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  • Scott Alexander on chips (from the comments)

     [[{“value”:”From this post on chip export bans: Didn’t we have a conversation where you said Chinese AI was so terrifying that we couldn’t consider any AI slowing or pause, because all of our efforts had to be put into preventing China from beating us in AI? And when I discussed reasons that this might not…

  • Scott Alexander on chips (from the comments)

     [[{“value”:”From this post on chip export bans: Didn’t we have a conversation where you said Chinese AI was so terrifying that we couldn’t consider any AI slowing or pause, because all of our efforts had to be put into preventing China from beating us in AI? And when I discussed reasons that this might not…

  • Those new service sector jobs, LDS edition

     [[{“value”:”Bob Sagers was walking around an indie music festival in Salt Lake City when a friendly stranger approached and asked for his number. “Has anyone ever told you that you have a Jesus look to you?” the man asked, according to Sagers, a 25-year-old who works as a cheesemonger at a grocery store. It wasn’t…

  • Those new service sector jobs, LDS edition

     [[{“value”:”Bob Sagers was walking around an indie music festival in Salt Lake City when a friendly stranger approached and asked for his number. “Has anyone ever told you that you have a Jesus look to you?” the man asked, according to Sagers, a 25-year-old who works as a cheesemonger at a grocery store. It wasn’t…

  • *The Return*

     [[{“value”:”I rarely like adaptations of classics on the big screen, but I give this one (trailer) high marks.  Ralph Fiennes plays Odysseus and Juliette Binoche has the role of Penelope — you cannot imagine better castings.  The film is fully serious, and understands the classic text extremely well, without being slavish to it.  It understands…

  • *The Return*

     [[{“value”:”I rarely like adaptations of classics on the big screen, but I give this one (trailer) high marks.  Ralph Fiennes plays Odysseus and Juliette Binoche has the role of Penelope — you cannot imagine better castings.  The film is fully serious, and understands the classic text extremely well, without being slavish to it.  It understands…

  • *The Return*

     [[{“value”:”I rarely like adaptations of classics on the big screen, but I give this one (trailer) high marks.  Ralph Fiennes plays Odysseus and Juliette Binoche has the role of Penelope — you cannot imagine better castings.  The film is fully serious, and understands the classic text extremely well, without being slavish to it.  It understands…

  • *The Return*

     [[{“value”:”I rarely like adaptations of classics on the big screen, but I give this one (trailer) high marks.  Ralph Fiennes plays Odysseus and Juliette Binoche has the role of Penelope — you cannot imagine better castings.  The film is fully serious, and understands the classic text extremely well, without being slavish to it.  It understands…

  • *The Return*

     [[{“value”:”I rarely like adaptations of classics on the big screen, but I give this one (trailer) high marks.  Ralph Fiennes plays Odysseus and Juliette Binoche has the role of Penelope — you cannot imagine better castings.  The film is fully serious, and understands the classic text extremely well, without being slavish to it.  It understands…

  • *The Return*

     [[{“value”:”I rarely like adaptations of classics on the big screen, but I give this one (trailer) high marks.  Ralph Fiennes plays Odysseus and Juliette Binoche has the role of Penelope — you cannot imagine better castings.  The film is fully serious, and understands the classic text extremely well, without being slavish to it.  It understands…