'Warsh, so I hear from inside the Fed, has commissioned a generative AI bot based on the entire corpus of Friedman’s work and named it “Milton.”
A similar initiative incorporates the work of liberal Keynesian economist James Tobin. Yet another covers the recorded thoughts of George Schultz, a conservative eminence in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, who mentored Warsh at Stanford.
As a senior Fed official explained to me, “[Warsh] likes to sit in his office having long talks with ‘Milton’ about the economy and Fed policy.”
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the best Bioware games (up to Mass Effect 3 in 2012) were made by three high-IQ Canadian doctors, who got bored with making games, and changed careers to medicine, poker, and craft beer.
they left the company in the hands of a bunch of young programmers and creative writing majors who didn't know what they were doing. I don't even blame them for failing to meet expectations. The cultural wars stuff didn't help, but fundamentally Inquisition/Andromeda/Veilguard flopped because they were just bad games made by people with no vision.
@FantasyManDan@BriannaWu pirating is bad but it's not responsible for Bioware's demise. piracy went from ~50% of the market in the 2000s to ~20% today. video game revenue has doubled from 2000, inflation-adjusted.
@MyColleagueMio2 civilization is easy when you have cultural low-openness and >100 average IQ.
the problem with the West is that they're >100 IQ but also high-openness.
@BrandonWarmke people who took a class on "media literacy" that was created in the midst of the cultural wars to list all the wrong opinions they shouldn't believe: "haha I can't believe you right-wingers just believe what you're told, take a class in media literacy man"
@wil_da_beast630 this random crank said "everything in the Bible is true, except the part where they said there's no prophet after Jesus. There's actually one (1) more prophet and it's me, follow me" and then millions of people actually fell for this shit
Mormonism is wild
@mean_field_zane it's basically impossible to have a good faith conversation with these people, because any time they're remotely challenged they'll retreat to their 150-year-old Marxist truthisms which cannot be defined or interpreted in ordinary language
Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.
She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.
The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.
@max_spero_ very likely that she's using AI to write papers even though this specific paper wasn't AI-written. probably why she's so sensitive.
apparently she's been in grad school in physics since the 2000s, but she never uploaded any pure math papers until 2025 when she had a sudden surge
@TheFP surprised at Cowen's take here.
stealing a lot of money is obviously equivalent to murder at an abstract level, as long as we have policy-makers that assign a monetary value to life - which we do, ~$11 million according to the EPA. we're living under such policies right now.