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The fight against fake news, misinformation/disinformation has taken a twisted turn.
What does the rapid development of AI content generation tools mean for us? Are we cooked?
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Diogenes retweeted
There was an experiment done where they put an LED watch on someone and it flashed a number too fast for the person to read. Then they suspended them from a rope at height and dropped them randomly. The adrenaline slowed down their perception enough so they could read the watch. I always wondered if in our last moments like this, if our perception of time slows down and we experience much more than people think.
Diogenes retweeted
1. More billionaires are associated with less poverty.
2. Increasing billionaires per capita by ten fold lowers poverty by 43 percentage points.
3. Sweden has more billionaires per 10M people than the U.S. (34 vs 30)
4. Correlation is fairly strong (R-squared of 0.6 for two variable cross-section data)
4. Since the graph is only a correlation, what do you think is the cause?
🔗in🧵
Diogenes retweeted
He is correct.
Serial killers don't have above average IQs, for example. There are no masterminds or brilliant schemes. The great art-heists were always just smash and grab jobs. There are no sophisticated criminal subcultures with codes and mythologies.
Almost all crime is just dumb guys with poor impulse control.
The intelligent, sober-minded, and conscientious criminal is a cliché at the heart of so many fun movies that I sometimes wonder if people realize it’s totally fake and in the real world crime is almost all dumb guys with poor impulse control.
boxd.it/h6zc7X
Diogenes retweeted
It’s a critical skill in a young man’s life to be able to realize when the tailor that carried him through a phase of his life won’t be sufficient to take him through the next and to act accordingly.
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Diogenes retweeted
India did pro-capitalist reforms and immediately became richer than sub-Saharan Africa, which they were poorer than until the early 2000s.
It's insane how good capitalism is.
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Diogenes retweeted
No useless bloody revolution. No violence on people due to rhetoric and ideology. No dictator seizing power by force.
No Leaps Forward, no Cultural Revolution.
Just regular voted governments working and capitalism.
That's what works, guys.
Well done India 👏🏾
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
