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#48: The Very Simple e/acc Thesis
There’s a ton of noise about AI these days. Existential Risk this, ChatGPT Woke Bias that. Real artificial intelligence is on the horizon, and it’s…
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#47: The Forum Never Advances its Discourse
4chan has a handful of safe-for-work discussion forums that are pretty good. 4chan is not just (in)famous because of its raucous not-safe-for-work…
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#46: The Algorithm dictates my love for Norm Macdonald
The Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald died just over a year ago, in September 2021. As is often the case for public figures and entertainers, upon the…
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#45: Conviction in the Self: Kanye West
For the first time in two decades, Kanye is on an island. It’s not a nice island. He’s hanging out with Nick Fuentes, praising Hitler, and going so far…
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#44: Base Rates of Error
Whenever you have some key measurement that you try to optimize, it is almost always the case that the optimal measurement is not quite 100%. Take the…
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#43: No More Tipping
Here’s a crazy prediction: tipping is going to go away in the United States. It’ll be uncommon outside of high-end service experiences within five to…
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#42: Against Food
Imagine this: you’re blessed with opposable thumbs and breathtaking mental faculties. You have a notion of object permanence. You can use language, do…
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