"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus A decent discussion of the approaches to AI in China versus the US is found here, but to me, because it starts from a misguided assumption, is China and the US are playing the same game with regards to AI, they can’t see the forest for the trees. The US and China … Read more
by liberal japonicus Another post, but this is more about energy, oil, Iran, China, yada yada. This Foreign Affairs podcast discusses the Iran Shock, and I’ve consumed so much discussion of all of this so it’s all a jumble, but I have a take that I haven’t really seen put forward, so I wanted to … Read more
by liberal japonicus A thread to invite Hartmut and any others to weigh in on the AfD’s electoral victory in Saxony-Anhalt. This was the Rest is Politics duo talk to German journalist Paul Ronzheimerx and I wonder what other points people might raise. The title is just to note that English speakers might be more … Read more
by liberal japonicus The NYTimes Headlines reports that an OpenAI has just solved one of the Millenium problems, the Navier-Stokes equations. Yay, us! Err, just a second. Quanta has this at the end of their article. OpenAI admits that their work on the Navier-Stokes equation was inspired by rumors that Alpöge and Buckmaster had solved … Read more
by liberal japonicus This popped up in my feeds, a youtube video about what happened with Ha Young, a Korean actress. This is a shorter version, but I wonder if both of them miss out on something. If you don’t want sit through, basically the Korean actress, who was in a top-ranked drama, and she … Read more
by liberal japonicus I thought it was Aristotle who came up with ‘suspension of disbelief’, but apparently, it was Samuel Coleridge. Aristotle argued that a convincing impossibility in a story is preferable to an unconvincing possibility, but Coleridge came up with the phrase. This is prompted by seeing clips for the TV series Lanterns along … Read more
by liberal japonicus Allons-y!
by liberal japonicus Folks have been talking about this, so I thought I would toss in the NYT Daily on the DSA.
by liberal japonicus First of all, with all the doom scrolling I do, I’ve gotten a lot worse about keeping track of where I see things. so I don’t have the links to these anecdotes. Bearing that in mind, the question of what is middle class surfaced in the demography post, and I thought it … Read more
by liberal japonicus From here I actually just think the idea that this extraordinary leap in human knowledge and our capacity to explore the world of ideas and the natural world around us in our lifetimes could come about and then be hawked at us like the the cheapest like new pair of shoes, but … Read more