HOW OUR WORK IS STRUCTURALLY DISRUPTIVE IN AI
Given the structure and objectives of your work, if you produce sufficient high-quality training data and conduct the necessary training on existing foundation models, the following outcomes are not only plausible but would be… https://t.co/oTPWn7XazN
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 22:35:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921333218084807028
I believe we are staying at a B&B in Spokane and doing the restaurant thing for meetups. That’s usually what we do. It relieves the overhead of hosting people. If you want specifics I can ask Francis to chat with you. 😉 I don’t run these things I just show up and look pretty so to speak. lol
(PS: We have done a campground before. And it’s perhaps the most enjoyable. But the people keep me up until three in the morning and I lose my voice for a week… lol)
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Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 22:22:27 UTC
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@curtdoolittle Are you doing dinner parties or meeting at specific locations or … ?
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SINGAPORE PM – PROHIBITION ON IDENTITY POLITICS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c628UgLVXBc
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 22:19:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921329195021447355
I love this woman. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 03:19:43 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1921042438807842962
Reply addressees: @VigilantFox
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The media onslaught began the moment Karoline Leavitt opened the floor at the White House press briefing.
One reporter wasted no time, suggesting Trump’s upcoming trip to the Middle East was less about diplomacy and more about personal business.
He hasn’t even landed in Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., or Qatar—but they were already implying he was using the presidency for private gain.
“Is the president planning to meet with folks involved with any of the family businesses over there?” the reporter asked.
Leavitt cut the question off before it could gain steam.
“Not to my knowledge,” she said.
Then she fired back at the entire narrative.
“I think it’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”
She reminded the room what Trump gave up to serve the country—twice.
“He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service. Not just once, but twice.”
And she made it clear why the American people sent him back to the White House.
“The American public reelected him back to this White House because they trust he acts in the best interests of our country and putting the American public first.”
Leavitt then highlighted what the media never admits:
“This is a president who has actually lost money for being president of the United States.”
She ended with a pointed comparison.
“I don’t remember these types of questions being asked of my predecessor about a career politician who was clearly profiting off of this office.”
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920944243159560692
HMM. THE UTILITY OF STORYTELLING.
It’s more that they’re universally accessible and they are accessible without specialist experience, study, or training.
It’s also more that they convey general principles more successfully (intuitively) even if they convey specifics poorly.
It’s also that all communication is in some sense storytelling. The question is, the degree of abstraction.
As such empathically accessible stories are more accessible and superior for conveyance of psychological content, while abstract accessible stories are superior for content that is NOT empathically accessible.
“Or as we say, calculus is hard. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Superstition, Sophistry and Deceit are easy. That doesn’t mean they’re right.”
Not everything can be dumbed down. However it is possible that everything important to teach a five year old about successfully (and morally) navigating life can be. 😉 There is more genius in Aesop than there is in most of the books of philosophical discourse.
Cheers
Reply addressees: @whatifalthist
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 02:32:34 UTC
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On a neurological basis, and this is where Jordan Peterson was genuinely an academic trailblazer before he became a political pundit, humans prioritize stories since they’re one of the most antifragile ways to convey info in a complex ways. Basically the story is the only way to convey large amounts of information in a way with high context and detail. This is why the field of history has for thousands of years percolated across the general public while science or metaphysics have not. That’s since the narrative structure of how humans live history is infinitely more comprehensible to people than a science textbook. If science develops a way to narrative itself, it will be the best thing for human progress since the public will be passively aware of scientific concepts which will raise the computational power of the culture engine enormously.
The story of the Bible is an easy example where it shows what did and didn’t work over Jewish history as a sort of play through video game model for how society or life works. Lord of the Rings can encapsulate highly complex theme of modern times or western civilization that would take an academic thousands of pages to explain intellectually, subconsciously added to the collective zeitgeist. Human society operates through empathy and stories are the most powerful empathic tools
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LOOK AT THE UPSIDE. 😉
I dunno. Would you rather live in these interesting times with the possibility of the resolution of pent up conflicts, and the end of the crushing of the american working and middle classes by continued payment for policing the world’s borders, human rights, and the patterns of finance, transport and trade?
For my part I’m glad to see movement and an end to the liberal pursuit of managed decline as a means of slowly killing the West.
We’re ending the marxist sequence. That’s a pretty heroic achievement. Now we just have to make it stick. And we have to make the rest of the world pay for the world system of finance, transport, and trade that we developed for the benefit of the world.
We can’t carry it alone any longer.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 00:20:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920997332545683456
CORRECTION:
The houthis only agreed to stop attacking ships in the Red Sea. That’s all. They explicitly did NOT agree to end targeting Israel.
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-10 00:16:46 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920996399627276609
Reply addressees: @Megatron_ron
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BREAKING:
🇮🇱🇾🇪 The Houthis have fired missiles at Israel again despite having agreed to a ceasefire with Trump.
It appears that Israel is not included in the deal. https://t.co/ZtQMX7KZwo
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920867469830328556
Hmmm…. I find giving into them is entertaining as hell. And for some reason I get away with it. (Most of the time). lolz
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 22:55:46 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920976013434953877
Reply addressees: @MoyeJoshua267
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Hmmm…. I find giving into them is entertaining as hell. And for some reason I get away with it. (Most of the time). lolz
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 22:55:46 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920976013434953877
I try to avoid the vomitorium, which is what happens every time I combine whiskey and cigars. That doesn’t mean I COMPLETELY avoid whiskey and cigars. Sometimes the vomitorium is a ‘cleansing’ experience so to speak. Despite the broken blood vessels. lolz
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 22:54:48 UTC
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