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2017: computers are good at math and bad at writing 2020: computer are good at writing and bad at math 2026: computers are good at math and bad at writing
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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:
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yds@yds27 Sep 2020
What was the technological opportunity cost of the computer revolution? (All those programmers would have been doing something, right?)
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yds@yds27 Dec 2020
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?)
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yds@yds10 Feb 2021
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)
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yds@yds10 Dec 2021
The Declaration of Independence happened closer to the present day than to Columbus' Voyages
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yds@yds8 May 2022
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?
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Replying to @Ben_Reinhardt @PradyuPrasad @AlecStapp
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 changing the culture) - keeping it off the median voter’s radar and establishing an elite consensus - winning an intra-elite policy fight when there is no elite consensus and the median voter doesn’t care
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Replying to @0interestrates
(guy who only knows the war of jenkin's ear) this is exactly like when they cut off jenkin's ear
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yds@yds20 Nov 2022
Guy who believes Trump to be ineligible to run for President again under the 22nd Amendment
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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.
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I just got access to Google’s new MusicLM and… Wow. No exaggeration when I say this will change the music industry.
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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
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@emollick18 Sep 2021
The first org chart was made for the New York & Erie Railroad in 1854, solving issues of control & coordination in ways we still use. Not only is it full of plant-inspired beauty, it also combines a map of the physical railroad & one of company structure. mckinsey.com/business-functi…
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While underachievers are discussing their plans to read one book per week, I’m reading 10-12 books per day. Here’s the secret to reading hundreds of books in 2023: 🧵 🧵👇👇 1. Have kids 2. Read books with 8 pages 🚀 🚀 🔥 🔥
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This is a good idea. I hope partisanship doesn't prevent blue-state governors (and DC's mayor) from following suit.
Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) profile pictureGreg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX7 Dec 2022
I've banned TikTok on state issued devices. I'm also calling for legislation to make the ban permanent and to broaden the ban. As I detail in my letter and press release, the threat posed by the CCP through TikTok is serious and must be stopped. gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/…
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yds@yds13 Nov 2022
Replying to @Jotto999
People who transgress Kelly get worse geometric-mean expected returns (by definition of Kelly), but not worse arithmetic-mean returns. It’s fundamentally a philosophical question which one you care about. And I think SBF makes his position quite clear.
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yds@yds13 Nov 2022
Replying to @Jotto999
If there were ends-justify-the-means arguments deployed against eg. a notion that it is inherently wrong to misuse customer funds even if you could make more money in expectation that could be used for good purposes, then that could be very much a consequence of utilitarianism
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Wonder erases order: Non-red roses are red now. #palindrome
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All that suggests that Secret-Service-level protection for the justices (assuming they want it) is a good idea.
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A very nice thread, with three different ways to re-imagine what the FDA does.
Andre Infante (@AndreTI) profile pictureAndre Infante@AndreTI20 May 2022
Replying to @AndreTI @MorumtriH @cafreiman @oliverstein15
Having a force that resists the advance of quack medicine and contaminated food is good. The FDA as it currently exists is bad. There are lots of ways to get the benefits of the former without the enormous drawbacks of the latter.
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