Balaji So you abdicate the state to “the woke” where the masses will be oppressed and downtrodden while the tech enabled “exit” This is almost the definition of a dystopian future. Where is humanism? courage? honor? Duty? What an anemic worldview...

Excellent post regarding ivermectin: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-m….

"In ancient China, public administrators studied Confucius to become wise, not to become engineers. It was believed a wise person would have the capacity to be a great engineer, but a trained engineer would not necessarily have a path to attaining wisdom." americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/crises…

"ambitious project that set out 8 years ago to replicate findings from top cancer labs … reports today that when it attempted to repeat experiments drawn from 23 high-impact papers published about 10 years ago, fewer than half yielded similar results." science.org/content/articl…

Psychology’s replication crises is the living embodiment of Charlie Munger’s quip “tell my what the incentives are and I’ll tell you what will happen”

This is an extraordinary level of institutional inertia

folks on the TL talking about loss of trust in authority & experts, & I think some ppl really don’t remember the speed with which the 2020 narrative shifted from “your outdoor funeral is a superspreader event” to “let’s celebrate these protests that look a lot like block parties”

"If you can't figure out what kind of work you like, pay attention to what's easy to concentrate on and gives you energy vs. what makes you tune out and feel tired" sounds obvious but remains some of the best advice I ever got.

This is a great idea.

Insane… the collapse of public health in the face of Covid will reverberate for decades

Incisive viewpoint on AGI specifically, but more generally on the nature of reality and how our mapping of computation on to the world may be misguided. “the map is not the territory”

Still the most concise summary of the imprecision and magical thinking that goes into believing in a super-intelligence explosion overcomingbias.com/p/the-betterne…

Super interesting finding May explain why people constantly think about radically changing things to make them marginally better (eg capitalism) without imagining how much worse it could make things Bravo Adam Mastroianni experimental-history.com/p/things-could…

1/ Pacwest's $PACW share price decline is making headlines, & while general concerns that led to other bank failures are known, Pacwest's specific situation hasn't been well covered. A deeper look into their balance sheet & precarious financial situation reveals alarming details.

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My dad, who is a moderate Muslim, finally expressed his concern and asked me, 'Why are you supporting this genocide?' He mentioned that he's stopped looking at his phone because he can no longer bear to watch videos of Palestinian children being bombed by Israel. I replied, 'I

From the river to the sea

“There is no scenario where sanctions relief turns Iran into the region's dominate power.” —President Obama #IranDeal