FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
05.03.2026 07:15
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
and as Henry and many others of us have pointed out in the past the "LLMs don't work" critique is then picked up by AI boosters to paint all AI criticism as unserious and ungrounded. It's not a fair tactic, but it happens, and its worth not giving it more oxygen
7. Their uses may turn out to empower the worst side of bureaucracy. I made this argument myself yesterday. Also: bad effects for labor and culture! There are many, many more plausible criticisms, most of which require some engagement with, and understanding of the technology to really make stick.
5. There are criticisms of LLMs that are much more plausible. They are built on a large scale expropriation of the intellectual commons. Demonstrably true! They involve a radical and extremely worrying derangement of power relations in favor of a tiny number of men with weird beliefs. Also true imo.
4. I think that it is important that critics of LLMs get this. The 'LLMs are useless which is terrible and everyone is using them which is also terrible' shtick contained contradictions even in the beginning, which took a lot of work to maintain . Now it contradicts people's lived experiences.
Tired: Misperceiving the shadows in Plato's cave as reality.
Wired: Betting on the shadows in Plato's cave.
2025 data quietly released by EPA shows harmful increases in dangerous air pollution attributable to Trump, personally, with 6 TX power plants that Trump exempted from stronger safeguards, for example, experiencing an astonishing 48% increase in sulfur-dioxide emissions collectively in 2025. 1/
It’s so American to be like you should return home via your bootstraps
I wrote about the Ellisons' Warner Bros. takeover, which will create an entirely new type of right-wing media empire
“No more wars” 🤷🏼
Gas prices jumped again this morning and are on track to double - a stark reminder of our exposure to fossil fuel volatility.
The real solution isn’t more drilling, but moving away from combustion: electrify, use renewable power, and boost energy efficiency.
Amory Lovins & Justin Locke: "Gas and nuclear vendors that can’t beat energy efficiency and renewables in competitive markets are leveraging [AI and data center] hype into mandates and subsidies to rescue their losers."
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
could a dying empire do THIS
Anthropic? The woke AI company?
we gutted funding for PBS to produce quality educational content for children. Meanwhile Alphabet faces zero incentive to clean up the industrial scale AI slop billing itself as 'educational' content on YouTube. In fact, they benefit from it
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
Large electric powered container ships are already a reality.
When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible.
Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?
Now this is a goddamn paper
This is just the AI governance equivalent to being glad your Benevolent Village Chieftain is, for now, standing up to your Bad Regional Lord
While I'm glad that Dario is standing up to Hegseth here, as a person who studies tech regulation for a living, I'll just point out that the difference between "medium responsible usage" and "The Full Orwell" being the moral backbone of One Guy is not a governance system we should feel good about
There is a great deal of schadenfreude in watching every AI company's carefully crafted alignment scheme to avoid existential risk do a faceplant on first contact with the most obvious features of the society it operates in.
Generic reminder that in large parts of the country, a professor would be barred by law from suggesting that gendered administrative burdens reflect systemic sexism. Because we don't want divisive concepts!
Yesterday I wrote about what AI is (math) and isn’t (people) and someone in the comment said it’s the best thing anyone ever wrote about AI. I’m just gonna take that at face value and so should you. www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...
Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.
They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk
cant.stop.laughing
agreed -- the larger issue is that Canvas should be facing market pressure from universities to invest in efforts to make this kind of thing difficult and risky. Are they? I don't know!
In a sane world, our universities would be suing this company into the ground.
Unfortunately, many of them probably think in order to stay "relevant" or whatever, they need to develop partnerships with these plagiarism-as-a-service companies instead
