And why does the brain use creatine anyway?
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Does creatine make you smarter?
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science and existential angst
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Pseudpocalypse
How to discount your expectations
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Life with hazard ratios
How to discount your expectations
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Blink if you’re human
Or human-ish
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The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Some skepticism of vitamin D skepticism
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Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”?
(Yes, but.)
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What’s with all the slide decks?
a polycausal theory
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You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller
acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
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In early January 2025, a family friend was over for lunch. One of my many guilty midwit pleasures is a love of New Year’s resolutions, so I asked her if she had made any. She said no, but mentioned that she had some relatives that were doing “damp January”.
In case you’re n...
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I quit drinking for a year
out of spite
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LLMs predict my coffee
Why not benchmark with physical experiments?
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The modern formatting addiction in writing
thinking and bluffing
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Maybe there’s a pattern here?
Inventors and impacts
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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something completely different
ratios will be ratios
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Why read novels?
best life in category of achievable lives
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Good if make prior after data instead of before
because truth is many
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Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities
an uncontrollable need
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Underrated reasons to be thankful V
even more
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Make product worse, get money
It's so easy
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Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
Are speed dating and network effects contradictory?
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Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine
Links and comments
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Will the explainer post go extinct?
yeah probably
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Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments
let me tell you a story about aliens
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Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples
valid blog topics that I have used for blog purposes
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Dear PendingKetchup
Some comments on your comment
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You can try to like things
it offers lessons on your nature
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I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion
I was persuaded
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Futarchy’s fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post
(a blog post based on a market based on a blog post based on an earlier blog post)
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So you think you can heritable?
What heritability actually means
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?