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Fascinating. Do you have any suspicions as to what the cause might be instead?

Full disclosure, I worked briefly with Ello / Catalin some years back. They've done a lot of work on at least two dimensions: (1) handling the nonstandard sounds and habits of spee…

The explanation I've heard is that the national curriculum switched away from phonics and to a teaching method called "balanced literacy", and this went terribly [1]. IIRC it invol…

Full disclosure: I worked on a small project with Ello / Catalin a few years ago. At the time of writing, the sentiment in this post is that this is a terrible idea, and that kids …

It exists and is a great read – https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Goliath Check the archive.org link at the bottom!

Hello! I'm one of the main authors of the paper. Thanks for engaging with our work so thoughtfully – that's a very clear and valid question. We didn't get around to addressing this…

This is very funny to me. It took about a decade for them to receive a scientific name – because people were too busy eating them the whole time! The "note on the Bathynomus fisher…

I'm quite curious, what are people doing with AI-powered browser automation at the moment? This is such a new capability that I'm having a hard time getting a sense of interesting …

If the claim that the blogosphere is dying is true, does that imply the public intellectual commons is dying too? I suspect that while the cosyweb is more pleasant for most, this r…

In your experience, are doctors generally willing to do this?

Thanks, I'm certainly going to try that. I was more asking if anyone has experience getting tests done properly in light of their low accuracy. From what I understand, an antigen t…

Speaking as someone who went through this, running experiments with your diet is absolutely worth trying. It worked for me. There is actually a specific medical practice for this: …

Oh wow, I have the first half of this situation. I went through a period where my digestion was so bad that it was affecting my ability to function from day to day. I didn't get an…

I'd love to hear more about your experience with this platform. Is there any public information about this platform or research? How did you guys manage the bad behaviors that come…

That's very interesting - the Chinese "oi" has pretty much exactly the same usages, down to the little details! (I'm most familiar with the Cantonese 喂 wai2, though it's not my fir…

FYI OP is answering my question on what the historian's theory was! (They were downvoted) This route makes sense to me; I do think the deal has been getting worse and worse lately,…

This is so insightful! What did they believe the main process was, that was causing things to break? My guesses - this is about (a) inequality reaching a breaking point, where non-…

> On flights within the U.S., airlines are responsible for lost-luggage reimbursement up to $2,500 per person; on international flights, airlines owe you a mere $9.07 per pound, wi…

I agree in the abstract, but people and companies operate under bounded rationality. Customers can't easily price the expectation of lost luggage. Companies are made of subunits wi…

I think OP is right but hasn't fully unrolled what they mean. This seems like it creates a moral hazard [1], because it reduces the penalty to airlines for losing luggage. If airli…

This seems unnecessarily reductive. Yes, like any tool, marketing can be used for evil. And people often associate marketing with scummy advertising or spin (which often actually f…

I think we might still consider this counterculture as long as its norms are not mainstream culture. And I think it's fair to say the dominant culture of many cultural institutions…

No, the counterculture is actually thriving. But many people just don't understand it yet, because of how, well, counter it is to their ideas about culture: its roots are now in co…

1. I did not use the word "normal" or "advanced" once in any comment, nor did I ever imply it. You are, in fact, continuing to make assumptions about me. 2. "Pretty much every cult…