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considering that the Philly cheesesteak is one of the most commonly ill-prepared and overrated sandwiches in America (feel free to email me if you want to fight about this)

Careful studies have found that this tendency has not come about primarily through conscious discrimination in hiring professors but is chiefly a result of liberals’ being more attracted than conservatives to academic careers.

The type of nuclear plants envisioned, for example, are not yet even operational in the United States. Fusion power does not yet exist.

It contains less about how humans see the world than it does about how search engines see the world. It is a dataset that is powerfully shaped by commercial logics.

the smartphone has become so central to life that if your product can’t offer deep connections to the smartphone, you’re stuck

Swampy was mired in an institution that was in a perpetual state of unlearning all the lessons it had absorbed over a 90-year ascent to the pinnacle of global manufacturing

outsourcing the vast majority of the development and engineering design of the brand-new, revolutionary wide-body jet to suppliers, many of which lacked engineering departments

there is no such thing as an accidental death during the commission of a felony

transformed GE into a financial conglomerate that incidentally made light bulbs, appliances and jet engines

“People who knew how to build an airplane were viewed as roadblocks. They slowed things down,” said Chandler. “The only word you could speak to executives was ‘yes.'”

“It almost feels like a glimpse into a parallel existence,” he says. “One where we didn’t optimize for analytics, monetization, and attention capturing, but one where, somehow, as an industry, we optimized for quality and beauty instead.”

The ways of fictive 2D bipedal hippos are notoriously mysterious.

A friendly greeting makes humans more likely to accept future inputs from you.

erroneous outputs presented with confidence—statements such as "Star Trek is better than Star Wars.

No other branch of civil engineering tolerates this level of system failure. In any other field

The thing that causes death and injuries on American roads is cars

The concepts of what is and isn't visually appealing can be influenced in outsized ways by the tastes of a very small group of individuals, and the processes that are chosen by dataset creators to curate the datasets.

At this point, is there a genre that “Strange New Worlds” can’t do? “As long as we’re in storytelling that is cogent and sure handed, I’m not sure there is,” Goldsman says with an impish smile. “Could it do Muppets?

“Visual effects people are a big, big ‘Star Trek’ fandom,” he says. “You naturally just get all these people who go a little bit above and beyond, and you can’t trade that for anything.”