“Big, credible news media outlets are mostly unable to imbue their reporting…with the seriousness that is warranted: whether due to their proprietors, their finances, or other sources of obeisance towards Trump/Musk.” @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

maybe we can have the AIs fight out the civil war for us, claude vs grok or something. automate the unpleasant work.

not really. firms would do their best to source leads from other countries’ academics, private labs, etc. in aggregate, the loss of leads from their premier source, US academia, would bite sector profitability, but there’d be lots of uncertainty which firms still managed to source winners.

people say mastodon is some kind of lefty echo chamber, but i get some pretty wild stuff. clew.lol/notice/AqtFs...

vandals.

can they? they did a great job with Boeing. or with the banks before the financial crisis, the source of IBGUBG. does the valuation of NVIDIA represent a sober forward looking DCF exercise? Tesla?

if AGI is intelligence superior to human intelligence, we're testing the proposition you can achieve it by reducing the latter rather than raising the former.

the pipeline from basic research to profit$ takes some time. by the time there's nothing in the pipeline, IBGUBG.

elon musk is a one man swarm of locusts.

from @joemenn.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... ht @nathantankus.bsky.social // things most payment systems don't have to consider

me too! a 2002 book about the period 70 years prior couldn't be more current. no offense to your aunt, but i'd prefer it was your book that was current. i hope it will be very, very soon.

Orban just had to kick Central European University out. Trump has so many!

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there's no need for formal background checks. Musk of course only hires the very best people, people of the very best character. these are kids or almost kids. juvenile misbehavior oughtn't permanently condemn them. but they have no business anywhere near secure mission-critical systems right now.

never their fault. thin-skin is a genetic malformation. they are more sinned against than sinning, the poor dears.

i love how the AI they think is so smart is in fact smarter than they are.

yes, but some things are easier to do than others. it's easier to light a wildfire, when conditions permit, than to simultaneously put one out. it's easier and surer to kill a person who might become Mayor than to work to help them become Mayor.

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