No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to mount a response, so there’s going to be some fucked up consequences of them.
It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.
Worth noting that Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity was not publishing in a philosophy journal. It was published in a litcrit journal which is a very distinct discipline.
Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would have been the third winner.
Yeah I use as backup, and it syncs to the cloud. So I figure if it dies I'm still good as I have the original and cloud. It also means I dont have to pay for 2 disks or think about RAID. It is slow and there is a learning curve but mostly just works and is very low power - at it shuts down disk when not in use.
The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing someone with no risk to oneself, with no work required, and in the safety of a huge mob? It’s like getting to be a war hero with the risk and effort of playing Call of Duty.
Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.
