The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.
Pro tip is to walk around for a while afterwards.
Counter-intuitive but stops the muscles stiffening up.
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Treating a digital environment as if it was a physical one is IMO not practical with our current technology, because the entry point is always going to involve strapping a TV to your face.
Note that this is also the supposed selling point of smart glasses, except add ‘with more creep factor’ to the list.
The selling point of the Metaverse was ‘you can do anything you can do on your computer or phone, except more expensively, more inconveniently, and you have to wear a TV on your face.’
Not really a shock that it didn’t work.
Let’s be real, there was a lot of American paranoia involved as well.
The stuff they were doing in Vietnam and Cambodia and Nicaragua was’t exactly rational
Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet…
It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”
Second hot take: I like Stephen King’s thrillers and crime fiction just as much as his horror novels.
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Hot take but King is actually underestimated even with the critical respect he’s had recently.
If you can produce several classic books in less than half a decade, that makes you a top-tier writer.
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Full Dark, No Stars in particular is massively underrated. A Good Marriage is one of my favourite short stories.
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Stephen King had a great first half of the 2010s eh.
Full Dark No Stars, 11/22/63, Mr Mercedes and Revival are some of his best work, and Dr Sleep and Joyland are solid as well.
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Really makes ya think.
Even though everyone regards Sun Tzu's writings as simple, basic, common sense etc, like 50% of military commanders in history have lost wars by ignoring his rules.
People call Sun Tzu simple and basic but something like 50-60% of commanders throughout history still break his rules!
She is incredibly cute but we’re not putting her on social media at the moment.
Challenge: find a recent photo of myself which doesn’t contain a baby.
Difficulty level: impossible.
He is literally sweating in the second half of the clip lol
New blog post: Heinlein's 'Specialization is for insects,' and why writers need life experience.
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Absolutely!
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May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
Sparkling water is just ruined water.
Noticing questionable themes in some of these paintings.
Even if you give AI arbitrary capabilities which it doesn’t have at the moment, IMO it is still hamstrung by the fact that this is a human world, and humans are best at navigating the relationships in it
B) most of my information comes from people I’ve known for years. AI is currently incapable of maintaining that kind of long-term relationship (which also includes at least some in-person meetings every year). Most of those guys don’t trust new HUMANS on a beat, never mind AI
I am one of the journalists who mostly works from an office, and there are a few problems with that.
A) more than half of my calls with people are video, and even if deepfakes are getting pretty good imo it’s not a facade which can hold up in the long run.
For no.1- sure, sometimes you just need to rewrite a press release quickly, but that’s not the core value proposition of most journalism.
The information needed for no.2 will not be online or in training data in the vast majority of cases. That’s why it’s worth reporting in the first place.
AI can do a good job of analysing certain types of data when you have it, but getting the data is basically the core of journalism to begin with.
Writing is maybe 20% of my total job as a journalist. About 60% is getting new information, mostly by talking to actual people.
