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Great list! There's also Leber congenital amaurosis, a form of blindness that now has a (very expensive) gene therapy: https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10-12/fda-panel-endorses-gene.…

AGI would be extremely helpful in navigating clashes with aliens, but taking the time to make sure it's safe is very unlikely to make a difference to whether it's ready in time. Ra…

I know you've probably already tried lots of things, and you're also inundated with ideas from others, but: Here's a psychiatrist's guide to solving insomnia: https://lorienpsych.c…

I tried that a few different ways and couldn't get it to work. I don't think just the title and author are enough. I'd be interested to see if anyone else can find a prompt that do…

I've read (most of) the lawsuit[1] and unless I'm missing something, the allegations seem to be entirely guesswork, and the sex worker bans across multiple websites can be entirely…

The same psychiatrist from the hair dryer incident in the link has written about this. He's skeptical about ADHD being a discrete condition, and generally thinks that if ADHD drugs…

> The arrogance of being sure you are smart enough to never make a mistake in the ideas you pick up is pernicious and deadly. I actually really like that Slate Star Codex had a pag…

I wish that writer had spent fewer words describing Plomin as undemocratic, insidious, discredited, simplistic, and regressive, and more words actually explaining why he thinks Plo…

> Getting down voted for stating facts. I downvoted for the obnoxious phrasing of "Wrong. Try again." It goes against the first paragraph of the HN commenting guidelines: "Be kind.…

> Semmelweis was not very tactful. He publicly berated people who disagreed with him and made some influential enemies. Eventually the doctors gave up the chlorine hand-washing Som…

That seems covered by this paragraph: "Some people want to kill me or ruin my life, and I would prefer not to make it too easy. I’ve received various death threats. I had someone o…

Not just startups (though the focus might have shifted toward them in recent years, not sure). The Wikipedia article says that Fellows are funded to "drop out of school and pursue …

This sounded wrong to me so I googled and according to the first source I found, the layoff and discharge rate is 1.3% in the private sector, and 0.4% across federal, state, and lo…

That chart shows government spending at about 35.8% of GDP in 1980, and 37.8% now.

(I object to you calling revenue meaningless when you brought up country population.) World medicine spending[0]: $1.2 trillion US prescription drug spending[1][2]: $348 billion (2…

According to this chart[0], world healthcare spending was $7.7 trillion in 2016, of which $3 trillion (39%) was spent by the USA. The USA really does do most of world healthcare sp…

> $4.5k will get you a 1 BR in the Bay Area Average one-bedroom rent in San Francisco is $3,520, and two bedrooms is $4,550. It's much cheaper elsewhere in the Bay Area. In Oakland…

According to the World Bank's metric, China's percentile ranking on rule of law improved somewhat from 2010 to 2018 (eyeballing the chart, looks like it moved from 40th to 48th). T…

The NYT article we're all commenting on explains: "Studies in San Francisco and elsewhere show that price caps often prompt landlords to abandon the rental business by converting t…

The review includes 35 experimental studies with control groups. See table 3: "Experimental Personality Change Effect Size Estimates Comparing Treatment to Control".

Would it be feasible to genetically engineer trees to neither drop seeds nor release airborne pollen?

I like this one, made by Google - it teaches XSS vulnerabilities: https://xss-game.appspot.com/ It's been discussed on HN twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021869 https…

Robin Hanson wrote about similar experiments in 2010: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/looking-too-good.html As others here have suggested (e.g. jpfed, Tade0), it seems that e…

It's too late for me to edit this comment, but I was wrong to dismiss Sans Forgetica based on the review. I checked the paper and it notes: > Although the more general prevalence o…

I just checked the review with Sci-Hub, and you are correct. I was much too hasty. The memory effect is still plausible, they write: > "Although the more general prevalence of “des…