This has become a very salient dimension of our politics: do you think designing institutions is hard or do you think that everyone who came before you is just evil? If the only problem with progressive era mental hospitals is those people were bad and you are good, it's fine to recreate them

My proposed solution is the new movie "reveals" that the James Bond of every other movie was actually a white-passing black man who has now decided to live openly. So now the whole team at MI6 is reckoning with the fact that the bond they thought was white is black. Starring Idris Elba.

Reagan's nine most terrifying words really undersell how seldom people hear anyone saying "I'm here to help."

Sounds like you've in fact gotten rid of the nuclear option! Great job!

So wait they aren't even rolling back the exceptions that have already been made?? Why would anyone want this??

If the 16 million best Texans moved there the food would get better. I have actually heard that people in Jordan said the food really improved during the Syrian refugee crisis.

I'm so fascinated with the New York Times pushing the line of "you know New York is not the whole country!!" Like idk it's where your paper is?

Thank you for these! In point 1 I think your y axes are mislabeled. From the text it seems that axis is dem vote share in 2025, not 2025 ballots cast/2024 ballots cast

I think we agree that navigating an automated telephone menu does not promote wisdom, even though it requires you to figure out the "right" thing to say. I'd like more explanation of why we should see llm interactions as more enlightening than that 3/3

Second is between "the questions we need to ask" and "the questions we need to ask the llm." Ok, wisdom is asking the right question, but is this the same as finding the right phrasing to get the llm to spit out the output you want? 2/

Not a philosophy professor, but I'm noticing two elisions here. First is btwn the need for wisdom and its acquisition. I agree those with more wisdom/understanding of where their knowledge begins and ends can do better/more with llms. This is not the same as llms promoting that wisdom 1/

Convince Americans that labor is a market and not a site to win moral absolution or condemnation challenge

By which I mean this from politics and the english language

Orwell posting