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• Scott Alexander / SSC: Varieties of argumentative experience, 👍👍👍.
• [fr] La Presse : Un monde sans information ? Via Nouveau Projet.

  Vous payez déjà beaucoup pour vous informer. L’argent que vous avez économisé sur votre abonnement à La Presse, vous le dépensez, et même davantage, sur la quincaillerie qui vous permet de lire La Presse+.

  Le problème, c’est qu’avant, cet argent servait à payer des journalistes. Aujourd’hui, la même somme sert à enrichir des entreprises de téléphonie mobile et des multinationales technos.

• EV#165 - Zavain Dar: New radical empiricism.

  A young Kepler today likely wouldn’t look into the sky in search for structure, but rather collect the prior month of visual sky data and train a recurrent neural network to predict tomorrow night’s sky. [...]

  The availability of data and machine learning might create new pathways of exploration in a range of domains, where are traditional techniques have become stuck. It's almost as if the availability of data (and better maths with which to manipulate it) allows us to create new dimensions from which to establish vantage points to surveil the problem set.

• I played Fortnite and figured out the universe, on how humans can turn zero-sum situations into nonzero-sum ones. Via Kottke.
• New Yorker: The United States of Japan, via waxy.
• An online collection of high-res scans of M.C. Escher’s prints.
• [fr] Les 400 culs : Il n’y a pas de rêve heureux ?
• The Metro Gun Share Program.
• Tech:
  • oÔ: Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried? to which Kottke gathers questions around Should our machines sound human?
  • oÔ again: Write emails faster with Smart Compose in Gmail. HN.
  • jwz: TicketBastard wants your biometrics.