dealing with the consequences. https://disconnect.blog/roundup-elon-musks-russian-connection/
For the engineers out there…. solving a problem with VC is like solving a problem with a regex. Congratulations, now you’ve got 2 problems.
Elon: The Federal Govt wastes tax payers money Also Elon: $3B of tax payers money and *still* hasn’t delivered on his human space flight contact
Germany’s flat-rate ticket for local and regional public transport, the Deutschlandticket, helped push people to switch from using cars to taking the train, which reduced car emissions by 6.7 million tonnes of CO2 between its introduction in May 2023 and April 2024, showed an analysis by the Ariadne energy transition research alliance. This represents almost five percent…
This looks magical! (The Kate Bush cover sent me over the edge)
I get that this guy is coming to this video with a vast amount of knowledge. But step back and watch HOW he’s using the hardware and the software to express his ideas… we no longer have that power. src: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/linus-live-codes-music-on-the-commodore-64/
We can always bank on creativity to get us out of the shit… here are some exciting calls about the future of music. Life/Creativity always finds a way, https://www.honest-broker.com/p/nine-predictions-for-the-future-of
I’m a software engineer. I’m used to languages being used for a purpose – some languages are better at certain things. I also spend a lot of time as an advisor to other business people. Yesterday I had a call with a friend and I was struck by how we used ‘woo’ terms to navigate…
Whenever I am asked about my position on trans issues I reply: My start position is that accepting trans people means less people kill themselves. Turns out that the data supports this.
Why has this failure attracted so little attention? Why, for example, has it not even been mentioned by either side in the course of the Presidential election campaign? The answer, quite simply, is that the strategic rationale for the mission turned out to be spurious. “Vital shipping lanes” are not actually vital at all. The…
Take 2 hours out of your life and treat yourself… it’s a magic conversation. Towards the end Beato quizzes Rubin about the difficulties of making music when “everything has already been done”. The vibe you get from Rubin is that “everything is still to be done”.
Take a moment and bang this concept into your heads… “we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!” https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and STOP WITH THE WISHFUL THINKING.
Charlie Stross tackles the idea of how our mental models limit our thinking. Anyway, a point I’ve already chewed over on this blog is that a spaceship is not like a sea-going vessel, can’t be operated like a sea-going vessel, and the word “ship” in its name feeds into various cognitive biases that may be actively…
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