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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 2023-05-04T23:56:49-0700 - sethherr

Big Tech Sees Like a State

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

2020-11-06T08:32:26-0800 The Diff Byrne Hobart 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01T22:45:09-0700 - sethherr

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.

2023-04-05T21:06:49-0700 Life Is Computation 4,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:09:01-0700 - sethherr

Meditations On Moloch

I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…

2014-07-29T21:00:06-0700 Slate Star Codex 90,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T12:53:41-0700 - pypurvis

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

Rated 2023-04-26T23:07:40-0700 - sethherr

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T07:28:14-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-04-26T05:53:14-0700 - Jaog

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T00:03:53-0700 - sethherr

Alcohol healthy: the flip-flop on whether it's good for you is to understand—if you know who's behind it.

Slate

Rated 2023-04-25T05:05:47-0700 - cindy

Kesha: Animal Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-04-24T22:44:45-0700 - sethherr

Fox News Is Bigger Than Any Host

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog

$uper$tar Ke$ha Top$ Chart$

NPR

Rated 2023-04-23T09:06:20-0700 - &e

Escorts are the ER Doctors of Relationships

aella.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-23T08:32:51-0700 - &e

Why it's so hard to mass produce houses in factories : Planet Money

NPR

Rated 2023-04-22T17:05:10-0700 - Jaog

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

1517.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-22T15:36:20-0700 - sethherr

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

The Roots of Progress

Rated 2023-04-21T16:42:40-0700 - sethherr

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

tidyfirst.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-19T09:37:46-0700 - sethherr

Poking around OpenAI.

Irrational Exuberance

Rated 2023-04-14T17:10:35-0700 - sethherr

Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?

Mother Jones

Rated 2023-04-14T10:02:58-0700 - alexandradancing

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

San Francisco Chronicle

Rated 2023-04-13T08:55:59-0700 - sethherr

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

Mission Local

Rated 2023-04-13T08:52:35-0700 - sethherr

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

#Ocean Geoengineering

Vox

Rated 2023-04-11T16:59:57-0700 - sethherr

Gone to the Dogs

Hakai Magazine

Rated 2023-04-11T02:56:44-0700 - sethherr

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

Techdirt

Rated 2023-04-10T21:16:58-0700 - sethherr

A Plan to Save Downtown San Francisco, Break the Doom Loop

#Homelessness #San Francisco

The San Francisco Standard

Rated 2023-04-10T13:25:35-0700 - alexandradancing

The Man Who Built Catan

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-04-09T07:33:50-0700 - Jaog

This ship was supposed to usher in an age of nuclear-powered travel

nationalgeographic.com

Rated 2023-04-09T07:23:23-0700 - Jaog

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

Insider

Rated 2023-04-07T18:12:45-0700 - sethherr

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

#Solar Geoengineering

MIT Technology Review

Rated 2023-04-04T23:33:02-0700 - sethherr

Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast | Geoengineering

#Solar Geoengineering

The Guardian

Rated 2023-04-03T06:55:16-0700 - cindy

About – make-sunsets

#Solar Geoengineering

makesunsets.com

Rated 2023-04-03T06:54:05-0700 - cindy

Trump could run for president from prison like Eugene V. Debs did

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-04-01T08:40:25-0700 - Jaog

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700 - sethherr

Red America is growing because blue America is shrinking

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-03-30T19:07:42-0700 - Jaog

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

#Student Loan Forgiveness

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-03-30T16:23:27-0700 - sethherr

Israel’s protests show that Netanyahu finally went too far

Vox

Rated 2023-03-28T05:35:27-0700 - Jaog

The Prospect of an AI Winter

erichgrunewald.com

Rated 2023-03-27T15:11:45-0700 - sethherr

Liturgy: 93696 Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-03-27T05:19:32-0700 - Jaog

Formic is reviving American manufacturing with robots as a service

Fast Company

Rated 2023-03-26T08:27:26-0700 - Jaog

Netanyahu’s political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos

The Washington Post

Rated 2023-03-26T07:21:59-0700 - Jaog

District of Columbia retrocession - Wikipedia

#DC Statehood

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Rated 2023-03-25T21:28:20-0700 - sethherr

50 years of silence

Eli Dourado

Rated 2023-03-25T10:12:12-0700 - sethherr

Juice

garden.bradwoods.io

Rated 2023-03-24T07:34:43-0700 - sethherr

7 Reasons Why Some D.C. Residents Are Voting Against Statehood

#DC Statehood #DC Statehood

WAMU

Rated 2023-03-21T18:44:53-0700 - jim

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

aisnakeoil.substack.com

Rated 2023-03-21T08:26:54-0700 - sethherr

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

sciencedirect.com

Rated 2023-03-18T20:43:34-0700 - sethherr

A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement

thecut.com

Rated 2023-03-17T06:11:16-0700 - Jaog

Red blood cell - Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Rated 2023-03-16T21:35:01-0700 - Jaog

Banking in very uncertain times

Bits about Money

Rated 2023-03-16T21:15:39-0700 - sethherr

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

Bloomberg

Rated 2023-03-16T20:00:11-0700 - sethherr