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Maybe I jumped a bit quickly to my conclusion there. I think The Argument / Piper know that an “Ed Zitron is wrong” angle drives more traffic than just writing better AI criticism.…

Ed Zitron is annoying. But saying “I wish the argument was being made better” while using him as the basis for your article is more annoying to me! Just make the argument then. But…

Investment money is not debt. Equity and debt are different things.

We have credible deepfakes on demand. (To be fair, there have been deceptive photos as long as photos have existed, but the cost of automating their creation going to basically zer…

Majority is correct if you go by the $125k figure (which is skewed by public listing data, I’m sure)

I’m interested. Especially if you can point to moments in your career or projects where it has worked.

He was into NLP (the hypnosis theory) from way back. James Hoffman, the coffee YouTuber, had an interesting comment on how he tried to use that in one of his 90s barista competitio…

“De gustibus non disputandum est” - no arguing taste. Art is like family.

I think art is a lot like family - you don’t get to pick which works really resonated with you and influenced you, even if the artist turns out to be a “bad person.” And back in th…

I’m quibbling with invasion per the Wiki definition quoted in this thread, which is different from the Kalshi one. I think the Kalshi one is bad because “intent” is not something t…

It was an extraction/capture operation “with the goal… to alter the established government”

This article seems to imply that the default settings are the manufacturer recommended ones for streaming movies - is that bad ux? Should Netflix be able to push recommended settin…

This was sticking to the facts - this is original research into Sacks’ letters and unpublished writing. It’s for readers who read Sacks in the New Yorker and want to see another si…

US has PISA scores that are roughly equivalent to Western Europe. I think the kids who can do math just get sorted into better jobs.

Isn’t this article just describing a halfway house? Doesn’t really seem that Nordic to me.

StellarPeers & Product Alliance are pretty good.

May be his pharmacy struggling with supply -- I hear lots of folks are titrating outside of the guidelines because they can't get the appropriate dosage.

It's definitely a strategic move inasmuch as Apple is a sponsor of Thread.

The study’s author, KevinH_PhD is a good follow on Twitter and generally responsive to his critics there: “Glycemic index was calculated to be ~52 for both diets with respect to or…

Are you familiar with Kevin D. Hall's Ultraprocessed food study? https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(19)30248... They did it in a metabolic ward, so about as contro…

What do you consider good pizza? American chain pizza style? You mention Neapolitan pizza, but that's typically a very wet pizza from oil and fresh mozzarella as well.

The point you're making seems similar to the argument that GMOs have a lot in common with earlier selective breeding techniques. I think the difference is that while historically g…

I think this underestimated the abilities of the “common white collar criminal” — there are lots of chat logs of SBF and his coconspirators saying essentially “we’re doing fraud.” …

Tetlock’s Superforecasters performed better than experts, though: >In the Good Judgment Project, "the top forecasters... performed about 30 percent better than the average for inte…

Nuclear risk is about the reaction to somebody using a nuclear weapon, not the bomb itself being bad.