“Neo-toddlerism” is a perfect term.

The belief that every problem is only a problem of neglect, and we just need adults to divert their attention to us a bit more.

Then, tantrum as THE problem-solving technique makes sense.

But in the real world, problems are problems of…

John Aziz Sadly, neo-toddlerism — the belief that utopia can be achieved by acting like a 3 year-old — is an increasingly influential ideology.

People who use the “Tell me you’re X without telling me you’re X” meme to dunk on people are telling me they’re intellectually lazy without telling me they’re intellectually lazy.

News is a form of entertainment designed to be enjoyed guilt-free, because it masquerades as education. It is mental junk-food cunningly presented as good for you, despite being no healthier than regular entertainment — and often even unhealthier. It is margarine for the mind.

Samuel Butler, 1863

This painting is over 100 years old.

It was made by a Swedish illustrator called John Bauer, one of the most important artists you've never heard of.

His revolutionary art influenced everything from graphic novels to animated films to video games, and here's why...

Last week, England shut down the world’s largest pediatric gender clinic at the Tavistock (GIDS). Investigative journalist Hannah Barnes shares 7 lessons for the rest of the world at SEGM NYC conference.
Lesson 1: When new evidence emerges, be prepared to change direction.…

In 2017, I did something dumb. There was a total solar eclipse passing through the US, but I was in NY, far from the path. Was I really gonna get on a plane to see a cool thing for two minutes? Nah. I had shit to do.

The day came. I put my stupid glasses on and saw the sun…

It's been a busy day, where I've shared some of my take aways from today's Cass Report. It's taken a little longer to put my thoughts on paper for The New Statesman . Here they are: The Cass review into children’s gender care should shame us all
newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the…

Striving to have an interesting life does not guarantee its attainment, but striving to take interest in life does.

this Louis CK bit, rent free forever

captured the great chasm of our times

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Two weird things that are going to happen in marketing:
1) Marketing to AIs, as people increasingly ask AIs for advice, the goal is 'persuading' AIs, not people, to prefer a solution
2) Selling AIs on tools. LLM agents decide what tools to use, how do you get them to pick yours?

We did the world’s first ever 5-camera podcast on an LED Volume Video Wall 🚀

The Volume at Stray Vista is the same technology that they filmed The Mandalorian on. It uses Unreal Engine 5 to render entire worlds and then maps your position in front of them to make it seem…

My chat with Gurwinder Gurwinder is now premiering on Youtube youtube.com/watch?v=1MGSaY…

🚨New long-term study from The Netherlands finds the desire to be the opposite sex in adolescence is common, temporary, and declines with age

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'it takes very few people—less than 0.01 per cent of the population...to launch emotional appeals, to stir the indignation of the populace...and eventually to present their tiny communist movement as the incarnation of the entire nation’s will.' a.co/d/gBEGFEc

He made it harder to ignore our own ignorance, and that is no mean achievement.

RIP, Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024)

Huberman promoted a lot of studies that were clearly p-hacked.

As it turns out, a large portion of all the papers in various fields are p-hacked.

A clear indication of this fact is that the proportions of all significant results which are between 0.05 and 0.01 are enormous.

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews
arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183