- Dan Luu: Ed Zitron’s AI prediction track record. Not great. I have linked to Zitron a few times, to articles that were short enough for me to actually read and understand. Most of them were just too long and/or too angry. Fitting that a critique of Zitron’s writing is just as long, though much more even-keel.
- Lilly Lynch: Sympathy for the Devil? Lindsay Clancy, Mercy and Maternal Filicide in History. The less I know about this case the better, but this was some good context.
- Ernie Smith: Wanted: Some Cheap Computing. Issue No. 1 of Smith’s mini-PC newsletter. I am in the market for both a heavy-duty primary machine and some satellite servers, and thanks to the ramapocalypse the latter — and therefore this newsletter — is much more appealing.
- Derek Sivers: Bangalore India hospital flow. Today I learned Sivers was a fan of “executive health checks”. Yikes! As I wrote in a comment to the article:
The human body is not a car. We don’t know how most of it works. There are a handful of labs you should start getting once you hit 40 (or earlier depending on family history), and a few cancer screenings we know work. Anything else is a needless waste of money at best, and a recipe for an iatrogenic disaster if an incidental finding from a whole-body MRI leads to a wild goose chase, biopsies, surgeries, etc. Not to mention the false sense of security these things can give.