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No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to mount a response, so there’s going to be some fucked up consequences of them.

It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.

If carbon capture is good then why do they encourage composting? Shouldn’t we be taking that organic material and burying it somewhere?

Well it’s possible for the unintended consequences of an action to more than cancel out the intended consequences.

Because of a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would have been the third winner.

A one-bay NAS... didn’t even know those existed

The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing someone with no risk to oneself, with no work required, and in the safety of a huge mob? It’s like getting to be a war hero with the risk and effort of playing Call of Duty.

Why is it fake if it has photos? I’ve included photos in my reviews.

Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.

Why is that? Does Kindle limit the number of words?

Huh, I kind of like that sentence and that kind of florid prose.

That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and I found one and put it in and at the new price I checked out.

In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.

Can confirm, definitely see many more drunk assholes loitering outside the bars on my street.