Darius Tahir

Can’t find the study now but someone had one that showed LLM struggle to elicit information.

Had a claim denied by Aetna but joke’s on them because I’m a health economist on furlough. Bet they’ve never seen an appeal with a “methods” section before.

well, let's not forget the most important thing an established institution can provide (lawyers)

But this is increasingly explicit at mainstream publications, which are hiring coaches to turn their reporters into influencers.

Right, it helps people get over the hump of discovery — oh who’s this guy talking with Simmons (or whomever).

That said it does mean the size of any publication is small because any star you incubate goes off to a new publication.

Are you...
1) a person, who
2) has used a chatbot as an "AI therapist," and,
3) had an interesting experience they'd like to talk about with me?

Hit me up by DMs or on email at DariusT at kff dot org

I'd love to hear from anyone who has been at agencies protecting public health this year (eg CDC, HHS, HRSA, HUD, NIH, OSHA). Privacy respected. Signal is AmyMaxmen.25

🧵Here's a thread of some of my stories this year on the impact of the Trump administration on America's public health.

— Hume (1738)

The firebombing?

what do you mean by "WMATA-style cost overruns"?

Non-Euclidean parallels, maybe.

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

I dunno, this speech sounds like Jim Vandehei

Latest Economist/YouGov poll shows only 11% of respondents think tylenol is a cause of autism. 54% say no: d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Who’s polling t+1?

The Dude’s ideal day.

“Rodri is a recognized CB by the IBC but not by the WBC…”

The verb choice here is exquisite, calling to mind something like the boxing championship orgs but for CB recognition

4’33”

Oct. 13-19, 2020, Washington Post-Schar School poll of Virginia voters

honestly looks like the Post got pretty close to the '20 result: www.washingtonpost.com/context/oct-...

(Poll: Biden +11... actual Biden +10)

definitely plausible. or could be race depolarization. lot more trump stuff around Eden Center around the '24 election

q is specifically about his job as president, present-tense

Interesting tidbit from the new Washington Post poll on the VA governor's race: at least in this poll's records, Trump's approval ratings in the state are the best they've ever been.

For Niko’s sake, DC sounds like a terrible idea.

But what is that pace? Does it have something to do with Blueskyism?

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Oh wow, this sounds incredible.

Haven’t listened to the interview, but in broader context, we’ve seen Thompson and Yglesias play along with similar views (ie that more people should be strategist/communicators, perhaps even almost all people on Twitter), so perhaps unfairly, I think people are reading it in that light.

Some of that (at least in the US) is they were aligned to popular critiques of college, whereas now those critiques are more focused on gender ideology or people not studying STEM.

On a slightly different tack, I guess my model is that there *used* to be significant snob representation in the critic class, so that someone like a Gene Siskel would go to bat for My Dinner With Andre or something. But now the type of guy who would advocate you read War and Peace is not present.