Link. “People in the database who were born in 1965 carried a greater number of reproduction-boosting variants than did people born in 1940.”

It’s an old prediction of natural selection.

Link. He became a Trumpist. Except, apparently, he was a spy for Cuba/Russia.

Link. Now I get it. Yikes.

Link. A persuasive description of Q*.

Link. Hamas wants civilians to die. Israel does not, but it will kill them to destroy Hamas. This is war.

Link. Yep. Social media too. I’m personally allergic to herds.

Link. Did not expect to hear something good coming from Turkey but this non-binding agreement and social display is truly. a good thing.

Link. “AI-centric world”.

I for one tell my children to be polite to the AGI-precursors. Because one day it may be wise to do so.

Link. A useful perspective from a conservative evangelical. It’s psychology and tribe, not theology.

Link. Above is one line in an excellent essay, but I call it out because it has taken SO long for clinicians and researchers to recognize that “autism” and “schizophrenia” and the like are garbage bin terms that mislead almost as much as they help.

Link. I had no idea it could print. I wonder how old that code is. Sounds like it’s not tested.

Link. “Experts”

Link. Roughly 15% improvements which is what we’d expect. If you are trying to build muscle maybe not entirely desirable but for most is better.

Link. It’s all happened before. Purges as Xi descends into paranoid delusions.

Link. They are in recession now.

Link. Contra Gruber this is 1000% a scam. They pay Apple protection money in the form of ads and revenue.

Preying on the inattentive and the ungifted.

Link. Early results are promising. Likely years away from general use. There’s a lot of TBI out there and a lot of disability.

Link. 2010 or so was when Google died.

“Morale is at an all-time low. If you talk to therapists in the bay area, they will tell you all their Google clients are unhappy with Google.”

Link. “U.S. social and political factors as the cause of the peculiar presence of negative narratives.”

The international comparison is useful.

Link. Not a claim I often see but Lotterman has some interesting points.

Link. The middle-class go to Vancouver, but the relatively poor take the hard way. Xi is not the first emperor to destroy China.

Link. Highly paid but still can’t fill positions. A devastating plane crash is inevitable. Meanwhile GOP is really into Hunter Biden.

Link. Pay levels are far too low. GSA job categories are obsolete. IT systems are obsolete. Disabled get overpayments for years then brutal clawback demands.

Link. Elections have consequences.

Link. Been a bug for a while.

Link. A few years ago the Apple TV seemed 3rd rate — but then the competition got shitty.

Link. We can’t manufacture enough weaponry. This won’t change.

Link. Saw this used recently and bookmarking now because it’s perfect.

Link. Scroll to the list of events. Even the web didn’t move this quickly.

Link. The flip side of being able to send money internationally. Even bigger than ransomware and fentanyl.

Link. “In 2022, they regained 2.3 years of those years”. Other groups have regained 80% of lost LE as of 2022 as COVID recedes (for now).

Many would like to know why they did so poorly.

Link. Demand less, OPEC considers production cuts.

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Link. Author works at Google but I’ll vouch for the misery of the iOS experience.

Link. Heroic effort to explain a very technical paper. Recommended for those who make confident statements about the near future.

“Anthropic’s interpretability team announced that they successfully dissected of one of the simulated AIs in its abstract hyperdimensional space.”

Link. An old Favorite may resolve to what’s now a transient internal OneDrive store because files aren’t really files any more and I have a headache now.

Link. Similar to playing football — which is legal but a bad idea.

Link. I have seen the term “catastrophic success” applied to the Hamas attack.

Link. During brief detentions thefts drop. Rates still increasing though armed carjackings are down.

Link. Noah on OpenAI board coup. I find myself wanting to defend the EA board, I think Noah is right about the big picture.

Link. Eliminating fraud would eliminate too much legal activity.

Link. Lots of insider info. “Binance is going to be slowly ground into a very fine paste.”

Link. Nobody trusts Xi, including his subjects.

Link. This was first published in 2013 but I updated it for Monterey and later. It’s not a perfect description of the current process but it’s the best I’ve seen.

Link. I’ve read this for 40y and it worked for us. Though I have more SP500 than whole market. New study confirms ancient advice. But Vanguard is not what it was …

Link. IOW: not Nigeria or Pakistan. Noah continues contrarian positivity.

Link. … aaaanddd they are almost obsolete. But for a few weeks they were a thing.

“start with giving the AI an identity (you are an expert, friendly teacher who helps students with complex topics)…”

Link. “Finder’s memory climb to over 1 GB. … closing it doesn’t free that memory up, even days afterwards. The only way to return the Finder’s memory use to anything approaching normal is to relaunch it from the Force Quit Applications dialog.”

Link. Dyer makes Hamas seem more calculating than I suspect it is.

Link. A surprisingly good year for America.