This, to me, is what artists owe to the world in an indoor, screen-saturated age. If people are going to experience the world second hand, fair enough. Let it not be third hand or fourth hand.

Rumi is the new Elsa for girls under 8.

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Friends are made through propinquity. If the algorithm does not create propinquity it will not create friends.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither

Yes, the election is the last thing that happened. There have been no events whatsoever since January. Time stopped exactly then.

The issues that people attribute to a lack of trust usually have some specific and fixable cause. They would not be fixed by the world somehow just having better vibes.

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This is not to say at all that your own feelings of distrust are incorrect or unjustified, but rather that they have the possibility of being interrogated and addressed.

We would make a lot more progress on every issue supposedly caused by a lack of "trust" if people replaced "we live in a low trust society" with "I do not trust the society I live in." The former is largely not actionable, either by being too broad or too abstract.

It is also hard to compete with the infinite potato chip chute sitting next to you on the same device if you don't offer potato chips yourself.

It is much more difficult to measure whether users want to eat potato chips than to measure whether eating is occurring.

Affinity

In a house full of potato chips, people eat potato chips, but many people choose not to buy potato chips at the grocery for that reason. This extends to all recommender systems, but the equivalent of "not buying it so you aren't tempted" is not implemented or not respected.

I wonder if Vernor Vinge wrote any notes for another zones of thought book before he died. I would love to read just a plot summary of how it ended.

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The fact that rotation can fight gravity on exactly one plane, because in 3D you can only have one axis of rotation, really clarified things for me.

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This is what they took from you

thoughts on 4o and "llm psychosis" (and what i think it actually is,) since it's going around again. rough notes mostly, nothing polished, all opinions. longpost. - for reference, i'm probably top 1%-ile (at least) in having interacted with people with *human* psychosis, due to

Someone should make this exist.

It’s time for George Soros to come out of retirement for one last job.

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