Nick Davis

cheap suicide drones and a natural funnel through which a huge chunk of petrol travels — what could possibly go wrong

Agreed

I give it less than a week before he publicly flaunts our nuclear capabilities and floats a “shame if we used one” sentiment

i dont even think it’s doomerism, either, bc his brains are leaking out of his ears, he loves being an edgelord, and he hasnt met an off-ramp he ever took.

The inevitable end is Trump dropping a nuke…you know hes already asked how he could do it.

It is as it ever was but that there is no $ in the proverbial banana stand to TAKE CARE OF OUR “OWN” — a group of people republicans continuously tell us are special — is just the icing on the cake.

chat, we had to fight v hard to get some of this into the final copy. woof.

still my favorite lil rumination, tho:

working thru proofs for supremely polarizing -- its almost alive! -- and found myself nodding along to this passage given the state of things

dont tell me to touch grass jon

well ill be damned.

10/10 do not like

I’ll see myself out.

That, too.

Oh, there’s a comma missing nevermind.

What did they name it?

political scientists will immediately shake their heads sagely and mutter about converse

BUT

my initial reaction is that this is a thorny problem for arguments about data quality that treat “contradictory“ responses as evidence of low quality data

people are weird.

#themoreyouknow

“Amcits” is a new one for me — is that an established shorthand over there?

I guess both of these things can be true but it’s still funny to watch it all unfold as people bicker about how dumb and bad the magic god box is

“It keeps making up citations” vs. “I trained this algo to topic model 10,000 texts.”

Like…uhhh….so

The gulf between public laments against and praise for LLMs is really curious. “It keeps hallucinating“ vs. “it’s a productivity multiplier“ with no apparent ground between. Personal anecdote running wild. Weird time to be a social scientist.

War is bad but at least we had another season of Bridgerton and Love is blind to keep us plodding along

We are locked into the dumbest possible timeline.

the art of the deal

Trumps brains are leaking out of his ears and he’s got the nuclear codes. Should be fine what could possibly go wro

week 0 in all academic classes should just be remedial discussion of these cases.

oh you wanna use the magic box god machine okay well full disclosure

You could just replace “arms control” with any sufficiently technocratic subject and it would still be correct.

Again, Jonathan Haidt is a damned charlatan who continues to make bank laundering policy recommendations through otherwise-unrelated academic bonafides.