Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Facebook: Maximizing Conflict

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"The maximization of […] implied the maximization of inter-human hostility. All the existing sources of this phenomenon were tapped, a...
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Monday, July 3, 2023

"AI" and the World

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Statistical language models like ChatGPT are exactly the reverse of fictional artificial intelligence. Instead of a disinterested logical ma...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

Tweets On the Roberts Court and the Past Weeks Execrable Decisions

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  Chief Justice Taney IInd, STFU With 303 Creative , Taney Court II, er, the Roberts Court, has taken a long step towards bringing back Jim...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Religion and Slavery

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[This is a very short note on a very big topic. I don’t know enough to write more, but with all the religious justifications of slavery and ...
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Monday, June 26, 2023

Patronage, the Supreme Court, and Jane Austen

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These very rich people who Justice Thomas and Justice Alito call friends are not friends at all; they are patrons. We have forgotten enough...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

To A Communist, Supporting Trump

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If my political faction made one of the greatest mistakes in history, I might be tempted to never think about it again, but I hope I would h...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

The Technological Singularity: a Few Links

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 [For those of you who are wondering how this got there; it was misdirected. I have copied it to the sister blog Shinycroak , where I genera...