Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@divya $25!

@markllobrera mark my dad was a reporter and he used to edit my homework with an eye toward saving column space, that's why I'm like this

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-19/ this week in sentences: macrame owl, hammer brigade, Dan Flavin nightmare, relatively inarticulate, lobotomization, false plateau

"History roils. Its waves are cumulative, one rolling into another, amplifying their thunder. Or they become attenuated via energies pushing in orthogonal or opposite directions. Or they swirl into directionless eddies, with the ocean’s surface appearance as often as not obscuring grander currents just below." https://thebaffler.com/salvos/time-bandits-perlstein

@jonathanrauch and best of luck to you in yours!

@bhaugen we'll find out this weekend

I wonder/would not be that surprised if it's easier for most doctors to prescribed oxy than weed for pain relief even in places where it's legal

anyway excited to watch my mom blaze it lol

feeling grateful that a friend in DC offered to bring my mom weed because she doesn't want to take the oxycodone that her doctor prescribed her for post-spinal surgery (turns out she also took oxy after her knee replacement and it gave her insane vivid nightmares, which is a thing?)

@TeamMidwest @platypus <3 <3 <3

@aworkinglibrary WELCOME!!

@Wolven I think he's trying to win people over who might not be prepared to say "capitalism not so good" (hence the "when I criticize capitalism" stuff), so I get it, and for the purposes of his goal the entire history of AI as a project is probably a bit of a diversion

@bhaugen https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

Honestly my only disagreement here is when Chiang writes that "it’s not the job of A.I. to strengthen capitalism...yet that is what it currently does." I think by the time of the Dartmouth conference John McCarthy had pretty explicitly renounced the Communist beliefs his organizer parents raised him on and IMO McCarthy's (and Minsky's, and the other guys)' political beliefs are part of the story of AI's intellectual history

I do not love that in 2023 a totally smart writer still has to include a disclaimer that "whenever I criticize capitalism, I’m not criticizing the idea of selling things" in the goddamn New Yorker

"Note that you cannot simply say that you will build A.I. that only offers pro-social solutions to the problems you ask it to solve. That’s the equivalent of saying that you can defuse the threat of McKinsey by starting a consulting firm that only offers such solutions." get their asses Ted https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

OMG this seller is also selling random old soviet hardware, help