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This assault on reason itself is at the core of Kanter’s critique. He starts off by listing three cases in which academic economists allowed themselves to be corrupted by the monopolies they studied https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/
The US national debt has ballooned so fast to $35.3 trillion – by $12.0 trillion since January 2020 – that it’s mindboggling, especially in a growing economy. And every single one of the Treasury securities that form this colossal debt was bought and is held by some investor, and we’re going to look at those…
https://laughingsquid.com/glass-half-empty-vacuum/
So, what explains the shocking failures of basic reasoning that Simple Bench exposes? Let’s return to the vegetables — or fruits and vegetables, if you wish. Here’s my take on the first of my two questions: Why do models fail the question you saw above? … The clue is in their name: language models. They model language.…
In a statement to Congress on May 10, Blinken said, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” Before his statement to Congress, Blinken received a 17-page memo from USAID on Israel’s conduct, obtained by ProPublica, which described instances of Israel…
Don’t you worry about anti-Semitism? And to that, I say no. I believe anti-Semitism will be fine.
This is a beautiful way to understand how the web works. I love the “scrolling” visualisation. https://translucentweb.site/
Worth it for the drone footage… A Chinese space startup conducted what it called a “high-altitude” test flight of its Nebula-1 rocket on Sunday, launching the vehicle to an altitude of about 5 km or so before attempting to land it back at the Ejin Banner Spaceport in Inner Mongolia. The test flight went well…
Cards Against Humanity claims SpaceX also offered to buy Cameron County property. “Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump all his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking,” the company wrote on a website announcing its lawsuit. “After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a…
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