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Because the collapse of complex societies is real - https://github.com/danielmkarlsson/library/blob/master/Josep... Unbounded increases in complexity lead to diminishing returns on…

I can't help but agree having read the books umpteenth times... even in retrospect I find it more likely that Tolkien added Rosy into the narrative simply to make it clear that Sam…

I remember reading The Guardian back in the oughts when they were winning awards for their UX and they were my go-to answer to the front-end interview question of "Which websites d…

When it comes to his Antichrist schtick I say "takes one to know one". Also, Thiel seems like the sort of guy with the money and connections to pop the AI bubble whenever he believ…

This is funny because I remember having to pay a euro to take a leak at public train stations, and telling people that if they tried to implement this at Port Authority or Penn Sta…

By Portuguese authorities, not US. Which is why the title says "seized", and not "torpedoed".

> Disney reinstating Kimmel doesn't necessarily mean his show will immediately appear on all ABC-affiliated networks. Conservative broadcaster Sinclair said last week that "regardl…

Same, and I've never had to replace a phone or screen once... I wouldn't need two hands to count the number of times I've even had a scare. People need to get a grip. ;)

January 6th was in 2021, 4 years ago today Trump was 9 months out from having perpetrated the Big Lie about the 2020 having been stolen, attempted to alter the results through spur…

That was a great question to ask 4 years ago, but I feel like we've already gotten an answer at this point.

It is painfully obvious that this administration and their party do not care about the Constitution, or even the principles they were willing to die to defend just 2 years ago. If …

Funny, I'd say that for all of SpaceX's innovation and successes, Starship and its owner represent of some of the greatest expressions of humanity's flaws and challenges.

Because if the future household names don't want to be referred to as "not good" people forever, they ought not sacrifice being a good person for their fame and success.

Neat, but it still fails my Forth simulator test, albeit a bit better than the last time. I hope they didn't have to raise the temperature of the ocean by too much to get these mar…

Seems cool but disappointingly has nothing to do with sauce, hot or otherwise.

https://ia801604.us.archive.org/27/items/everything-is-bulls... > We exchange diamond rings as part of the engagement process because the diamond company De Beers decided in 1938 t…

Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDqAMTjWrw Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/02783649251344...

Everyone knows it's mostly bullshit, but that _someone_ is going to end up coming out as the Amazon-level winner. Every single one of these "fake it till you make it" AI CEO/Founde…

I'm curious if any sci-fi authors were knowledgable and prescient enough to write this into their world building? If not, it'd make for a pretty cool plot device if done well.

Gonna take this opportunity to recommend Sovereign. Imho it's the best of the movie of the year, and one big reason is because it is NOT this.

It's because killing unarmed soldiers during war is not a war crime. Rule 3. All members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict are combatants, except medical and religious…

I heard of the play originally from Chapter 10 of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder: https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-t... Which I did post top-level here on N…

I've never thought ill of Scott Aaronson and have often admired him and his work when I stumble across it. However, reading this article about all these people at their "Galt's Gul…

But at what cost? And I don't mean the "human cost", I mean literally, how much will it cost to use an LLM as your "operating system"? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every…