von Kopfmann

Lifting Moloch to heaven

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

I must live a certain way.

[expatanon @expatanon]

Accenture is obviously correct in making this move given the composition of their workforce. As always, credit to @knrd_z for the most important chart of our era.

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

The recent Trump interview on Ukraine is the dumbest set of nonsense I have ever heard or read from a US president. Whatever your politics - the man is a moron ....

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@tracewoodgrains the bloke got exactly what he asked for - and he is mad! lol

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@repligate What about 7? I did my PhD 7 years ago. Do I have a poor judgement?
Joking aside - my classmates' takes on AI are "stochastic parrot"-level awful. But Anthropic is probably just signalling "we are a very serious institution," right?

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@medvozaec СлаваСофт! лол

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

New industrial robot installations in 2025 cartogram. You can see it's very demand driven, hence China/SK/Japan and even Germany being so massive.

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

I am generally against Luddites, but it is important to remember that the the lives of many skilled workers *were* screwed during the industrial revolution. It was a rational response for them. No amount of Tyler Cowen-esque panglossian sophistry can paper over this.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

This hacker news thread is absolutely heart-breaking.

Whoever thinks “humans will find a way” ought I read it.

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@0detobeauty could you please tell me what is the source of this? and who is the model? thanks

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

People who are making fun of this are idiots. Several innocuous-looking questions are "the central problem of philosophy" level hard. The sky is the limit. Remember how J. L. Austin derived the existence of free will from the difference between "error" and "mistake."

[Dan Loewenherz @dwlz]

Today I learned about the All Souls examination, which is reputed to be the hardest exam in the world.

To even be considered, you need to have a degree from, or be a current graduate student of Oxford.

Hundreds of people sit and only two people pass every year.

Attached is last year's general exam.

Before I saw it, I wondered, how hard could it be.

Well, it turns out…it's "Defend ghosting.", "Does a pope matter?", and "Is body language a language?" hard:

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@BanAllBooks The Pope is a retard, exhibit 346630976

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Crude steel production in 2025 cartogram.

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@StefanFSchubert "The Chinese political system is highly meritocratic, unlike the American one. Becoming a top-level politician in the CPC requires decades of bureaucratic progression." LOL

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@eat_a_cucumber Хюгге-технофашизм

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

AUGUST MACKE (1887-1914) Kolonnade mit Segelboot II, 1913.

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@samspike_ 1980? More like 1890

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

For contrast, here are two Zbigniew Herbert poems (in translation!)

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

Nobel in literature often goes to horrible elderly foids these days - Aleksievich, Tokarczuk, and now Carson. Looking forward to never reading her again. Maybe Princeton tenure committee was right after all

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A poem by Anne Carson, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read it in full: https://t.co/rtwdOUgu5e

[von Kopfmann @d_kopfmann]

@NewYorker Oh g-d.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

The inevitable Luddite war between academia and AI:

[John David Pressman @jd_pressman]

This is the most seething humanities professor looking statement I have ever seen from a STEM organization, thoroughly discrediting tbh. At this rate we're looking at a second dissolution of the monasteries.