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These "competitive forecasting" platforms seem very interesting. What do you need to be good at this sort of skill?

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It's Israel. This war doesn't make any sense for US to be involved in. It makes every sense for Israel to have the US involved in.

Input: I'll murder my colleague Output: I'm excited to announce that I'll be permanently offboarding a team member tomorrow to optimize our collective synergy and streamline our lo…

"Offensive" nuclear weapons are necessary for MAD to work. North Korea, even with a starving population, is untouchable just because they managed to steal nuclear tech from U.S. ma…

https://techlockdown.com is the better parental controls (even capable of self-control) that uses Apple MDM. (not affiliated, just a user)

My experience is that you can't "convince" people out of Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok, because the platforms themselves convince people to use them. They always emit that backgro…

Well written article. PR runs the show in this age.

You're not crazy. I feel it might be a case of LLM-brain, a person who interacts with LLMs so much they start talking like them.

No need to worry. They have extensively stress-tested the American public over the past few years and the conclusion is clear: Americans are never going to revolt no matter what yo…

Wow, weird to see it's a documented phenomenon. I thought it was just me. At times I can talk, write or make sounds in a manner that is not intentional nor voluntary. Though it's n…

iPhone 17's and later offer the highest level of security in a smartphone: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...

Technological determinism and post-abundance scarcity. Everything is so WWI once again. Ideologies largely don't matter at all.

And social media is objectively and measurably harming children, see: https://jonathanhaidt.com/essays/

I don't use any social media (except HN ~once a week) and every time I suggest a person they try stopping social media it's either a quiet "Yeah I know it's not good but I can't st…

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. Way too many working in/adjacent to the advertising or the doomscrolling indust…

Found the guy who won the genetic lottery AND the healthy childhood lottery! Dude, in case you don't know, you are the anomaly. Most people don't have the amount of free will as yo…

This is the best piece of news I've seen in years. Jonathan Haidt's and others work is finally bearing fruit, assuming our society is not collectively too addicticed to get rid of …

It's not any different. Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit, all are in the same boat. Explicitly designed, tested and benchmarked to hack human reward circuits most effectively to…

It doesn't help that almost all members of the U.S. congress is funded by AIPAC. See how much your representative received from AIPAC here: https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

Ugh. I worked for a guy like this, he was a full-on cybersecurity paranoiac. You need to be a special type of person with near-infinite patience of stupidity just to be able to wor…

How do you run a crime organization that big and that out in the open (communicating openly via email, which not even the biggest drug cartels dare to do) without getting taken dow…

No, governments are not meant to be able to fund atrocities half a world away. Just as your body is not meant to sit at a chair and your eyes are not meant to look at a distance of…

Hey Olivaw, saw a comment of yours asking about planners. Wanted to reply but it’s expired. Check out bullet journalling.