Favorite Rejects 2022-12-13
At some point, you may have to accept that in the provision of basic human needs that your aesthetic preferences or planning fads might be secondary concerns
One cool thing about inflation is that it partially erases debt.
Linda Yueh @lindayueh
As absurd as U.S. rail construction costs are, I think the out of control costs of tiny projects like this really make the U.S. infrastructure cost problem hit home
Molly @mollyfleck
There are some good China pieces up on @bariweiss’s new @TheFP site so I know ideologically they can see the potential problem here if a key information channel is run by a guy whose fortune depends on Xi Jinping’s good will. Hope they’ll explore this angle in the future.
Again, the investigation was *already under way* when people started complaining that there was no investigation — I believe this case came together unusually quickly for a big white collar case.
Balaji @balajis
Interesting response from @ScottSumnerTMI to @Noahpinion on the senility (Scott) or infancy (Noah) of Macroeconomics.
We can all agree at least that Macroeconomics needs to make progress in leaps & bounds to be more useful.
Me: The best political messages are boring normie stuff slowboring.com/p/a-lot-of-the…
Them: Health Communism https://t.co/8BI1VFWPjc
Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet
Agree with pretty much the whole thread. The "old" Twitter was a nasty place for all types of people based in large part on deliberate choices that Twitter management made. And everyone knew about it and complained about it. Talk that implies these were the good old days is nuts.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
My one doubt about @slatestarcodex's argument here is it's not totally clear to me what @OpenAI is even trying to accomplish with these easily evaded safety features — do they actually want them to work, or is it deliberately superficial?
