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I happened to read an ARC of her forthcoming book. Lapore is well aware and discusses in detail the history of technocratic dreams dating back centuries. The book also deep and wid…

The American public has shown willingness over decades and decades to commit to long term wars of choice. Not infinitely patient, but patient. Of course, other Presidents have been…

Not everyone is you. Other people probably have a range of tasks that can accomplished with different models. Certainly if I'm confident that I'm going to get what I need from a fa…

What does "leading from the front" get them? There is absolutely no loyalty when it comes to coding. Nothing could be more common than people threating to jump ship whenever anothe…

Agree on the fees. At the same discovery process in trade secret litigation is invasive and time-consuming and likely be a heavy tax on the focus of senior leadership. This also is…

Yes, they paid for actually using pirated books for their training. They were like the kid, except that it was worth suing them. At the same time, more broadly, judge in the Anthro…

Hitherto he's pretty much proved the opposite. I guess we'll see how Meta did this time.

Google's ad revenue has done really well so far in the LLM era, and wasup 12% year over year in 2025, and forecasted to do the same next year. And that changes, then that's all the…

China has ALREADY transitioned from an "aging society" (7% of the population over 65) to an "aged society" (14% over 65). There are roughly five working-age adults to support every…

There is also a (very niche) TTRPG about the Night Witches by Jason Morningstar.

This is fundamentally a failure of political leadership. You don't try to achieve a goal when you don't have the military means to achieve at a cost you are willing to bear. There …

Nice, it gives me another year to think about what I want to do with my old gaming laptop

There's probably at 10-15% percent chance of a war between the US and China over the next 10 years. Maybe better than even chance of a militarized crisis that might have led to war…

The essay lays out a wide range of reasons why normal people reasonably fear that their OWN lives are going to get worse, but your assumption is that what they really care about is…

Somehow we'll all have to endure a world where you don't post your amateur photos online because you are "troubled" that you might not be able to shake down a personal stylist for …

Even if it could, it probably ought not makes this precise episode, because the technological, philosophical and social context is remarkably different. A similar episode, actually…

What does this random sentiment have to do with the article, which is about him using a particular tool for storyboarding, which is a process of communicating a vision to a range o…

Given that, according to the article, he's just using it for storyboarding, in attempt to better communicate a vision to a range of human contributors, it's really unclear how this…

I mean, between SynthID and C2PA don't you already have labels and watermarks that covering a lot of major players like Google, Adobe, ElevenLabs, NIVIDEA? No real concern about fa…

That's an odd way of viewing it. Having the reporting from the local paper amplified outside the immediate community strengthens the signal, and supports the general norm of holdin…

The MP3 spec was defined a decade before we had iPods. Spreadsheets took a decade to become indispensable to businesses. Clifford Stoll had used the internet for two decades before…

In the absence of any evidence, it is really unclear why anyone needs to catastrophize about generations of harms. Is there any reason to believe that "social media existing" is a …

It literally doesn't matter why search revenue is growing. What is observably true is that it is that it is growing, as has it has been, throughout the LLM era. Absent additional i…

Oh, sure, putting a million or more Uyghurs in internment camps, sterilizing people, and trying to systematically erase a culture and a religion is "just as repressive" as the what…

Where are you ? What precisely are you doing other than posting stuff that pretends that a party in minority in both houses of Congress could actually stop a president, unless some…