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Abolish the value function!
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Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
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The GOP needs to be a "normal" party that competes with the Dems on governance again. If there's no way for that to happen and this weird cycle is baked in, then the GOP has to be politically marginalized to the point where the "FAFO cycle" occurs purely within the Dems
This is especially bad since our current electoral and constitutional situation actually makes Republicans the natural ruling party!
I've said this before, but only one party caring about governance makes it, in turn, a magnet for public anger about governance
He admits he’s in a Brewster’s Millions type situation where he has to be impeached to win fifty billion dollars but gives up because he’s out of ideas.
And public health, and universal basic ~~GLP-1s~~SPICE MELANGE.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to access scientific journal articles behind a paywall. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Well hey, they threw the Nazis out rather than become a Nazi bar.
Shitty public health leads to falling life expectancy -> more gerontocrats forced to retire. I like it.
That's not a reasonable person.
Happy Labour Day 👋
I spent well over a half hour standing stock still watching the tide come in, it ruled.
looking so good, king! keep it up!
IMHO probably one of the greatest political missteps of the past 20 years was associating progressive politics broadly in the Anglophone world with, "we're going to replace you and that's good."
i simply do not like seeing society run by a slatestsrcodex comments section
I deeply, deeply hate short form video and it's unfortunate that this is probably going to be the dominant platform for the foreseeable future. How do we make "Amusing Ourselves to Death" required reading in every school
"You think I give a fuck? Suck my dick -- you're out of luck!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzNN...
The commonly cited AI water usage statistics are based on a methodology where, if your data center buys green energy from a hydroelectric dam (as lots do, including the hyperscalers), then “natural evaporation of the water from the lake behind the dam” is counted as that data center’s water use.
🚨 Clinicians have noted for decades how planning & anxiety are linked. Yet, computational psychiatry thus far failed to show how. Here, I explain that we need to broaden how we model planning to reveal its *biases* in chronic anxiety. A 🧵 on the framework 1/n authors.elsevier.com/a/1kAJC4sIRv...
VR-induced interoceptive feedback may impact tactile priority in individuals with low interoceptive awareness link.springer.com/article/10.1...
And yet I'm sure that's not who this is about!
Don't get your hopes up
Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience! archive.org/details/Redw...
Ok, wrong person tagged, my apologies.
Opinion | AI is not as smart as toddlers yet. What if we got rid of child labor laws and had toddlers and AI work hand in hand?
nah LLMs and animal brains are just built on two basically different designs for learning and prediction systems.
How are his court proceedings going? You'd think accountability would come in the form of a guilty verdict and a sentence.
Machines should be banned from using human language.
One thing where following lawyers and legal people has been really informative for me has been learning about how judge shortages and judicial caseloads are single handedly behind so much American dysfunction in so many policy areas.
This is Friedman cab driver level analysis, but I do find it interesting that among the set of “right wing pro-Israel Russian Jews” I know, the ones who actually lived in the Soviet Union have uniformly freaked out and turned into resist libs, while the Americans remain fully in the tank for Trump.
Great talk, feat. work by @edelwax.bsky.social @ryantlowe.bsky.social and many others! Really glad to see more people pushing beyond the limits of the traditional RL formalism! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8f6...
Joelle Pineau really said "abolish the value function" at @rl-conference.bsky.social!! 🫨
The Dem's plan to address cost of living is to pivot to pretending to care about democracy when the biggest threat to democracy are the consequences of Democrats refusing to address the cost of living (housing)
If I were the Guardian's tech editor, I would die of shame at having written this credulous garbage, because it shows that despite his job title, he doesn't have even the foggiest grasp of what this technology actually is, its applications and its limitations.
They have a plan: to blame gentrifiers and developers and funnel more money to urban nonprofits.
We have four years of polling now showing voters care overwhelmingly about cost of living and election results showing they are willing to elect a guy they already knew was pretty bad to try to fix it. It's really important!
I do think cost of living is better messaging terrain for Dems than "democracy" but I also think it's not really clear Dems have a plan for cost of living so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
how on earth are we doing palingenetic ultranationalism for the 50s-80s does no one in this movement have self-respect. or any sense of honor
I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it! Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
To paraphrase Eric Cartman, "It's not like communism. It is communism!" (laudatory, in this case.)
To be fair, the distinction between a Stalinist (which is what "ML" actually means) and an ultra is not that substantial if you happen to live outside the borders of the USSR.
"Your American heroes", you say to an actual Iranian.
listen here jack, jobs go brrrr
People clearly think they've discovered a cheat code with, "I'm not saying Jews are scheming, duplicitous cheats who control the world's banks, I'm saying ISRAELIS are scheming, duplicitous cheats who control the world's banks, and if you think I mean the other thing, then YOU'RE the antisemite."
It's cool and good to be odd.
So then what's with the use of the term "liberal", as if Iran was not already, in the mode-of-production sense, liberal (ie: bourgeois)?
Good news of the front of restoring UCLA's grants! calmatters.org/education/20...
Back then, the bad guys were both competent and hegemonically popular.
American democratic socialism could emerge as a major political force in this country -- but its main organization, DSA, is currently encumbered by those who have no interest in such a perspective. I wrote about it all! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Explain why you don't think private property presently exists in Iran, such that "liberal" regime change would institute it.
Nothing could refute "realism" as an empirical theory more convincingly than the current state of the world. Promoting extreme German nationalism is in Russia's long-term national interest??? Trump coddling Putin, driving off allies & capitulating to China is in the US long-term national interest???
There just was no international regulation of markets, period.
