Vincent Palumbo

"The brevity of human life doesn't allow that 1 person alone is sufficient; necessary to adopt the observations of others to clarify that which fits better."

[Vincent Palumbo @vpalsmith33]

My threads Pettis & Klein—Trade Wars are Class Wars https://t.co/4gc8m7AEgJ

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/THREAD/ In the spirit of @adam_tooze annotated reading lists, I wrote up a "review" of @M_C_Klein and @michaelxpettis book which morphed into a compilation of current events articles I've encountered on this site because their subject is so live. https://t.co/Xw6WZyERLi

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What's the argument here preventing two Democrats from running up against each other?

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

Yup!

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@atrembath He asked Claude what is the frame I need in this piece to go viral and it didn't miss a beat....

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@fstflofscholars Which interestingly AI models are still horrible at. I tell people they have a 15 yo conception of doneness what about this this and that?

"My apologies how should I approach correcting"

You can ofc define success criteria explicitly iterate toward but explicitly is tricky

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@AntheaERoberts I'm not sure if academia is. Academia works on optimization framework which is legible to AI use profs in 30s and 40s use AI assistants for juggling tasks very effectively to ensure they get their "tokens"~ published papers

Government yes. Giant codebases run on dying languages

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@NewLeftEViews @adam_tooze Which is strange because I'm a Romantic theorist to my bones. That the high modernist architecture transforms human being irreconcilably

There's an evocative passage in Demanding the Impossible which I can't track made me go huh we, in the US, live under anarchism of a kind

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@NewLeftEViews @adam_tooze It's interesting that you say this~ there are many classic texts you are forced to read in uni but you don't actually get much from other than awareness of how to place in intellectual terrain because so viscerally opposed. Not even at level of explicit argument, visceral

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@rcbregman AI capabilities are interesting because using the normal principles of software engineering with AI harness you can approximate human labor

But if you use the out of the box solutions directly from Anthropic OpenAI (computer use). They are hilariously bad~ and will take $$$ fast

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@rcbregman So I'm perhaps looking at this true crudely, but regarding fiscal bargain labor market effects discussed end

AI effort is directed at replacing~yes replacing look at villainous SF billboards~person who clicks around doing knowledge work. Principle is it be abstracted as ETL

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@PradyuPrasad Asking because I'm an amateur but I think I have a sense when I look at a tool or harness this is one which has high success function versus low

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@PradyuPrasad The way you engineer an automation flow is through database management

Naively, based on everything I've seen from shiny tools where screen lights up for a second it seems to be a horribly inefficient system for somebody who had zero awareness to kinda sorta do really slow

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@cesifoti @AlexShulepov7 Neither do I

But I suppose that 2nd line was just the Q my headspace raised which prompted me to search from this corner of information cornucopia (the billionaires certainly played a part in making exist but to honor left perspective famous Brecht poem did they have a cook?)

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@cesifoti @AlexShulepov7 Not related at all to this discourse topic, but shared anyways because my mind drifted to this key passage in Gellner's Book, Plough, and Sword ought to be discourse

Billionaires endowed with instrumental rationality made the world, but no longer needed when fully developed....

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@fstflofscholars @DebsValidation "I used to dream in music, art, & history now all I can think of is $$$ (and cousin status)" My Dinner with Andre

Apologies in advance linking to a YT short, brainrot medium...https://t.co/CV09Jlhkmq

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@fstflofscholars @DebsValidation The follow-up comment about envy, I think to those who experience it deeply, is not chiefly about playing the primate game of rising in status

No, it's I can see evidence that this person was in a state of consciousness circumstances have not allowed me to attain in a while

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"if US extended universal health care, there would be no surplus to be world's leader in cutting edge medical treatments"

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

In today's Capital Vol. 1 class, we went over Marx's refutation of Nassau Senior's prediction that all profit would cease to exist if the working day were reduced to a mere 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Couldn't resist the opportunity to play this clip to illustrate that:

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One less zero for capitalist (moving in other direction) but mere thousands do not have to grovel privilege extended to commoners

We fear inclusive vanguardism because never been properly tried, empowerment

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An intentional misreading, but what might be said is to draw on Roberto Unger insular vanguardism. The vanguard of production, the people with the zeroes, remains unnecessarily restricted. Genuine liberation, not simply better clothes is when transform to inclusive vanguardism

[The Prussian Consulate in Siam @lorem_ipsum_93]

@propagandopolis every time the guy on the right adds a zero to his net worth he dresses like less of a douchebag and his employees get more money and nicer clothes. ngl, i'm not sure what this particular communist would have me take away from this.

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@fstflofscholars Perhaps not that different 20 years ago: hand out multiplication tables while I do work but difference is only slightly restricted internet device rather than I'm done I will grab harry potter while rest finish up

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@fstflofscholars I think I understand the point without understanding the argument.

If observe a full school day, you immediately notice probably about 30% of it is not instruction. Chromebook time when teacher does administrative tasks with a few checkins. Chromebook allows less instruction