new new rules for the new new economy drunken stumbles toward an economics of AI

"As my old dad used to say, if something isn’t worth doing, it’s not worth doing properly." backofmind.substack.com/p/new-new-ru...

First, assume a strait-opener

Is this because his head got more pointy the wealthier he got?

This really is the image of our era.

Progress is only progress if it comes from the private sector and can be monetized.

Understanding is woke.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

I think this is a response to them. Nintendo already told the White House not to use their IP. This is like the third or fourth time they’ve done this.

Cat: Yep that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here…

I only know about her because of Doppelganger, and even then I've been graced to never have encountered her in the wild.

A screenshot from Metal Gear Solid 3

I think this is the plot to Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator

Please share regardless!

LORRIE MOORE How to Become a Writer First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star / astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age — say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables.

Lorrie Moore

It’s all ELIZA effects induced by loneliness and language, just like it was in the 1960s. Would help if these things weren’t marketed as “modeled on the human brain.”

1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including
freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable."

Excellent report by UNCTAD
unctad.org/system/files...

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The media can’t focus on more than one thing at once but has seemed oddly uninterested in covering the war in general, let alone its consequences. We’re living though an era of hypernormalization.

The super-rich are a threat to democracy.

To challenge ultra-wealth we must first understand it - by understanding the dreams and fears of the super-rich.

The latest in the Economists 4 Future Anti-Fascist Economics Debate series looks at just this: www.econ4future.org/articles/gre...

War and then war as a little snack.

Funny coincidence. I recently was thinking about reading his other book, Fantasyland which I also think is super timely.

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I have this app on iOS... which I don't use lol.

AlphaFold isn't an LLM, even if RL and some ML techniques are applied in that domain. Honestly, I think of LLMs as Big Tech trying to commoditize what they gave away for free via transformers.

End of @edzitron.com's latest piece is🔥but there's something even more insidious about our current era.

The past wasn't determined to go one way. Even if the AI bubble were like the dotcom bubble is that inherently desirable? The general disinterest in why the last bubble happened gets me.

Literally just read your newest and nearly spat out my beverage when I got to this line. Asinine and criminal that this has been underreported.

I think a little redundancy and inefficiency in speech is fine. I liken things like this to clearing one's throat or some other affect. This will even be more humanizing in the age of AI.

My suspicion is that this is an indirect appeal to the dumb admin that the war is just wrong at every level, especially the one they care about.

I think most normal people reject this war on moral grounds which is why polling shows support started in the toilet and will only go lower.

Yeah I wrote a long thread about it. I’m just surprised that critics seem to be just be accepting the framing of the article. Guess I forgot how the internet works for some reason.

Kind of sad that the article’s framing is being normalized. It’s a terrible article that doesn’t get its subjects right. Like the only “left” positions on AI are Sanders and Bender? They don’t even understand the view of the one other “leftist” they name (Doctorow) and just map him to Bender.

Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.

We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

(10/10) Fascism doesn't care about economics for the sake of managing a sound market. It cares about capitalism/property (above markets) as a means of power. That's why I see a loose connection between conservatism and extreme notions of property rights that exist in the liberal tradition.