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Io pensavo che usare GitHub per scrivere i documenti di Ora fosse una cacata pazzesca, col senno di poi si è rivelato un IQ test per i boomerazzi pieni che è stato un ottimo filtro.
Mi sono alzato presto e mi sono visto questo video di @Scacciavillani .
Mi ha fatto venire tristezza.
youtube.com/watch?v=LuujaX8L…
La domanda è: sarà vero? Dovrei vedere se riesco a verificare.
Ma per il momento sembra di setacciare l’acqua al fiume per trovare oro.
Ancora non siamo all’equilibrio, vediamo cosa succederà tra qualche anno
We are already in an era of abundance of games, so why should you choose one with AI art (which we have yet to see something consistently great) instead of a human made one?
Make a comparison with books: we already have abundance, so would you rather read an AI generated one?
Io ricordo questo (ma anche altri) che stanno attaccando ora essere stati degli adulatori di @micheleboldrin . Questo mostra forse che è bene evitare persone che si ossessionano a te, perché è un sentimento che gli rimarrà sia nel bene che nel male.
Dove posso trovare il bilancio di @ora_italia ?
Mi farebbe piacere dargli un'occhiata.
Grazie
Why is it effective altruism useful as a framework if it can reason clearly about some real ethical problems?
They seemed to have very clear and definite answers about the immorality of eating a hamburger, but look at how they have to thread lightly about human lives.
Some statements I believe on Gaza:
- What israel is doing in Palestine is awful
- No nearby arab nation wants to take Palestinian refugees
- If Palestine were next to any western nation and doing what it does they might invade too (though less brutally than Israel has)
- It seems like the population of palestine substantially agrees with Hamas
- Hama is a terrorist organisation that behaves awfully not least October 7
- The population of palestine is substantially children
- Palestine had like 30,000 deaths last year
- This is about 1/8th the deaths in Ukraine (both Russian and Ukrainian)
- Deaths of people are about total numbers, not percentages
- Israel behaves badly on the west bank
Not saying more than that, but where am I wrong?
LetMathsToOther retweeted
I see very worrying US companies executives declarations depicting open weight models as a risk. How much sold to the most furious capitalistic vision you need to be, to really believe it is better that a few companies control AI for all the world? They said the same for OSS.
I am trying to guess if this surge of articles re: Europe are propaganda or cope, given the total failure of the current US administration as a global actor.
Article in @WSJ about Europeans marveling at the wealth of America.
Some data on houses: "The data sheds some light: The average American home is about 1,800 square feet [...]. Europeans’ homes are about 1,100 square feet on average"
1. Bonkers to see Europe as leftists, since it usually alternates between left and right
2. I see dumber shit on this website regarding US’ building regulation, but at least we don’t have to write a grand theory of why we are smarter than you
Here, Patrick explains with common sense & compelling examples that Europe has a degrowth/anti air-con mentality and is told that "these are just anecdotes". This is a type of argument often employed by so-called "moderates" that has done much damage in the past decades.
Basically, for every talking point, you have a bunch of degrowth/extreme left crazy people that are fairly well-embedded in institutions and "respectable". The polar opposite right-wing/libertarian position is almost never represented in respectable institutions.
Then, you have the moderates. They often distinguish themselves by insisting on "statistics" and hard facts and refusing to accept common sense arguments and "what is before their eyes". The "just anecdotes" dismissal treats empirical observations as epistemically worthless unless accompanied by a regression table.
But quantitative evidence itself is abundant for things that powerful intellectual institutions want to measure. It is scarce for things they would prefer not to examine too closely.
The intellectual landscape ends up looking roughly like this:
1) On one side, there is a well-funded, institutionally embedded, socially respectable body of opinion that is broadly degrowth, skeptical of markets, skeptical of air conditioning etc. These views appear in EU policy documents, in academic journals, in mainstream journalism and in NGO reports. They might not be held by most academics broadly construed (e.g. engineering profs), but they are held by the small minority that studies these topics and that is enough.
2) On the other side, the full-throated pro-growth, pro-energy and pro-development counterargument exists but is largely confined to think tanks that are routinely described as "industry-funded" or "right-wing," which in respectable discourse functions as a full rebuttal.
In the middle sit the moderates, who pride themselves on not taking sides, on demanding evidence, on resisting "populist" or "anecdotal" reasoning.
This moderate position is not symmetric in its effects and moderates do not apply equal skepticism to both sides. Overall, the lack of actually balanced perspectives leads to the polarization of those who are more right leaning and suspect something is amiss. But because they lack any institutional home, they end up becoming cranky and conspiratorial.
End result: broad erosion of public dicourse.
Also if you wonder why AC has become a right wing shaped topic, it's also because of the craziness of the discourse, caused by the above.
I have been many times in the States, and I considered moving there. But the idea of a suburban life, compared to that in a small village or a medium sized city in Italy felt depressing
This same guy will shit on europe which is way more safe than the US and has way lower prison population
It’s pretty weird mentioning Dick because Soma is very far from that (in themes and ideas), and is instead very much more reminiscent of certain thought experiments in Parfit’s “Reasons and Persons”
The only "standard" big city in Italy is Rome, for the others the population is spread out across the province (look at Milan, which is quite small by itself, but is in a populous region).
From the map you can see that most people live in the plains, and can reach a city easily.
2/3 of all Florence’s rented apartments in the city centers are for tourists or visitors.
Fiorentini are destroying the future of their own city, like Venice did.
I numeri choc degli Airbnb a Firenze: due affitti su tre in centro sono «brevi» corrierefiorentino.corriere.…
Spiaze per questo povero settore che campa solo grazie a un monopolio dovuto a un forte lobbying politico.
Il valore aggiunto di andare in farmacia a prendere farmaci è da anni che è intorno allo zero.
E' positivo che una persona con un salario inferiore a quello dei propri genitori non possa permettersi di averne lo stesso stile di vita.
Se avesse potuto farlo, allora la signora in questione avrebbe potuto vivere di rendita solo per diritto di nascita
