I'm torn. My heart says 8, but the problem with 8 is that further expansion is both disastrous and inevitable.

In my less cynical moods, I think this is another "pivot to video"--the lastest byproduct of MBA brain-death--and the question isn't when it's gone but how much damage it does before it's gone.

The authors are using "bullshit" in Frankfurt's sense, and in my more cynical moods, I worry we may be stuck with LLMs because (in Frankfurt's words) "One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit."

You could pretty trivially write a program to check whether cited papers are real. The problem is with then generating a replacement that is any better than the first attempt.

Related: Have you read the "ChatGPT Is Bullshit" paper by Hicks, Humphries, and Slater?

/3 I am no longer inclined to spend time tinkering with the machinery of bigotry. It would be trivially easy to explain under a rules-based system how SCOTUS could come out one way on race in admissions and another in race in detentions. But it's still not worth the effort or the implied respect.

I'm definitely not accusing Goodman of this, but as a general statement, reject any "the czar is good, his boyars are bad" BS.

President Donald Trump pardoned convicted war criminals in his first term, and in his second nominated Hegseth because of Hegseth's advocacy for war crimes. It's on him.

My favorite has always been "Lady Gaga Kidnaps Commissioner Gordon"

If the Democrats stopped fixating on the next election and started doing what duty demands of them--i.e. if they grow spines--you might be pleasantly surprised how that works out for them.

Besides, it's not like they're going to run out of impeachable offenses, at the rate the GOP is going.

This is a government agency tweeting “We are going to get rid of all the nonwhite people in America.” It is the biggest story imaginable. The news will probably ignore it

we have to get out of this framing that the hard right has a point about immigration numbers, but they're saying it in a mean & racist way

even if they weren't racist at all (& they very much are), what they are calling for is still national suicide

Growing up we had an indoor/outdoor cat like this--would flop *in front of neighbor's cars* as they pulled into their driveways getting home from work and demand belly rubs.