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by techfeathers 2y ago
I suspect there’s always something about trying to do this at scale that will fail. Maybe there was some insight back in the eighties when a move to less fat was good, but then like it should have been 10% less fat and not a wholesale repl
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This should probably link to this instead: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-art-turing-test As the twitter link just links there. But I still don't think this is quite answering the right question. Yes, it&#x2
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I hope that over the next 10-20 years the more social media native Gen-Z/Gen-Alpha kids start learning how to mix hard science with good general public communication skills. But also I think the scientific community has to lean into t
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significant arrests? What laws were broken?
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I've definitely noticed a retconning of where the signal was coming from and where the noise is coming from. All of this focus on sciences inability to communicate, and no mention of the dishonest framing of the data by the media&#x2F
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I'm curious about the "next crisis" and whether or not there's a swing in the other direction though. I feel like we're stuck in hindsight bias, and forgetting that a lot of decisions weren't made in ideal cir
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think the way VCs talked about Musk’s Twitter purchase sort of perfectly encapsulates, I don’t know what to call it, toxic capitalism? I understand the whole if you’re not growing you’re dying thing, but really, can the world not have ni
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by techfeathers 2y ago
There’s this whole genre of scientific questions it seems we’re just going to go back and forth about and mostly your opinion is based on your priors/personal beliefs. Kinda interesting but doesn’t seem like there will ever be a real
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This article feels about 20 years premature. Liberalism has a long way to decline before it’s the rebellion. But also, I probably am a liberal (maybe this is actually where the criticism comes from) but it seems like so many liberals want
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I do wonder, on all sides of this, is the goal just the idealistic narrow goal of capping credit card interest rates? Or is the goal the greater ideological idea / second order effect of limiting access to debt.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
It’s interesting to me that the theoretical framework the new administration is acting from seems very shaky. Also this seems at odds with the administrations new tech admirers who I assume like H1B workers for a variety of reasons.
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This is an impressive commitment to information organization.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
"I don't want to engage in a social network that isn't and echo chamber of my beliefs." I really don't. I know you mean this as an insult, but like, it gives this weird reverence to social media that I don't g
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by techfeathers 2y ago
It really disturbs me how good Coke is at making Christmas ads.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Maybe it's time for the pendulum to swing in the other direction in terms of regulation and all the things you mention, but I think this is why it sucks that all we have is a pendulum, and can't get people to talk like adults. My
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This article reminds me of a quote by Jeff Bezos where he says "I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand
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by techfeathers 2y ago
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/sam-altman-claims-agi-i... I guess both things can be true. I suspect that the current era has a lot in common with the gilded age / age of steam and rail, and I wonder wh
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This feels like the proverbial "Heading the FBI Office out of Rural Alaska". A new Extra-governmental agency? "As the first order of business, this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and imprope
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Hedging their bets?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I have literally not heard anyone stop talking about the billion dollars spent on Harris’ campaign, partially evidenced by your articles mentioning it.
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Apparently he’s already overstaying his welcome at Mar a Lago
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As someone with psych experience, I can’t entirely disagree, but he seems to leave out what takes its place, he sort of self-humorously doesn’t even get through the whole piece without analyzing something through therapy speak (coping) But
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by techfeathers 2y ago
One sort of interesting thing about old folks is the generations are changing from silent/boomer to boomer/genx. Will be interesting to see if old=conservative or that actually we’ve just been dealing with 2 generations that were
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Something we’re going to have to recon with in our highly connected world is how do we talk about extreme views. I don’t think it’s right to ignore the influence say of someone like Nick Fuentes in modern discourse, but catastrophizing abo
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Yeah, I think there are some things on the edges and long term strategy, but the reality is Biden won in 2020 because of the pandemic and Trump won in 2024 because of inflation. Those would have been enormous headwinds to overcome.
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I think the term "low-information voters" get thrown around as an insult, but the reality is that like, most people probably should just care about whether they feel they have enough money to be successful. I kept seeing this thi
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I don't disagree with you, but it's strange how I think my fear is the opposite, that especially aligning with silicon valley, that it will accelerate the society that glorifies progress and getting rid of people's livliehood
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It's interesting to look at this list, because it feels like a lot of Trump supporters concerns about Trump are the same as the liberal concerns about Trump. I 100% do not think that all Trump supporter's are _blank_ I think most
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I think Kamala Harris was right to launch her campaign on positivity and Freedom, and somehow it feels like liberals have gotten so afraid of losing the progress we've made, that we're just playing defense to Trumpism. I don'
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I agree about overoptimism, and I hope we sort of don't have a renaissance of the open, human internet, and instead we have a renaissance of meatspace.

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