You spend more time on social media than you intend to, because time flows faster on these platforms, causing you to lose hours in what feels like minutes. This is no accident; it’s a result of a decades-long plot to steal your time. My new essay. https://t.co/7tnGcPxSK2

Banning phone use during class led to an increase in students’ test scores the following year, according to new data from Florida. This is such an easy intervention, with no downside and huge potential upside, that it’s crazy it’s not more widespread. https://t.co/OuB1AvxmK2

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Recent claims of a “free fall” in youth trans identities may have been greatly exaggerated. A sample of 45K+ students shows trans & nonbinary identities at an all-time high. The claimed drop may stem from flawed weighting and poorly designed survey questions. SEGM's analysis⬇/1

You’ve been told microplastics are everywhere. In your food. In your blood. Even in your brain. You should panic. You should rage. But what if most of it was junk science? 🧵1/

Good advice. The most valuable accounts contribute more than just clever takes on the popular stories of the day.

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If you consume similar content to everyone else, you'll produce similar content to everyone else.

A simple way to steel-man an opposing view is to imagine you yourself posted it, got ratioed for it, and must now defend it to save face. You’ll be amazed at how suddenly the view makes sense.

A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536). Only 50% of prior findings replicated. Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty and status were well supported across

Exactly. Passive curiosity = others taking over your attention High agency, active curiosity = curating your attention

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Sweden has reliable statistics unusually far back in time, which makes it a useful country to look at for long-running trends. @StatsSweden shows >40 mums are not a new phenomenon: in the late 1800s, 12% of children were born to women >40, compared with 5% today.

One of the most common signs that something has been written by chatbots is the expression “It’s not just X, it’s Y”. E.g. “It’s not just about helping others, it’s about growing as a person.” What are some others?

Idly following your curiosity in a world designed to take advantage of it will keep you from finding the things you truly love.

Presumably Brian has no problem with people choosing who they have kids with. It’s interesting that so many people are okay with selecting living humans for desirable traits, but not with selecting unliving embryos for the same.

If you're outsourcing all your writing to chatbots, you're also outsourcing all your thinking.

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The real danger of AI-generated illusions flooding the world is not that people will come to believe falsehoods—most of what we believe is already false—it’s that we’ll cease to believe anything at all. A society can survive without truth, but not without trust.

1/ Highlights from this crucially important paper: About 7 out of 10 patients who get “evidence-based therapy” for depression are still depressed after treatment Of the 3 that get well, about half would have gotten well without treatment No significant differences between

[1/3] Men's testosterone levels did not plummet over the past decade like many wellness podcasts would have you believe... we just switched the measurement assay from immunoassay to mass spectrometry When we switched assays, we observed a ~100% increase in self-reported healthy

The regularity with which even smart people misinterpret tweets and get triggered by nonsense only confirms my suspicion that everyone is retarded at least 80% of the time. It’s only in the remaining 20% that we find any difference between society’s “geniuses” and “idiots”.

The call is coming from inside the house. “The left’s greatest enemy is not the right but the hard-left. The right’s greatest enemy is not the left but the hard-right. The lunatics on your own side make you look much sillier than the opposition ever could.” — @G_S_Bhogal

130K likes (and counting). These fools assume the world was always full of food, but it’s only due to industry, and fertilizers, and centuries of genetic engineering, that they no longer need to worry about starvation, and are free to spend their days complaining on the internet.

An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.  With more preclinical and clinical tests,