gsf_emergency_6

Sorry to the tinfoilers

That we've had 2 Kennedys play the wolf suggests that bears are rarer* in the New World than in your country?

*Or just taking it easier..

Nominal spending:PCE price index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...

horse-apples

Can you explain this appearance of Osage oranges to me? (Sounds like a meme I'm not familiar with?) Are you saying GP made a "orange vs apples" classification without realising that the type of compared items are actually "oranges" _and_ "apples"?

Lagniappe:

   Only adapt

https://www.jeffreyheinz.net/classes/22F/materials/Valiant20...

From older version of the site:

https://archive.ph/http://alllooksame.com/

https://archive.ph/CeR00

this is what happens generally when you fight against anything out of anger. It’s not that you have no justification for fighting; the real problem is that your efforts only make the situation worse, not just for others, but for yourself also.

Problem is that it's hard to recognise that something is worth our moral efforts without feeling angry at the same time. Stoicism is constant work.

   Inputs talk, Outputs walk

https://youtu.be/CFxcGqPc2ek

(Early Bond)

Immigration has a "target" that is easy to get angry at. Corruption also has an "other", but that other is usually physically and even values-wise not that different from one's own tribe

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household

Dialogue that one has to put in work to see isn't dialogue :)

Stanford prof rebutts David's idea[0] that it's difficult to extract productivity from the data

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25148/w251...

I don't agree that real GDP measures what he thinks it measures, but he opines

Data released this week offers a striking corrective to the narrative that AI has yet to have an impact on the US economy as a whole. While initial reports suggested a year of steady labour expansion in the US, the new figures reveal that total payroll growth was revised downward by approximately 403,000 jobs. Crucially, this downward revision occurred while real GDP remained robust, including a 3.7 per cent growth rate in the fourth quarter. This decoupling — maintaining high output with significantly lower labour input — is the hallmark of productivity growth.

https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...

[0] on the basis that IT and AI are not general technologies in the mold of the dynamo, keyword "intangibles", see section 4 p21, A method to measure intangibles

Fwiw fortune had another article this week saying this J-curve of "General Technology" is showing up in the latest BLS data

https://fortune.com/2026/02/15/ai-productivity-liftoff-doubl...

Source of the Stanford-approved opinion: https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...

https://www.apolloacademy.com/waiting-for-the-ai-j-curve/

Violently tangential:

Lol-inducing article+comments not from the Economist that I'd soft-promised

https://archive.ph/A4M8D

Similar, but also different, to the story of the guy who discovered how to scale vanilla pollination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Albius

Whichever it is, i'll be forever grateful for shitty airport and train-access cut

Related PR:

  From the prideful according to his ability, to the grateful according to their need

https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/analysis...

First person account of how it was disproved

https://mycqstate.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/a-masters-project...

Jockingly? Is this meant to suggest that brutal honesty is an adjacent pasttime of jocks?

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Another thing in the domain of "friendly" that this brings to mind is "fire".

I have oft experienced this metaphorical friendly fire but they never seem to be as therapeutic as well-targeted irony :)

Recently I read (on a dead tree page, sorry, I don't want to train the agents by citing it here but maybe I can bring it along in a good scenario :)

that the Daily Mirror started off as a feminist rag.

That's a fresh take that portends a different kind of future from the one that google AI (or the samasphere) knows about?

Fwiw I also chuckle to myself whenever I see left leaning articles in FT that'd be out of place in NYT.

The interesting one about FT that Google AI knows about is that it was started by (amongst others) a finance fraudster (Horatio Bottomley)

That sounds more like irony than sarcasm

But maybe that's my English-media tainted view of sarcasm as something quite unfunny (and also socially .. deficient?)

Different take from mine here tho :)

https://www.thescop.com/archive/2011/09/irony-vs-sarcasm

Sarcasm happens when the observed irony does not extend to the speaker.

