So it wasn't that I decided that I needed more incentives to think in 140 characters, but its prevalence is making me try it out anyway.

@MaxsBigMove @SamKwasiBoateng @LauraJayOConnor I think he’s extrapolating from the match that included a game around 7 years ago where it was interesting how alphazero sacrificed a lot to trap the opponent’s queen in the corner and he hasn’t updated on this space since.

RT @esrtweet: My wacky theory about the em-dash debate: Pro writers use em-dashes a lot because many of them, possibly without consciousl…

@asymmetricinfo Chocolate cakes need a modifier if they are going to be good. My preferred modifier is molten, but cheesecake beats a plain chocolate cake.

The path towards totalitarianism is scary. China has a surveillance state, it’s only going to get more accurate. And many governments are in a position where they would copy China if they could. Imagine what terrorists or school shooters could pull off with access to a much more advanced but unaligned deep reasoning AI. Governments will have to seed the web with supposedly AI programs that actually report crimes when planning them. It will be like all of the fake hitmen online. And the occasional bad guy with agency and a brilliant AI advisor will do tons of damage. AI should make us richer, healthier and generally better off. But we could end up in a world where most people will feel like they have less agency, because so much power has been ceded to esoteric computer systems who are then making decisions for more institutions.

Presumably Eric Adams was only allowed into his position because they knew they could get various sources of kompromat on him… He went rogue when their policies screwed up his city. They tried using some of the kompromat. Now Trump is pulling back the punishment to incentivize more people in his position to defect.

@ChorzempaMartin And in the case of particulars of this case, that level of executive branch micromanagement seems far in excess of what courts are empowered to do. If you'd like to bet even odds that this particular ruling does not get overturned I'd be happy to work out the relevant terms.

@LizWolfeReason @alexlmiller It's just funny that they are doing the exact opposite of that for the white people who are allowed into their parties. "We have made sure that this event features a representative sample of previously colonized peoples for your pleasure."

This isn’t quite how China works anymore if you are good. There are factories that work with top brands, and they realized being consistently good partners is more profitable as many brands got better at quality control. Exactly which factories are the right ones to work with requires some research, but good sourcing teams can figure it out if they aren’t just looking for the absolutely cheapest option.

It’s interesting how when Elon’s most successful companies seem to be approaching a wall, he pushes through into new and larger markets. There was only so much demand to launch satellites, so he found a much bigger market with Starlink. And now at Tesla…

Indian Americans have two groups that are similar to Jews, the first being members of a successful PMC class and the second being small business owners. This generates hate in the way you discussed. Then we have more recent immigrants, often into Canada, and they were not filtered in the same way as before. So interacting with them can feel like they are from a developing country. The reaction to this is again predictable, but it’s a separate issue. But it may also be an issue where online trolls are making hate seem more widespread than it really is.

@razibkhan One obvious solution would be to pick someone to interview you on the subject.

I wonder if this will lead to more college students using creatine during finals week. It is safer than some of the other drugs the pharmacologically inclined might take…

RT @patio11: We conducted a review of whether CEO McCauley's claims warrant the requested retraction. The claims lack merit. The piece sta…

@ATabarrok Presumably at least a few groups consisted mostly of people who hated the material and kept up the performance because to do otherwise would result in cutting all of their funding. Now they are free, and that's a great thing.

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@pierre_koutani Face tats send the same type of signal that makes homeless people who go aggro scarier: “I am outside of society and don’t think about the consequences of my actions”

AI is at a place where my ability to find information quickly is reaching a level not attained since before Google stopped caching webpages and prioritized SEO junk news websites over real sources of information.