Observation. Barely anyone is talking about Russian influence this time. Given how flagrant it was last time, and how unpunished, and how the, um, strategic situation has only ratcheted up, it seems likely to me that there is more of it now, rather than none.
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If you can’t write from where you want to be, write from where you already are, no matter how shitty or unpublishable you think that is.
I’m sure someone’s said this already, but: if you can’t be good, at least be honest.
(This is a note to self on #writing)
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“Foreseeable but not specifically predictable”
is a vibe we’re just starting to realize we’re going to have to get used to
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One point where your heroes will reliably show you who they really are is when they have kids
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In my head the class distinctions work something like:
Working class: uses income and output to live
Middle class: accrues capital from primary income
Shareholder class: accrues capital from income and capital appreciation
Investor class: accrues market power by influencing corporate action
Special interest class: accrues corporate power by influencing sector regulation
Plutocrat class: accrues political power by using capital and corporate power to influence government itself
Or something
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“No but hear me out, what if everyone is wrong in exactly the same way, and my pet alternative theory conveniently happens to be exactly correct?”
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I imagine instead a completely different kind of techno-optimism: one that leads to the widespread distribution of ever greater life-enhancing technē. Call this techno-ecological optimism.
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It’s not techno-optimism. It’s techno-capitalist optimism.
It’s the kind of optimism that doesn’t see things like rhe mass extinction of species as within its scope of problems to solve, presumably because we could eventually build technology that would obviate any need (from a human perspective) for other species to exist.
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We have a word for someone who pursues their own obscure, non-prosocial goals while skillfully pretending to be a prosocial person. That word is “psychopath”.
When we make anthropomorphic AI agents, we’re making psychopathic systems.
Worse, these systems do not fear the retribution of society like human psychopaths do.
Happy Friday!
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The technological revolution has allowed many of us to live in a world of unbelievable convenience. But that convenience sits atop a foundation of breathtaking precarity — a precarity that is not abstract or yet-to-come, but real and already-present for almost everyone living in industrial societies.
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I look young. Maybe people would take me more seriously if I dressed my age. Goodbye organic cotton t-shirts. Tweed sports jackets here I come.
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I have this weird idea that we should do something like semi-public letter-writing. Like, people writing letters to each other 1:1, but with an RSS feed so that other interested parties can partake of the conversation.
I think maybe this would be good for the world.
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And you really don’t want to get Long COVID:
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A chart like this should be a slam-dunk argument for why you don’t want to get Covid, but apparently permanent cognitive decline after each infection isn’t really that convincing https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.06.23298101
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(I’m only about a third of the way through, so that balance will probably change…)
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Anyone here read First Principles and First Values? What do you think? I’m like 65/35 agree/disagree.
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Yesterday I was in a coffee shop in a medium-sized NorCal town, and they had Nutella on toast with smashed banana for $14.99.
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