... but I think the regulation part was always pretty thin, and related to the fact that democratic oversight was meant to be limited to choosing who would regulate things best, which is more or less just a change of personnel rather than genuine political choice about how the society works....
80% of "realism" is backdoor Stalinism that attempts to resolve what are ultimately domestic or global issues through geopolitical competition.
countries have internal politics and those matter beyond national security? Wow i didnt know that
The thing about realism is that it makes zero attempt to differentiate between, and I would argue intentionally obfuscates, its normative and positive claims
Yes, hence my mention of the DSA, which does support that.
I don't think "progressivism" is a single coherent thing.
It's what Stalinists call themselves to evade charges of rightward deviationism.
Says you and what army?
Bernie 2016 said that open borders was a Koch Bros idea, remember? He wasn't that far to the left on many issues and would have been kicked out of today's DSA.
... basically every major empire was a "precolonial ethnostate", including the Ottoman one.
To be fair, the distinction between a Stalinist (which is what "ML" actually means) and an ultra is not that substantial if you happen to live outside the borders of the USSR.
I mean yeah, Arash is not a Marxist-Leninist and dislikes the ML caucuses within DSA.
what's ironic is that many of the people you describe here think of themselves as Marxist-Leninists and use that lingo and aesthetic, but are actually what Lenin would have called "ultra-leftists." anyway, this clearly explains why NYC-DSA is so effective while national DSA is a mess
Is the hippocampus best understood in term of discrete subfields or functional gradients? Functional gradients are recapitulated within each hippocampal subfield, supporting a role for both discrete & continuously changing computations. Neat work by Bouffard, @barense.bsky.social, & Moscovitch!
Well, Mamdani is a DSA-backed Third Worldist antizionist and Harris was not.
But what interest does he have in protecting her?
Are you saying you don't want to die for Comrade Stalin?
Right, as he says in his next clause, he prefers "violence by the masses."
Something I’ve had a gripe about for years is that basically everyone in America has adopted the George W. Bush rhetorical tick of “this is a threat to our very way of life”, no matter what the issue being discussed actually is. Credit card debt! Housing reform! EV tax credits!
You wanna show us? Because right now you're just shouting at us demanding we agree with your moral drawn from this story you're telling us.
to 25? Oh, as in, he's just sick enough to do nothing but healthy enough to avoid removal. Suspended political animation.
Basically I'm saying if you want something done you probably still gotta do it yourself.
Yes, but this man is POTUS and gets the best medical care in the world. They will put him on the Golden Throne life-support system if it means he serves out his term.
What are you saying? Also, have you heard the joke about the Jew who built two synagogues on his desert island? Jews always have disagreements with other Jews. The reason I've been hammering on about NK is because you keep not providing the context of the remark.
Then we were in structural underemployment and just barely kept afloat out of deflation. Today we are in structural labor shortages and suffering high inflation. These are totally opposite situations that require opposite policy responses, even to serve the same class interest.
I don't really wanna have this fight because the word means too many things, but I think everyone riding the wave of the electoral cycle really under-appreciates how much the post-COVID shifts completely flipped the table on the world we knew in the 2016 election cycle.
Neo-colonial to... *not* recolonize the Jewish homeland as an Arab-Islamic imperium? Well, that's certainly a new take. Anyway, moving on, you have a nice day.
I've been inoculated against that sentiment because even at a very young I have held the opinion that nostalgia is a poison, because I've seen what it does to people. You should spit at the feet of anyone peddling it as if they were trying to make you drink hemlock.
We need more propaganda media about how being an adult and having responsibilities is Great, Actually, and being a child is mostly boring as shit.
The sign of a classic *thing* is that it can evoke something like how you first felt, perennially. Instead of losing how you first experienced it, you deepen and add to that experience with time and revisitation.
I definitely posted "nematode-brained voters" at one point. And yeah. Literally two possible action-options: "go forward for status quo, random turn for not-status quo."
Just one more nostalgia bait IP slop serving. Just one more bro and we can all be twelve again. Trust me, bro.
trend: non-NVIDIA training DeepSeek V3.1 was trained on Huawei Ascend NPUs this one is a South Korean lab training on AMD
Australian police arrest second suspect in Melbourne synagogue arson attack https://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-police-arrest-second-suspect-in-melbourne-synagogue-arson-attack/
The Right? Have you seen Ezra's episodes before this one? He sanewashes the Left too. That's his objective political function. He sanewashes whoever the Democrats want in the tent.
Hamas is definitely trying to use you -- just not succeeding.
You're the one who thinks this person was being told this solely about politics, and that intra-Jewish political disputes (Jews talk like this to each-other all the time, LMAO) rise to the level of antisemitism when you want to defend one of the sides.
He was though, because the entire spectrum shifted leftward on a number of significant issues in the ensuing eight years. By 2024 Kamala could be seen as a centrist neoliberal shill while running on a record of full employment, strong support for labor unions, and industrial policy.
Similar to how voters consistently rank Bernie Sanders as "moderate" or "populist". Obviously Bernie 2016 really was more moderate than, say, Kamala 2024 on policy, but a lot was vibes. Doesn't have to be an old white man, but does have to have the right vibes.
the Achilles' Heel to a lot of "Dems should moderate on trans stuff to win back median voters" takes is the fact that Joe Biden said on live TV that there are at least three genders and voters consider him more moderate on social issues than Obama or in my own previous words:
Again, if the person you're talking about was NK, that's the reason NK is proscribed, not the reason your individual person was -- and if they're not NK, they're probably not proscribed.
Trump take phone charger
