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I am trying to re-find it but there was a study I'd read that was saying that in general if you don't break it down, there's a massive amount of weight stigma impact on women's emp…

I think there's a lot of just-world fallacy going around re: how I keep running across the following pattern online now that GLP-1RA drugs exist. Commenter A (esp. often a woman, t…

This is interesting to me because in my job as a senior dev I can tell that there are greater opportunities for me if I can improve my skills. As a result, I think this may speak t…

Plausible-sounding mechanisms like you're presenting here do not add value to the discourse without data. There are tons of plausible mechanisms we could make up absent empirical e…

> Which is better is ultimately subjective Most folks subjectively prefer having light after work because that's when it's more fun to do stuff. Unfortunately, the health impacts a…

My sense is the same as the authors that LLMs + an Anki-like -> mediocrity. But I feel like there ought to be such potential there! Even just things as simple as rewording the same…

I would also support this if there were a way to do it without privacy implications for actual adults. Unfortunately, there is not, and more unfortunately still, there is not wides…

https://hidefromit.substack.com/p/there-is-no-evidence-you-s... seems to keep working over time better than this advice implies)

https://vbuckenham.com/blog/how-to-find-things-online/ V used game guides as an example of how LLMs corrode a culture of user-generated material provided out of love / desire for c…

This is not rambling and it is not abstract. The content here is about the second-order effects of "getting AI to write code for you" in less supervised ways. I'll cede the author …

I fully agree! It is in keeping with that sense that it is important that I object to a system where society expects non-parents to do it for free within a mesh of social obligatio…

Believing "if X, Y" is not unacceptable in 2026. That was the analysis of the recent FT article too, pointing to the fertility rates in different countries with different success i…

https://wol.iza.org/articles/how-does-grandparent-childcare-... In theory very little of it has to be about women specifically, but practice is different. (The expectations that us…

I wish society had taxed me (desired path zero children) more in some way that would have routed the resources to my friend who would have wanted to start having kids earlier and h…

Do you believe the same people were saying those things? (Were they really?) The idea that "different attitudes towards labor have been expressed by different people" doesn't feel …

Imagining a version of this that scales by how long I've been using the phone since the screen's been off. If I need to check something quickly, I want the internet and processing …

> This is an addiction and reaching for the phone is just what gives relief to whatever pain one might be experiencing. Just removing that is laying ground for a substitute. This m…

This is really interesting! I don't know that I would have expected the result, but it's laid out well. Easy to absorb the wrong paradox into one's mental model of the world...

I'm pretty sure all these models have terms of service that make the user assert that they have permission to use the content you're feeding into them (clickwrap infringement-is-th…

Amazon is big and inconsistent enough that "somewhere in Amazon, is occurring" is statistically true, no matter how nutso-sounding your .

> If you work in construction, you need to lift and carry a series of heavy objects in order to be effective. But lifting heavy objects puts long-term wear on your back and joints,…

Young people have more poorly developed impulse control.

> To lambasting them when they express any desire to actually form a family. What is this referring to?

This person took a different attitude toward it and it was fine. Do you know someone who was attacked for interrupting a set or something?

> We don't have height categories, we have categories based on sex. I mean, we do have weight categories in combat sports, right? I don't see why we couldn't come up with similarly…