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Ed O'Shaughnessy
@eddieosh #1432
Complexity explorer. Residing in the liminal.
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I think we've crossed the uncanny valley! I know it's not real but it feels completely believable.
https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/1914736042768523505
https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/1914736042768523505
Bad economic models lead to bad outcomes.
Apropos power outages across Europe.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2025/04/27/the-two-horsemen-of-the-net-zero-apocalypse/
Apropos power outages across Europe.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2025/04/27/the-two-horsemen-of-the-net-zero-apocalypse/
Open your favourite chatbot and enter this prompt. It can be pretty revealing (hopefully in a good way).
"From all our varied discussions you have a good read on me now, what would you say are my blindspots?"
"From all our varied discussions you have a good read on me now, what would you say are my blindspots?"
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patxol
@patxol.eth·00:40 26/04/2025
Quote cast the first machine you wrote a line of code on.
Handy if you want to search a site that doesn't have its own search function.
https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
"And of course, this is not a statistician's tool. Use the Unsure Calculator for back-of-a-napkin calculations. For anything more involved, use one of the free or paid statistical tools, a full programming environment, or hire a statistician."
https://filiph.github.io/unsure/
https://filiph.github.io/unsure/
“Because first we crafted a world where children could no longer contribute. Then we crafted a world that separated sex from having children. Next we created a world where children were luxuries. We’re now in the midst of creating a world without a place for children at all. Whatever the wisdom of these steps, they’re going to be very difficult to reverse.”
https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/horses-in-1925-children-in-2025
https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/horses-in-1925-children-in-2025
"Ignorance is excusable when it is borne like a cross, but when it is wielded like an axe, and with moral indignation, then it becomes something else indeed."
~ Flannery O'Connor
~ Flannery O'Connor
"When we cut our ties to the past and the future and center ourselves in the present moment, we set our soul free from external things, leaving it to invest itself wholly in fulfilling its own nature."
~ 'How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius', Donald Robertson
~ 'How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius', Donald Robertson
All those cloud-based devices slowly dying. Little chance of keeping them alive.
https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/electronic-waste-graveyard/
https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/electronic-waste-graveyard/
"Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
~ Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
~ Mary Oliver
"We find that having access to Copilot induces such individuals to shift task allocation towards their core work of coding activities and away from non-core project management activities. We identify two underlying mechanisms driving this shift - an increase in autonomous rather than collaborative work, and an increase in exploration activities rather than exploitation. The main effects are greater for individuals with relatively lower ability."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5007084
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5007084
"But what’s often overlooked is how incredibly difficult it is for American companies to sell into China and to build a sustainable business—particularly when it comes to services and intellectual property. Tariffs are just the visible tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a vast, complex web of soft barriers, regulations, and cultural dynamics that make the market nearly impossible to access in a fair, sustainable way."
"So, when we talk about international trade, let’s not stop at tariffs. The real story—especially in China—is far more complicated. And far more important."
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/231-when-it-comes-to-tariffs-china
"So, when we talk about international trade, let’s not stop at tariffs. The real story—especially in China—is far more complicated. And far more important."
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/231-when-it-comes-to-tariffs-china
"Self-understanding trumps self-improvement every time. Because if we don’t believe we deserve better, all the to-do lists in the world won’t save us."
~ ChatGPT, 2025-04-08
~ ChatGPT, 2025-04-08
This is gonna hurt.
"So how would you prefer your collapse? Would you like to lose everything (or at least almost everything) in the course of a massive, global, debt-default and currency reset? Or maybe you would prefer to lose the value of everything in a stagflationary collapse in which the over-indebted financial economy is brought back into line with the much smaller real economy?"
"Trump’s tariffs are not – as much of the establishment media would have you believe – a foolish attempt to bring a short-term economic upswing to the USA. Rather – and in line with the Trump administration’s geopolitical shift – they are a means of ending the half-century-old neoliberal order… while attempting to keep the reserve currency."
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2025/04/05/economic-chemotherapy/
"So how would you prefer your collapse? Would you like to lose everything (or at least almost everything) in the course of a massive, global, debt-default and currency reset? Or maybe you would prefer to lose the value of everything in a stagflationary collapse in which the over-indebted financial economy is brought back into line with the much smaller real economy?"
"Trump’s tariffs are not – as much of the establishment media would have you believe – a foolish attempt to bring a short-term economic upswing to the USA. Rather – and in line with the Trump administration’s geopolitical shift – they are a means of ending the half-century-old neoliberal order… while attempting to keep the reserve currency."
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2025/04/05/economic-chemotherapy/
