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 drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/

@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 robhorning.substack.com/p/comm

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.” technologyasnature.com/2024/09

(this author goes by several pseudonyms)

@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.