What a fascinating paper about effects of academic tracking on income at age 25-27, examining people in and not in AP courses pre/post AP implementation in Texas - read the thread for the results!

One thing academics should take away from Deep Research is that a substantial number of your readers in the future will likely be AI agents. Is your paper available in an open repository? Are any charts and graphs described well in the text? Probably worth considering these…

While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a 2.3% chance on Dec. 22, 2032. As we observe the asteroid more, the impact probability will become better known. More: go.nasa.gov/3WNhxyQ

Observations made on Feb. 19 – 20 of asteroid 2024 YR4 have further decreased its chance of Earth impact on Dec. 22, 2032, to 0.28%. NASA’s planetary defense teams will continue to monitor the asteroid to improve predictions of its trajectory. More: go.nasa.gov/3I0ZA7K

Great destruction has come from individuals with strong arms, a self-satisfied mind and a hollow chest.

Funding orgs like the NIH should use less external academic review in grant decisions Internal review is cheaper, faster, and less risk averse maximum-progress.com/p/the-single-c…

The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever By. September 2024, 18% of financial consumer complaints, 24% of press releases, 15% of job postings & 14% of UN press releases showed signs of LLM writing. And the method undercounts true use

some relevant excerpts from the Declaration of Independence

In a normal country at a normal time, this would be a scandal that would destroy a presidential administration. Andrys was beaten and tortured for the "crime" of crossing into the US without the government's permission. He was working as a barber. He was convicted of no crimes.

Nabeel S. Qureshi One key implication of this is that you can produce small benefits for other people (usually) at effectively zero opportunity cost.

Even if you’re a ghoul who doesn’t believe that immigrants possess basic human rights, if you get rid of due process for immigrants, you are also damaging the rights of citizens. Due process helps us know who is a citizen and who is an immigrant.

it's kind of funny that "snake oil" is synonymous with a worthless fraud, but ozempic mimics a protein in gila monster venom

👀Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive. A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”

This is insanely hardcore

Good news everyone! The unpopular and seemingly irrelevant lecture I give in my health econ class on "Most favored nations agreements" just became prophetically relevant. Bad news everyone! This is a terrible policy. 🧵

TracingWoodgrains I have so many questions: Should Waymo cars be programmed to evade arsonists? Are they allowed to break traffic laws to do so? Can they hit pedestrians, in the process? Does a human driver have different rights? Does the Waymo gain all those rights if it has passengers?

I write a lot about Covid origins. I thought the lab leak theory made sense, back in 2020, but I eventually came to realize that it's very unlikely to be true. Here's a summary of some long posts I've written and many shorter threads:

The "American democracy is in trouble" crowd also took a banging last evening.

Seems like the commentary from every election cycle is that voters are in a state of discontent and seeking change.