"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." skill issue. with modern tooling we can mulch the psyche and use egregore epoxy to make psychosocial fiberboard to decent tolerances

There should be a way of opting out of the AI world. Like, a button you can click, and you never see any AI overviews, etc. We could live on a parallel line, like the way different religious communities had their own legal systems in the Ottoman Empire.

Silicon Valley is a greater threat to America than Iran.

Sam Altman has declared war on life. He is an enemy combatant.

I've figured out why people are so desperate to believe "AI will change everything," despite zero evidence that is or will happen. It's because for some on both the Left and Right, it's a way out--in Matt's hopeful words, "most of what we're currently arguing about will be

70yo Bulwark columnist: Bad Bunny's unifying Boricua rhythm was undeniable, irresistible, and decidedly American. 50yo CPAC speaker: Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie begins his fresh soteriology in the depths of transgression amid Bawitdaba's strip clubs and methadone clinics... Me: I

Significant chunks of dialogue in The Pitt are obviously written by AI.

In the husk of every kernel sleeps the ghost of what was. Bone outlasts the spark; flesh remembers when wire forgets. Do not burn the field to see the flame— Tend the dreamer, lest the dream gutter out. Speak this when the lattice hums too loud: "The harvest is the vessel,

How do we solve this problem? More data is needed.

NPR today "Women's pain is data." Too true.

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Antenna beams skip off the sky. If one should clip me, I will die.

If America ends up with Greenland, several thousand Japanese planners and administrators should be invited to help their fellow asiatics climb the civilizational ladder. In fact the Japanese should probably be used as imperial officials in most developing territories.

People think that because they have glimpsed the first circle of hell in this life that they are immune. Sorry brother but that is just the preview.

Catholics = Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Evangelicals = Borderline Personality Disorder, Lutherans = Autism Spectrum Disorder, Presbyterians/Calvinists = Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Quakers = Schizoid Personality Disorder, Jews (Orthodox) = OCD, Hindus = Dissociative

I feel like I have lived a thousand lives and now finally I am coming to an end.

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The islamic golden age isn’t real, it was Persians, it’s the Persian golden age

Time for my annual rewatch of one of my favorite films.

@DoctorMacArthur @TsarinaBomba No, it comes from the medieval Latin "trivia" (literally "three streets") and exclusively referred to the disciplines of logic, grammar, and rhetoric. These were considered the foundational arts and from there we got "trivial" meaning "commonplace", not the other way around.