The chair on the left is an old Cock Fight chair. A good friend has one in his library. You could sit in it comfortably with sword on. Turn it around and sit on it akimbo and you could enjoy a good cock fight, gambling with your friends. Antebellum memories.

Douglas Hofstadter wrote about his experience of running up against an “abstraction ceiling” in his own brain while pursuing a PhD in mathematics. As Hofstadter describes, the abstraction ceiling is not a “hard” threshold, a level at which one is suddenly incapable of learning

Construction began on Salisbury Cathedral in 1220 with the spire finished around 100 years later. Englishmen have looked on this same unchanged vista for 700 years.

In China, 21% of consumer spending is on groceries, compared with just 7% in the US

Julian Schrittwieser doesn’t tweet much. He doesn’t need to. His track record speaks for itself: co-first author on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero. The systems that showed the world what real leaps in AI look like. Now he’s warning that public discourse is once again failing to

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Yet more evidence that a pretty major shift is happening, this time by Scott Aaronson scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183&fbclid…

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Scrapping ILR will undo the disaster of mass migration without prejudicing Hong Kongers/Ukrainians or NHS/care workers x.com/GBNEWS/status/…

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should

The CCP supports fierce free market competition as long as the winners are Chinese. They leverage their vast market size to gain from market efficiency while shielding their market from foreign rivals. This allows them to develop globally competitive firms within protective

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Guy falls 100 ft off the Grand Canyon while trying to get a better view

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Why does loving the land and culture mean having an opinion I don’t fucking get it.