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A responsible journalist can't say directly that Sacks was a confabulist but they can point out facts and allow the reader to infer. That's what the article does. There are many fa…

Very helpful, an AI comment analyzing an analysis of AI

As somebody still in my early 20s, I am viscerally aware of these advantages provided to me slipping away year by year. I apologize for being vague but I would be interested in hea…

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/all-medications-are-insigni...

This was a seminal review in psychiatry that I am fully in agreement with but there are a lot of easy to draw conclusions from this review that are false. SRRI efficacy for one - T…

> And for those of you wondering, yes, I took the money. Absolutely.

Its unconscionable to me that the author would take $10,000 from his own father who is clearly not only mentally vulnerable but not rich as the author states. The father is very mu…

Bypass Paywalls Clean on Gitflic. As always, do your own due diligence before installing.

It's just a symbolic order, won't actually lead to anything important being released because the agencies have the authority to reject whatever they want. Many of the files have al…

> Comparing the two scenarios, we found that about half of the observed decline in US social trust may stem from: i) ever more unemployment experiences, ii) ever less confidence in…

Will a gun protect you when your car accelerates to 150 mph directly into a tree? A couple micrograms of toxin being sprinkled into your coffee? The CIA had a heart attack gun 50 y…

When I was 15 and suicidal, I found a commentor on Reddit eloquently (at least I thought so at the time) lamenting over their tedious, monotonous daily life. When I clicked on the …

Yes. The bottom 1%’s clothing will always be more indicative of the average clothes of the time than the top 1%’s.

Wage growth has not matched productivity growth for decades.

To be fair, his credibility is wholly based on his former professional roles. It would be literally impossible for him to provide direct evidence without getting gagged and sent to…

I think they look nice, so I got some. Didn’t think too much about it then and still don’t really think about them now.

Wasn’t it also in New York where an on-duty cop watched a guy get stabbed on the subway from a few feet away and actively chose to do nothing without punishment?

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In my college days I jumped in off a bridge with a French girl I met an hour before. We were both fine (I think)

As somebody with a degree in economics who did research in this area, I strongly disagree. I cannot stress how important is to not equate poverty data with quality of life. Let me …

The logical conclusion that people don’t like to hear is that there will need to be a fundamental restructuring of the economy. AI will, in the not so distant future, eliminate the…

Take a look at the CDC's offical long COVID data and do your own calculations. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm

I agree with most points except I like that enter renames files in Finder and I use it frequently. If I'm using Finder, I'm almost certainly going to be using my mouse/trackpad to …

1. Twitter has existed since 2006, I'm sure they are very well aware of governments utilizing their platform since then. 2. How do you expect governments to provide information? Sh…

> Lazily relying on Twitter I don't think that every government ministry or important figure should be expected to have to proactively reach out to Twitter and make a "formal arran…