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31. Autistic who hates computers and math.

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The U.S. is resuming a shipment of 500-pound bombs to Israel that had been held up since May, when the Biden administration suspended delivery of two types of weaponry amid concerns about the ballooning scale of civilian casualties in Gaza, officials said.

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The catch is that if every company needs to be saved, no company actually can be - it's an economy built on sociopathy where every individual has to believe that everyone else is acting honestly, because otherwise it just collapses

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The primary effect of the 08 crash and bailout was to remove the last guardrails on corporate responsibility - once the government showed that it was willing to save some companies, literally every other company simultaneously decided to act like they would be saved eventually

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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Like Google ruining search to push “AI,” corporations have become incentivized to damage their own products to chase investor trigger words. There’s no long-term strategy, only short-term gains. An entire economy of pump-and-dump companies.

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Between this and learning Larry Ellison's failson now runs Paramount, it's absolutely fucking hilarious that the Valley was portrayed in nonpartisan and even liberal terms for so long

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This has changed. They have seen the light that you can't have the other two without the bloodletting might of the third keeping your enemies in line.

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The arguable key difference between right-libertarianism and proto-fascism was that until very recently, the former felt that violent force and repression wasn't needed to achieve their goals - the gravitational power of money and the self-evident correctness of their ideology was enough

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Tech-centric free-market-libertarians quietly adding 'military supremacy' to their core values - a new holy trinity - is not indicative of a sinister cycle completing itself, surely

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☀️ Starshine's avatar ☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social
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theres exactly 4 types of papers in the us now. Fox News Premium, Fox News, Fox News Lite and the Financial Times

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And it's what Hitler's pitch to German industrialists was - the only things you're gonna personally feel are guaranteed government contracts, a total lack of scrutiny, and a wonderfully cowed workforce

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See Starbucks, Trader Joe's and Amazon joining the explicit ideologue Musk in trying to dismantle the NLRB - this wouldn't have been necessary if the board hadn't actually started doing its job

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By appointing government regulators who actually acted like regulators instead of cheerleaders and enablers, Biden has lost the favor of them, to the point where even the non-fire-breathing fascists are willing to elect one to get back to the status quo of the past four decades

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At this point, I think there's a fair amount of personal investment in him - in 2016, the radicalization of the corporate class had barely started; now it''s reaching completion bsky.app/profile/rima...

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Both are counting on the other to survive so they don't have to worry about anything but the short term. What they are trying very hard to ignore is that at this point, everything in the economy is wired directly to everything else - if one goes up, everything does

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If you're in 'old media', you're expecting to collapse soon and let 'new media' take over. If you're in 'new media', you're expecting to collapse soon and let 'old media' have it back. www.avclub.com/streaming-ef...

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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terms like "tech scion" and "mogul" obscure the fact he's a nepo baby who got $6 billion from daddy to consummate a pointless merger that will cost thousands of people their jobs

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Genuinely inspired by how little David Zaslav even pretends to give a shit about what his companies "do"

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The stronger plant has to be removed first, and maybe even the ground has to lie fallow for a period, before any alternatives can get a chance. This seems both inevitable and terrifying for other reasons, because I know what a collapse of the cultural infrastructure will mean to its current denizens

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I was thinking about this last night, and here's the problem - the only real way out is sudden, severe collapse of the current infrastructure and the corps and markets that constitute it. A weaker plant can't grow to fruition in the very same soil as a much stronger plant that's taking up everything

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'The malls convinced the shoppers to work there for free.'

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the most frustrating aspect of this campaign to me is that it has stripped me down to bare pragmatism "does this give us a better chance to beat Trump" is the only thing that is important to me anymore the danger is so overwhelming that nothing else matters and I hate it

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It's exceptionally rare for the fourth 'official' recording of a song, by the third version of one of the two bands associated with it to be the definitive one, but I think this qualifies music.apple.com/us/album/son...

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Laila Lalami's avatar Laila Lalami @lailalalami.bsky.social
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Remember the outcry from our entire political class back in October when it was reported that Israel had hit 1 hospital? They immediately screamed fake news. Now it’s 8 hospitals, and they’ve all gone silent.

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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It’s pretty telling that all the folks funded by billionaires to speak out against cancel culture and allowing all points of view on campus have gradually but consistently picked a time to go “surprise it was Nazi stuff all along!”

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Sorry, wrong Greene book - but still, this guy's list should've been rejected on principle

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Lucy Sante's and John Irving's are interesting, but everyone else's lists are mostly homogeneous, inoffensive, or baffling (the president of Wesleyan picks Thinking Fast And Slow? what on earth is The 48 Laws of Power doing anywhere here?) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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From a similar paper from OpenAI - this is just an outright falsehood, right? Are the questions from different years of AP STEM exams 1) significantly different from each other and 2) unique from any other published problems? arxiv.org/pdf/2305.20050

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From a similar paper from OpenAI - this is just an outright falsehood, right? Are the questions from different years of AP STEM exams 1) significantly different from each other and 2) unique from any other published problems? arxiv.org/pdf/2305.20050

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And of course, it would only be really helpful in terms of existing math - the AlphaGo model they're trying to take inspiration from is neat, but it's not going to lead to what this guy claims

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Which would indeed be helpful, in that the model would have its own little automated search engine to check against, but it's not really an improvement in 'reasoning' so much as an improvement in tilting the table to help it

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All this was triggered by wondering what happened to the Q* thing that OpenAI people were supposedly freaking out about nine months ago, and according to this piece, it's literally just trying to combine the existing GPT with a verifier model, GAN style www.understandingai.org/p/how-to-thi...

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2. In case you were wondering - no, they didn't include the actual generated paragraph, just the 'plans'

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1. The two 'plans' are exactly the same, but the second one makes an assertion at the beginning of the first example, which leads it to pick that one as more coherent even though the other three still have nothing to do with it (because presumably, it resembles the data more with the assertion)

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Getting round to reading the Train Of Thought paper, where LLMs are basically made to pick and choose from sets of their own generations in order to improve accuracy, and this graph of the 'creative writing' test is an illustration of why I don't trust these people with this arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10601

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Renee (paix120)'s avatar Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social
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Was going to reply "I'm a data scientist, and am not a fan." reading this, then clicked through and scrolled up to get the context. Guess what they're selling.

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Woodsy Owl swapping minds with George Will has produced exactly the results you would expect

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In their newly converted zeal and previous secular ignorance, Archie and Jughead began praying to a picture of Topol

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Kim Shumway's avatar Kim Shumway @kimshum.bsky.social
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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki's avatar Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com
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do you think they bond over amassing power and wealth off others' hard work they didn't pay for?

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According to the recent Atlantic article, 'using more AI' is Bezos's number one demand for the Post, so

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