AI might create psychosis but it certainly isn't the only source of it

really shows how much many other politicians don't understand that the guy is vainglorious but also clearly respects people who stand up to him unabashedly than people who use mealymouthed language

a non zero portion of my job is attempting to mediate debates over whether drones are aircraft or a standalone thing

You megabonkin?

Oooh thank you will do!

Jonathan Clements A Brief History of China, super basic but effective for helping me remember the top lines of each dynasty in a way repeated YouTube videos and Wikipedia articles couldn’t

Chris Murphy made a video telling people to pick a fucking side but I’m sure a bunch of people on here will find a way to twist that into nothing

Even generalist books that might not be 100% because the explanation is too simple are great! I’m reading an extremely popular non-academic history of China just to get a feel for it so I know what I want to drill into

so I was at a museum lawyer conference and this was brought up for the litigation update and when the lawyer put up a photo of the proposed department a room full of people making multiple six figures groaned at the idea and I had the strongest housing policy whiplash of my lifetime

Columbia heights is the woods of lothlorien send tweet

I really do think a lot of it is people want to make technology work by just telling it what you want rather than by learning it

At a personal level Clair obscur but it’s also for deeply personal reasons - silksong or hades seems the more critical pick

the item here on "f.o.b. voice" sort of gets at the same dynamic. the big LLMs are very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose in the same way that "the magazine industry" was very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose. but if there was demand for such prose we'd still have magazines