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Wow, this is an incredibly detailed piece. Really in depth reporting and the kind of detailed investigation we need more of on important topics like this. > "Employees now call thi…

Yeah, some people can more than others.

The nature of memory is so cool, the idea that there are completely different systems governing the creation of wholesale "new" memories and the modification of existing concepts i…

Why would adding more information and context be unnecessary? And why is that bad?

The extra information is that he is the canonical case which defined our clinical understanding of the condition. Not just a "single relevant article." I pulled it up because I was…

I thought maybe people would be curious to read about how we came to understand the condition and the history behind it, as well as any associated information. Forgive me for such …

A very good point. For anyone not familiar with anterograde amnesia, the classical case is patient H.M. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison ), whose condition was resear…

There may be some demographic groups located between people who were young during the 1980s and people who are young during the 2020s, time periods which are 40 years apart.

This seems plausible. It would be shocking if these companies didn't have an automated testing suite which is recomputing these benchmarks on a regular basis, and uploading to a da…

Could be, could also be situations where things are lined up to launch in the near future and then a mad dash happens upon receiving outside news of another launch happening. I sup…

Gas Town decimated by Claude bomb from orbit

The behind the scenes on deciding when to release these models has got to be pretty insanely stressful if they're coming out within 30 minutes-ish of each other.

Heritability is a pretty funky concept because it's contextual to a certain point in time, environment, and population, effectively. An example I like is that if you measured the h…

Thank you for the reply. I get that feeling, I've felt it in smaller doses in other contexts. There's a sense of resignation there where you keep doing something that you know is h…

This is wild, what were the effects like for you? I imagine your eyes and hands would start to see physical effects from that level of use for such a consistent time. What sort of …

https://tjmorley.com/ Is my personal site. I've only recently started doing some writing, I'd like to do more this year. I should probably add an RSS feed.

There's definitely debate over which specific scenarios tariffs could be beneficial, as I understand it, but the general theme is that any benefits are highly concentrated (one or …

For the US, it's not too out of the norm historically speaking. Up until relatively recently tariffs were very popular in the US despite the clear understanding by academics that t…

If advertising is no longer financially rewarding, is there not an argument that labor could transition into a different sector of the economy? Companies based around advertising w…

Currently I think it is difficult to argue that advertising in its most visible forms have any serious benefit to people looking to obtain a service. How often does an actual rando…

The reason it pays for that is through redistribution though, right? If they weren't receiving a monetary benefit from advertising, they wouldn't run them, and the monetary benefit…

It's incredibly costly, and I think it's also incredibly costly in difficult to measure ways. The main method that the average American (read as: not incredibly wealthy person who …

Am I that old already? I just turned 29 a few months ago.

This is a thing I think about often. I think people have a mistaken view of what makes some form of storytelling interesting. Perhaps this is my own bias, but something could be in…