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"At long last, we have created the alienating robot teacher from the classic short story 'Robot Teachers are Alienating and Worse than Real Teachers.'"
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Do you think this passage is hallucinatory in the same way LLM output can be hallucinatory or is that just a good zinger?
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So people ended up with overconfident impressions at different points (how could they not?) but there's no misleading action that its of national importance to litigate 5 years on.
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To keep the analogy to masking: on masking there's a clear smoking gun of bad comms in the Surgeon General telling people not to mask. I buy that there's no lab leak equivalent. A debate played out in the media and the science was complicated and politicized, but it ended up in the right place.
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I do think "at some points in 2020 and 2021, scientific consensus was that a lab leak was more plausible than was being communicated to the public" is true but its just not very interesting now that we know there wasn't a lab leak. Meanwhile no one really talks about early bad comms around masking!
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I think that's true but "Dems would have beaten Trump if they'd listened to Ezra earlier about Biden" is probably also true.
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Isn't the clutter part of the joy of Star Wars? Cramming the gaps around the main movies full of stuff doesn't really challenge their centrality.
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I think crossing multi lane streets is the biggest knock on the theoretical walkability of LA relative to other cities. "Across the street" is often across 2-4 more lanes than it would be in other cities, which makes a big difference to getting around.
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And it's just by trying at all!
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My favorite article on this incredible story (it’s way better than just the shot going in), is this piece from @readjack.bsky.social (also, subscribe to Jack’s newsletter and buy his book): readjack.substack.com/p/million-do...
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He hates the programmers! He's looking for workers with skills but no politics or morals and he's mad that schools aren't producing them.
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Wow people got/will get a lot of mileage out of that take!
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Americans got to vote! It was just not consistently communicated to them that they were voting to punch themselves in the face.
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Isn't Trump too old for this? You can play games with the Constitution but not the grim reaper...
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I don't think even Yglesias enjoyers think he's charistmatic... I could see "Draft Yglesias as DNC chair"
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You're telling me a dog washed this vodka?
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Illiberal Reformers by Thomas Leonard is a good one, but maybe not as comprehensive as you're looking for.
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This is one of the main things Dems should learn from their two losses to Trump! Kick the tires on your candidates!
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Someone working a low paying job with $5k in crypto is a scam victim!
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It seems like the Dem strategy might be to specifically target Hegseth to avoid that. Not sure it can really work, but worth trying...
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This is exactly the kind of text everyone means when they complain about Dem fundraising.
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I think that Schumer (wrongly!) views most critics of Israel as antisemitic. I think that explains his behavior without any lack of loyalty to the US.
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This is him lobbying Israel to pick a better leader. That's good. (On this and the CR he is unwilling to do more than advocate, which is bad, but if one is going to respond to an article about antisemitism by charging dual loyalty it should be 100% and this isn't.)
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"This US alliance is important and I want to prevent it from becoming a partisan issue" seems like a reasonable place to be in the abstract.
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I think it would be pretty normal right now for a Republican to talk about trying to keep the right "pro Canada" either through opposing trade wars domestically or trying to get the Canadian government to do things to get on Trump's good side.
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I think Schumer views himself as having this job *in the context of US-Israeli relations* and I think that's much less objectionable than the bare quote.
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I'm not in a charitable mood towards Schumer right now but I'm not sure how much of the weird energy in this article is coming from Schumer vs Stephens.
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Doesn't having a book about antisemitism out kind of rule out that explanation in this case?
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I agree and I think it's similar to cases where people want the US to spend less on foreign aid than they think we do but way more than we actually do. People want to argue that it's worth sacrificing 10 instead of 3 units to get an affordable unit when actual policy is sacrificing way more!
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There are definitely solutions other than below market housing. I think most YIMBYs preferred answer would be "the government gives you enough money that you can afford market rate housing."
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I think people have very different views on how many new market rate units it's worth giving up for an affordable unit, and that's probably an actual difference.
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What point are you making here? Are you distinguishing multiple versions of the fascism debate?
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It's so weird! Like if he'd said "Marxist" I'd understand broadly who he was talking about but I have no idea what he means by Maoist. Is it just inflammatory or is it Bret Stephens deep lore?
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I agree with the anger here but I can't imagine my answer in two weeks to "who deserves blame for this" will be "Senate democrats."