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There are a lot of different twitter accounts that are fun to follow. @Lvision_trading on twitter is doing particularly great work counting ships. Danny Citrinowicz analysis on Iran and Carnegie Connects media for how the foreign policy establishment thinks. Sparta "trade with conviction" podcast for more detailed market things. Commodity Context podcast / news letter is not bad. A lot of refreshing Al Jazeera.

That book is just so cool.

The recent major geopolitical shifts and their intersection with energy commodity markets.

The book Virtual Barrels by Ilia Bouchouev.

The details and mechanics of financial option pricing.

Out of curiosity why has the LLM math solving community been focused on the Erdos problems over other open problems? Are they of a certain nature where we would expect LLMs to be especially good at solving them?

Pain relief is a major reason to go to a hospital. There is no safe way to get pain relief in a home birth. It is obviously a very personal choice.

> if anything goes even a tiny bit sideways you just throw your hands up and expect to lose both the mother and child

Of course not. This wrong in two important ways. Midwives are medical professionals. They can administer medicine. Most notably they can administer Pitocin to stop hemorrhage after the placenta is delivered. This is the most common cause of maternal death during labor.

The other way this is wrong is it ignores the option of transferring to a hospital in an emergency. Midwives assess medical risk and can make the call to transfer. Delivering mothers who are overwhelmed can also make the call.

> And you actually pay for this?

The midwife model of care has many advantages over common OBGYN practices. As one example midwives are often delivering 2-3 babies a month instead of many every day. As another example the person delivering your baby is someone you have actually met before and have built a rapport with. Some hospitals try to make this happen with doctors but it is commonly not the case.

Overall the tradeoff is worth it to many people -- it's about 1% of births in the US.

The two biggest benefits are reduction of iatrogenic harm and comfort for the mother delivering.

Midwives are medical professionals who have the equipment and expertise to intervene in the most common scenarios that require it.

Home birth is absolutely a rational choice in many cases. The author had a very strong reason to require hospital birth but in scenarios with lower risk it is safer in some respects to avoid the hospital.

It will still cost you 5 - 10k for a good midwife and you'll still want to be insured in case you need to transfer. So it only knocks off 5-10k from the total.

Me neither. David Deutsch had some interesting thoughts on why finitists are wrong in TBOI but I never fully understood it.