This experiment would've banged circa '12

Probably the best argument for space exploration is that it functions as an extremely compelling busy box for precisely the kind of person who would otherwise be doing things like bombing London or dismantling USAID or destroying the Ukrainian electric grid

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Headline: Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

I suppose you’re a domain expert given you’ve been ignoring economic reality for decades

The overly confident bloke in your philosophy class who hasn’t done a single reading

It's a shame all the 'different reactions' are variations of "this film is centrist both-sideism slop!" or "more woke liberal Hollywood propaganda!". Did anyone even watch the film?!

Just finished this. Utterly brilliant. It has knocked off Nick Chater's "The Mind is Flat" as the best pop psych book. IMHO, of course.

draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...

People that think AI is useless are kidding themselves. Just because your social media feed has been ruined by 'AI slop' does not mean there aren't genuinely astonishing use cases.

E.g. Yesterday I coded an experiment in 15 minutes that would've taken me 2-3 days the old fashioned way...

Never understood this take. Same sort of people that think following an account is the same as endorsing their views...

I'm not reading the WSJ op-ed page because its enlightening, I'm reading it for some insight into how these people think.

When I (hopefully) return I'll be sure to comment! Although I somewhat loathe the place due to the preponderance of Wordsworth translations on their shelves.

200% tariffs on French plonk is where I draw the line

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Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

fair play.

The reason business school professors are paid triple their peers is that they use "ex ante" instead of "a priori".

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

In other news I think a lot of smaller countries could cheaply replace the US branch of their military intelligence agency with one guy hitting refresh on any relevant Polymarket contracts

Strolled upon a gold mine this morning @theonion.com

Six Ways a Tough Choice Can Tax Your Mind Researchers across disciplines have pieced together a timeline of cognitive costs.

“A person might go, ‘This is too burdensome for me. I’m going to stop making this decision altogether.’”

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/six-w... #econsky

I sort of liked the article... I agree that it is poor judgement on Chomsky's part (probably indefensibly so), but I enjoyed this article at the very least as antidote to the full blown histrionics I've seen on Bluesky in the past week.

I wonder what proportion of histrionic commenters read the article.

Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Potts Point is the Australian zenith of high density housing and Zetland is the nadir.

Sydney must become beach tokyo. inshallah we make it

Is insufferable prose a feature on substack? Truly some of the most inane, self-absorbed sentences ever produced been published on that site.

Note to self: don't run an effort aversion study on a Sunday morning as 3/4 of the sample seek the harder task and have astronomically high 'need for cognition' scores.