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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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People who say things like "we achieved racial equality through MLK doing peaceful protests" tend to ignore three major facts:
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.
June 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
People who say things like "we achieved racial equality through MLK doing peaceful protests" tend to ignore three major facts:
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.
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Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention but I never thought a dictator could be so whiny
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention but I never thought a dictator could be so whiny
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The Death of Cathy
October 4, 2024 at 1:15 PM
The Death of Cathy
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I don’t believe that everything happens FOR a reason but I do believe that everything happens BECAUSE OF a reason and that reason is baryogenesis, the process by which the imbalance of matter and antimatter was established in the early universe and for which we currently have no accepted explanation
September 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
I don’t believe that everything happens FOR a reason but I do believe that everything happens BECAUSE OF a reason and that reason is baryogenesis, the process by which the imbalance of matter and antimatter was established in the early universe and for which we currently have no accepted explanation
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Saying that everyone has to shut up about an active genocide because it is ruining the vibes of your political movement is so nihilistic that I really can't believe any human who lives and breaths could even imagine thinking it.
August 24, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Saying that everyone has to shut up about an active genocide because it is ruining the vibes of your political movement is so nihilistic that I really can't believe any human who lives and breaths could even imagine thinking it.
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Using AI to write science explainers is bad for SO MANY REASONS relating to accuracy and content theft but also because effective science communication is not about just arranging information on a page, but allowing the science to create a connection between people, the basis of which is trust
Forgot to share this earlier, but YIKES. Jackson Ryan on the AI-generated articles in Cosmos magazine www.theguardian.com/...
Cosmos magazine’s AI-generated articles are bad for trust in science | Jackson Ryan
Rolling out an AI experiment with a lack of transparency is at best ignorant, and at worst dangerous
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Using AI to write science explainers is bad for SO MANY REASONS relating to accuracy and content theft but also because effective science communication is not about just arranging information on a page, but allowing the science to create a connection between people, the basis of which is trust
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“Mars will always be much worse place to live than Earth even if we experience a horrific planetary apocalypse” is a true statement but it’s only an argument against humans ever going there if you’ve been listening to some deeply unserious people
People like Musk try to pitch Mars as a backup planet, presumably because they think it’ll get more investment, but it’s always been a ridiculous notion. Humans will go to Mars for the same reasons they go to Antarctica, and in the same spirit. Exploration, science, not a “better life”.
April 13, 2024 at 1:24 PM
“Mars will always be much worse place to live than Earth even if we experience a horrific planetary apocalypse” is a true statement but it’s only an argument against humans ever going there if you’ve been listening to some deeply unserious people