Ratings by sethherr

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The West Lives On in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

palladiummag.com

Rated 2023-03-03

What I Learned Reading 1,000 Investor Reports · Collab Fund

collabfund.com

Rated 2023-03-06

GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them

vgel.me

Rated 2023-03-07

LA Sheriff’s Department Has Gang Members at ‘Highest Levels’ — Report

Rolling Stone

Rated 2023-03-08

Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope

genmon.github.io

Rated 2023-03-09

First-principles on AI scaling

DYNOMIGHT

Rated 2023-03-10

Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

Hacker News

Rated 2023-03-11

March Madness betting: Gambling on expanding legal sports gambling was a bad idea

Vox

Rated 2023-03-17

SVB Couldn’t Ignore Its Losses, But the Fed Can

Bloomberg

Rated 2023-03-17

Banking in very uncertain times

Bits about Money

Rated 2023-03-17

The effect of short-term high-caloric feeding and fasting on bone microarchitecture - ScienceDirect

sciencedirect.com

Rated 2023-03-19

GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

aisnakeoil.substack.com

Rated 2023-03-21

Juice

garden.bradwoods.io

Rated 2023-03-24

50 years of silence

Eli Dourado

Rated 2023-03-25

District of Columbia retrocession - Wikipedia

#DC Statehood

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Rated 2023-03-26

The Prospect of an AI Winter

erichgrunewald.com

Rated 2023-03-27

Biden student loan plan: What’s fair for borrowers, taxpayers?

#Student Loan Forgiveness

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-03-30

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-31

A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step

#Solar Geoengineering

MIT Technology Review

Rated 2023-04-05

How Lex Fridman's Podcast Became a Safe Space for the Anti-Woke Elite

Insider

Rated 2023-04-08

Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

Techdirt

Rated 2023-04-11

Gone to the Dogs

Hakai Magazine

Rated 2023-04-11

As climate change worsens, some people might decide to DIY a solution

#Ocean Geoengineering

Vox

Rated 2023-04-11

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec's alleged killer also worked in tech

Mission Local

Rated 2023-04-13

Lawyer says man accused of beating ex-S.F. official was pepper sprayed

San Francisco Chronicle

Rated 2023-04-13

Poking around OpenAI.

Irrational Exuberance

Rated 2023-04-15

90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck

tidyfirst.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-19

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

The Roots of Progress

Rated 2023-04-21

Explosions Are Great, Actually. - by areoform - 1517 Fund

1517.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-22

Kesha: Animal Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-04-25

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

Rated 2023-04-27

It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI

Intelligence requires the ability to explore "trains of thought" that are potentially never-ending. Most current approaches fail at this.

2023-04-06 Life Is Computation 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01

Big Tech Sees Like a State

Plus! Pirate’s Treasure, Redux; Takedowns; Antitrust and Laggy Beliefs; Money, The High-Order Bit; More...

2020-11-06 The Diff Byrne Hobart 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-02

Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved

Do larger incomes make people happier? Two authors of the present paper have published contradictory answers. Using dichotomous questions about the...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05

Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill

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2023-04-12 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap #Nuclear power

2021-04-16 The Roots of Progress 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05

A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words

zverok.space 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05

15 Minute Cities

15 Minute Cities

datasecretslox.com 45,000 words

Rated 2023-05-07

We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for Decades

New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. #Individual People #Obesity #Surgery

2023-04-25 The Atlantic Yasmin Tayag ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-09

The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”

ProPublica

Rated 2023-05-12

The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin

There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing. #Middle East #Work

2023-05-16 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-17

Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?

People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. #Drugs

2023-05-19 The Atlantic Sarah Zhang ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19

How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party

For the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price, Evan Osnos writes.

2023-05-29 The New Yorker Evan Osnos 8,000 words

Rated 2023-05-30

Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits

Small plastic particulates can induce inflammatory responses in the gut and brain, but removing them reverses this damage. #Nanoplastics

The Scientist Magazine 1,000 words

Rated 2023-06-08

Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies Happy

The pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting

2023-04-09 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words

Rated 2023-06-09

Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia

Worldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate

2023-05-23 The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words

Rated 2023-06-13

Burying Indiana Jones

Christopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies

2023-06-18 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words

Rated 2023-06-20

Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water Recycling

San Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity.

Yale E360 3,000 words

Rated 2023-06-20