Rival Voices: Fuck it, we ball: on rats, postrats, metarats, nrx what distinguishes and generated them. As some of you know I’ve recently (yesterday) had a small spat with the putanumonit guy. (more)

I tried to be a magazine writer, mathematician, and stand up comedian. Now I just write a blog with math and jokes. https://putanumonit.com/ (Putanumonit)

aka Pareto's Law. Management consultant Joseph Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control, and improvement, naming it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896.[4] In his first work, Cours d'économie politique, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The Pareto principle is only tangentially related to Pareto efficiency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #111: Giving Us Pause. Events in AI don’t stop merely because of a trade war, partially paused or otherwise. (more)

A market where prices reflect all available information. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #110: Of Course You Know... Yeah. That happened yesterday. This (Trump Tariffs) is real life. I know we have to ensure no one notices Gemini 2.5 Pro, but this is rediculous. That’s what I get for trying to go on vacation to Costa Rica, I suppose. I debated waiting for the market to open to learn more. But f** it, we ball.* (more)

Patrick McKenzie: Bet on it: Zvi Mowshowitz on professional gambling, trading, and AI futures. This week I interviewed Zvi Mowshowitz, who I Internet-met 30+ years ago in middle school then became acquainted with for real through his recent public intellectualism on covid-19. We talked about his interesting career path through Magic, professional gambling, and equities trading, which are very different but rhyme in important ways. (more)

app built by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade

Richard Hanania (born August 28, 1985) is an American political science researcher and right-wing political commentator.[3] He is the founder and president of the think tank Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI).[4][5][6] He has written for The Washington Post,[3] The New York Times, The Atlantic,[5] and Quillette.[5] He wrote The Origins of Woke and publishes his newsletter on Substack. Between 2008 and the early 2010s, Hanania wrote for alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste.[6][7] He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023.[6][5] A number of journalists have said that Hanania continues to make racist statements under his own name.[4][8] Hanania was a contributor to Project 2025 regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.[9] Since then, he has become more critical of the second Trump administration and the MAGA movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hanania (more)

Christopher Ferguson Rufo (born August 26, 1984) is an American conservative (new right) activist,[1][2] New College of Florida board member, and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.[3] He is an opponent of critical race theory. He is a former documentary filmmaker and former fellow at the Discovery Institute, the Claremont Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.[4][5][6] Rufo has been involved in Republican efforts to restrict critical race theory instruction or seminars,[5][7] which he says "has pervaded every aspect of the federal government" and poses "an existential threat to the United States".[5] Rufo's appearances with Tucker Carlson on Fox News reportedly influenced President Donald Trump to issue an executive order in 2020 banning some topics from diversity training for the government and contractors; the order was rescinded by President Joe Biden in 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo (more)

The Steele dossier, also known as the Trump–Russia dossier,[1] is a controversial political opposition research report on the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump compiled by counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele. It was published without permission in 2017 as an unfinished 35-page compilation of "unverified, and potentially unverifiable"[a] memos that were considered by Steele to be "raw intelligence – not established facts, but a starting point for further investigation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier re Russian Interference In The 2016 Election (more)

Benjamin Eli Smith is an American journalist who is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, a news website he formed with Justin Smith in early 2022. He was previously a media columnist at The New York Times from 2020 to 2022. From 2011 to 2020, he was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Smith_(journalist) (more)

aka alt-right, MAGA

aka Mencius Moldbug

Neo Reactionary blogger? (more)

live chat among multiple people

Finally following the advice from (2023-03-27) BiteCode on Python installation and packaging esp on Mac. (more)

The Aboard app is a totally different take on what an AI bot can do. Aboard is not an easy app to explain. It used to be easier: at first, it was a way to collect and organize information — Trello meets Pinterest meets that spreadsheet full of links you use to plan your vacation... Rich Ziade is showing me something very different. He opens up a beta version of the app and clicks a button, and after a second, the page begins to change. A database appears out of nowhere, with a bunch of categories — Year, Title, Genre, and more — that start to populate with a number of well-known movie titles (more)

Ben Smith: The group chats that changed America. ...just another day in Chatham House, a giant and raucous Signal.app group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right. (more)

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Inadequate Equilibria: Chapter 1: Inadequacy and Modesty. This is a book about two incompatible views on the age-old question: “When should I think that I may be able to do something unusually well?” (more)