What was the technological opportunity cost of the computer revolution? (All those programmers would have been doing something, right?)

Will self-driving cars normalize taking the speed limit literally? (Or will people be allowed to set the cars to drive 5-10 above as usual?)

What is your most weakly held belief that you nevertheless operationally believe completely? (ie you act as if there was no doubt about it, but would be least surprised to find out you were wrong)

The Declaration of Independence happened closer to the present day than to Columbus' Voyages

If you tend to somewhat adapt your personality to others you are with, and if you then assume probable everybody does this, does this imply everybody is actually somewhat more different from you than you think?

Guy who believes Trump to be ineligible to run for President again under the 22nd Amendment

Twitter polls of congress members is actually a super interesting idea. They’re all on here already anyway

In the history of banking, is it the case that bank consolidation during crises is normal, and the counterbalancing force is the creation of new banks? And maybe the latter is what’s missing lately?

ChatGPT4 doesn’t quite get this one yet

We build workflows around our tools. Agile development, sales & marketing pipelines, and even organizational form👇 are enabled by & work along with our technology I see folks adding GPT to existing workflows. That is temporary. Ultimately, work is going to be reorganized for AI

I just got access to Google’s new MusicLM and… Wow. No exaggeration when I say this will change the music industry.

I just joked "is this airline a startup? bc that sure is a short runway" to the guys flying this plane and it didn't land at all.

rahul (guy who only knows the war of jenkin's ear) this is exactly like when they cut off jenkin's ear

Ben Reinhardt Pradyumna (in Bay Area) Alec Stapp The median voter gets what they want on things they care about. Elites get what they want on everything else (assuming they are unified). So you can get something by: - convincing a huge swath of society, changing the views and priorities of the median voter (basically

When I do find . | grep xkcd.com/2021/

If Covid lab leak + NIH coverup were true, should you update in favor of conspiracy theories on the margin (look, a real conspiracy!) or against them (the false consensus only lasted a year, the truth will out)?

Free idea: Someone should write about science news the way Matt Levine writes about finance news. Namely, in a style where the background/explainer is at least as important as the news itself. To elaborate:

Are you an information security engineer who’s having a baby? Here are some nice security related names for your child: Ida Frida Kali Ghidra Nessus Rijndael Nmap Yescrypt WireShark MD5 Burp Suite AFL++ Metasploit Community Edition AES/PKCS#7