> It just goes on like this. No argument, just mockery. Doesn't address any of the statements, just jeers at them
Yes, because the point of the article is that these are things rational every-day people recognize as being worthy of mockery.
If the author needs to explain to you why not knowing your own address is foolish, how handing your child an AI instead of spending time with them is bad, then you aren't going to get the rest of the thesis. As the author puts it, you've passed the test, you're part of the cult of personality.
I think if you create a Test in order to cast out anyone who doesn't approach a topic the way you do, that kind of sneering creates a brittle purity spiral, as well as the kind of worse thinking that this is supposed to be inoculating you against.
> Yes, because the point of the article is that these are things rational every-day people recognize as being worthy of mockery.
If people recognize something as being worthy of mockery and they are also aware of the situation, they gain nothing from reading some tripe that provides zero new information.
Also, a blog post shouldn't assume that all readers have seen the interview in question. What's the value of talking nonsense about something the readers have never been informed about? At most, the rational readers would be disgusted by the attempt to influence their opinion before they'd seen the facts.
> If the author needs to explain to you why not knowing your own address is foolish,
Well, the readers may not know that the mocked person doesn't know his own address, so when the author doesn't explain it, the author is the foolish one.
If the readers know the facts, mocking someone for trivialities without pointing out some novel reasons "why" is double foolish.
Buries the fucking lede by putting this at the end
> Relative to the total population, the share of immigrants in 2024 was approximately the same as in 1890. If we only look at the last few decades, we miss this historical perspective — there have been periods where immigrants made up a similarly large share of the country.
As you approach, the dashboard starts showing the mat position on the ground relative to your car and helps you align perfectly. There's a longer youtube video explaining a lot of the tech in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeMQfA45LN8
LLMs have made it easier than ever so search for things. I remember fumbling around with Google, trying different combinations of search terms and never hitting useful results. Now I can give a vague or even partially wrong prompt to an LLM and it sort of magically figures out exactly what I actually want and takes me right there, along with a helpful summary and analysis.
Sadly the problem predated him, the FAA has been under funded for a long time. Last Week Tonight did a really good segment about it a year ago. However, Trump absolutely made it a lot worse.
Additional Context: for about two years functional programming was REALLY popular in the Node community. It was a fad to chain tons of tiny functions together, and thus lots of people wrote tons of tiny functions. This is why lodash/fp exists.
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