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This was in a piece specifically about the blog that was going to be positive, which makes this all the more inexplicable.

I think that approach is valuable and "softballs" are only bad if you're assuming Rogan is a journalist, which he isn't. He's a comedian, an entertainer, and a conversationalist (a…

It's bad writing but I think it's unusual to have that much trouble parsing it.

Disconnect works well enough.

A good comment on r/SlateStarCodex: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/c1nnsn/fbi_...

Clickable: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#overview-of-major-app...

Genomic Prediction (Stephen Hsu's company) is theoretically able to do this since they currently screen for mental disabilities (i.e., IQs 2+ SDs below average). See gwern on this:…

Clickable: https://dcicblog.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06...

When should a business use blockchain despite its inefficiency? Honestly, I can't think of any reason to not just use a traditional relational database instead. Instead of anecdote…