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'worst kind of pedant and bore that I have had the displeasure of encountering over the years'

@headwaysmatter.bsky.social and @[email protected]

[dylan matthews 🔸 @dylanmatt]

Won my $4,923 lawsuit against my car dealership through preparation, cunning, and brilliant legal strategy*

* they simply didn’t show up to court so I won by default

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

I do not think most people use the word "conscious" in any meaningful or settled way

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

I don't think current LLMs are 'conscious' in the way that most people use the word*, for reasons I'll write about when time allows. But I find the Ted Chiang piece overly dismissive and overly prescriptive on how consciousness arises. Sam's thread and article below, making the case *for* AI consciousness, is far more careful and deliberative, and seems to actually be seeking to find the answer to the question, rather than to justify a pre-existing notion. It deserves a read.

* - One problem with the AI consciousness debate is that there are quite a number of different things people mean by the word. Difficult to really discuss without defining terms.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

Correct

There's no reason to guess; you can just read their 10Ks

https://t.co/Z0p41EGlXf

[Peter Harding @petersharding]

@tom_holmer @CostaKapo This isn’t true, your data isn’t that valuable, they got really cheap anyway.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

If Vizio couldn't sell viewer data at all, the TV would cost maybe 10-15% more

(Advertising-related non-device revenue is about 4x non-advertising-related non-device revenue, and the latter includes selling your data)

[Tom Holmer🍭🍫🍬 @tom_holmer]

@CostaKapo I wish this was 100% true, but there is another factor:

New TVs are selling your data. They are being underwritten.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

Hot take: The police aren't organized on sufficiently militarized lines

[Orcbrand's Kojimaic Matters @kojimaicmatters]

Paramilitary force is and has always been normal on peaceful streets. It's called the police.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

@3RenChengHu @FairBudgetDC Underfunding

[Justin Slaughter @JBSDC]

@AndrewCapasso_ I think Dems and tech continue to not realize they’re stuck together in many, many ways. They need the political equivalent of couples counseling.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

@BarneyFlames Isn't this also which subjects have a lot of required courses that everyone who wants to be a doctor etc has to take

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

One of the premises that prediction markets insist we take seriously is that they exist, if not primarily then substantially, to help people hedge risk. It is undeniably true that they *can* be used this way, but anyone who spent any time looking at them or talking to their users could tell you that the people using them were doing something much closer to risk *seeking* than hedging. Maintaining the argument that any “event contract” can function as a hedge is crucial to the pitch that companies like Kalshi can be more than betting-app alternatives. Which is perhaps why the company is drawing attention to this hedge on tonight’s Knicks game:

“For Game 1 of the NBA Finals, The Jeffrey, a beloved Upper East Side bar, is giving its customers a deal that sounds almost too good to be true,” reads a post on Kalshi News. “If the New York Knicks win, everyone’s tab is on the house. To protect itself from the potential financial hit, The Jeffrey will place a $5,000 hedge on Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market, turning a risky promotion into a fully insured one.”

“First off: Go, Knicks!” writes tech columnist John Herrman. “Second: Huh?”

Read Herrman on why this could be the hedge-on-everything future prediction markets want: https://t.co/Z6eWos6tOH

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

American Airlines will refund only 40% of the fare difference when they involuntarily move someone to economy class because of an equipment change

Formal FAA complaint here - submit comments by the end of June

https://t.co/UtLJ7n21eU

[HawkDriver @DriverHawk]

@bigbbot @benryanwriter @the_transit_guy KGSP is not "Greenville's airport". It's 45 mins away from downtown Greenville. It's a worthless airport.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

Obviously the real solution is to never fly American

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

American Airlines will refund only 40% of the fare difference when they involuntarily move someone to economy class because of an equipment change

Formal FAA complaint here - submit comments by the end of June

https://t.co/UtLJ7n21eU

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

Cars are evidently extremely costly but also very subsidized unlike American transit

[Luce Meteora @LuceMeteora]

So many people just completely discount both the effort and risk involved in driving and the cost of owning and maintaining a car.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

@anmhouston @JBSDC There was and is a lot of playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes to go around

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

@ParkDerekS I think a good public education system is essential for a good society, and for this reason we must immediately close all schools of education and salt the earth beneath them

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

Vote blue no matter who

[Laura Weiss @LauraEWeiss16]

Sen. COLLINS tells me on PULTE’s pick for acting DNI that she knows nothing about him

“I do not know Mr. Pulte at all. I don't know whether he has any intelligence or military background. I don't even know whether he has a security clearance.”

Does that concern Collins? “Not yet because maybe there's a lot in his background that is relevant to this important decision. As one of the authors of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which created the position of DNI, I obviously care a great deal about having a qualified individual in that position.”

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

@_Credible_Hulk That's extortionate. 150-200 bps over SOFR is readily available.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

@3RenChengHu @MorePerfectUS Both

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

It's not ML juiced price discrimination or Big Tech or Big Data LMAO

More people can readily go to Disneyland or Vail and they cannot make more of them or make the existing ones bigger

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

This is a microcosm of the broader economy. The massive accumulation of wealth at the top combined with the use of tech and data to identify the maximum possible price has put many experiences out of reach for all but the very rich.

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

Among other things, why would we let certain privileged criminals brutalize and exert control over other inmates?

That gives them a break on their justly imposed sentence

[Run more buses and trains @headwaysmatter]

The right, with few exceptions, gets this wrong

Safe, humane, secure and enormous prisons is the goal

[Leon_Winters @yonejutsu]

@headwaysmatter @PageBaltimore @coryfromphilly No they don't, what gave you the idea that prison should not border on torture