Imagine a doctor saying "I was going to do heart surgery but following the approved procedure made me feel like a robot so I decided to do something worse"

Luxury Apartments Are Bringing Rent Down in Some Big Cities “New building openings are bringing rents down as wealthy tenants trade up, forcing landlords to drop prices for older apartments.” @business

The skeleton key to the disconnect between GDP figures and the visceral sense of non-prosperity is that the high productivity industries create a giant Baumol problem affecting pretty much everything in America. If you aren't in a high productivity biz you do fall behind

Looks like 60 Minutes was going to run a story on the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador and then decided not to for unexplained reasons.

Opus 4.5 was the starting gun for the singularity

We estimate that, on our tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50%-time horizon of around 4 hrs 49 mins (95% confidence interval of 1 hr 49 mins to 20 hrs 25 mins). While we're still working through evaluations for other recent models, this is our highest published time horizon to date.

Whenever I feel anxious that my views on AI are misaligned with consensus and I may be missing something I remind myself that it took the Street nine months to take the time to read Situational Awareness, weeks to appreciate Deepseek, and interviews with Lukasz at OpenAI or Jeff

The degrowthers were always wrong

my assessment on where we're at as a society: 0. addiction is the dominant control structure of our late stage capitalism. the smartest algorithms in history are not designed to help us solve problems or become better, they are designed to hijack our reward systems and make us

Good news stories on policies that work should get as much coverage as the controversy surrounding them when they launch: Congestion pricing in NYC? It works and then some. Astonishing success story according to a new study.

The way you know that mid-20th-century nostalgia is bullshit is that it also exists IN CHINA

The easiest way I’ve found to increase my agency is to create two characters in my head: Person A - Low agency self Person B - High agency self Ask: What would person A do? And what would person B do? Ironically, Person A never asks this question. He acts on autopilot.

there were five and a half years between "attention is all you need" and the release of chatGPT. another three years have passed since. i've spent most of today trying to string together words that somehow make sense of these years. when "attention" dropped i was 19 working in

@mattyglesias One option: deregulate design standards! Current objective design standards are often insane and lead to ugly buildings. For example, @sfplanning legally requires a lot of ugly features of buildings that voters assume greedy developers are responsible for:

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article ( https://t.co/YMCO5sHYcL) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants

Notably, Jobs announced products when they were a few months from shipping, at most. Sometimes Jobs tried magical thinking and it *didn't* work, but those ideas were never announced. eg, the iMac was originally supposed to be a cloud-native device 10 years ahead of its time.

my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !

Does Codex interject random Chinese phrases for anyone else?

I don’t think the word fascism should be thrown around or depreciated through overuse, but if your top advisers are going around calling for an autocratic executive to suspend the judiciary and declare martial law, the whole “don’t call me a fascist” thing loses its punch.

Working for 4 hours straight is the new superpower: