"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define." - C.S. Lewis
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This is unironically one of humankind's greatest achievements.
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We are going to continue to see RFK Jr. harm the public using the normal output of the scientific establishment, because that establishment has tolerated a huge amount of garbage.
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I hate the Sidney Sweeny commercial bc she says “Genes determine hair color, personality, and even eye color.” What? *Even* eye color? That’s less surprising than personality, and “even” is supposed to go next to a relatively surprising thing
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I used linseed oil to stain a wooden box just the other day. I take a slightly different preparation as a nutritional supplement. I eat plant cellulose every day in the form of Metamucil. It's also in paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, wallpaper paste, and fire retardant home insulation.
Great stuff.
To cite my @NRO colleague @michaelbd, it’s not nanny statism to ask why olestra, an artificial fat substitute akin to crisco, was later approved as a desk stain and as a lubricant for power tools.
Yes, we need a MAHA commission.
Great to join @TheBigMoneyShow
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I contend that, creatively, most AI should probably be treated like meme creation. The "creator" mostly contributes the idea, but owes most of the execution to externals.
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I was mad enough at my bank when they started serving "it's almost summer, why not get a loan for a 4-wheeler???" ads, but I don't even know what to say about this
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I just learned that people with ADHD have no inner monologue and are not really human in a technical sense, or even alive.
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What I love about this is that the creators clearly included something about pushing diversity in the prompt, but didn't tell the LLM that diversity only goes one way.
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I'm sure plenty of Neuralink employees have taken medical ethics classes and I'm certain none of them were taught not to test medical devices on animals
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My take on this is no matter what, you should never use a pic of yourself to prove a point. In fact you should agree and amplify insults no matter what. Like “yeah i may be a hideous deformed freak but im still right”
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one of my hottest takes is that it doesn't really matter whether a headline is in active or passive voice or whether it appears to assign agency to an inanimate object because people easily figure out what happened
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Sick of the woke, non conventionally attractive male video game protagonists.
Take Joel from The Last of Us. I’ve used filters to remove his aging skin, DEI chin, woke wrinkles, and greying hair. Now he looks strong, masculine, and attractive.
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Justice Jackson’s line of questioning was actually pretty nuanced and also quite legally technical. The question before the court was whether the gender-transition ban counted as sex-based discrimination. She argued that the state’s argument—that because all children were treated the same regardless of sex under the ban, this was not sex-based discrimination—reminded her of the losing argument in Loving v Virginia: that regardless of whether people were black or white, they were not allowed to marry the other race. Similarly, regardless of their sex, kids can’t get cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoria in Tennessee. So the comparison is not so discordant as it might seem on its face.
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“Pink slime” is a scare name for the product resulting from a clever process for efficiently recovering meat scraps from bones, which would otherwise just go into the bone meal. Do people prefer that meat be wasted because the process isn’t aesthetic enough?
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Metaphors are weird. I could just as easily center the journalist’s relationship with their reader, in which case everything flips: One school is objective (a kind of decolonization in which the reader has self-determination) and the other is a kind of “colonial tutelage” model.
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There have been a lot of attempts to create alternatives to Twitter and the problem is that they're all quickly populated by tedious scolds, the collective action problem is that the tedious scolds need to stand down.
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