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The lesson of the Holocaust was not that the Nazis were uniquely evil. The lesson was that anyone can become a Nazi. You're witnessing this with America right now.

Forget the immorality of this, and it is immoral. The idea that we can’t condemn a Russian war crime because it will make the Russians mad at the negotiating table is solid evidence that we are being played by the Russians at the negotiating table. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sometimes it still manages to hurt me that basically every other American thinks that, you know what, this is actually fine. Consuming junk news or not understanding ramifications are wearing thin as excuses for supporting arson at this scale.

Experimental evidence that media diet matters

Rich Sutton just published his most important essay on AI since The Bitter Lesson: "Welcome to the Era of Experience" Sutton and his advisee Silver argue that the “era of human data,” dominated by supervised pre‑training and RL‑from‑human‑feedback, has hit diminishing returns;

Fox News aired Putin’s fake trad Easter celebrations with Kirill the KGB priest. Sad. Christ condemns this.

Americans have a unique superpower: They naturally know how to dig entrenched political cleavages overnight to stick to their political tribe. Even on issues where they previously didn't disagree much! Some samples of America's hyper-tribalism

We need wealth redistribution. And we also need talent redistribution. In fact, the two are intimately connected. Research by three top economists: higher taxes (for the rich) would get more people to do work that’s actually useful.

I think it's safe to say that this aged like fine milk

New essay: Something strange—and possibly worrying—is happening to the job market for college grads: unemployment for recent grads is rising, while law school applications are surging. Maybe it's a sign of Trumpy chaos. Maybe it's a sign of something more structural. So,

Spot the difference

You know what the single most profound, far-reaching effect of Russia’s war against Ukraine is? Ukraine has finally learned to truly respect itself. We are no longer some godforsaken "Russia's backyard", where corrupt mafia clans don’t dare to make a sound without the Kremlin’s

"Leo" is fine. But, in my opinion, the first American Pope ought to be called Wyatt or Randy or Chuck.

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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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This landmark study in The Lancet should be etched on Elon Musk's gravestone: Dismantling USAID is projected to cause 14 million deaths between 2025 and 2030 — that’s more than 2.4 million lives lost every year. That’s as many lives lost as in World War I.

It should be news that Russians are now raining napalm down on residential neighborhoods all over Ukraine.

This is not democracy.