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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.

Secondly, I don’t think she kicks the tires that well. “AI skeptics underestimate its utility” is a tweet-length observation. (Derek Davidson, another Argument contributor, has made such a Tweet. I think it would be much better if she tried to steelman or engage Zitron a bit on the econ ramifications of the current bubble.

When I say Zitron is annoying, it’s because he’s very strident and can make arguments that don’t make sense or are easy to refute. But that’s also the most boring way to engage with him!

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 publications like The Argument need to take shots to get views, I guess.

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 zero has a social impact)

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 competitions, but seemed skeptical of it now. Scott remained a believer.

“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 the day, Adams was a pretty crunchy California guy. Remember the Dilburrito?

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 that can be objectively defined.

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 settings to your tv?

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 side of his life.

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 oral glucose. There were no significant differences in CGM determined mean glucose or glycemic variability as assessed by glucose CV.”

From this thread - https://twitter.com/KevinH_PhD/status/1536782331628822528

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 controlled as you can get in a diet study. Created 2 diets that were matched - so caloric density and macronutrients of the food were the same. Let people eat as much of the food as they wanted, and the ultraprocessed group consumed 500 calories per day more.

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 grandma or restaurant chefs were biased towards repeatable, appetizing products, they weren't using focus groups and industrial/scientific methods to get there. I.e. you can't send your grandma to General Mills and have her create Spaghetti-Os.

There seems to be medical consensus that "ultraprocessed" food, as squishy as that term is, is obesogenic. Part of that may be influenced by the marketing and marketing science behind the food as well, but there seem to be human and animal studies that support that our food has changed.

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.”

Common white collar criminals say “let’s take this offline” in their chat transcripts.

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 intelligence community analysts who could read intercepts and other secret data"

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

I think magical, positive thinking is protective even in the most dire times or atrocities. This is an intuition that's based on anecdotes from watching the documentary Shoah and reading Man's Search for Meaning, both of which cover how survivors dealt with the Holocaust.

I wonder about the possibilities for AI to provide better bedside manner and support difficult conversations for clinicians. Obviously there are risks with increased reliance automation, but it seems like there are also possibilities for improving communication and reducing emotional labor while still letting humans drive the knowledge work part of medicine.

I agree dropping the brake strand is inexcusable, but how can you tell that somebody is fully overriding a grigri from a video?

Unfortunately both the Obama and Biden administrations have been pretty bad on immigration and refugees. We’re about to have a very foreseeable crisis in 2 days when Title 42 expires. A lack of bipartisan cooperation is certainly part of the issue, but it’s hardly a priority for Democrats. I think Obama admin officials even admitted that it was because most Americans don’t care.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/us/title-42-expires-border-im...

Previous discussion on WSJ reporting about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836837