Kevin Simler

i read this book over a decade ago been a dad for 2.5 years now it’s the framework that i rely on the most for guiding my behavior as a parent v grateful to @bryan_caplan for writing it

good q. It’s a huge theme in @robinhanson’s book The Age of Em [link] Highly recommend if you want to see these ideas taken very seriously!

aside: this is a perfect opportunity to plug @s_r_constantin’s great post about GPT: "humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences"

Covid is now endemic, and the calculus for interventions like vaccines and masks is increasingly a matter of personal choice rather than public health 👇 Important thread

it was a great article! this in particular… 🔥

Oh yeah, I read that book, must’ve picked up some of it from there. I also remember a good @meaningness post on the topic:

a good many years ago. great book! probably worth a re-read....

great thread, very coherent, thanks for sharing! i appreciate that you kept checking in with the reader, “i promise i’m not crazy.” it’s the little touches ;)

Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease like COVID-19 spreads. If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking it out.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking it out.

His book on the subject, Why We Talk, is one of the best I've read in the last five years.

Along the same lines, I like this quote: "Surprise is the measure of a poor hypothesis."