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Incidentally, just after you posted, author Greg Egan posted a conversation a different author had with an AI that is stunningly impressive until the end, which reveals that the AI text was thoroughly and fatally flawed in a horrible way, and it just lied.
It's long, but you could skim the beginning and then skim the end if you are time-limit…

In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat,
an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading
“An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.”
Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer,
the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism,
far from improving the world,
was actually responsible for most of its ills.
That his bien-pensant re…

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
A Profile of Curtis Yarvin, the right-wing thinker behind the Substack “Gray Mirror,” who has been embraced by J. D. Vance, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other supporters of Donald Trump. Ava Kofman reports.

Posted some more photos from Central Park: #Photography #LandscapePhotography …

I posted a long email to 9fans, the Plan 9 mailing list.
Not sure if they will love or hate me. I guess both, so I might be doing it right lol...
This one may as well go out to other communities.
I may transform it into a blog post for reference.

Learning Optimal Posted Prices for a Unit-Demand Buyer
Yifeng Teng, Yifan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02284 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Learning Optimal Posted Prices for a Unit-Demand Buyer
We study the problem of learning the optimal item pricing for a unit-demand buyer with independent item values, and the learner has query access to the buyer's value distributions. We consider two common query models in the literature: the sample access model where the learner can obtain a sample of each item value, and the pricing query model where the learner can set a price for an item and obtain a binary signal on whether the sampled value of the item is greater than our proposed price. In …

Aus der Reihe "adoptiert, weil ohne Alttext":
#Ukraine

#Amazon hat früh geliefert und jetzt wartet mein neue #Switch2 in der Packstation auf meinen Feierabend…

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
In his current term, the president has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party