Similar to the Peter principle I guess

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Interesting take

https://yougov.com/articles/54115-january-2026-saw-an-increase-in-consumer-confidence

Not sure what to make of the difference between these charts.

False negatives?

Do we know much about how each income group differentially reports vibes, in terms of magnitude and how fast they update to material circumstances?

I actually think the task is ok. There's a handful of popular text generators and each has a certain distinctive style; no reason they shouldn't be identifiable.

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one sim-(10^13 cells) in a meatsuit

New and interesting:
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– is what you get when you decode with the wrong encoding. So it's plausible the data's fine and just being interpreted wrong, in which case I'd be wary about changing the data, which could corrupt it, rather than tweaking the software reading the data.

56% recognition today.yougov.com/topics/enter...

What does the vertical axis mean?

This is terrific

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (December 2025) - Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. With such externalities to nonusers, standard consumer surplus measures, which take aggregate cons...

New evidence to your point: "Our findings highlight the existence of product market traps, where active users of a platform prefer it not to exist." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Bingo! I looked all over and was starting to think I'd dreamt it. Thank you!

Is that true? Pangram is supposed to be pretty good. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"They can afford to walk away. And doing so would give them something money can’t buy: the credibility to make corruption the central issue of the next election."

I would like to hear more about this mechanic. Why can't they just accept money from large donors and not let it affect their policies?

"Give me a reason"

Receipts please

Matthew Yglesias on X: "Administrative data >> https://t.co/PCZNae6aA8 https://t.co/A6IInlWyuW" / X Administrative data >> https://t.co/PCZNae6aA8 https://t.co/A6IInlWyuW

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Can you tell where the latency is coming from?

I'm sure this is the only issue like that though, right

In other words

Tiktok/Instagram is different from Facebook in various ways. Also idk if teens is the age group of primary interest. So I'm not sure.

Are you asking for an example of a secret that hasn't leaked? :-)

The literature is bad?

Could you elaborate on "Accountable PUCs"?

Cheers

Yeah ok I see where you're at.