"get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy" ... i'm going to be honest, somebody who talks like this, I'm willing to bet their predatory behavior was an open-secret and was protected by power-brokers in academia, politics, and journalism.

This pose by abolitionists is strange bc the more careful abolitionist (I like McLeod's 2015 UCLA law article) just admit OK once we do social justice maybe there are "a dangerous few" & we'll figure that bc this is realistically a gradual program which seems very reasonable & easy to say lol

Originally it seemed coherentish e.g. many Natives make a meager living as artisans selling indigenous handicrafts, then some white girls go and mass produce cheap imitations and displace them. This feels ethically questionable to me but white guys opening a bad Vietnamese restaurant is not that.

We have yet to invent language capable of describing the horrors of the Bari Weiss polycule - "sex" is insufficient.

I don't think our Treasury Secretary is a Peter Thiel-grade wack job (could be wrong!), my guess is he's just a guy who wants low taxes and zero regulation for rich guys, but kinda fascinating how influential gay men have become at the core of the right.

I don’t think they know who he is. She just read the Gordon Wood quote at the top and thought their anti-intellectual readership would find the book appalling.

ML is important in pharm/bio now, but LLMs aren't. You can say things like EvoFormer looks like LLMs if you squint & just say LLMs are transformers but they aren't & LLMs trained on SMILES haven't been useful - GNNs & classical models best them. LLM boosters claiming pharm impact is stolen valor imo

The fact they went after the only pain med a pregnant woman can safely take - I'm convinced they're be coming for epidural blocks next. They love atavistic cruelty towards woman.

It's less bonkers and more a reductive analogy of language as biology - just Quasispecies + Replicators = Language. There is a certain area of academia that loves to "math" simple ideas to look impressive and people that actually study language seem to think is mostly worthless.

All I'm remembering is Martin Nowak got smacked with a sanction from Harvard for his Epstein association and there is a section in his pretty mediocre book on evolutionary game theory about language evolution that now I want to find in my pile

Most of the dog stuff is just owner-observed (e.g. improved mobility from a placebo) but lab rats & monkeys display wild placebo effects.

Wildest one to me is the Adler Cohen classic DOI: 10.1097/00006842-197507000-00007

An equally big problem is when I try to be normal with my conservative family/ old friends - at least the ones who can hold the f-slur back when talking to me - they refuse to engage in apolitical conversation. I try sports and suddenly it's about trans rights - what am I supposed to do?

I solved it but my start up that was building closed timelike curves for computation failed to get it's series B funding so we're closing up and pivoting to building a delivery app

I give it Project Euler problems I did when I was teenager - coding problems that require non-standard mathematical tricks to solve (these don't have endless similar solutions online), an area it should be "good" at - still has yet to crack a single one not in the lowest of difficult categories!

10 years ago 5 students in Ohio gave some milquetoast critiques about the dining hall, the New York Post lied about, and now it's illegal to fund science

I read it and surprised an academic would write it. I think he's right there exist BS jobs - meaning economically useless jobs that satisfy a social function - but it's clearly not the basis for a grand theory of the economy so he's forced to to pad with crap writing and methodology