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I strongly recommend you all read @ginevlily's essay "Silicon Man." I'v spent the last five minutes attempting different adjectives to describe this essay--and… 4 Sept
Sort of thing that Trump should be openly touting. 4 Sept Quoting@cremieuxrecueilFrederick, MD came to an interesting agreement with a data center developer: The developer will renovate an elementary school, build a comm…
"people in Washington (and, I would wager, across global capitals) are still not taking AI seriously. In the past two weeks, I’ve had conversations with folks… 3 Sept Quoting@RyanFedasiukI want to go on the record and establish a few things: First, Dean has just unquestionably been a force for good in humanity’s broader proj…
A few I might list below. I am intentionally excluding books that would be obvious candidates for something like East Asian Great books (e.g. Dream of the Red… 31 Aug Quoting@millermanWhat are some books that you consider great that are not canonical Great Books?
Listen, here is what Trump needs to do. He needs to visit some of the largest proposed data sites. Most of these are in red areas anyway--like the Stratos mega… 31 Aug Quoting@realDailyWireTRUMP: "The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and p…
"Science did not respond by banning every word associated with intention. It learned to separate functional explanations from psychological ones." 31 Aug Quoting@eranshir“LLMs are just matrices. Stop anthropomorphizing.” Bacteria are just biochemistry. Yet they cooperate, communicate, build structures and sa…
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West 10 Dec 2025 Disliked
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