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Google has significantly more data than merely what you're googling. virtually every website transaction is observed by Google Analytics. nearly everywebsite has a google pixel ins…

everyone here is talking about eels but i prefer icktok

sure, call it entertainment rather than social. very fair comment, but that is not a distinction this paper is making. the paper is also talking about tiktok too which falls into t…

i feel like the underlying thesis of this is maybe wrong. someone closer to the methodology would know better but here is what i see: (1) Meta and Google have seen their growth slo…

I just tried a few books that were not found or could not get the cover, even though they are both well known (over 50k reviews each on Goodreads). The Physician https://www.goodre…

mixed bags are our favorite thing to argue about

Building and growing a business of any size is probably one of the most intellectually stimulating lives possible. People work for years without any where close to his amount of en…

I really admire Rob for his blog, life experience, and some truely unique and powerful perspectives. This type of culture war bait is a little lame though. Its even more lame that …

your fact is incontestable, but labeling this as 'sad' is.

Scott Alexander is not for everyone (as I've learned by unsuccessfully foisting him on friends for years) but for people who are even remotely interested he is probably the greates…

You might love Conversations with Tyler, the podcast hosted by Tyler Cowen. https://conversationswithtyler.com/ I used to enjoy Terry Gross and many other interviewers, but Tyler C…

Tyler Cowen: “I believe this is the first major work published in GPT-4, Claude 2, and some other services to come. I call it a generative book.”

i love this project. i feel like this is going to be a great source of interest and value over the next few years (and potentially immesurable value over longer time frames).

odd thing to be snarky about. organized religious practices coevolved with agricultural societies. I don't think this is that scandalous?

In 17th century was it better to be a religious Jew in Belgium or non-religious Jew in Belgium?

Because Long Covid is not a scientific term in the way most people use it. I've had many family members refer to having long covid because they had a persistent stuffy nose for a f…

Its not that I don't believe your general point but I would be interested in evidence that you're getting more than 1 in a row. I am $50MM+/year spender on Meta ads and while I kno…

variations in the virus are predictable, but which ones really catch on and how are hard to predict. I don't know how phizer/moderna/etc balance needs to develop different drugs ag…

2020 vaccines were made for 2020 variants. Summer 2021 brought new variants that are more contagious than the 2020 variants. Its not hard.

To me this is the most frustrating and frequent hot take I hear; "continue to show vaccines are less effective than we were all lead to believe" I was sold a vaccine that limited h…

I think that each of those statements sound plausible but dont really have much to do with each other. In fact there is a lot of good news even within some of the bad news. Stock p…