Sammy Jelin

@aina_palm more true than ever

Life as a webcomic author

@askiisoft This was a fun time. Hype for the upcoming DLC!

Katana HERO is real. It's a full game that you can play on Steam TODAY with the beta code "notthedlcbro". I'm giving away 1 Steam key for every hundred likes and RT's. Spread the word... and game safely!

@wigglyoli @GellarMatthews @hankgreen yeah, sorry. Brain fart.

@GellarMatthews @sjelin @hankgreen I think they meant views 👀

In Everything Everywhere, during the one-frame flashes of Evelyns from different universes, this is one of the frames.

🤡: pretend to be something scary 🤖: boo! 🤡: 1/35 AI is about the enslave us all. I have definitive proof. I’m an expert in this and I’m deathly afraid of the monster I’ve created

@PaulsonJonathan @NateSilver538 Like he seems more hostile to free speech than Trump, for instance.

@PaulsonJonathan @NateSilver538 I'm not an expert in DeSantis, but he does seem pretty hostile to democracy, though in a more standard republican way instead of Trump's worship of autocrats. Also Trump would have some trouble pulling a similar stunt again, given he's term limited.

If you're a Democrat (or a Democratic "leaner" who isn't really considering voting Republican in 2024) who would you rather win the GOP nomination?

@PaulsonJonathan @NateSilver538 It's not 100% clear to me that President DeSantis would be better than President Trump, nor is it really clear to me that DeSantis would do better in a general election

@NateSilver538 I have a Democrat friend who voted for Trump in the 2016 primary because he thought Trump would be easier to beat. Didn’t turn out great! We’re better off with a more sane Republican Party, even though they’d be harder to beat.

@FreoPope @leopoldasch It may have been given the task of getting a human to solve the CAPTCHA for it, or it may have just assumed that it couldn't solve something specifically designed to stop robots. Either way, yes, it's a bit silly to act like AIs are going to need humans to solve CAPTCHAs.

@leopoldasch Wouldn't it be easier for the bot just to learn how to be able to answer the CAPTCHA itself? I mean if Google Photos can identify my dog's face, then surely it can recognise what is a traffic light.

Really great to see pre-deployment AI risk evals like this starting to happen

@KSeattleWeather booooo! snow bad

Snow begins in 6 hours! Let it snow!

IN ORDER TO REMAIN UNCHANGED, THE SYSTEM MUST CHANGE.

@james_acton32 Well, it *is* a NATO ally after all.

Oooh. A snowy proliferator! Unexpected!

Watching Top Gun: Maverick. Didn’t know it was going to feature hypersonic flight… Am trying to be a normal movie-watcher right now.

@jbouie I'd have to read the whole essay, but this doesn't seem incompatible with the common notion of him as overly focused on respectability politics & individual advancement.

…whose approach was part of a deliberate effort to deceive white audiences for the purposes of black advancement. something to keep in mind when NR-type conservatives claim him as one of their own.

the inclusion of douglass here is a joke, but i want to quickly note that there is a wonderful essay on washington in the volume “African American Political Thought: A Collected History,” that frames him as a “theorist of political deception…” (cont.)

@bair82 good point! I missed that.

@sjelin @paulg That's why it says migration-adjusted

Level of technology adoption in 1500 vs wealth today.

@fustbariclation @paulkrugman I think most economists think that the hardest hit EU countries would have recovered more quickly if they hadn't adopted the Euro

@paulkrugman The EU has managed to stagger along with the Euro, despite many, nasty, asymmetrical shocks.

What with everything else going on, haven't commented on proposed currency union between Argentina and Brazil. But it's a nice opportunity to apply the theory of Optimum Currency Areas — which tells us that it's a terrible idea 1/ ft.com/content/59cc26…

@johncollins60 I don't think twitter is a good place for far ranging conversations. The original tweet claimed that the anti-nuclear movement prevented other countries from going 70% nuclear like France, and that that would have prevented global warming. Both of those original claims are wrong.

@sjelin The anti-nuclear movement played a role, but you could make the case that self-sabotage played a bigger role, as the industry chased designs that were mad complicated and went way over budget. Other industries operate just fine despite plenty of public/activist outrage.

This seems plausible, but has anyone done the calculation? How many PPM of CO2 would we have now if only 10% of electricity generated worldwide since 1985 had been generated using fossil fuels?

@johncollins60 You seem to be discussing what prices *could* have been, which I haven't commented on.

@johncollins60 The fact that oil has also increased in price is the explanation for how fossil fuel could have still been cheaper before the rise in nuclear costs.