Steve Weir

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@robinhanson Yes, but, I suspect that tech overall was a larger % of everything even before the AI boom.

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@irentdumpsters Not sure. Haven’t done it yet, really.

I like it, and love your content, just had to sit back and think thru that part of it.

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@irentdumpsters ok, but, to be fair, that is 100% a great strategy, and im sure it works.

however . . I'd have to say, there is a slightly ethical gray area to pose as someone who received a service when you did not.

I mean, yeah, everyone does it, its all over reddit for sure (but, still)

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@DataChaz An ev?

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@ATabarrok Had a “Silicon Valley guy” tell me that once Box laid off people and their stock went up, that meant that all Tech firms were going to do the same. Seems true.

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@rustybrick One wonders when they will run out of space on the serps for ads.

It’s hard to imagine it getting more ad focused- but it will

[Rob Kunzler @kunzler74]

Last year's survey results reshaped the conversation about AI and governance. This year goes deeper, measuring impact, not just adoption. To my board director and executive friends...this is five minutes well spent if governance is part of your professional charter.

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@spqr_sulla Social media? most English speaking people can immediately compare their lives with 350 million other, similar people. The québécois only have a small amount of countrymen, and like 40 million first world French speakers? Maybe?

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@Molson_Hart I don’t think we can get a ban on it, but could you get a limit? Like max of $50 per week? Might be more palatable.

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@HardcoreHistory

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 2022 a team of Czech and Montenegrin anthropologists published the most comprehensive height survey ever conducted in the Western Balkans. They measured 47,158 people across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo.

The result overturned an assumption that had stood for fifty years. The tallest 18-year-olds in the world are not Dutch.

They are from Montenegro. The average 18-year-old male in Montenegro is 182.9 cm. In Dalmatia, 183.7 cm. There is a continuous belt running from the Adriatic coast through Herzegovina into central Montenegro where average male height exceeds 184 cm. In some towns it is over 187 cm.

This is the highest mean stature ever documented in any human population.

The strange part is that the Balkans are not rich. GDP per capita in Montenegro is roughly a fifth of the Netherlands. Protein intake is well below Western European levels. By every conventional metric, the Western Balkans should be producing average heights similar to Bulgaria or Romania.

Instead they are producing the tallest men on earth.

The explanation is genetic. Y-chromosome haplogroup I-M170, present in over 70% of men in Herzegovina, correlates with male height across all 55 European and Near Eastern populations the researchers tested. Wherever the haplogroup is common, the men are tall.

The haplogroup is descended from the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic. The Gravettians were big-game hunters. They specialised, for roughly 15,000 years, in killing mammoth, bison, reindeer, and aurochs across Europe. They ate, in caloric terms, almost exclusively animal products. The most meat-heavy diet documented in the European archaeological record. Hundreds of generations of selection pressure for converting animal protein into skeletal stature.

When the megafauna disappeared, most Gravettian populations dispersed and intermarried with incoming farmers from the Near East, who carried different haplogroups associated with shorter stature. The Western Balkans, isolated by the Dinaric Alps, retained an unusually high proportion of the original hunter genetics.

The men of Herzegovina are the genetic descendants of mammoth hunters who spent the Ice Age eating fat and meat in quantities no modern population approaches.

They are still tall, on a sub-optimal modern diet, because the genes were selected for height by 15,000 years of animal-based eating.

If their nutrition reaches Northern European levels, the prediction is that average male height in central Herzegovina will reach 190 cm within two generations. Six foot three. As an average.

The Dutch built their height in 150 years on dairy.

The men of the Dinaric Alps built theirs over 15,000 years on mammoth.

And the variable, in both cases, was the animal.

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@Molson_Hart The level of concern is interesting. The hint towards future rationing and what not. What do they know that we don’t? What is new about this concern? Have they always been this concerned about oil shocks?

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@girdley Don’t have to pay for insurance due to Medicaid

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@mhp_guy How big of a sample size?

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@alex_buraks Yeah, and the real cheat going on here is, the Sponsored results, after the first, look exactly like organic.

Google got sued a while back and thats why they ever had that "ad" listed next to them. . .they must be thinking differently now.

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@BillDA Sucks!

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@100YearsAgoLive @grok can you add more context?

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@ViperChill This is great content. Thanks!

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@mamboitaliano__ I was hoping I could get some politics and support for an authoritarian government mixed in with Italian aesthetics in my feed. Thanks!

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@dccommonsense @DontTweetMe15 Possibly true, but also, an act that helps people have confidence in the results