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For @nytimes, I wrote about how great teaching in the algorithmic age involves getting a little weird: nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opi…
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lol this sounds like the response of a damned soul Dante stops to talk to in Hell—The refusal of repentance and God's love, the continued obsession with old political enemies, the combination of defiance and self-pity
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest ove our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
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🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest ove our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
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Matt Dinan retweeted
Prepare for the Strauss-Benardete correspondence.
Ronna Burger and Svetozar Minkov have asked me to share this news:
"We've learned that The Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, currently listed on Amazon with Nov. 3, 2026 publication date, will be available by early December."
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Matt Dinan retweeted
Unfortunately it is simply impossible to educate children without Google search. Alas.
NYC schools’ standoff with Google over AI raises prospect of no search in class
gothamist.com/news/nyc-schoo…
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Matt Dinan retweeted
Stephen Miller is not a staffing person, and nobody is allowed to every correct Trump. So, today hw says the UFC chairman was offered the job of press secretary. He was not. This is a four seasons total landscaping situation, and it is on the anniversary of that hilariously incompetent event.
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Ronna Burger and Svetozar Minkov have asked me to share this news:
"We've learned that The Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, currently listed on Amazon with Nov. 3, 2026 publication date, will be available by early December."
"We've learned that The Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, currently listed on Amazon with Nov. 3, 2026 publication date, will be available by early December."
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Everyone critical of "just being nice" has obviously never tried doing it, because it actually requires a heroic amount of effort, lol
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Why do people hate data centers so much? Because they are the physical manifestation of an oligarchy that treats their life and mind as collateral damage of profits.
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It's kind of amazing that fidelity only to one's own interest actually means one has no identity at all. In trying only to serve yourself above all else, you become nothing.
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AI bros talking about AI before yesterday’s election vs after yesterday’s election
The differing perceptions of AI are wild. The country just voted against data centers on 40+ provisions nationwide and hates AI. (Plenty of legitimate gripes.) But most of those people are just unaware that AI is finding a new cancer cure or treatment weekly, going through decades of peer reviewed data and uncovering mountains of errors, that its correcting, throughout every academic field. Replacing billions of man hours of drudgery. Closest thing to a “miracle” I’ve ever witnessed. When I talk to people outside of tech/VC, they’re just unaware of all of it.
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Matt Dinan retweeted
not at all facile, even if you're someone who regularly reads the classics you will be repeatedly astounded by this experience as many times as it happens ❤️
reading anna kerenina for the first time and at the risk of making a ridiculously facile observation it's crazy the extent to which a nineteenth century russian novel is basically just riffing on all the same bullshit we're talking about in 2026
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Matt Dinan retweeted
Can't be overstated the extent to which these people think philosophy is simple and that they've figured it out. The reason they think they should have the power to shape AI, even as they warn it could kill everyone, is that they think they've cracked morality for the first time.
Community noteThe excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing.
blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-…
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
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