Jean 🍌 Leon
@_JeanLeon
friendly & curious introvert with too many interests “start where you are, use what you have, do what you can” also on bsky @ http://jean-leon.bsky.social
strange there isn't more activity in genetically engineering greatly enhanced versions of natural fibres. i guess it doesn't pay? clothing as one of the most offshored industries, moving like a hot potato from country to country.
men what is stopping us from only wearing linen
unified feed of humanity: for every recurring topic that is trending, AI replies with: this is what people wrote about it 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 2000 years ago
Young people really have the gall to be born and then immediately proceed to ask the same questions, go through the same problems, and then be surprised by the same things we thought conclusively documented by that one Reddit thread in June 2014.
good reminder of the colossal policy error that has been rare earth dependence on china in particular, and general failure to enact any sort of industrial policy with even a modicum of cost-benefit analysis. instead it's all corn ethanol and e-bikes.
Europe’s lack of confidence in industrial policy remains striking. Worried the EU can’t build rare earths? The global market is only €3.5B/year. Germany spent more bailing out gas wholesaler Uniper than it would cost to buy 10 years of global rare earth supply.
before conversion for spying, the USS halibut was a funny ship: nobody knew where to put those nuclear tipped cruise missiles, so they were ackwardly tacked onto the hull.
The US Navy's ugly duckling spy sub USS Halibut used Master Divers to tap Soviet comms hisutton.com/Secret%20Sub%2… #IVYBELLS #USNavy
It is the year 2035. AI has cured cancer. However, the solution lacks creativity. Technically flawless, but achieved through considerable brute force. This is not how humans would have done it. Just more AI slop. Meh.
there's no way the US will re-industrialize once the NYT learns that industry uses water
This A1 story on Meta’s data centers, and others, use of water in an age of AI is incredible. /1
the fact that anesthesiology dominates the Retraction Watch leaderboard isn't that it's an especially sketchy domain - it's that people like John Carlisle cared enough to hunt down fraud and get retractions entandaudiologynews.com/development/in…
environmental policies as brainworms (think windows, not RFK)
It is fascinating that some of these environmentalist ideas get fast-tracked as policies, almost as if they’re exploiting some vulnerability of the minds of the voters, when sensible policies (upzoning, repealing the Jones act…) seem immovably destined to die on the vine
how it started: founding xAI to "understand the universe" how it's going: the AI gooning companion somehow isn't a reliable source for explaining quantum mechanics
i thought zizek was crazy, but he merely saw the future
Zizek predicted this. We're now finally left to properly enjoy ourselves.
Zizek predicted this. We're now finally left to properly enjoy ourselves.
Had the new Grok waifu talk to Claude voice mode. Tell me this doesn't sound EXACTLY like an egirl trying to rizz up an autistic guy at an SF party?
One thing I really think Anthropic / OpenAI should consider doing is hiring an internal historian / philosopher of science. If you think that you're doing world-historical science, then it could be super valuable to the future to track this process!