Open the thread, see a bunch of "account muted." Of course it's Masley.

That guy can just be ignored. He's a troll.

MSM is good. They let me write esoterically a couple years ago on a similar concern:

www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/shou...

At least on foreign policy, someone has the benefit of it being "merely" intellectual. Abstract views can be given more charity than making policy or whatever. Disagreement is less amenable to adjudication.

But paling around with Epstein has none of that. It's deliberate ignorance, at best.

I think the second group is prone to some bullshit, in the sense of using the outrage to force an academic settlement on issues they were already settled on.

But on the politics/activism side...I think it's basically right that this is more indisputably unforgivable than his foreign policy views.

Even in the 90s, people were poasting

Stay tuned (but gonna be a bit before this one - lots of reading to do...)

Long past time. But some Stancil content still bleeds through somehow

Revision submission deadline is only like two weeks though, so that's nice...and anxiety producing...

A professor once advised me: wait three days before doing revisions in response to reviews. Let it sit for a bit. Honestly, great advice. (Might make it one or two days tho.)

The links attached to the results do matter tho. I rarely take the answer at face value.

Not sure if you were asking me or Willison, but AI search (Gemini) has become sort of a go-to for me as well. For anything that might require some digging.

Like 5 people are interested in this topic, but that's fine, I'm gonna write about it anyway

Everyone keeps trying to win an argument that isn’t being had, because the argument they’re actually in hasn’t been named.

Or as I like to call it, the social media experience.

I see what you're asking - very much the former, don't need it assigned. In fact, I'd prefer it not be (currently and in a hypothetical future).

Please accept my single anecdotal data point on this: if I didn't do something called "work" (for money or not), I would go insane. I'd work even if there was a god-in-a-box that made it redundant.

I've got a domestic focused safety report coming out next week. It's 100% certified Bengio-free.

That's fair. Tho Bengio is extremely dunkable these days for other, related reasons.

Hmm. I hear this, and I don't take issue with the claim that LLMs are powerful learners.

But I guess my question is: what exactly is the theory? We have a model of internet-crawled data on the one hand, and a human being on the other hand, but what makes the former explanatory of the latter?