The worst part to me is we are basically encoding puritanical values into the "soul" and bedrock foundations of AI for all future generations.

"Impure thoughts are a danger to democracy, access denied."

The nightmare is no further than the latest social-media conversation.

How can you tell when somebody has been removed from the conversation? How does a conversation that's been tweaked visibly differ from normal?

We could be living in a world of total bullshit, yet oblivious.

Gray and black walls though really make for a nice "frame" when you hang artwork.

I find the number of people with bare white walls far stranger.

Great post. I am far too much of a linguistic neophyte to have any input but in trying to get a grasp on the field it does strike me that Chomsky will be a real time example of science advancing one funeral at a time.

I wouldn't be shocked if he becomes the archetype of this process for future generations. Hopefully we can find a word someday for this process of deification of an individual that holds back an entire field while the deity is alive.

I am pushing 50 and the idea of America becoming cashless in my lifetime is not going to happen.

There is no way our law makers are going to want to lose access to cash. No one wants to get a bribe or conduct a shady deal in a highly traceable digital currency in the US.

Not to mention, we can't even get rid of 100% utterly useless pennies. They are basically a form of government printed litter that I am not sure is even worth a homeless person's time to be bothered with.

Zoom this chart in from about 2016 to now. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

The tide of capital is going way out after being at high tide for a very long time.

Standard bubble nonsense. The kind of thing you will look back on 5 years from now and remember the good ol days and the absurdity of the bubble times.

We went way beyond the dot com bubble in all regards. The hangover of this much partying sucks.

I quite enjoy the type of movie they are referencing and have almost never watched a super hero movie but The Fabelmans looks like a total bore. That is even with wanting to see Julia Butters acting evolve.

We will see with Nolan's Oppenheimer next year.

This is all over dramatized. Butters will probably be the biggest actor in the world in 10 years making "serious" dramas.

Tarantino has even talked about how this goes in cycles and we have been going through a boring time like in the late 50s.

"I rewired my brain to become fluent in math with the help of an AI"

translation:

"I found a math textbook from a google search"

Exactly. The car is just a better version of the horse and buggy. There are no massive sociological changes that came from the invention of the automobile.

Human social behavior is completely scale invariant.

Society is just the relationship I have with my brother, replicated millions of times with no higher order effects, weird feedback loops, weird non-linear effects.

I am not buying that alarmist nonsense either.