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Seriously though, just absolutely makes up stuff.

RT @SimonXinDong: It turns out,. > GRPO is performing the arithmetic mean --> token-level scaling.> GSPO is performing the geometric mean -….

I'm usually mad at Tyson for just absolutely making up things as edutainment, but then he wins me back by having a comedian and guest expert come trash talk him in person. Uhg. He's just so irresistible.

RT @MindBranches: full guide on Claude Code best practices by Anthropic:.

Trying to figure out why chatgpt is giving me trash responses and keep realizing it's downgrading me to 4o for no reason. Have plenty of o3, they just fixed the ui to not use my last default anymore. Thanks guys.

RT @BrianRoemmele: Johnny Carson, 60 Minutes Interview.

That's one of the reasons these debates are so inane. Instead of defending/attacking a given politics, you have to pathetically beg for balance. So within two moves you're literally asking for affirmative action for conservatives. you know. to push back on ideological quotas.

And telling people to not be political is just the polite face-saving way of insulting their politics without outing yourself as having a diff preferences/identity. You can just say it. Nobody is buying the neutrality call from an out-group anyway.

If your politics.-lead to worse work inside the trade.-less support from stakeholders outside the trade.-invite predation, rent collection, and censorship from even your 'allies'.Then i'm sorry, your politics suck. Empirically. Predictably. Nobody to blame but yourself.

I cannot express how demoralizing it was that social science turned over control to:.-vague ideological mandates.-that updated every quarter.-out of the absolute fluffiest sub-fields of the fluffiest fields.-during the replication crisis/"credibility revolution".It was suicide.

And my theory for why we traded them is the 08 financial crash. White collar workers experienced a resource shock and needed an edge to defeat their nearest peer competitors. So they invented an entire religion with DnD like character traits that would give them an edge.

We are now in a world of defending wikipedia against gov censorship in "left" western regimes, and facing 50% cuts in funding in "right" western regimes. Liberal values are the default, centuries long defense against both. We traded them for twitter.

Let me put it differently. The problem wasn't that academia became political. Every trade, including academia, has and always will be political. The problem is their politics sucked. Authoritarian progressivism was pop-sociology trash that ate centuries of hard won liberalism.

It's not even particularly weird for a guild to endorse a candidate. What's political is a guild giving up the claim of neutrality. That's what's interesting. Nobody cares that the dock workers are republican. What would be really interesting if they declared as nonpartisan.

I talk a lot about how censorship is latent, well public facing endorsements are latent too. You didn't see academia, the ACLU, NPR, etc. give up on the pretense of neutrality until it was strategically in their interests. Some combination of donor pressure and invincibility.

This was probably the least political thing that happened inside academia. Schools set explicit ideological and demographic quotas on grants, employees, and students for decades, even where it was illegal. Endorsing candidates is not when it went off the rails.

We're screwed. This crap comes in cycles, and we're just going to have a dark age where everyone agrees that there should be a boot as long as they're they boot. My advice, find some country or industry that rent collectors haven't gotten to yet and try to stay ahead of them.

Authoritarian progressivism was so shocking in part because the left's compact with liberalism collapsed and it became ONLY puritanism and redistribution. Turns out just like there aren't any real libertarians, there aren't any real liberals either. LoL.