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just let the "proto" do the work and enjoy the joke

I would say generally speaking that people who assume AI will replace somebody else's job believe that these jobs are merely mechanical and there is no high-level reasoning involve…

Yeah my understanding is that the balance of evidence on moderate alcohol consumption works this way as well (though with cancer and heart health reversed).

No, so long as they do so independently. However if they were to collude to suppress wages, then it becomes illegal.

In my experience, Spotify generally picks 20-40 top songs from each genre and recommends them to any listener that has showed interest in that genre. To a listener new to the genre…

Yes, plus it's also risky as a store of value for someone even if they are complying with local law. There are greater opportunities for fraud as well as the risk the regulatory en…

Interesting that GOP confidence is down as well (since 2020)

Yeah in terms of greed it's really hard to say which of these two parties I detest more.

The wiki article cites this link: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-... which does show many comparable countries, but it seems like much of the info is f…

The dynamic sort of of reminds me of the "market for lemons" in that the bad drives out the good. Not really quite the same though. The question is what the production function for…

FWIW I'm currently in my late twenties / early thirties and I also think the tech of 10-15 years ago was optimal. Hypothesis 1: The 90s-00s really were the peak and it's not just a…

Yeah in my experience the need to be distracted can always find an expression even after eliminating individual outlets. Still, there are marginal benefits to reducing the quality …

Most of the growth in Chinese carbon emissions (>90%) is due to growth Chinese consumption, not exports. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china

This seems like it's merely codifying a practice that already existed de facto. I doubt Harvard had a specific social media monitoring policy in place when it rescinded admissions …

True, but to be fair a null result is much more interesting (and thus publishable) when it cuts against a large body of prior empirical work or theory. Thinking specifically of Car…

I think the chief complaint of the analysts is less about the total hours worked than the fact that much of the grinding is not productive. From what I recall, the issue was that m…

I feel the sound -> stress connection palpably. Especially sudden loud noises like a horn honking cause me to feel upset for a long while after being startled. Seems like a convinc…

I agree with this broadly. I find it interesting that most of my friends/social set will (rightly) dismiss "high school health class" fearmongering over drugs, but when that drug i…

What I like about this reply is that I think the best answers are probably the ones you don't immediately think of, as they've changed things so immensely that they're now a compon…

Heh, same. All I have to do is wait 30 years and everyone will stop bothering me!

They do in their model. Being Asian carries with it the worst relative odds of being hired, though it is not responsible for the overall negative non-white male coefficient (Black …

GOP senators going through these motions is kind of like a weird mirror image of when the Dems bring in the relevant CEO from the latest financial fraud for grilling, but no releva…

I think this is a good point that doesn't get discussed enough. Was Bell bad for the consumer? Yes, probably. Was the benefit of the increase in innovation a net benefit for societ…