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As a young Midwestern nerd in the 90s, getting one of those cow boxes delivered to our home was better than Christmas. (Christmas happens every year!). Somehow I can still remember…

he just...he tweeted it out

At the present moment I think science is way more threatened by the OMB absconding with the grant budget than it is by AI.

“Just outside of Boston,” you say? They were coming to get Avi Loeb.

Again, the status quo is that funding recommendations are made by expert peer review by PhD scientists. Political appointees literally do not have the knowledge to make the calls t…

> the bureaucrats that were making the decisions before were not Russ Vought was not elected either.

Here's a more concise summary of the proposed changes: https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-change... I don't think any practicing scientist of any political persu…

"R&D" is not the same as "grants supporting fundamental science."

You are misreading how Broader Impacts (BI) works. From your link: > Some examples that illustrate contributions in each of the five areas are given below. Proposals need not addre…

The political system, representing the taxpayer (primarily via Congress), has always dictated scientific strategy --do we build the Superconducting Supercollider or cancel it; do w…

> the text of this piece is entirely human-generated, including the infelicitous phrasings and penchant for two-dollar words.

“I aim for the stars… but sometimes I hit London.”

“and, like, sort of ethics”

I have a 20 year old Malm dresser that made four moves and is doing just fine. (I do have it screwed into the wall as it’s been recalled for tipovers.)

You’ve got to normalize by dollars spent, though.

Ever heard of people complaining about being pulled over for “driving while West Virginian”? Why or why not?

Oh look! https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam

I would not be surprised if Sam A. helped engineer this whole situation… “Child’s play,” like replacing a reddit ceo.

Did you read the article? The author considers these possibilities and offers their estimates of the odds of each. It’s fine if yours differ but you should justify them.

Also “The Unaccountability Machine” https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...

Evaporative cooling of the best content, likely, but plenty of social networks with worse ad loads still have plenty of users. My question is whether Ellison does to it what Elon d…