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false 8 Nov 2024 12:00 UTC
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on: Should CA, TX, OK, and LA merge into a giant swing state, just for elections?
I feel that the goal here is to reproduce the effects of choosing a president by popular vote without abolishing the electoral college. Wouldn’t an electoral reform to abolish the electoral college be a more realistic goal?

Can AI partners make human ones pale in comparison?

false14 May 2024 10:57 UTC

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false 5 Apr 2022 19:34 UTC
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on: Best non-textbooks on every subject
Book
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Description
Behave explains how neurochemical and genetic factors cause the best and worst behaviours of our species.
Positives
1. Self-contained: Behave provides the necessary background knowledge in neuroscience, endocrinology, and biochemistry through apendices.
2. Good narrative: despite discussing complex scientific topics the author has organised the material into a narrative structure that makes the book feel more like a novel than a textbook.
3. Evidence-based: all scientific claims have appropriate citations and cases of conflicting credit are appropriately discussed.
4. Connects theory and practice: reading Behave teaches one about genetics and endicronology while connecting these concepts to cognitive biases and group behaviour.
Negatives
1. One dense book: despite presenting all the necessary background information it takes a significant amount of effort to go through it all and understand it for a reader without a background in the field.

false 1 Jan 2022 18:41 UTC
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on: Omicron: My Current Model
Note that this post mostly does not justify and explain its statements. I document my thinking, sources and analysis extensively elsewhere, little of this should be new.
This is my first encounter with your writing, could you or someone else recommend a starting point that does justify and explain these statements?