Music remix of my conversation with John Danaher. Instagram censored this video, saying it contains violent content. They're not wrong, this beat is dangerous. Do not listen to it while operating heavy machinery. See full video by juanjo_sound : youtube.com/watch?v=05CVXB…

Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961) openculture.com/2020/02/footag…

Я очень люблю Россию и мне больно на это все смотреть.

The thing about any hardware manufacturing operation is, if you can’t get even a single part, your ability to manufacture your thing comes to a complete halt. You can try to design around the missing part, but that takes time and can be hard to impossible.

I have translated and added subtitles to the latest video speech by Vladimir Putin from two hours ago. Please don’t let it go in vain - I want everyone to see what a speech of true fascism looks like. No further comment needed, it’s all here, in his speech

Almost everyone chooses permanent chronic pain over temporary acute pain.

Not everything Elon Musk tweets should be taken at face value #Ukraine

I have been hearing the idea from some Republicans that Ukrainian resistance comes at a cost to Americans. Nothing could be more wrong. Ukrainian resistance provides extraordinary security benefits to Americans. 1/

Seriously, though. The censorship pressure applied to social media over the last decade pales in comparison to the censorship pressure that will be applied to AI.

Hahahaha we created Skynet

Might need a bit more polish … simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bi…

language models just being programmed to try to predict the next word is true, but it’s not the dunk some people think it is. animals, including us, are just programmed to try to survive and reproduce, and yet amazingly complex and beautiful stuff comes from it.

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I would like to share this, from Maidan this evening. Each flag represents a soldier who paid the highest possible price any nation can ask of any individual. It does not feel like a somber war memorial because soldiers are still dying in real time. It is horribly real.

Kinda crazy when you realize India's budget for Chandrayaan-3 ($75M) is less than the film Interstellar ($165M)😯🚀 #Chandrayaan3 #moonlanding

A reminder. As with food, we spent most of our history deprived of information and craving it; now we have way too much of it to function and manage its entropy and toxicity.

good sign for the resilience and adaptability of people in the face of technological change: the turing test went whooshing by and everyone mostly went about their lives

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are

Христос Воскрес! Χριστός ἀνέστη! Christ is risen!

AI only sees the past, not the future. AI only sees the pattern, not the purpose. AI only sees the data trail, not the human story. AI only sees compliance, not commitment. AI only sees keyword matches, not understanding. AI only sees what you wrote, not what you thought. AI only