Incontinent Philosophy

Disillusioned Socialist/Georgist. Hates political tribalism. It's impossible to overcome your biases but at least try. I'm neither partisan nor am I a centrist.

[Nick Longrich @NickLongrich]

Interesting. Papers that don't replicate are actually cited more often than papers that do. Academic citation networks actively amplify flawed research. Curiously, the effect is worst in high-profile journals like Nature/Science, and the bias becomes worse over time.

[Incontinent Philosophy @antiark1]

@unherd I reckon we are gonna end up with a 'papers please' internet anyway because AI bots, impossible to detect or stop, will flood everything and wreck every platform.

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

America is running out of places to gather:

Bars and clubs per capita have fallen over 60% since the late 1970s, and since 2001 a fifth of movie theaters have shut their doors.

Over the past two decades, the country has lost roughly 2,000 golf courses and 7,000 bars and nightclubs.

Catching live music now costs a pretty penny: top-tour concert tickets averaged $134 last year, up +42% from 2019.

So Americans stay in. Nearly 80% see friends and family less than three times a week.

Read that again.

America has traded their community for their couch.

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

respectfully, people who treat their pets like surrogate children while making hating real children their whole personality need to be excommunicated from society

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

the “online” one makes sense but the “through friends” one & others almost dipping to zero….

we are insanely atomized.

how did you meet your s.o?

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

Fireworks over DC. Happy 250th birthday, America!

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have identified a personality trait they call the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood. It includes four main components: the need for recognition, moral elitism, a lack of empathy, and rumination.

https://t.co/F4bTXnnZtx

[Incontinent Philosophy @antiark1]

@shoe0nhead @passcoderonald Australia

[Andreas Steno Larsen @AndreasSteno]

Terrible solution to a self-made problem.

In Germany, it’s practically impossible to fire employees. If calling in sick all the time had consequences, things would change.

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, discusses the importance of open-weight AI models.

100% agree with this take.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“If you somehow… gave ownership of the land to the last recorded tribe that had occupied it before, you would not be returning it to its original occupants; you would simply be handing it to the next-most-recent conquerors.”

https://t.co/1ctal4hkKC

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Casual sex is linked to lower self-esteem in women but not in men.

https://t.co/GKOY5ZO5Rr

[Cameron Murray @DrCameronMurray]

Suddenly, there are plenty of homes for sale in Australia's capitals

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

The stupidity of this AC discourse, from ignorant Americans and retarded German political ideologues alike, is just unbearable.
– Ordinary people in Germany by and large are not opposed to AC. Beyond a few Green crazies most people would be happy to shelter in climatised rooms during a heatwave. About 20% of German households already have some form of AC at home.
– AC uptake in Germany and Europe more broadly is limited by a range of cultural, economic and infrastructural factors. Non-sliding interior-opening windows making installation somewhat more difficult (particularly for vulnerable olds) is one of them. Expensive electricity is another one of them. And yes, stupid ideological messaging is still another one of them.
– Germany is not Arizona, average summer highs are typically below 80F. Easily half of the summer AC is not something you think about. Then, you get hit with a heatwave, you go to the Baumarkt, and find all the AC units are sold out. You scrape by and before you can place an order the rain has started, temperatures are down and it's not a pressing concern anymore. Something like this happens to a lot of people.
– Ordinary people are not dying in heatwaves, and the death numbers themselves are modeled in much the same way Covid mortality was modeled – against a hypothetical baseline. Excess heatwave deaths happen overwhelmingly among the extremely old and the very sick, healthy people are not dropping dead of the heat.
– It's above all institutions, hospitals and care homes, that should be systematically retrofitted with AC. This would cost probably less than 10 billion Euro. We should do this, and in fact there's substantial support even among crazy Greens for doing this. The German state has grown so dysfunctional that it can't do anything, and so climatism narratives get brought in as a figleaf.
– Similar story with anti-AC state media messaging campaigns, which I suspect have much less to do with genuine climatist concerns and are more cover for concerns about the stress widespread AC would place on the electrical grid.

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

Lived through these same shallow arguments during Covid. It's about perspective. The very old and the very sick are at any moment liable to die from 100 different proximate factors. Heat is one stress factor in their complex, multicausal mortality.

[𝓑¢ @dirtydalerz]

New @shoe0nhead gif dropped

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

"How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?"

-John Stuart Mill

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

@_britmonkey mama mia

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Wow…

[Incontinent Philosophy @antiark1]

@DrCameronMurray I don't know what to think about this now. Something about motherhood penalty or cost just seems correct. Yes, there's a benefit but also a cost.