An absolutely brutal read: open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
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Maybe, just maybe, the representative basket of goods are not the basket of goods used by the median progressive.
Three panel thing. In the left panel we use error bars. In the second, we take statistical significance as the biggest number but still have error bars. In LLM science, we just have the biggest number
What if we did a single run and declared victory
Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
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Interview: The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman, by Ditte Andersen
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered
Yes, nothing makes people value stuff more than making infinitely many copies of the said stuff.
The tech world's lurch to the right is the subject of my latest column for Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno... - it offers a super-brief history from the Whole Earth Catalog to cryptoconmen and anti-labor AI.
🚀Exciting news — SRI welcomes 24 new faculty affiliates for 2025–26, our largest cohort yet!
They bring expertise in AI safety, digital culture, health innovation, & sustainability — all dedicated to shaping tech for the public good.
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Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social explains why the centralized nature of the social media ecosystem, which puts an enormous amount of power in the hands of a few platforms, is a threat to democracy — and why AI may be headed in the same direction.
FWIW the human brain used not to be able to cope with easily available printed text. The issue isn't the hardware, it's the software: we need cultural adaptations to social media (including but not limited to streaming and podcasting).
Introducing: Full-Stack Alignment 🥞
A research program dedicated to co-aligning AI systems *and* institutions with what people value.
It's the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken.
Here's what we're doing: 🧵
Oh man...it will be so funny if he calls another election banking on our late 2000s nostalgia!
I agree. I lamented that when I was there. Although nothing was more than 20 mins walk away.
Your thread made me nostalgic. Really good observations! Browsing through older images on street view shows us how drastically it has changed in ten years.
I think in the past ten years there’s only one pub that closed (kickoff). Mollys and Mortys still there I believe.
Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
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That’s right. One thing we keep hearing everywhere is that there aren’t enough books to read in the world.
Kerala: Grand Malabar
Tamil/Chettinadu : Raja cuisine. Rani cuisine.
Andhra: Manna
Punjabi: Paratha wali gali.
These were more or less my favourites.
Went into a rabbit hole reading about pidgin languages and found this Wikipedia gem from "Bombay Hindi" page
One of the cool things about the recent rise in Indian immigration to Canada is that you can find some of the best Indian food outside India in Ontario. Kitchener-Waterloo, for example, can compete with any medium-sized Indian city in terms of the food diversity of Indian cuisine.
Join us in welcoming the eight new faculty affiliates and three new postdocs fellows to our growing interdisciplinary community! 🙌 From AI to ethics to medicine, this diverse group is shaping the future of tech & society.
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Oren Cass gets economic theory wrong. The theory said ordinary workers would be screwed and they were, but we can use the theory to reverse the story cepr.net/a-quick-note...
blep
A very human face showing genuine emotion.
"Hey there, I couldn't help but notice you haven't logged in recently."
a tiny brown dachshund puppy with tan a snoot and eyebrows, and adorably wrinkly ankles sits on a black countertop. next to him is a chalk sign that reads, "My first visit at Vets 4 Paws in Irvine." the sign indicates the wide-eyed puppy's name is Otis, he is 2.2 kilograms, and he's 10 weeks old.
This is Otis. He just had his very first vet appointment. Even got to take a picture like it was his first day of school. 12/10 we're proud of you, Otis
