“A Better Billion” — a report by the NYU Marron Institute and the Transit Cost Project on a 41 mile subway expansion we could do instead of free buses nytimes.com/2026/01/30/nyr… transitcosts.com/a-better-billi…

No matter your opinion, I think its ok to admit that spending $800 million annually on free busses is a policy choice that will affect city's ability to spend on other transpo priorities like subway expansion and bikeshare--bc thats how priorities work. nytimes.com/2026/01/30/nyr…

Every single person I know who has moved out of NYC did so because of housing costs. Build more housing.

Wonder if there is a trade off between per capita output and life expectancy at some point

Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t really understand the common sentiment would undermine our conception of what it means to be human

Radiologists are a good example -- a job we were promised since 2016 would soon disappear. The lesson is that even if the core tasks underlying a job can be done with AI, that doesn't mean the human expert isn't still needed.

AI stresses me out

Conservatives are such crybabies

More general, how much more data analysis depends on understanding the underlying data, all the non-glamorous parts of the jobs, compared to models and presentations derived from these data

The ghost in the machine argument is pretty correlated with bad AI takes

I never get this mentality. If we actually realize AGI on our own, that makes us more special, not less

勝負の世界は甘くない

Lots of folks spread false narratives about how ARC-1 was created in response to LLMs, or how ARC-2 was only created because ARC-1 was saturated. Setting the record straight: 1. ARC-1 was designed 2017-2019 and released in 2019 (pre LLMs). 2. The coming of ARC-2 was announced

It’s funny that a lot of reactionaries actually have a dim view of western culture

I know they have a lot of history to cover, but do Europeans literally not cover emigration in their history classes?