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British version [0, 1].

[0]: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/on-t...

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/be-on...

> the deepfake element was created by a studio called Deep Voodoo.

This studio also created Sassy Justice.

Please note for accuracy: while the url still has the original title, the NY Post looks to have updated this article’s page title to “Elon Musk denies Trump quietly ‘encouraged’ him to buy Twitter”.

If interested: “This year, three Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Princeton — declined to release admissions data on the day acceptance letters were sent out, a trend Stanford started in 2018. Cornell first stopped publicizing its data in 2020.” [0]

[0]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/5/4/selective-univer...

Please note, this piece seems to be a review of five books: “The cult of we”, “Power play”, “Bad blood”, “Amazon unbound”, and “An ugly truth”.

This is the open access paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29612-x

The Twitter, Inc. press release is here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquir...

If interested, the video is available here: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/challenges-democracy-d...

The writers of South Park commented on this (and which, more broadly, was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...

In the U.S., there is the Monroney sticker that provides some information about petrol/fuel economy and society impact (e.g., the environment): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroney_sticker

If interested, this provides more context on the Pentagon project: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a32700671/...

This is a review of the book “Legacy of Violence” by Caroline Elkins [0], which came out a few days ago in the UK and will be released tomorrow in the US.

[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/45877/legacy-of-vio...

> Even then we're talking 70 points -- not nothing, but also not a radical transformation.

That would depend on the baseline score. For instance, if it was a 1510 baseline and then went up +70, then it would be useful.

These are the nine questions on the application [0]:

1. What is your company name?

2. Where is your product in its lifecycle?

3. What does your company do in one sentence?

4. What problem are you trying to solve?

5. Why does the old way no longer work?

6. Whose life will your company change?

7. Why now?

8. Why you?

9. If everything goes right, what does the future look like in 5-10 years with your company’s product?

[0]: https://arc.sequoiacap.com/app

> “Likewise, fringe movements in the sciences have long been a part of American society, although, to be sure, there has been a decided uptick over the past few decades. Consider the Flat Earth theory. Despite what you may have heard, Christopher Columbus did not discover that Earth was round; this fact was known since antiquity. (Plato wrote about it.) The notion that Columbus, one of the few knowledgeable mariners who did not quite believe it was a sphere (he thought it was egg-shaped), “discovered” its shape was a creation of the writer Washington Irving, who sought to assign some scientific legitimacy to what was otherwise a colonialist land grab. [5] Yet in the past decade, Flat Earth theory has achieved a certain currency, fueled by YouTube videos and an appetite for contrarian thinking, hyperskepticism, and a yearning for community. [6]”

That last sentence suggests intrinsic motivation. Sometimes there may also be a business motivation (e.g., economics of the infotainment industry).

> The headline says working memory, not long-term episodic memory, but the comments (and headline) here don't seem to distinguish between the two.

Please note, this is the press release headline and sub-headline:

“Neurons are fickle. Electric fields are more reliable for information.”

“A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons”

If interested, this is the press release for that paper: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/study-proposes-how-changes-neu...

And in that release, it ends like this:

"Dr O’Leary, Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering, said the study emphasises the idea that “drift” may arise from continual learning.

“There is a huge unanswered challenge in artificial intelligence, namely the problem of building algorithms that can learn continually without corrupting previously learned information,” he said. “The brain manifestly achieves this, and this work is a step in the direction of finding algorithms that can do the same.”"

Found Substack to be a great place to learn from different voices. Wonder if there are plans to offer a weekly or monthly top 10 list by country? (For instance, Netflix has something like this: https://top10.netflix.com/)

> so even the US is

Specifically, the article focuses on gas prices in California.

Further down that quote, the author talks about the issues John Marbeck and J. Horace Round had faced. Also note, this piece is a book excerpt.

> Our moment is one in which anything is possible because nothing means anything.

It would have been useful if the writer added more historical context to this. In 1946, for instance, Orwell raised some of these points in his essay, "Politics and the English Language" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu...

> It's true there is no super AI around the corner but we have thousands of dumb bots that are controlling us already. They are only increasing.

The article does acknowledge this:

> “What scares him is our own passivity. ‘We should be worried about people who aren’t getting smart while technology gets smarter,’ Gigerenzer says. ‘The more sophisticated algorithms become, the more sophisticated people need to become… The algorithms have become better over the last ten years by sheer computational powers, by the video capabilities and other things.”

The word freedom also falls into a glittering generality [0]. Wikipedia states:

“A glittering generality has two qualities: it is vague and it has positive connotations. Words and phrases such as "common good", "reform", "courage", "democracy", "freedom", "hope", "patriotism", "strength", are terms with which people all over the world have powerful associations, and they may have trouble disagreeing with them. However, these words are highly abstract and ambiguous, and meaningful differences exist regarding what they actually mean or should mean in the real world. George Orwell described such words at length in his essay "Politics and the English Language"” [0, 1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glittering_generality

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu...

There’s a good book called “The Precipice” (2020) by Toby Ord that suggests things people can do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Precipice:_Existential_Ris...

If interested, there was a post on Timothy Matlack’s great penmanship with writing the Declaration of Independence: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/01/the-power-of-...

Maybe, but many times media groups take advantage of this to create a false balance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance

> “the horizon problem”

It looks like the author was referring to this: “In relativity theory, a horizon is also a boundary on the region which an observer can see. Horizons pose an issue for warp drives as one cannot control the warp bubble if one see or communicate with it.”

And for more context, the author seems to note that faster than light travel is possible under Einstein’s physics: https://www.sciencealert.com/faster-than-light-travel-is-pos...

Please note that you are conflating two different things.

This piece is on the fellowship, and the article says: “To date, companies created by Thiel Fellows are together valued at more than $46.8 billion, excluding Ethereum which is valued at $450 billion.”

> continue to use their platforms to try and spew some sanity into the discourse.

Agreed, great points.

> aren't allowed to talk about this

Please note former President Obama has talked about the problems with wokeness and cancel culture over the years, saying people aren’t perfect and it’s not activism [0, 1, 2].

[0]: https://www.foxnews.com/media/obama-cancel-culture-overboard

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50239261

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-ca...