ABC are variables, but XYZ are coordinates. XYZ gives you a space to work in, but you never know what ABC are up to.

Sounds like an adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Their sales would take a massive hit the first time they tried it. (Not that Musk seems to care much about his brand image these days.)

Not an anarchist, but the common thread among those I’ve talked to is the elimination of hierarchical structures (whether government or otherwise).

Other types of organization are fine, as long as there are no asymmetric institutional relationships.

Musk gave him the AI that colored it for him.

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Maybe its accretion disk was temporarily depleted?

That’s a relief—I was starting to worry about it.

I drew the line fifty years ago, with Bill Gates’ Open Letter to Hobbyists.

“Day one” was Groundhog Day.

In the late nineties, I thought the availability of online knowledge would make universities obsolete.

I think there’s a part of human nature that’s drawn to actions that produce a disproportionate response, regardless of what the actions and responses actually are.

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

When you see strangers interacting via video, you see people judging each other by some of the most superficial criteria possible.

In real life, most people get past those considerations within minutes, and the ones who don’t aren’t worth interacting with in real life anyway.

Buckaroo Banzai.

And then 25 years later she books passage on the Hindenburg because she’s afraid of ships.

He’s only mostly dead.

There’s a store like half a block from my apartment, so I just treat it like an external pantry.

The top 1% in the US is about 3.4 million people, but only about a thousand of them are billionaires. I don’t think you can generalize from the rest of the group.

My opinion of AI/LLMs aside, I think that even the joking use of a made-up slur against non-humans still legitimizes the general use of slurs (and many who use real slurs believe their targets are subhuman).