#Technological

Eli Tyre

EpistemicHope

This post caused me to take the claim that @ben_r_hoffman makes in "approval extraction advertised as production", much more seriously.https://rationalconspiracy.com/2021/04/01/y-combinator-and-equity-theft/ http://benjaminrosshof

Arjun

ArjunBeNice

I'm about to give you and amazing solution to our #economic troubles and dependence on china. We've banned many #chinese apps to ensure that our money isn't used against us

Brett Lee-Price

BrettL_P

While we throw the 'nazi' label at each other, denoting the evils of the fascist Third Reich, we ignorantly turn a blind eye to something which has all the hallmarks

Samuel D. James

samueld_james

One day I'm going to write a long essay about the Internet Wayback Machine. Amazing creation, and you can learn a lot from it. One of my favorite things is

Alexander Lanoszka

ALanoszka

Good thread, but for me the interesting question is not whether arms races lead to war (too many problems with reverse causation), but how they shape state's choices over armaments

Don't Fuck This Up.

alendrel

Suddenly very glad there's never been a Honor Harrington RPG, as the ship combat would have been a dry tedious exercise in tech wank and interminable die rolling, rather than

Jugal Lodaya

JugalLodaya

Here's my notes on the sobering discussion about our economy's broken design on the "What is Money" podcast with @Breedlove22 & @JeffBooth. I took notes on:- inflation- GDP is evil-

The Claremont Run

ClaremontRun

Despite being created in an innately ephemeral medium, the Claremont run on X-Men, a 16 year narrative spanning hundreds of comics, has managed to endure through a complex evolution of

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

Just posted my latest newsletter, on how necessity was *not* the mother of invention. Although invention increased in the teeth of one of England’s worst ever crises, it was because

Darrell Hanley

darrellhanley

So I'm really liking this new subway map from the MTA, but I do have some thoughts. #nyct #subway #map https://map.mta.info/ First of all, this is a huge improvement on

OEF1314

oef1314

AI, ROBOTICS & BIG TECH - ARE WE TRYING TO FIGHT THE LAST WAR? 1/ Think of future wars, and movies like Terminator come to mind. 2/In the wake of

Paul Strobel

paul_strobel

If you would ask me where the technological disruptions in mobility and energy might take us in the next ten years, i would recommend you to listen to @tonyseba's speech

The Game Professor

gamesaslit

This review is great, but one thing continues to stand out to me:Video game "remakes" have rarely been actual remakes, and the critical response to #FF7R has really been

Abhinav Prakash

Abhina_Prakash

In nineteenth century, Japan’s Meiji elite aggressively pursued a strategy of bunmei kaika—‘civilization and enlightenment’—through rapid industrialization, adoption of Western technologies, and even its way of life. It didn’t d

Lucas Kitzmüller

ktzmllr

Current debates on automation and income inequality miss two points:1. Redistribution is not enough – we can & should also directly improve market incomes2. Workers adjusting to new technologies is

Mark Rickerby

maetl

This culture shift will never stop doing my head in.https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1273343527011799041 In terms of history of ideas, there is a through line which relates directly to the origins of how marketing