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19 September
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15 September
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Perhaps this is a bold claim, but I think anyone writing about or from the southwest who isn't also in some way clocking how drought and rising temperatures and pollution are affecting the region is being disingenuous.
Processing: How Nicholas Russell Wrote Observercountercraft.substack.com
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9 September
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"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
8 September
7 September
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People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
6 September
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31 August
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Disputes about phones, homework and childhood are disputes about values, and more data will not settle them.Their words
the claim here is that arguments about smartphones, bullying, and homework are arguments about values, often moral values
24 August
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The left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets. The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.
19 August
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A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.Their words
But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
18 August
17 August
From one piece Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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well but again these are functionally defined emotions and there's I think there's no problem assigning to AI to some extent and certainly to many animals uh those functional emotions
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We took stock of the whole literature and asked is this really true? Is Ecman's claim really true? Can you tell how someone feels from their facial expression? And the answer is well not nearly as well as you would think and in general not.
11 August
9 August
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The Sea Peoples did not invade lands to claim them as their own, or extract treasure or slaves to bring back to their homeland. They seemingly torched the great capitals of the Bronze Age just to watch them burn.
8 August
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Increasingly, it is looking much more like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown.
1 August
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Most people sleep more than they need to, and are better off deliberately sleeping less.Their words, before
I claim that if you sleep as much as you want, you’ll probably sleep too much and become more susceptible to depression.
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while I still believe that the quality of the existing sleep science is extremely low, I advise against trying to decrease the amount of sleep you’re getting based on this article
25 July
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The Rumpelstiltskin effect is not a claim that receiving a diagnosis is a net benefit or a net positive. It is a claim that the mere act of receiving a diagnosis can be beneficial.
12 July
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Establishment journalists claim to speak truth to power but never investigate themselves or each other.Their words
The establishment journalist claims to speak truth to power, but somehow never gets around to investigating themselves or each other.
10 July
26 June
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my claim is the proper way to evaluate the models now is you either have some kind of budget for the benchmark whether it's tokens or cost or time or whatever or you plot the performance as a function of the amount of test time compute that's going into the model
18 June
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Doomsday stories about how passive investing is making markets less efficient and less inclined to reflect fundamentals strike me as overwrought
10 May
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Companies that claim to be missiondriven, most of them are just mission hopeful. Okay? It's it's It's just a candy coating on top of an extractive engine. Sorry, I don't buy it. If you're serious about being missiondriven, you have to show me that you cannot profit except by achieving the mission.
2 May
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This post is about whether data centers waste the land they’re on relative to what they compete with, and my claim is that they mostly don’t compete with things we need more of (housing) and mostly compete with things we need less of (farmland).
7 April
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Yeah, what what's the smallest experiment I can run to verify to my own satisfaction and everybody's level of satisfaction is going to be different whether or not this claim is true. That's That's the skill that is suddenly in the last year become a thousand times more valuable is that skill of saying, "What's the least I can do to validate for my to my own satisfaction whether this claim is true?
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13 October 2025
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Over the past few decades, journal editors and peer-reviewers have increasingly insisted that papers must present large datasets that have been treated using complex statistical methods in order to make even the mildest claims about what caused what.
11 October 2025
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It’s very common that I’m told that data centers poison the water around them.
19 September 2025
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But it was used by right-wingers, and Hitler didn't mind because people who are drunk are more susceptible to right-wing populism, I would claim now here, and Hitler would agree. So he did not think it was bad that these people were a bit drunk, or maybe even very drunk, because if you're drunk you also get aggressive against others.
4 September 2025
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But I'm being obviously overly facetious, but if ultimately part of your scaling is how big is the animal versus how big is its brain, that's most of a T-Rex brain. It's a fraction of the size of a chimp brain, and chimps don't weigh seven tons.
20 August 2025
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Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.
3 August 2025
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But I don’t claim you should always maximize the good, no matter the self-sacrifice, and no matter what means are involved.
12 May 2025
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This story, wrapped in romantic cottagecore, is now the most active and seductive frontier of climate-science denial.
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3 February 2025
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I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
22 December 2024
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No UFO or UAP data comes anywhere near the standard of evidence required to claim non-human technology.Their words
I am all in favor of an open, agnostic, transparent, scientific investigation of UFOs and UAPs. But the idea that there's any data that we have that links UFOs and UAPs to non-human technology, I just think the standards, none of what is claimed to be the data lives up to the standards of evidence.
17 September 2024
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Corporations dishonestly claiming the open source label for marketing is evidence that open source has won.Their words
When corporations disingenuously claim to be “open source” for marketing purposes, it’s a clear sign that Open Source is winning.
8 June 2024
4 June 2024
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But their latest study is for only 7.1 million miles. They need something like 40 times more data prove they are actually saving lives with statistical confidence (likely even more).
Waymo's Misleading Claim of Saving Livessafeautonomy.blogspot.com
22 April 2024
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But then you draw some conclusions from this, and what you end up realizing is you’ve been hilariously presumptuous because by saying, “I’m a typical observer in the universe,” you’re saying, “Typical observers in the universe are like me,” and that is completely unjustified by anything.
13 March 2024
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The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes.Their words
In sum, land sparing is common at the local level and the norm at the global scale, in contrast to recent appeals to Jevons' paradox.
25 February 2024
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Repeated vague platitudes without follow-up specifics signal weak first-principles thinking.Their words
If they don't follow this up with a more specific, precise or nuanced claim, they may not be a strong first-principles thinker.
14 February 2024
19 December 2023
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Any true safety improvement for Tesla is good to have, but is much more likely due to comparison against an "average" vehicle (12 years old in the US) which is much less safe than any recent high-end vehicle regardless of manufacturer, and probably not driven on roads as safe on average as where Teslas are more popular.
20 November 2023
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Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.Their words
Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
30 May 2023
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Samuelson was the one claiming realism.
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I no longer think the main substance of my earlier post was correct.
8 October 2022
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The three-year bet about whether AI image models could handle compositionality was won in three months.Their words, before
In fact, not only did they reach this level in three months, but probably they were at this level before the bet was even made
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I retract my claim to have won and will continue to see how AI progress advances over the next three years.
28 June 2022
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