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Final version of this paper is out, Karina Kofman "Cases of Unconventional Information Flow Across the Mind-Body Interface" mindmatter.de/resources/pdf/… mindmatter.de/journal/abstra… (check out the journal's other content, some great stuff here: mindmatter.de/journal/mmcont…)

I have very traditional, conservative, even reactionary, views on gender identity. I cannot even begin to understand the venom and poison directed at Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 or The Dispatch here. Riedl's commentary on fiscal issues is among the best out there, and I look forward to

It is deeply ironic that the leader of the AfD is a lesbian who's wife is from Sri Lanka. How does this keep happening

Austin didn’t just “freeze” rents for the majority of tenants who live in unsubsidized housing. they actually *lowered* rents by building a ton of housing

A periodic reminder to leave behind simplistic & naive notions.

this paper blew my mind when i read it four years ago. it blew my mind again when i reread it this morning basic finding is that transformers pretrained on TEXT are also useful for IMAGES (and proteins, and numerical operations).... 🤯 i think the term "Universal Computation

In 2007, the EIA projected that the US would import 4.38 trillion cubic feet of LNG per year by 2025. In 2024, we exported ~4.3 trillion.

Kabbalah is one of those things where once you develop a basic understanding you realise literally everything is using and referencing it all the time

We have very good survey data back to 1972. There's never been a period in the last fifty years where the statement: "Those with lower levels of education were more likely to go to church than those with graduate degrees." has been empirically true But you hear it often.

We don’t have AI self-improves yet, and when we do it will be a game-changer. With more wisdom now compared to the GPT-4 days, it's obvious that it will not be a “fast takeoff”, but rather extremely gradual across many years, probably a decade. The first thing to know is that

We don’t need to import designs from Europe to build “housing for families” … we already have the American Rowhome 4BR/2.5BA, 1400-1800sf This is what I’m building. So young people can have kids and STAY in the City

Best take on this I've heard

Hear hear. Presidential Medal of Freedom now. What on Earth is the President waiting for?

Permanent full expensing has made it through the Senate.

Happening this afternoon

More reforms to support new housing and nuclear construction may have passed in the past 6 months than in the decade before that. Plus, they’re happening in red, purple, and blue states alike.

100% bonus depreciation and R&D expensing are permanent US tax policy!

Eating crow when you’re wrong is an acquired taste, but if you learn to appreciate it you gain access to a whole new world of flavor.