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I wanted to add -- the two most compelling pieces of information I've seen that make the lab accident theory more plausible to me are: 1) The verified existence of the bat-originat…

Thanks for the recommendation. I will check this out asap! To return the favor, I recommend checking out the Lapham's Quarterly issue on "Epidemic" that collected historical writin…

IMO, determining the origin of the virus is of much more consequence than who was right and who was wrong back in 2020. If the virus crossed over naturally, it's reasonable to conj…

Thanks for posting. As an avid player, it's fascinating to read how much foresight these thinkers had in 1950. Today, programs stronger than any human can be downloaded from the ap…

I've often found myself clearing clutter as the most productive way to procrastinate, telling myself that I'll do better work once I'm organized. Unfortunately, that's not usually …

Hey John, I found I couldn't put ELSISAGS down -- I think it's because I so desperately want to get as complete a picture of DFW as possible and the book more than anything helped …

Pleasantly surprised to see this on HN. I've read all of DFW's work and he's such an interesting writer/human being. The biography "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story" is a must-rea…

I think the reason this sort of research doesn't jive on HN is because most HN readers/commentators know how difficult it is to isolate a variable and distinguish between correlati…

Down in LA.

Per the read, I didn't find that Kindness had been isolated as a variable. From an anthropological standpoint, one could argue that someone kind or charitable would be attractive -…

Highly relevant in tech, too, in terms of interpreting user feedback: "A culture that believes its citizens are not reliably competent thinkers will treat those citizens differentl…

A highlight from the text: -- When the internet arrived, it seemed to promise a liberation from the boredom of industrial society, a psychedelic jet-spray of information into every…