I have unknowingly been eating caffeinated chocolate right before bed for the past few weeks At least I now know why I wasn't sleeping till 5 am.
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Whoa, the Marxist thinks university wokism is caused by capitalism. Color me shocked. youtu.be/JqSxUaVRWHM Wokism 1.0: Everything can be understood through the lens of race. Wokism 2.0: Everything can be understood through the lens of class.
Higher Education’s Age of "Insufferable Hypocrisy" | Plain English
YouTube video by Plain English with Derek Thompson
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There's a lot of talk about an AI race with China but after seeing this tweet: x.com/kotekjedi_ml... I'm starting to wonder if Chinese labs are actually moving AI forward or just really good at distilling existing models and doing some training on top of them. What if US labs are racing a mirror
Alexander Panfilov (@kotekjedi_ml) on X
As you might guess, this suggests that distilling reasoning traces may have been possible for a long time without ever breaking the cryptography. An anecdote: we find that prefilling Kimi-K3 reasonin...
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Some interesting ideas in here. But also feels incredibly flawed and forced: www.noemamag.com/why-is-every... Like it has to work backwards from: bullshit jobs are bad, AI is replacing them, but AI is bad, so that means the future has to be even worse.
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMA
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
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People blaming the removal of McDonald play places on corporate greed and capitalism shows just how screwed discourse is right now: www.reddit.com/r/Millennial...
From the Millennials community on Reddit: Whoever did this, should be imprisoned.
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I ended up listening to the counter argument more or less: youtu.be/nXVmcmj8HCA I think it was well reasoned, but I think I still lean slightly towards inequality not being a big deal. But it is hard to measure so it could really go either way.
Why you should worry more about inequality | Prof. Morten Nyborg Støstad
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@glassparency.bsky.social · 2mo agoFunnily enough, the next podcast I listened to on a complementary issue was a lot more interesting: youtu.be/ziVSakxDaPk Pointing out if inequality leads to the rich having more political influence why did the biggest tax cuts happen in the US in 81 when inequality was at its lowest (as one example)
This frame for looking at the current state of things does explain a lot: youtu.be/V5W6wgZjY0o I think if enough people gain awareness of it though that alone could reduce it... maybe.
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird | Plain English
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I find conversations like these interesting: youtu.be/y4Orjmn21VI But I do wonder if the differences just come out of happenstance (like the cultural version of genetic drift) rather than policy decisions (intended or not). But I guess we are shaped by things even if we don't realize it.
Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth
YouTube video by Conversations with Tyler
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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social I know I shouldn't ask you to reveal the identities of people in the focus group. But is there any chance the person talking here is a famous bible scholar with a popular podcast whose name rhymes with Eart Bhrman? youtu.be/xBE68EKHq2c&...
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Wow, this video is walking a very tight rope: youtu.be/M9PnKawlX-o I think it did a pretty good job, even if the comments disagree. Don't get between Americans and their prison sentences!
The Recall: Reframed (Full Film)
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Wow, there's a lot that rings false for me in this: youtu.be/03A4P34LeOk Even if you think the "owner class" is getting a disproportionate amount of the wealth, surely most of them aren't lazy. And the ones that are don't last that long. I wish the interviewer would question them instead of nodding
Americans don’t know how to stop working | The Gray Area
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What a catchy tune Em Beihold's Brutus is! Although was Brutus jealous of Caesar? I thought he was more motivated by saving the Republic. Maybe I'm being too literal... I'm really on a sassy streak.
The lead actors were married around the time of filming but divorced 3 years later. For some reason I find myself mourning their real life relationship after watching even though they must've moved on by now considering it was 10 years ago. Parasocialism is weird.
@glassparency.bsky.social · 2mo agoBlood punch needed to spend more time on the sound mixing (especially considering how many times you hear that vomit effect). But it has a very satisfying ending that makes up for its flaws. I'll give it a break since it is an indie film after all.
Blood punch needed to spend more time on the sound mixing (especially considering how many times you hear that vomit effect). But it has a very satisfying ending that makes up for its flaws. I'll give it a break since it is an indie film after all.
Wow, this is a really interesting theory: youtu.be/4S2nAUDuz8A?... A possible explanation for why crime rates don't go up with more immigrants but a larger % of the people who commit crimes are could be because immigrants are substituting for the jobs natives don't want even in the illegal market.
Why Europe is getting safer, despite migration | prof. Paolo Pinotti
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Is "many such cases" the trumpism with the most staying power? Mocking Trump phrases seem like less of a thing in Trump 2 (beyond a week or two) and it's not like people are saying "covfefe" anymore. Maybe saying "China" with a Trump inflection? But it's not quite the same.
Is there some age where you instinctually know how to use a water flosser? Did I pick it up too early?
I heard Mitchell Hashimoto mention in a podcast (youtu.be/WjckELpzLOU) that he always has an agent doing something for him in the background. I'm trying to live that AI lifestyle today, but I'm only halfway through the day and already exhausted. Maybe I need to rethink what he's asking.
Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code
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open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/i... I wonder what this will mean for society in the future, if it holds true. Maybe it'll have a positive impact similar to how we don't view how long it takes humans to mature compared to other mammals as necessarily a bad thing.
Is AI Going to Destroy our Lives or Not?
dimensionality, freeze-dried food, the SpaceX IPO, and what to do about all of it
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youtu.be/HDbBpjOmRdI Gave me some new food for thought on the fatherhood experience. Particularly regarding its current historical aberration and how upper class fathers are increasing the time they spend with children.
How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains | Plain English
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With things like the suspension of @meidamarek_ on x, I'm surprised that community hasn't moved to bluesky. Perhaps they view bluesky as just another centralized platform? Or maybe the network effects are still too strong?
No one asked Mark to bridge his threads account yet?! I thought for sure it would reply it already asked 🫨 Someone more important than me should've made the request!
Imagine streaming on multiple platforms (twitch, youtube, etc) and all chats showed the same messages. That's the atproto future I dream of 🥹
Is there a solution to conveying to the average user, "if you have a did/pds please let me know so I can write to it" that isn't forcing them to authenticate via a bluesky account they may or may not have? You can create your own for them, but then they might have two.
What's more valuable: expressing a point on a microblogging site or on Reddit? Paradoxically, while Reddit has a literal reputation system, I think it's easier to build more renowned on a microblogging site.
While the junk fee exemption for restaurants, SB 1524, is billed as some politician sanctioned scheme for restaurants to squeeze more from customers. It looks like it's really a negotiation between restaurant owners and employees to give employees more benefits without raising the price of food.
Just connected to bridgy fed. I forgot about it until now and this will serve as a good test post. Unless it's supposed to grab your past history and I did something wrong 😲
It's interesting seeing this "Morning Brew" video try to straddle the line between leftist rhetoric and pro-capitalism: youtu.be/sIwslwoQUKY imo, it makes the video come across as more concerned about pleasing its audience than commenting on anything of substance But the insight into the town is fun
I spent a week living in Walmart’s socialist utopia
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I set up my rotation key. I'm ready to be adversarial! Although, like I think I saw Dan Abramov say somewhere, it's going to be pretty difficult for the average user to do. On top of making little sense what its purpose is. And you would still need the know how to reclaim it later...