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Both The Jungle and Grapes of Wrath were pretty rigorously researched, but were not really 'historical' novels at the time of writing (both described roughly contemporary places and events), so the research was closer to field work or journalism.

Not to pick nits, but the evidence of coconuts in England that are cited in this article date back only to around the 14th century, while traditions about a "King Arthur" generally describe him as reigning in the 5th to 6th centuries.

If we follow deli conventions, this is more of a slop-on-brain (akin to a ham-on-rye) than a brain sandwich on your bread of choice.

Expedia doesn't get the commission, but the hotel is forced to offer a rate that matches its "most-favored nation" agreement with Expedia etc. so its prices will reflect the [base + commission] rate wherever you find them advertised. This results in a 15–30% hike over what could otherwise be the lowest rate, akin to similar recent complaints abouts Amazon's aggressive price-matching impositions on third-party sellers.

Great, now we have superintelligent Machurian Candidate scenarios to prep for.

The whole premise here seems awfully similar to the 'Torment Nexus' and 'face-eating leopards Party' memes

I've had permanent residency in Japan since 2001, and this new review system is significantly tougher than it was when I applied. There is a zero-tolerance approach to minor infractions (traffic violations, tax filings, national health insurance requirements), much higher fees, and an explicit income and pension requirement (the minimum annual income is actually pretty low, at something like 20,000 USD per year plus 5000 per additional family member). Had these rules applied 25 years ago, I probably would have been rejected due to a few parking or speeding tickets.

The very next sentence in the comment begins "What this research is about is the origin of plants, which are indeed one of the most important forms of life..."

This felt like a hit piece and ended up making me more sympathetic to Acemoglu (about whom I previously had no strong opinion). The critique of his paper on different forms of imperialism (extractive, constructive) was quite weak for work that has been cited 20,000+ times, and seems to have been deftly refuted by the author himself. Complaints in the latter half of the article - that his take on Trump is correct but unoriginal, and his early comments on AI did not reflect the emergence of agents - are hardly damning. If anything, I began to suspect that he must have triggered some ideological tripwire that spurred the likes of Larry Summers and Tyler Cowen to sound off.

At that level of specificity, you could just say that a meter is "about a yard".

I read and enjoyed that book out of a general interest in the history of ideas, but admit I am not able to judge the underlying mathematics. Is the "fiction" part only related to descriptions of his mathematical contributions, or are there problems with the biographical information as well?

I'm curious whether this type of goblin epidemic was seen in other language versions of ChatGPT. Did e.g. Japanese users see more yõkai turning up?

Why not the Sun?

The supplementary files in that paper—verbatim reproductions of the full texts of Frankenstein and The Great Gatsby—are pretty instructive. The research group highlighted all additions and omissions, but on most pages the differences are difficult to spot because they are only missing spaces, extra hyphens, and other typographical minutiae.