we are always in collapse. we are always in renewal. it’s all about adjusting the relative pace.
[new draft post] Income driven repayment of fixed capital https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/04/income-driven-repayment-of-fixed-capital/index.html
@louis you put yourself in the position of the accused, then you wonder…
Can you be a bad-faith actor if you don’t know you are a bad-faith actor?
A good industrial policy endows competitive industries, not national champions.
“Generative models support the idea that the ‘completed page’ is a commodity, whose value is in what someone else pays for it and not in the subjective experience of whoever produced it or consumed it.” @robhorning https://robhorning.substack.com/p/commodified-incuriosity
yes, LLMs might be bullshit machines.
but automating bullshit jobs would be a giant disruption!
q: why did the science officer dislike her dinner?
a: it failed to replicate.
@mediocratese you then are extraordinarily precocious!
@alysondecker i’m going to just watch this all day and be happy.
@inquiline@union.place we talk too infrequently about reversing the trend. you know, raveling.
@inquiline@union.place slithering?
if someone refers to “the twenties”, which century do you think?
“Economics, therefore, captures maybe 10-20% of what’s important about trade agreements like NAFTA while lying about it in the name of the plutocrats the entire time. Good work.” #chill #quoderat #EpiceneCyborg https://www.technologyasnature.com/2024/09/03/everybody-knows/
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@dpp oh definitely. i’m condemnable. execrable too!
the safest policy now is just to condemn everyone. “yes. of course i condemn them. they are horrible.”
@kenbot @SethTisue complex is not a relationship status. but it is a neurosis.
you tire of getting old, you ask “when will it end?”
when you let money into politics — or when you fail to either break or nationalize monopoly — you get government of the sociopaths, by the sociopaths, for the sociopaths.
@billseitz and then you pour your heart out, try to appeal to the humanity of the person on the other side.