This is a post from 2022 but I just discovered it. The opening statement is so true.
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I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age.
Yeah, instead we got social media and all the garbage associated with it. It mostly brought out the worst of humanity, and allowed the dumbest ideas to make front page news instead of dying on the vine in obscurity, as it would rightfully have in the past.
But the main idea is that one-on-one teaching is the key to the intellectual advancement of the great geniuses of yore. It even has a name: Bloom's 2-sigma principle.
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Speaking of social media. Interesting interview with the trio that runs Community Notes on X. It's one of the best things on X, but the Left hates it. So they are moving to BlueSky or Mastodon, which doesn't have Notes. Mastodon is more difficult to use, and so far it is boring, and populated by people who really have nothing to say.
They also loved TikTok, but since that will be banned starting tomorrow, they are migrating to RedNote, which is a privacy and security nightmare.
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a href="https://www.dailydot.com/news/tillamook-cheddar-cheese-not-real/" target="_blank">Is Tillamook Cheese real? Here's a deep dive into modern cheese making. It seems that it comes down to rennet.
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Portland is doubling down on just providing housing for the homeless, and not tackling the drug crisis behind it. Much of the homeless really don't want housing. They just want to be left alone, and provided with food and cash subsidies, along with tent and tarp and drug abuse kits and Narcan, that the city and county are happy to provide. This is why the homeless problem will never be solved.
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And here's what Portland always has to deal with, again and again. How much longer are downtown business going to put up with this?
