thanatropism

I grew up fascinated by these essays from maybe age 8 onward.

Now I realize the pervasive bad faith in them, e.g. dismissing Murray (The Bell Curve) and enthronizing the in-retrospect-irrelevant Jay Gould. I knew his novels were kind of silly, but he was supposed to be a Scientist educating us in the scientific view of the world, goddamn it.

Is it supposed to be flattering?

> new pandemic is killing millions

> yes, but viruses existed long before it

Maybe I wasn't receiving the full Fitness Message as someone proudly sedentary, but the way I experienced the world (seen through what I think I know now), it always seemed like people overemphasize weight loss and being thin as a marker of health.

People, people, I know many of you don't want to look like you lift, but skeletal muscle has moby advantages in minimizing the annoyances of old age. It also literally helps in weight loss. I'm also told it regulates insulin. Plus weight training also strengthens your tendons and bones. If you start deadlifting heavy at age 40, you will develop strong spinal erectors which will likely protect you from herniated discs when you're 60.

Losing weight is fine and will help preventing coronary / fatty liver etc diseases. But please make it priority number 2. Build muscle and try, as a bonus, to lower your body fat percentage. If you never do, it's better to be 35% bodyfat and yoked than to be 30% and made of blubber and chalk.

Ctrl-F doesn't seem to show anyone remembering the Ballad of Scott Alexander.

There's no reasonable narrative in which OpenAI are not villains, but NYT is notoriously one to shoot a man in Reno just to see him die.

AlphaGo passes Hubert Dreyfus's test -- it has a world -- in a way that LLMs don't.

"Trash Truck" and Pocoyo.

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Ehh. Sometimes you don't want to have to have string builders to assemble REST calls.

You can always restrict the meaning of "causality".

E.g. Granger casusality means that A is typically detected before B and not the other way around (so not mere correlation). It's a moby useful concept.

This ain't it, chief.

> Jazz is music performed by an ensemble of players, each (very) specialized and proficient in their respective instrument.

So wait, a duet with Cecil Taylor and Eric Dolphy, the latter of which also plays the flute and many more wind instruments is...

NestedText + Pydantic.

Tihs probably refers to comon mispelllings an typo's.