you intend it as the exception, but they take it to be the rule.
people act like it’s a big deal to identify as nonbinary but i never knew anyone who identified as binary.
if you phone the CIA, i think it can go without saying that this call is being recorded for quality assurance. but do they ask you to please hold for the next available agent?
me too, honestly. https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/110135323482384206
@design_law i will not… i will not… i… am too weak. https://youtu.be/Jne9t8sHpUc
which do you fear more? AI that breaks free from human control, or what (some) humans will do with control over AI?
it feels like a kind of violation of the social contract, that we get human-extinction-threatening AI before we even get robots capable of keeping public restrooms sparking and clean.
i used to think prompt engineer was basically an oxymoron.
dork diss of the day:
“you were epiphenomenal!”
the humans often confuse hypotheses for observations.
[new draft post] State as coordination https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/31/state-as-coordination/index.html
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @merz @DeanBaker13 @jgordon Matt Stoller, in his Big newsletter (very much worth reading!) solicits stories about off-beat monopolies, and he often investigates and publishes them to his extremely Washington-plugged-in audience. Obscure-to-the-general-public abuse by consolidated players in science supply chains would be 100% up his alley, and might even move some needle that matters. https://mattstoller.substack.com/
@MBridegam no! just unsubscribing one at a time. org-wide opt-outs would be convenient!
The social prerequisite for technological dynamism is a universalist welfare state that reduces the coupling between fluctuating labor income and human thriving.
See #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/03/31/what-to-do-about-ai-driven-job-displacement/
i find i am unsubscribing from all the political-figure mailing lists my #ActBlue-ing over the years has put me on.
i'm not sure whether this is the right thing or the wrong thing to do. it is an act of sheer #revulsion.
instead of trying to throw a constraint into somebody’s optimization problem, is there any way you can shift what they are trying to optimize?
plutocracy is just not consistent with rule of law.
plutocrats have the resources to hijack the state or undermine the legitimacy of state action. our current politics is unstable because plutocracy is illegitimate (because duh) while state action to counter plutocracy is made illegitimate by the work of the plutocrats.
so there is no way forward.
they are gaslighting you into imagining you are gaslit.
"when [NewCollege] hired its first dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in 2022, it wasn’t surrendering to the woke left. It was responding to an explicit mandate from a DeSantis appointee... a banker appointed by DeSantis led an aggressive top-down push for sweeping new DEI initiatives in all of Florida’s public colleges, compelling every campus, including New College, to put more emphasis on DEI." #ConorFriedersdorf https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/new-college-florida-ron-desantis-takeover/673556/ ht @grantimatter