Jesse Singal
@jessesingal
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Cohost @TheBARPod, the first-ever podcast, author of 1.5 books and a newsletter. Email, don't DM. https://t.co/1qH8Ez9q9g [email protected]
rerouting the encryptions
Joined November 2010
Me leading my followers through the murky, dangerous swamplands of Twitter and sustaining and nurturing them with my tweets
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just gonna drive into the moutnains and wander into the megastorm without any winter gear on
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Is the guy who held up a chainsaw to celebrate his demolition of programs that save babies' lives for tiny, tiny amounts of money relative to the U.S. annual budget correct that because someone is childless they lack some basic understanding of human goodness or purpose...?
@jessesingal Is he wrong in either take, though, my man?
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Just to clarify my argument: There is a strain of (in my opinion) delusional thinking about AI on the left. Part of what frustrates me about this is that the left is where meaningful pushback on behalf of the newly jobless is going to come from. I'm saying that *within this
@jessesingal Aside from coining the term "stochastic parrot", Emily Bender is just one commentator in this space and I'm not sure how it got decided that her views are interchangeable with "the left." Gary Marcus is probably a more influential voice in pointing out the technical limitations
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absolutely chronic habit among some lefty thinker types -- if you just choose the correct definitions, or insist on unpopular ones, that means you're correct (somehow). this can bring with it a huge amount of point-missing
This piece about the left being out to lunch on AI is really good.
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New from me: Maybe It’s Bad That Recent Progressive Ideas On Race Are So Compatible With White Nationalism https://t.co/2PEkm9kwAt
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Standing in downtown Truckee at 5,817 feet and this is where the Sierra snowfall story really comes into focus. This storm is measured in feet, not inches: Higher elevations of the High Sierra: 6+ feet Donner Pass (7,056 ft): 5 to 6 feet Soda Springs (6,752 ft): 4 to 5 feet
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We are reaching levels of conservative grievance politics that are incomprehensible even to the terminally online
Keeping cool while Making America Hot Again. 🏁 Auto start-stop is officially dead.
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@jessesingal I support Israel, but if you ever catch yourself calling an entire ethnic group "rabid dogs" then you need to log off and do some self reflection. That level of dehumanization is never okay and comes from a dark place.
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I'm far from an experienced West Coast skier but I think I... have just never ever seen a forecast like this before? It looks like a typo.
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please stop
The problem with this thinking is the Palestinians are not oppressed. They are a fantastically dangerous death cult that will literally sacrifice their own children to hurt Jews. A rabid dog is not oppressed when you don’t invite it into your house
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Donner Pass, which is how Bay Area people get to Lake Tahoe, is going to be getting about a foot of snow per 12 hours on Monday and Tuesday. They just do snow out here very differently from how we do back east -- to use technical meteorological language it's like a bigger thing
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This is useful. Sometimes I feel like a broken record in constantly complaining about people not defining their terms carefully and consistently, but I do think it's the root of a lot of unproductive discourse.
As I’ve seen some renewed back and forth about the actuality and/or possibility of artificial ‘intelligence’ over the last few days I thought it worth quickly rehearsing my official position for those unfamiliar with it. Much of this is a matter of methodological disambiguation.
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This is why I don’t care for the work of James Madison, George Washington, Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, Leonardo da Vinci or… *checks notes*… Nikola Tesla.
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I have no idea what any of this means and even the idea of trying to understand it or care just a little makes me so so tired
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My wife stormed into the kitchen this morning "Oh my fucking god, look what I found" A hotel booking confirmation on our 16 year old daughter's phone Valentine's night, king bed, champagne package The reservation was under her boyfriend's name "She is 16 and dating a 42 year
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I'll never forget what Christopher Nolan said to me while we were bungie-jumping in Honduras 13 years ago today. "Jesse, a lot of anecdotes aren't easily fact-checked," he said. "Online you can just say stuff and enough people will believe it that the truth won't matter."
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