I had to haphazardly write out an amalgam of thoughts on Eddington. Never seen a film which so brilliantly captures American political and social delirium (and many other things too). I blurred all of it so as to not spoil anything. 📽️🍿🇺🇸
@adastroworld@MaesterMaester Potential work-around (idk if it still works) is to change some feature of your profile routinely which puts you in a “review period” before you get the checkmark reapplied — it still gives you the benefits but without the checkmark until they verify changes don’t breach policy
need some works on the history of "selective/partial default", "domestic debt restructuring", and "coercive exchange" -- do my econ-inclined friends know of any good go-to works on these topics?
JUST IN: 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s reportedly briefly regained speech, bladder control, & memory after taking psilocybin mushrooms.
Asymmetric warfare is moving in a direction where intervention is all the more costly as the capacity for retaliation has a higher, or at least higher to break-through, floor. Will require intervening states to be willing to really inflict damage, spill blood, and spend some cash to "win".
the world is not closed & determined, with discursive engagement as an attempt to trace the lines of what "is". But it's not a creative act of the subject ex nihilo -- both are disempowering & depressing views. You can shape how things show-up. Don't be overly deferential to discursive authorities (unless I don't like you, in which case you should defer to me/my views automatically)
Can you annihilate a claim on one side of a balance sheet, leading to an asymmetry, without fundamentally upending everything? A core question for economics.
lots of foreign investors in American equity --> demand for said-equity can make value go up beyond the usual fundamentals of the company it corresponds to --> American companies more focused on stock valuation --> less focus on producing goods and services --> foreign holders receive dividends/buyback proceeds/realized capital gains/etc., giving them dollar-denominated claims on American output --> used to purchase American goods/services/assets --> if financial claims on American output become unmoored from actual growth in goods/services/resources, everything becomes more expensive.
@adastroworld@default_lesbian I am behind on these things! But it does seem inevitable that the sophistication of scams and identity theft is going to explode!
have you had any interaction with AI that scared/unnerved you?
So far, I don't think I have. The broad consequences and uses of it have unnerved me at times, but in terms of a particular interaction with actual AI tools, I've been impressed many-a-time but never mind-blown