*there are likely far more people who think they want open intelligent dialogue than those who actually enjoy it. Most find it unappealing and choose to go back to the comfort of just having their priors confirmed*
Stacker News
Why people leave nostr (and SN?) \ stacker news ~nostr
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs083hwcxwx6jtrlh8fxt5rz7ua47tm8m4nems95mql2n8xnsajntqvkuvwr I thought this note was interesting and potentially relev...
*Our collective complacency in the face of these systemic failures is perhaps the greatest failure of all* View quoted note →
*we’ve inherited a shadow republic where the most world altering events occur without explanation, where justice is selectively applied, and where our silence is mistaken for consent* View quoted note →
*The American experiment was predicated on the radical notion that power must justify itself to free citizens* View quoted note →
*This is a weird moment in fusion. Investors are pouring billions into the field to build power plants, and some companies are even signing huge agreements to purchase power from those still-nonexistent plants. All this comes before companies have actually completed a working reactor that can produce electricity. It takes money to develop a new technology, but all this funding could lead to some twisted expectations.* Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway
MIT Technology Review
Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway
The industry is getting billions, but it’s way too early to count on fusion to meet growing electricity demand.
“What stands in the way becomes the way” is a famous Stoic concept attributed to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, meaning that obstacles and challenges are not merely to be endured or circumvented, but are actually the very means by which growth, virtue, and success are achieved. Perplexity
*The ONS data showed that for the year ending in March 2024, 35.8 million people lived in households receiving more benefits than they paid in tax – a record outside the pandemic when the figure rose to 36.5 million.* Over half of UK population live in households that get more in benefits than they pay in tax - and it's set to get worse https://share.google/r63BPoSzlGqfiBzc5
*The performance of a tool can drop as much as 20 percentage points when it is tested out of sample, on data from other hospitals. In one study, a pneumonia detection model trained on chest X-rays from a single hospital performed substantially worse when tested at a different hospital*
Stacker News
AI isn't replacing radiologists \ stacker news ~AI
It's cool to see The AI Replacement Hypothesis not playing out in this case. Optimistically, I suspect AI will work like this in most industries. I...
*Walton emphasizes how companies with massive valuations like Nvidia ($4 trillion market cap) hold just $54 billion in actual capital, creating enormous risk gaps* TFTC *Strive deal points up fact that different bitcoin hoards can trade at different prices depending on who holds them* Financial Times
*Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed in April that the Trump administration was considering taking equity stakes in miners to back them against state-sponsored competition in China* CNBC