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Piece argues that health wearables offer little in the way of marginal health insights or benefits while exacerbating health anxiety, discounting signals from the body, and providi…

https://archive.ph/cx5HQ

Where are the weirdos? Is it all just AI now?

Would love to hear why you think this. Couldn’t disagree more at first glance. He feels like a breathe of sanity and rationality in a crazy political world.

Appreciate the comment. This is the author here. Unfortunately, due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law as pointed out by another comment, there is an asymmetry of …

Ezra Klein

The order of magnitude of his mistake makes it damning. Especially considering he began his commentary by noting that "the data can be confusing"

Government spending is how a Keynesian combats a recession. For perspective, though, look at this chart of government spending as a % of GDP. It has never gotten even close to 85% …

It's frustratingly impressive how grifters are able to maintain a grift even after it's made evident that they are grifting...

How do the costs not apply to the tens of thousands of lives that could have been saved?

I don’t think EAs are focused on assigning credit here. It’s very consequentialist; they would say “it doesn’t matter who saved the 100 lives, it matters that they were saved.”

Think about the counterfactual: a student doesn’t go to Harvard, they instead go to Duke or a public Ivy. They’re only marginally worse off. All of these schools already have enoug…

No, because everyone doesn’t think that way.

You don’t think doing more good with the same resources is a good thing? Is it not better to save two lives than one life, all else equal?

Nah the money he gave was unrestricted. They just decided to name the grad school after him. The money isn’t earmarked for anything in particular.

Right! That would disqualify me from going to every coffee shop and small quick service restaurant in my city.