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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Empirical grounding. In 2015, scaling laws, emergent capabilities, and deployment‑driven feedback loops were speculative. Today, they are measurable. That shift changes the nature of responsibility, governance, and urgency in ways that were difficult to justify rigorously at the time.

      States that, in contrast to a decade ago, now we can measure scaling, emergent capabilities, feedback loops. Interesting. - [ ] #30mins #ai-ethics werk dit uit in meer detail. Wat meet je dan, hoe kan dat er uit zien? Hoe vergelijkt dat met div beoordelingsmechanismen?

  2. Nov 2025
    1. On the erosion of middle class America. Poverty line is around 140k if actual costs taken into account. The 1960s benchmark assumed cost of food to be 1/3 of overall costs. Now it's 7% or so, meaning 1/15 of overall costs. This pushes up the poverty line to 5 times the level used, or some 150k USD pa

      Example of a proxy being used as 'measurement' and the assumptions in a proxy never re-evaluated.

  3. May 2024
    1. Nabokov’s working notecards for “Lolita.”

      Nabokov used index cards for his research and writing. In one index card for research on Lolita, he creates a "weight-heigh-age table for girls of school age" to be able to specify Lolita's measurements. He also researched the Colt catalog of 1940 to get gun specifications to make those small points realistic in his writing.

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