I knew a lot about his alias, but I didn't know his real name, so when I hear heard Evans refer to him as Moldbug I audibly gasped. It's an excellent overview of one of the worst internet thought leaders, great recommendation
And avoiding those is one of the few upsides of all my teams being eliminated or not making it
I've never been more grateful to root for Seattle teams than when I watch other baseball teams feeds and see the deluge of gambling content. I hope WA never legalizes sports gambling
That they're using the output of one model to train another is also incredibly horrifying. Just speedrunning their way to a Hapsburg AI because they don't have any other ideas to stay relevant
I wonder if they hope to go out of business so that Microsoft can buy them out in bankruptcy and get rid of that pesky nonprofit structure that technically owns the company
Thank you, Senator Wyden. Your excellent grasp of the tradeoffs involved in technology policy makes me very happy that you are one of my Senators
We have every reason to worry that changes in phone culture or malicious actors will break polling, but 2022 wasnt an example of that fivethirtyeight.com/features/202...
Let’s give a big round of applause to the pollsters. Measuring public opinion is, in many ways, harder than ever — and yet, the polling industry just had one of…
Do we have carbon data on shipping food that way? I absolutely believe that growing in season is overall way more efficient, but carbon is notoriously underpriced as an externality. Especially at sea, where there is absolutely no law about pollution apart from a few places
I've seen based used constantly in a non-political way. It depends on what platform you're using, I'm sure, but this is genuinely the first time I've seen someone claim that it's political or a dogwhistle