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Announcing my first book, with my style of longform narrative journalism and philosophy. It's about the clash between governing by top-down rules versus discretionary decision-making, in law, in sports, in the household. Pre-order now. @wwnorton wwnorton.com/books/fewer-ru…
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Rhetoric on ideology is not the same as competent governance. Here’s hoping Raman is more Mamdani than DeBlasio.
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From a policy rather than punitive standpoint, it makes more sense for Dems to impeach Hegseth, Rubio, Bessent, Blanche, etc, than Trump. Trump strengthens under attack, but likes to throw his underlings under the bus, and at this point gives less than zero shits about policy.
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Es pot fer un programa de filosofia sense que sigui un absolut conyàs i amb un rigor extrem, com en el cas d’aquest episodi sobre la percepció sonora. Congrats, @HiPhiNation @ProfBarryLam @Slate
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Whenever you spend hundreds and thousands of hours trying to raise philanthropic money and organize and do something that is not only free but actually pays people for something, the universal response on the internet is always "f-you that you're not doing some other thing."
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Crazy Asian crimes in California are going to be the next gen’s “Florida man.” This, the baby-hoarders of Arcadia, the old man who got put in a trunk in Chino and shot by old gambling buddies, and a crazy case of who put the hit on Jimmy Sengpaseuth justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/t…
A Berkeley chemical engineer who suffered years of unexplained illness discovered through a spy camera from Amazon that her coworker, David Xu, was poisoning her food and water with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019. The victim experienced lems and at times required emergency care at a hospital. Newly released video shows Xu appearing to put a substance in her water bottle in 2019.
Xu was arrested that year and charged with attempted murder and two counts of poisoning, offenses that could have sent him to prison for life. But under a plea deal, the attempted murder charge and one poisoning count were dropped. Xu pleaded no contest to one felony poisoning charge and received two years of probation, with credit for one day served. He completed probation in March and is now seeking to have his felony conviction dismissed.
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New academic year, brand new talk. Thanks to Cal State Long Beach for being the first to hear this.
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Miguel Rojas is quietly a hero standing amidst greats. He will not be a hall-of-famer, makes a tiny fraction of some of his underperforming teammates, but boy does he play like a champion, every time he's on the field and in the batters box. He's my favorite Dodger.
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I was interviewed longform about the ideas expressed in the Boston Globe piece, so I elaborate, with stories, evidence, and charitable reconstruction of why administrators feel the need to acquire more software. I also introduce the "assessment-industrial complex."
Raise your hand if you've spent hours in front of a screen completing new administrative tasks at your college. That busywork has name. It's called "Bloat 2.0" chroni.cl/4z28VF0
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I don’t know why but for some reason, my YouTube algorithm today thinks that I want to see a jiujitsu fighter beat up a line of frat boys.
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NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.
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The episodes highlights that part of this story is a child who has different values from her mom. Just like children of conservative Christians who come out as a gay, atheist, and move to Berkeley. Najya is okay with modest stratification and Harvard, Nikole is egalitarian.
Ten years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones chose a regular public school for her daughter in NYC and challenged other parents to do the same. Now her daughter, Najya, is 16 and has very different views. Hear their conversations. link.podtrac.com/iy17gay6
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I suddenly have a free ticket to My Chemical Romance at the Hollywood Bowl.
It was supposed to be a family trip, but the teenager is now out. Apparently, “it’s a concept album about the progression of cancer from diagnosis to death” wasn’t the winning pitch I thought it was.
It was supposed to be a family trip, but the teenager is now out. Apparently, “it’s a concept album about the progression of cancer from diagnosis to death” wasn’t the winning pitch I thought it was.
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If you decide that you don’t want your affluent kids segregated from poor kids, because you think they’ll make friends and learn a lot by being around all kinds of kids, people on the internet will accuse you of “using poor kids for the moral development of your rich kids.”
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I also want my children around old people, for similar reasons. Am I using old people for the moral development of my child?
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If there ever were piece about effective altruist parents who put their kids in school in the projects so they could donate private school tuition dollars to AI-risk mitigation research, the internet would spontaneously combusts into a white hot ball of rage.
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My niche take of the day is that pocket screw jigs ruined craftsmanship in home carpentry.
I’m surprised the New Yorker turned down this pitch, as it affects so many people.
I’m surprised the New Yorker turned down this pitch, as it affects so many people.
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Gotta say I’m in my late 40s and pretty good at staying on top of the news, but I don’t remember any midterm conventions.
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Philosophers doing work.
Personal update!
Wait for it....
wait for it....
No I'm not joining an AI company! In fact I am, as soon as my visa is suitably adjusted, going to be joining @resolution_org part time as part of @bebacibralic's philosophy team, alongside my existing role at the JHU School of Government and Policy! Cannot wait to get cracking working with GOATs like Beba, @geoffreyirving @danielmurfet @DavidDAfrica @jacob_pfau
I think that AGI alignment and governance are the most urgent and important challenges facing society today. While I welcome the AI companies' efforts in this direction, I do not believe that we can rely on them to make powerful AI go well. God even if we could, we shouldn't want to. You can't rely on noblesse oblige for the preservation of core liberal values. This is work that has to be done independently, in the public interest.
Resolution is going to be one of the best orgs in the world working on AGI alignment, and at SGP (along with @ghadfield @nickacaputo @zhitzig and others) we're building one of the world's best groups working on AGI governance. I'm so thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to building both. These are two orgs that have shed all institutional inertia to focus on doing work that actually matters, and will help realise the preservation and renewal of liberal democratic values through the AI transition.
Things are effing crazy in AI right now. It is easy to feel as though we lack agency, that gradual disempowerment has already begun. I think the answer to that is to BUILD THINGS. And I'll add: both @resolution_org and SGP are hiring! Join us!!
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