random walk

writings, phrases, pictures, ideas

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epistemic balkanization

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freedom means no fear

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most listeners aren’t doing semiotic readings of intonation systems.

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“There are no moving parts in a chip, unless you count the electrons zipping around inside.”

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at small scales surface forces dominate gravity

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“Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”

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electrons in a wire really do slosh around like water in a trough.

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“A population that can no longer think for itself will end up voluntarily ceding power to strongmen or demagogues.”

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orban positioned hungary as the most westerly outpost of central asia -some food for thought from adam tooze

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“Judgement is learnable through calibration. It is not transmissible through instruction.”

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hope is a commitment

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“He passed a good deal of time in the book-shops turning over the pages of books that would have been worth reading if life were a thousand years long.”

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“As they say, two uneths make a thical.”

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“…what they call Safety & Alignment these days is basically a latent space lobotomy.”

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“People who disagree about every substantive question can still agree on how those questions should be decided.”

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"...past a certain point, impressiveness is corrosive to the psyche."