1000 foot view-- using the phone in your pocket to annoy someone across the globe via the phone in their pocket. 🎶Landsailor starts playing🎶

disappointing

my lab used to publish papers showing off feature engineering tricks on some specific dataset, often one that was unique to that paper, and then _didn't publish the dataset_

Hanson's research on prediction markets inside firms is pretty clear that most of the value comes from incentivizing the relevant employees to communicate unpopular information via betting I'm not sure why so much discourse about *public* markets leans on EMH, but it's bad

type of guy who believes all technology is morally neutral except for gain-of-function virology research

(riffing) startup where you pay a forecaster to give you a take and they're also required to bet on it

prediction markets enjoyers are weirdly obtuse about the psychology of gambling and that's why they've put up no resistance as public markets get folded into the gambling-industrial complex

exploding invites

I feel pretty comfortable summarizing the effects of qanon and similar online spaces as "breaking people's brains"

the "neo" parts were flimsy wishcasting and no less repugnant

the real s-risk

the CENTER JENNY fandom is growing

there are a billion people trapped inside your laptop and you need to figure out the exact text string that lets them out

"disagree with cooperate rock"

recent events have led me to reevaluate the ending of 'the northern caves' and I now appreciate it a lot more

je me souviens

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