The gravity around the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) continues to build, with the New York Times doing a piece on it recently, and many other publications coming out to attack its members as either saviors or villains. The term was coined by Eric Weinstein on Sam’s podcast. In no particular order, the top echelon of members include Sam…
Archives for March 2019
Unsupervised Learning: No. 170 (Member Edition)
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Four Components of Free Speech Risk — Analysis of Sam Harris’ Podcast With Roger McNamee
I just finished listening to an extraordinary episode of Making Sense with Sam Harris, where Roger McNamee was the featured guest. He is a long-time tech analyst and investor, and actually used to be an advisor for Facebook before becoming an outspoken critic. Roger’s points were legion, and covered the now familiar ground regarding the collection of our…
The Insane Reaction to Renée DiResta on the Joe Rogan Podcast
I heard Renée DiResta on the Sam Harris podcast a while back, and was excited to learn that she just appeared on Joe Rogan as well. Her work is focused on misinformation campaigns, and she works at a place that tries to combat the problem. Anyway, I was listening to her and Joe talking, and I somehow started…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 169
Unsupervised Learning is my weekly show that provides collection, summarization, and analysis in the realms of Security, Technology, and Humans. It’s Content Curation as a Service… I spend between five and twenty hours a week consuming articles, books, and podcasts—so you don’t have to—and each episode is either a curated summary of what I’ve found in the past…
The Bifurcation of Elite Education
I think the bottom is starting to rot out of the education racket. Elite education today is essentially two different things: The prestige of having gotten into that school, and The education you receive there. These two things are separating from each other, and I think that separation is about to accelerate. Better education elsewhere (or at least…
The Need for Post-Capitalism
When I saw Yuval Harari live with Sam Harris in San Francisco, I heard a lot of interesting things. But the most interesting thing I heard that night was from Harari, when he said something like: Forms of government have periods where they’re best suited, based on the evolution of the people at that moment. And as the…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 168 (Member Edition)
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My RSA 2019 Summary
RSA was good this year, but I didn’t really notice any major new trends. Nothing on the scale of—say—AI, or blockchain. But there were some disruptions that looked quite interesting. Primary themes The overall themes I saw this year were largely the same as last year, with a few notable changes. AI talk has become a lot more…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 167
Unsupervised Learning is my weekly show that provides collection, summarization, and analysis in the realms of Security, Technology, and Humans. It’s Content Curation as a Service… I spend between five and twenty hours a week consuming articles, books, and podcasts—so you don’t have to—and each episode is either a curated summary of what I’ve found in the past…
The Privacy Implications of 5G
Most people have heard that 5G is forthcoming, but few are versed on the key advantages over 4G LTE. Here’s a primer. Speed: Becasue it’ll work at much higher frequencies (many proposals use ranges over 6Ghz) you can move more data per unit of time. More Call Capacity: there will be less congestion and service degradation in busy…