My current rough sense of history is that the last "moral panic" about social media turned out to be accurate warnings. The bad things actually happened, as measured by eyeball and by instrument. Now we all live in the wreckage. Anyone want to dispute this?

Who is the person in the White House who decided that defying Republicans in Congress to kill off the best disease control program in the world was their top priority???? Why????

Toyota is up +8% on the news of a 15% tariff. Why? It's simple. Ford, GM, Tesla, and all the other American manufacturers are going to be paying 50% more for their steel, 50% more for their copper, 25% more for their Canadian production, 25% more for their Mexican production, and 55% on their Chinese production. Toyota only has to pay 15% more and they're done with all the shenanigans. Ford has to pay much more than that. A lot more in fact. We've given a Japanese car company an advantage over American car companies. All in hope of bringing auto jobs back to America. 0D Chess.

Zuck is throwing around piles of cash like this is his last chance to buy his way to the frontier before recursive self-improvement kicks in.

_If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies_ will have >100,000 words of online supplemental material. We're looking for help translating that supplement into multiple languages!

Humidity Rules Everything Around Me: my belated contribution to the AC discourse Maps below show the dew point in NC: 34C/93F and Berlin: 17C/63F. This is a proxy for the total amount of water in the air, and tells me we have 2.5x more of it than Berlin, which matters because-

Fraser has blocked me so I can’t QT, but everyone knows crime isn’t in fact, going down. So let’s explore how to lie with statistics, a rare effort 🧵

i think lots of criticisms of effective altruism suffer from bad empirics about what the actual behavior of people who identify as effective altruists is

labs be like "misalignment is fake and just caused by bad things in the training data", and then not filter out the bad things from the training data

i wish there was a way to only allow engagements from ppl that are verified as reasonable and in possession of a triple digit IQ. i don’t wanna lock my account bc i know there are tons of interesting ppl i don’t follow, but also omg i was never meant to interface w the masses like this.