I've often wondered "other than feeling like an anti-social parasite, is there really anything stopping me from entering the banana code for these nectarines/avocados?" and I too suspect this is a relatively common occurrence
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is arguably the real “elite bubble.” The dumbest person most educated professionals have any meaningful social interaction with—the guy at the office they snicker about in the group chat—is a solid standard deviation brighter than the American mean. This necessarily skews one’s perspective.
This little maneuver is gonna cost us Pax Americana
Yeah, fair
Yeah, it's a dumb framing, but I think it's too clever by half. Believing bad theories of neuroscience ≠ believing in the concept of a soul. There is no soul, nor is there a little homonculous guy within your head (or AI systems) that is actually controlling things, these are quite different
There is a segment of America that still thinks William Calley was a hero. The Administration is now dominated by those types.
I think it's fair to say that lots of people are doing a bad reading of Searle's Chinese Room and presupposing some sort of Claude homonculous, but I'm not sure that's a close enough analog to a *soul* to be a particularly useful lens here
Remain skeptical, but curious what you mean?
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
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To a Doocy!
Getting more luxury oil won't decrease oil prices for common consumers.
he literally just wants to be putin in a north american russia
go buy an e-bike or transit pass today
An important academic update
Halal Truck Mr. Beast
Eldest boy has taken to sending me messages and emails sporadically that look normal but when opened are just Halal Truck Mr. Beast
Yeah I support the "Lost Cause"
it's like buying the Beetlejuice house. it comes with Beetlejuice. you have to handle him.
DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
This is where you're supposed to either abandon or No-True-Scotsman your theory, not try to convince people of the soft and tender and loving heart of JD Vance
This is basically my point. "I haven't seen the marvelous creations" ≠ "it is useless"
It's not enraging, just sort of bizarre and downstream of a myopic essentialism. "This is not useful to me" ≠ "this is not useful"
I mean, he admitted that very point! (??). He admitted that very point, then went on to theorize that some of the hostility towards AI came from people who correctly saw that and were therefore unable to extrapolate any value at all
We should probably call it "post-dialectical". You can't treat something as a serious proposition when it's not meant to have any propositional content, only to produce behavioral outputs from your taking it to have such.
Found one!
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
Yeah, my partner and I also became Costco people as a result, and there's just no going back once comverted
