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China Miéville just published a 1200 page book he’s been working on for more than 20 years and nobody seems to have heard about it (??)View quoted post on X
More proof that they've turned an entire profession into an eval metric for marketing purposesView quoted post on X
You are not crazy if you think that post 1940s buildings are uglier than older ones. In fact, a vast majority of people agree, according to the best survey data we have!View quoted post on X
Professional architects like the types of buildings that most people find ugly. This explains why all the stuff that wins architectural prizes looks so horrendous. And why modern buildings in general are less aesthetically pleasing.
It's like a cabal that's depriving us of what we naturally enjoy!
Mechanical Turk 2.0View quoted post on X
Why doesn’t OpenAI use an equal amount of the money they spend to prove interesting conjectures in funding PhDs in the mathematical sciences?View quoted post on X
That way we will have a next generation of researchers that can understand these results and formulate the next wave of conjectures.
