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the example people bring up are always ones that are comically bad, unjustifiable under any grounds — its the opacity that gets people, what would make a lot more sense is to push fervently for direct access to models, to let them be interrogated and understood.

the question of what it means for AI to be “fair” is not simple at all. There are dozens of mutually exclusive theories and the key thing to note is that this is also true of existing processes, but they’re sufficiently opaque, informal, and ad-hoc that people get away with them, because they’re...

these two tweets have more wisdom about algorithmic bias than any article ever published in a mainstream source or journal

The interesting thing about algorithms is not that they’re more or less biased than human processes—it’s that they’re consistent and testable. If you can take a system and root out algorithmic bias, you have a fair system, and you can feel pretty good about it staying that way. Humans are never...

something funny about tiktok is that this isn’t actually algorithmic, they have humans who are responsible for screening videos and who have excluded gay people, minorities, people with disabilities, and so forth. But curiously enough, that’s never nearly as frightening to people.

this is a truly astounding piece—it goes all the way back to Marx and Schumpeter without engaging with the body of literature called “Disruption Theory.” It calls the word meaningless but it doesn’t actually mention that the word does have a well defined meaning in a pretty straightforward and...

I meant "route", certainly some strategy involved.

I think she's pushed it back—it's unclear if it'll stay off the field but she came out strong enough that it's going to need to perform a rearguard action.

im shaving, that's true. about twice a week, mostly on the chin. use a three-blade safety razor from a D2C razor business in Hartford CT, keep it next to my wide array of premium skincare products and an electric toothbrush built by a chinese mobile phone company. nail scissors by a washed-up...

i dunno if i'll live till thirty, seems an awful way off. expect to get my magnum opus out and then immediately have a heart attack and die in my sleep at the age of 29

ahh… to be so unconcerned about a question that i post eight consecutive posts about it ... a beautiful way to be in the world

I think this "liberatory lip-service" question is part of what makes Andrea Long Chu so compelling, that she's willing to stand outside of the conventions of the genre in some kind of symbolic way, and through a savvy routing of rhetoric hasn't been crushed for it yet.

I thought this was a great piece, but it has the feeling of a piece that's too good, too direct, too central and direct of a driveby to go down well in the discourse. I enjoyed it fully but I'm sure there's a backlash in full gear, I can't quite imagine it, my best guess is that people will...

you've cropped out the important part of the quote—"Sidwell Friends"—the school where the Obama kids went, with the peculiarly secularized-yet-devout focus on a traditional quaker conception of justice, the strange and distorted funhouse of a place—where the traditional Quaker values are...

He definitely sold himself as a leftist firebrand in 2008. He literally cribbed his entire rhetorical strategy from Roberto Unger, who was advising his campaign.

obama confirmed theorycel

I’ve been on a kick of posting things that will get me properly cancelled, so I may as well say that on formal grounds, Hitler had one of the most impressive and iconic graphic identity programs of the 20th century.

wasn’t this is true actually? something about ACE2 receptors. any nicotine will do of course.

i’m not able to handle them myself (either the smoke or the nicotine) but I am struck by how disproportionately to the general population my friends puff down on the death sticks