So let’s go on a journey in which I will examine the validity of six common claims we hear about homelessness and the solution to our homelessness crisis: housing, housing, and more housing.
~ Noah Smith, from https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-about
“But wait,” I hear you protest, “it’s more nuanced than that!”
Yes, yes, okay, fine. Again, this time with more nuance:
It’s the lack of affordable housing.
And how might we solve that root cause?
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But what really made Vinge the father of the Singularity was his fiction. His 1981 novella “True Names” created many of the tropes about artificial intelligence and virtual worlds that have now become standard. It’s such a tour de force that top computer scientists felt compelled to write a series of essays exploring its ideas, and it’s often considered the founding work of the entire cyberpunk genre.
~ Noah Smith from, https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/go-read-some-vernor-vinge
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Note to self: Go read some Vernor Vinge.