Andrei Stoica
@andreistoica
Andrei Stoica
personal “working with me statement” - resonated with brie’s
It’s like the lack of communal tables in restaurants.2 They’re good not so much because you can go and sit with other people, but so that your solitariness is better situated within a public space. Alone, but not isolated. It’s the difference between a club where everyone is clumped into their friend groups and one where everyone is facing the DJ.... See more
Thom Wong • Being Yourself (S2E3)
Tldr: Acceptance rests on feeling like you’re represented robustly enough in the infinite game that you’ll have future shots at favorable outcomes, and that disrupting the system in response to a single loss is not worth it in NPV terms. In 2020 at least, I think MAGA still felt like they were part of a one-time rebellion that had to hold on to
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wtfhappenedin1971.com
For now, the richness of “processed” data (eg. diary entries) created by humans is more valuable than “raw” data (eg. always-on video feed). Data created by humans is full of nuance in style, theme, etc. The signal derived from this kind of data provides higher-quality context for an AI system to build a personalized profile against. I’d argue this... See more
Sean Thielen-Esparza • Unbundling memory
And yet China is becoming a more repressive place over time, as its power grows. The government is building hundreds of new detention facilities all across the country for the emperor’s political opponents. The civil society that began to flourish in previous decades has been increasingly ground into nothingness. The bargain in which the state... See more
The Players on the Eve of Destruction
Currently, most American policy debates are framed in terms of ideology — small government versus big government. Instead, Klein and Thompson, like the YIMBY movement that inspired them, want to reframe debates in terms of results . Who cares if new housing is social housing or market-rate housing, as long as people have affordable places to live?... See more