Nick Ritter

metascience fellow @IFP

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BAAJA will improve morale

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China comparisons will continue until morale improves

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@fudgeposting BCD tofu house silken tofu. avoid ramen in NYC, get it in LA. various Ukrainian, Polish places if you crave hardier fare

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@GregHBurnham math/ML-talent Princeton undergrad to wasting 2-3 years in Bridgwater fake talent eval thing is an unfortunately common pipeline (which I may or may not have saved Leopold from by going at him in one of the group debates)

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@jtmonrad do you guys have abnormally hard phishing tests? feel like the standard ones net 50% of boomers and 0% 35 or younger

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@arthurctellis goals

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@JaiAmin10 blocked and reported

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This is extremely low-trust, exploitative behavior by Facebook. The R&D tax credit and expensing for capex are good policies on net, but this is blatant gaming and should be punished harshly.

This make me update towards skewing the credit more towards smaller businesses. There is no way these data centers are used only for research!

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In the summer of 2024, an employee at Meta had a daring idea to save the company billions of dollars on its A.I. data centers: Claim they were 'experimental' to tap a lucrative tax credit meant to inspire companies to tackle novel challenges.

Gift link to investigation by @JesseDrucker, @elitanjourno, @MikeIsaac, and me:
https://t.co/AjtDhj9krP

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@LizardLizardd @demiurgently then you will enjoy this video https://t.co/LSbG4Rvfy3 (though it kinda agrees with my mediore hotpot pill)

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@s8mb I stand corrected sir

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@JaiAmin10 @s8mb check the birth certificate

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@s8mb speed is the big issue (new acela is not faster). also some norm issues wrt quiet car sometimes

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@arthurctellis @joshua_saxe until college EA groups at top unis are as big as the dance groups feels like the set of ideas lacks cultural dominance

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@arthurctellis permitting grind pays for the life of the mind

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@_emilyliu_ every once in a while my algorithm surfaces an under-appreciated work

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@anselmlevskaya sympathetic to this view (especially in the near term) that natural pandemics way more likely than engineered (though tbf I do more science policy than bio). presumably this falls to USDA purview and pressure on them is most productive?

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@mary_clare_m yeah, New START renewal non-engagement is also an example. also a big difference between normie threat models (cyber, bio) vs. threat models of the ~only pacing crowd (loss of control, gradual disempowerment)

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@pietergaricano countersignaling by having the signature of a third-grader, seems fine to me

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@joshua_saxe @arthurctellis I'm going to stage an intervention so he stops using so many big words