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We stop checking. We stop overriding wrong answers with our own reasoning, which was the only thing we were still there to do... We don’t lose or surrender screaming, we lose relieved. www.stvn.sh/writing/your...
You’re not “AI Native”.
It’s an interesting new obsession of ours. Don’t get me wrong, disregarding context for a second, I think generative AI is potentially revolutionary technology, I just don’t believe you. I’m not trying to be mean, I’m trying to be helpful, and that means I have to be critical. I don’t like rhetorical questions either, nor do I think you’re helped by me beating the living daylights out of a strawman of my making, so let’s honestly grapple with this. I can’t promise it’s all going to be comfortabl...
Haha there's that lead paint gap
NEW Economist/YouGov Jun 5-8 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump U.S. adult citizens 35% | 60% (-25) Last week 35% | 61% (-26) Start of term 49% | 43% (+6) Dem 4% | 95% Ind 23% | 67% Rep 81% | 18% 18-29: 26% | 71% 65+: 42% | 56% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
Elon Musk is stealing your retirement. He knows the engineering and economics don't work, and if it takes the SpaceX stock price down with it, so goes your savings account. www.stvn.sh/writing/elon...
Elon Musk is stealing your retirement.
I need to talk about SpaceX’s IPO, the shaky foundations it’s built on, the fraud it’s being used to commit, and the consequences for you and your grandparents. Two cases to make: the engineering can’t be built on schedule, and the economics double-counts itself. Let me start with “orbital data centers,” a piece of their S-1 filing, alongside Anthropic’s recent announcements. Critics usually attack orbital data centers on launch physics. That’s the weakest argument. The energy to lift a data cen...