It's a really good contrast. This is stupid and glib and wrong, but my brain will sleep better if I let the demons out: super intelligence for the super peoples. There. Now you are out. Go nowhere. Stay right here and get no traction.

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Wildwood was very good and you should go see it because (1) it’s beautiful and has tom waits voicing an evil coyote officer (2) it’s PG13 stop motion animation so if you’re in the target audience for that, you are one of very few (3) your ticket purchase will fund their adaptation of Piranesi

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It’s an unholy witch’s brew: empiricist mindset, love of tools, an endless stream of hard but bounded/verifiable problems (“fix this bug”), working very closely with people solving very similar problems who are ahead of the adoption curve, and a bitter twist: lack of job security. Use with caution.

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I think frequently about how he coined the phrase "affective polarization" and I'll never know if he coined it because he meant to intentionally use it to capture people's brains, or if he originally thought it was a bad thing but then got captured by it anyway, or...

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Some good news: I’ve been awarded a state scholarship from the National System of Researchers of Ukraine, in the first wave via the young scientists ranking 🎉 Great to see Ukraine investing directly in researchers who keep doing science at home, especially early-career ones. #EconSky

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