My @simplavida partner @hjluks and I have a new episode out where we chat about misconceptions about pre-diabetic diagnoses. Podcast: So, You're Pre-Diabetic. Now What?

Zvi bemoaning missed AI safety opportunities and kinda abandoning all hope. Lusty, specific, and angry. The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit

A rare exception to Betteridge's Law¹: Of course they're fking harming you. Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? ¹ Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

@lencastre Sure, it's fascinating, and they have released the data.

RT @MFordFuture: IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as #AI Hits Tech Jobs: "The unemployment rate in the information technology sector rose from…

@fiportmgr Well, there always going to be conflicting data points, but the WSJ did provide multiple supportive series.

I'm just spitballing here, but I'm guessing Walter Benjamin isn't a common reference when talking ETFs. Clearly he should be. As a geekish aside, one of my favorite courses in grad school was on Benjamin's essays on Kafka. Among best courses I have ever taken.

@gbusch12 Like I said ... intricacies, ahem.

On how being wrong and being right feel the same, untill you realize and concede error: "How does it feel, emotionally, to be wrong? ... Being wrong doesn’t feel like anything. Actually, it does feel like something: it feels like being right.' —Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong

I like @SeanIlling's Gray Area podcast, but I ended up arguing with his latest, which split hairs on whether Americans are actually lonely, or are just choosing to spend an unhealthy amount of time alone. Sure, I guess, but trust me, the elderly are not making that choice.

“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” ― Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility

Before Internet typists start reminding me that Nixon and Haldeman got there first, that is, of course, the historical predicate from which Drezner's piece builds.

@AmadeusPagel Read the piece. That's what it's about.