measurebread

one can quibble about whether present technologies can achieve “agi” through scale and iteration, but massive spending on research to pursue every angle on this stuff IS going to find further means to increase capabilities. this is good on how marxist semiotics understands the resulting questions

honestly i’m baffled that so many people in mainland china are still buying pure ice cars in the current situation. there’s a perception of a proven safety record for some models i guess but evs have improved a lot on those issues in recent years. public charging in major cities also seems sorted

more like p(doomb) lol

Policy in China for steel decarbonization has been more muted than in the US and Europe, focusing largely on incremental plant-level emissions reductions. But the building blocks for green steel are being laid now, setting China up to be a major player if that changes. New: rhg.com/research/fut...

his examples are goofy because he’s a billionaire but his general point is correct. socrates was also right about writing making us unable to memorize stuff as well as orality-centric philosophers, but the brain+writing system adapted. still worth drilling “obsolete” skills for self-discipline tho

some people disdain to conceal their views. this is by now a well understood fact that you should be able to plan around

Look at that enormous crack spread /oh my god what is that man doing to his economy

everyone gets religion (orthodox marxism) when the haute bourgeoisie acquire the “generic substitution of machines for labor power” capital commodity and immediately start to enact the marxist eschaton (rapid deskilling of labor, investment to protect firm level profits at expense of overall rop)

america is unique in having many millions of multimillionaires. this stratum of world eating petty bourgeois aristocrats (who benefit from various inflows of wealth relative to global peers as our workers do relative to theirs) are underdiscussed in their political role in america’s unique madness

thank you yemen for avenging 9/11 by humiliating the saudis

why are people acting like this is unreasonable? he was doing the equivalent of past graduate level work for u chicago in other countries

yallah yall cant be having this discourse again

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

ai is unlocking new levels of ethical behavior we could have never imagined without it

the flow is not where a practiced speaker would make pauses but the pronunciation is absolutely within tolerances. all youtubers who don’t even get the vowels right in their attempts at single words are hereby ordered to the mines

chuds: homer spoke about the heroic valor of great men, of the courageous individual in western tradition literati: homer spoke of complicated men, of mortal decisions in a world of divine caprice nolan: homer was a confucian, and blamed the failure of rulers to respect norms for social decline

chuds: homer spoke about the heroic valor of great men, of the courageous individual in western tradition literati: homer spoke of complicated men, of mortal decisions in a world of divine caprice nolan: homer was a confucian, and blamed the failure of rulers to respect norms for social decline

CONTRADICTIONS HEIGHTENED

Donut go gentle into that good night. @theonion.com

my view is that if you can’t sell ev taxi rides in a gas crunch, your business model sucks probably

people on the other site posting that brown charlie had gitmoes

cooking up some hybrid xotikz from the annoying arguments people are having: the question of extreme poverty in late qing and whether there’s more role for malthusian pressure versus entrenched class interests against industrialization is a really interesting topic to explore through econometrics

trying to workshop a “discourses on salt and iron” pun. so far i’ve got: two guys playing golf, the evening comes and they blast flood lights, one asks how the club keeps operating after the new government rules on sustainability, “the facility stores up solar during the day, this course is… etc.”

"Civilization was a mistake" — me when I stay up too late playing Civilization

saved myself a fairly minor amount of time wastage thinking about nothing with my stance that cop candidates, troop candidates, fed/cia/state dept candidates, etc may be for other people, but will not be thought about by me for even a moment

it’s important to understand that this and the broader state of affairs around it are a fully logical result of the trajectory of american anticommunism and the wider ideological groundwork set up to justify it. any objection you can raise has been drilled out of boomer/xer minds since childhood

a strongly confounding variable in statistical assessment of the safety of tesla cars and their driving assist capabilities is the character and nature of the people who own them

i think these guys are a little confused about how the concepts of “allegiance” and “being a baby” interact. for one thing both my naturalized parents are way more duty-inclined towards the country than i am

How it feels to have my birthright citizenship confirmed amid all the other rulings they are putting out:

ZOHRAN MAMDANI MAN, HOZ MAD I RAN

thing looks like it clobbers everything in the entry level price range (where it was originally targeted) of small form factor pc, depending exactly how small one wants to go and what kind of noise tradeoff is considered acceptable. terrible shame about the memory and storage price situation

We should ban all social media for under-18s except for text based hobbyists forums (video games, cars, decorative topiary, etc.). It’s good to have the experience of being arbitrarily banned by a 35-year old basement dwelling moderator for posting a point by point refutation of their arguments

probably a more efficient way to do my weekend routine of watching youtube videos about chinese history and/or critical bible studies on second monitor while playing civ or mapgames