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Kinda crazy how MIA Bill Gates has been on AI; he doesn't seem to share anything interesting and nobody is really paying attention to what he's saying on it.
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The hidden reason as to why this blew up into a /discourse/ is that 1/3rd of the bay thinks being a slut is bad, 1/3rd thinks its good and 1/3rd dislikes it but pretends to be indifferent
Ngl it is a little surprising that people seem unwilling to admit asking a woman if she's attending "SlutCon" without *substantial* context towards that is kind of messed up.
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Waymos are really safe (80-95% safer than humans depending on the metric), but they also seem to be getting *safer* over time. This is the worst they'll ever be.
A quick analysis of the police-reported crash rates in three cities from Waymo's published safety data.
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The closure of the Corgi Cafe has reverberating effects through the city of San Francisco
Looking for more places around SF and the Bay Area more broadly that are good to bring a laptop to and get some work done, ideally with:
- wifi and outlets
- natural light, ideally a view of some kind
- comfortable chairs
- high trust enough to go to the bathroom without packing everything up
- not super loud or crowded
- caffeine available nearby (okay if I have to pay for it)
These are pretty hard to find. I think the best is the Mill Valley Public Library but it's really far away. Does anyone have any favorite places? You can dm me if you're worried about leaking alpha to too many people
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There are many of smart people who fetishize being unfriendly and abrasive, yet are tolerated due to their intelligence being necessary in some way.
They fear AI the most. They can’t stand that they’re being outclassed by something infinitely patient, that their niche is gone.
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somewhere, a few months ago, the word performative entered my brain. it's a virus.
often, you have to pretend to be things before you can be them. whether that’s brave, organized, fit or whatever.
all the world is a stage.
This is my same issue with the ‘performative’ meme, which I think does more harm than good. The fear of being labelled performative can scare some people out of expressing themselves at all
We are social creatures and being witnessed is part of life. Sometimes people are cynically posturing, but performance and sincerity are not opposites
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>Most intelligent sociologist
I’m even more convinced that generative AI may well *throttle science.*
AI is a very powerful, transformative technology but flashy early effects really aren’t a good way to think about long term structural dynamics.
Gift link to my case in the NYT.
nytimes.com/2026/09/22/opini…
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I've noticed that British people will refer to their ancestors as "The Victorians" in a way they don't do for Edwardians, Georgians etc; that era of UK history is exalted so much its residents are foreign to us
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Populists are so brain dead they think shopping malls are not also private equity
It’s actually criminal how many of these are gone. Amazon and private equity killed so much of American life.
Community note
This video is AI generated. The Sears logo shown was intreoduced in 2004, not 1996. In 1996, Sears was spelled in all caps. The date overlay misspells the month DEC as DIC.
logos.fandom.com/wiki/Sears
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Because of the Nikole Hannah-Jones story from yesterday, people noticed that New York spends more than $40,000 per student.
I was curious about the cost disease behind this.
Answer: for decades spending has grown +2.2% per year above inflation for multiple reasons. (1/4)
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Working a couple shitty jobs taught me how much sway this Uber Driver Ideology has on poor people in the US; they think everything is a scam
Professor Jiang Explains Why AI Isn’t Real
“I guarantee you it's being manipulated by humans somewhere in India.”
(Via Jack Neel)
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Professor Jiang's claim that AI responses are manipulated by humans in India is false. LLMs like ChatGPT generate text autonomously via next-token prediction on neural nets after training; humans aid data/RLHF but not live outputs.
techradar.com/computing/arti…
arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…
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