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Why campness does not bother the Trump camp
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Create worlds unto others as you would have created unto you: A speculative ethics and metacosmology
But we live in profound ignorance about it all, that is to say, about our cosmic situation. We do not know whether we are in a simulation, or the dream…
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The idea of a race to the singularity is well on the way to becoming part of ruling class US ideology
With Larry Summers and probably Trump buying in, this is becoming part of the ruling class mainstream
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The dialectic of generosity and paranoia: How swing voters work and why political moderation doesn't work
The oldest argument in the electoral book goes like this: We must appeal to swing voters in order to win, because elections are decided by swing voters…
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Notes of many things 4
I have been distracted lately, but I wanted to put out some content, so I’ve gathered my best recent notes.
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Biden must go says Bear Council
I will not pretend here to have the wundertake that everyone else has missed that shows we must dump Biden- I generally distrust such arguments.
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Let's delve into exploring the rich and dynamic tapestry of AI plagiarism or: You're not an AI detector
The academic who posted this is, I am sure, a good-faith actor who thinks that he is sending a valuable signal to would-be AI plagiarists.
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Failing Keith Starmer can't beat Corbyn's average despite record anti-Tory sentiment
Starmer constantly reminds us his father was a toolmaker, fitting since the man made a tool.
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To beat Trump, show his similarities to a dead end college boyfriend who thinks he's special but is just like the others
Will Stancil and many others repeat: “Trump is a liar, Trump is a crook, Trump has been caught in brazen dishonesty, why won’t the media call this out…
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June 2024

A king, two vizziers and a courtier: Abstract reflections on the debate
Dramatis Personae
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Paul Gomberg (UC Davis), "Anti-Racism as Communism"
Bloomsbury, 2024
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Can an LLM be a philosopher? I gave one a chance.
There’s a new model on the market called Claude Sonnet 3.5 by Anthropic, at the time of writing it is probably the best publicly available large…
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