That’s clearly false. On the other hand, the world without Pax Americana is increasingly violent, and you will, everyone will, quite obviously, wish for the return of the peace America imposed – because it’s happening already.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-06 13:46:41 UTC
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Well done. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-03 13:59:03 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007451645253185689
(Confirming the obvious)
Hypothesis is Tibetan Steppe vs Mongolia vs Siberia. However the basic argument is the same: neotenic evolution from cold weather proximity living.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 22:27:45 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 22:25:42 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 22:24:17 UTC
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(Joy)
YT PPL THINGS
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 18:47:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007161866179789096
Our organization has been making this argument for almost a decade. Though we include the reforms in the financial sector as well – the extractions from which are even more horrifying. Our point is that there is no reason we tax the common folk so to speak. We don’t have to increase taxes. I get angry thinking of independent contractors whose bodies give up by their late forties paying income taxes when their net contribution to taxes is in the low single digits. It’s just ‘not right’ so to speak.
Noblesse Oblige.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 06:56:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006982836041982024
Yes, the increase in expectations of consumption – much of which was created during the 90s – that’s created a false impression of the baseline expectations of potential home owners.
Someone just sent me Austin figures which are informative, but not representative. National numbers are all over the place. I grew up in a small town in western NY state, and housing is ridiculous today. At present, I’m back living in the USA. I live a few miles east of the Microsoft Redmond WA campus, and we’re seeing east-asian sized apartments at NYC and San Francisco prices. Meanwhile the company (the tech sector) is exiting it’s (overpaid) middle layer on a scale we saw in postwar industrial sector in the 80s that led to the franchise boom as people were outcast from industry.
The Northwest saw this with Boeing in the 70s. Seattle was nearly a ghost town. I lived through the movement of tech sector from Boston to the west coast in the 80s but Boston recovered because of it’s institutions. I’m seeing the same near certainty in the current tech sector (where I made my wealth since the 80s).
So, between ‘the great sort’ and changes in urbanization, offshoring, asymmetry in the economy because of the tech sector, the tech sector obscuring the rest of the economy, questionable education expense, financialization of the economy, the pressure on the young remains prohibitive – and is more than responsible for suppression of reproduction.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 06:51:24 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006981636328456548
I frame the increase in housing costs differently.
Our expected ‘minimums’ in every walk of life have vastly increased – particularly in housing. We don’t produce three bedroom ‘1000 square feet of house as we did postwar or even 1200 square feet we did in teh 60s. By 2000 we’d doubled to 2200 square feet.
And amenities? we’ve about quadrupled the amenities we’ve included in the houses.
In retrospect we’re getting what we pay for at a discount.
I focus instead on outsourcing the productive economy and financialization of the economy that has left the bottom half out of most gains since the seventies.
I do try to remind the bottom half that the reason that they’re in this position was their embracement of the democratic socialist program during those periods and how they forced business, industry, and finance to seek global markets rather than be ‘blackmailed’ by the combination of unions and the democratic socialist movement among the democrats.
Democratic socialism destroyed european economies. It just took until now to see that it’s irreversible. By the seventies we knew the end of socialism. By the sixties the end of communism. It’s taken us a long time to ‘get over’ the false promises of the marxist(class) -neomarxist(cultural marxism) – Postmodern(truth marxism) -feminist(sex marxism) -woke(race marxist) revolution – all lies and stupidity of silly people who were captured by false premises and magical thinking.
It’s exasperating how much harm believable lies were to humanity. It’s almost as damaging as the spread of abrahamic religions and the false promises they promoted but caused the dark ages in europe the middle east, central asia, and are still threatening us today.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 06:29:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006976054196617595
I am getting exhausted by these papers missing the point. This is like criticizing the human language faculty when disconnected from the prefrontal cortex. It’s silly. As a language faculty it’s fantastic. It’s an hypothesis generator. Just like our brain is. It works so similarly to our language faculty it’s amazing.
My organizations work in creating that ‘prefrontal cortex’ . We treat the LLMs as hypothesis generators, but then we constraint and govern their thinking like our ‘reasoning conscious minds’ regulate our speech as we go along. It’s not like humans pre-calculate what we’re going to say. We sense a ‘direction’ so to speak and then figure out how to describe it as we go along.
The difference is we don’t interrupt the LLMs and interpret them until they’re finished – we don’t continuously recursively disambiguate their use of language as a path through their ‘latent space’ (world model).
That’s not a bug. It’s simply a fact that the LLM foundation model producers, and frankly the entire academic side of the industry is simply working with their one-trick-pony of ‘attention is all you need’ to produce transformers without auditors (frontal cortex).
They keep trying to get a hypothesis generator to self audit rather than use another LLM to audit their processes and correct them.
Why isn’t that happening? Because it’s too damned expensive already…. (really). So they are twiddling with minor improvements in the algorithm because they don’t know any better.
We do. But it’s taking us time to finish the solution to the problem for them. (And while we are happy to chat in public like this, we aren’t really interested in joining into the hype game. It’s all nonsense.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 06:17:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006973015620542793