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Scott Alexander grades Milei. "There is no evidence that time spent on social media is correlated with adolescent mental health problems: Findings from a...

AI diagnosticians, arms race, malaise, Megalopolis

October 10, 2024

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Xunzi, Petrov, much AI, games the Buddha wouldn't play

September 30, 2024

The Erotics of Mentorship. "The best teaching is always intimate." "Jung believed anima development has four distinct levels of Eros, which... he named Eve,...

SB 1047 on Newsom's desk, Strawberry drops, Kendrick brings it

September 17, 2024

Psychedelia, meet the United States Department of Defense Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP). Employees of frontier AI labs call for...

SB 1047, UBI study, livity, ngakpas, Megalopolis

September 7, 2024

Steve Newman on the SB 1047 debate. Dan Hendrycks (of the Center for AI Safety) in Time: California’s draft AI law would protect more than just people Helen...

SMI2LE, lab-grown salmon, you should be a god-emperor

September 1, 2024

"Following his release from prison in 1976, counterculture guru Timothy Leary began to espouse a new plan for experimentation if not human enhancement....

Iceland, spiritual health, NPD breach, Trump does aya

August 25, 2024

The Yule Lads are "a group of 13 mischievous pranksters who steal from or otherwise harass the population." Watch out for Gluggagægir. The hottest...

Unfathomable power, Guernica, E-Prime, Cheez Doodles

August 21, 2024

you are in all likelihood reading this on an unfathomably powerful machine. the kind of machine whose creation requires the robust collaboration of 100,000s...