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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  By early childhood, girls already perceive boys as academically inferior to themselves, while teachers rate girls as academically superior even when test scores show the opposite.

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  By four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them. Teachers often see their female students as academically superior, even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes.

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Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.

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  Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time.

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  In other words, it is not harmless optimism to act like Trump might help Ukraine, it is falling for a deadly, pro-Putin maneuver that is and will increasingly lead to Ukrainian suffering.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Lord of Light

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  Back in high school this book had changed the way I perceive reality and science fiction.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Believing that ageing goes well is itself protective: people with a positive attitude to ageing live longer and are less likely to develop dementia.

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  And actually, more recent research shows that those who have a positive attitude live longer, they're less likely to develop dementia.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Selling a saving caps what you can charge; selling more of what the buyer already values raises that cap by an order of magnitude.

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  It's just that it caps this price and this value that is they perceive that you do. Whereas if you deliver more of the value that they already value, it's I don't want to say uncapped completely, but like the cap is maybe an order of magnitude higher than saving.

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Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.

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  A federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing.

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  Even if the policy is unconstitutional, as it seems to be, a person who is illegally searched probably can't sue ICE for violating their constitutional rights.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

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  Working on how good the long-run future is does not require accepting consequentialism or believing that you should always maximise the good.

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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.

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Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.

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  Financial history rhymes because every crisis has the same cause: too much leverage, too much risk, and everybody believing it will stay good.

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  1929, and man, history does rhyme. Too much leverage, too much risk. Everyone thinks it's going to be great. No one thinks it's going to go down a lot.

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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

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  Success on the easy version of a task is evidence of nothing, because it seduces you into believing the model found a general solution when it did not.

  LLMs

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  Worse, as the latest Apple papers shows, LLMs may well work on your easy test set (like Hanoi with 4 discs) and seduce you into thinking it has built a proper, generalizable solution when it does not.

  A knockout blow for LLMs?garymarcus.substack.com

Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  A modern phish is automated end to end: the stolen credentials are used and the data exported within moments of being entered.

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  This was obviously highly automated and designed to immediately export the list before the victim could take preventative measures.

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Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

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  How people feel about an economy is what actually matters, and no set of statistics will persuade someone who feels they are losing that they are winning.

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  And that's what matters, how people feel about it, how people perceive it, it matters. And we saw this recently, you can't just come out with a bunch of statistics and tell people you're winning in this game if they feel like they're losing.

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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

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  Thinking inspiration outweighs execution is a sign of not knowing the medium.

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  Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.

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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  The field should stop attributing benefits to clinical experience, because believing in it is itself what stops therapists improving.

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  It's time for the field to stop attributing benefits to clinical experience. Beyond the obvious ethical concerns, doing so actually prevents us from improving our effectiveness!

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Environmental researcher; writes on land use, agriculture and whether decoupling human welfare from nature is possible.

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  Believing that higher yields do not spare land would push investment away from the thing that actually protects wild habitat.

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  Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  The Russian language is not persecuted in Ukraine, and believing that it is has one important precondition: never having set foot in the country.

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  So, imagine under those conditions and context that someone is persecuting ethnic Russians or Russian speakers. One, to believe in something like that, one important precondition is never to step your foot in Ukraine.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  American defamation law protects the publisher rather than the person a story harms, and the incentives that follow are all wrong.

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  The problem is the defamation law in the US is so favorable to the publisher, to the media, and so unfavorable to the victim. And the incentives are all wrong.

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Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.

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  The lesson of the LHC is a cautionary one: you must not assume what is there before it has actually been found.

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  I’d say for humanity, it’s both a tribute to the ability of discovery and the ability of really believing in things so that you have the confidence to go look for them, but it’s also a cautionary tale that you don’t want to assume things before they’ve been actually found.

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  Being a scientist means believing strongly in your own ideas while questioning them all the time — a tightrope, not a contradiction.

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  I think the weird thing about being a scientist or an academic in general is you have to believe really strongly what you do while questioning it all the time. That’s a hard balance to have.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.

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  So empirically, as you move along the density spectrum from the empty North Dakota plain to Manhattan, housing prices go up.

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  Although it wasn't a mistake to ask people to change my mind, I've mostly updated against believing the theory.

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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  The Soul of a New Machine

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  Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing's literary foundation – that it should be considered our Odyssey.

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