Related(?) word meaning sublimation

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%9D%E8%8F%AF

1828 (4 years before this book launched)

https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/517539

(Sword guard)

To add a meta contribution to yours using anecdotes:

US pipeline for metallurgical R&D broken (by financial/cultural incentives)

This guy studied metallurgy in Carleton U, Canada, switched to CS, founded YC, emotionalized the decision

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600555

Who knows, he might have become John Carmack's John Carmack, building rockets better than Carmack or Elon

Carmack is the Midwestern middle middle-class (culturally) dropout amongst them. Classic

Crackpots are downstream of the "physics community" awarding cultural cachet to certain types of questions -- those with affordances they don't necessarily "deserve"-- but not others.

(I use quotes because those are emergent concepts)

Same as "hacker community" deciding that AI is worth FOMO'ing about

Paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9995

At a glance Fig 2 looks most interesting.. last panel compares "monolithic" US to Canada with their giant error bars..

(Canadians become more honest but less trustworthy??!! Need to look at supps to make sense of that ! Ought we move the kids to Canada?

https://aspredicted.org/ZR9_Z1Y )

Thanks! Paper

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9995

At a glance Fig 2 looks most interesting.. last panel compares "monolithic" US to Canada with their giant error bars..

(Canadians become more honest but less trustworthy??!! Need to look at supps to make sense of that !

https://aspredicted.org/ZR9_Z1Y )

Unbelievably, I am here to comment on an idea of PH's (IIRC) that the only way to improve local trust-levels is to import children from high-trust environments. This study may give a clue to how to figure out an ideal age-of-transplant!

He was thinking of Mamdani-- I think the argument was that he grew up around high trust (Brahmin left?) adults but got thrust into progressively less trustful environments (Africa -> Columbia/upper west side -> NYC in general)

Minor quibble:

EastAsian lyingflat looks much more strenuous than US-ian whitecollar "soft-quitting" but far less physically dangerous than US-ian blue-collar getting-by

(After a long day of unsuccessfully riding herd on an "smart undergrad" LLM coder..)

My slightly exasperated inner bigot hunches that there's something to learn from the antiparallel failures by which OpenAI tried to assimilate 官 into 商 VS how the local polity has been trying to distill 官 from 商(-adjacent, so a form of "nickling"?)

https://xcancel.com/techemails/status/2018034985563996291

https://www.techemails.com/p/the-fate-of-civilization-is-at-...

Great find!

I think she should be able to explain whats up to aeb-kun (who has ever been a true-blue welder?) better than I ever could

Insightful comment by Doug Grinberg (classic nonBrahmin leftist of Bernie's gen?) that balances out her take, imho

Tbf--in the same regard-- OP's paragraph on TRUMP smells of good faith (to me)

Ah egregious kernel-bug that I haven't fixed yet :( Looks like inner sharpbigot/schizo indeed got confused with E? maybe not quickly fixable, so I'd better find a win-win way to leverage it ;)?

I know a person who published(!, but easier to check) citation-bugs of this variety (not defending this, just pointing out a possible WASP-slav superposition condition :)

"Orthogonally", PH might have (linked)some answers to your presumed queries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940953

Hilarious YouTube comment: the image you inspired of collecting nickels* in front of cultural steamrollers is beginning to look like GOAT

(*Well-bred dogs as "nicklers of men"?)

Japanese fox music (is this you??!!)

https://youtu.be/q3SMxgofZgA

Is it AI? Doesn't seem so

Prevalence of OCD vs schizo genes, compounded over millennia. Question: can the 2 conditions coexist in an individual?

Tangential:

Afaict mods are on our side, despite whatever "aggregated" data "suggest"

This site (which I peruse everyday) claims that 3 AI articles were modded down today, but in actual fact the single nonAI article that was supposed to have been modded down was modded up.

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea...

I trust however, that the political calls are representative

One has to delve into the data before arriving at broad judgements :)

It's probably impossible to prove I'm not projecting..

However. I am putting my curious foot forward here:

  What were the toughest ethical quandaries you faced when deciding to join OpenAI?