Remember how back in 1980s media it was a huge deal when a cop shot someone by accident? Like we didn't need Reginald VelJohnson's plot explained in Die Hard because we all understood that "cop shoots kid, loses faith in himself" was what was supposed to happen...

hoo boy. this paper makes a lot of factual representations which are more or less incorrect just in the first few pages.

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

"I can generate photorealistic video but not solve simple visual puzzles" is an insane place to be

i really really really really think we are delivering on terrible, society destroying, applications of AI at about 10x the rate of "economically useful, liberatory, activity for normies"

My McKinsey insurance was so generous that it instantaneously penciled out to COBRA it, despite its high price, and AIUI GOOG was the same deal?

I'm surprised that COBRAing your insurance isn't a better ROI?

I spoke with a pediatric cardiologist about 10-12 years ago, a pretty young guy, who said they had a new problem in the field: how to treat certain heart conditions in adults. New because it used to be nobody with that condition *became* an adult.