Nathan Whitmore

Highly recommend tracking your mood and activities because if you have a terrible day you can be like oh well at least I collected some data to improve my life

It's darkly ironic how many people will tell you that AI damages critical thinking skills solely on the basis of "it seems like it"

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Is BPA really bad for you? Did getting rid of lead make us better people? Tonight we're talking about poisons, toxins, and how we study them! 7 PM eastern time at www.twitch.tv/philososcien...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

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What is the ideal amount of Teflon in your food? If you said zero Teflon, you're *wrong*--according to the winner of this year's Ig-Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

Join us at 9 eastern time to chat about the year's weirdest science at the Ig-Nobels!

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I'm not saying I know better, just that it seems like is equally a geopolitical forecast as a technical one and that experts in that field seem weirdly underrepresented.

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

Finally read the ai-2027.com scenario and my main impression is that this is real heavy on geopolitics for a team that knows nothing about geopolitics.

Like if your thesis is that the fate of the world will be decided by a US-China arms race, shouldn't you involve some people who...study that?

Kinda funny how ACIP--whose sole purpose is to provide advice on vaccine use--is just like "eh you decide"

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Tonight at 6:30: Monsanto, sketchy pesticide science, and how safe is our food? Come chat at 6:30 www.twitch.tv/philososcien...

Toy story (the first computer animated movie) cost 30 million--I think a lot of this are higher costs associated with doing something new for the first time.

Chicago is doing what works without Trump’s invasion of our city.

We reject occupation. We welcome investments in public education, youth employment, and affordable housing.

Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up.
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇

Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.

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Tonight: Should we tell everyone to get vaccinated? We're talking about the science of science communication! 6:30 Eastern time!

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If this was a political drama we would be laughing at how terroble the writing was

"In our next episode, we dive deeper into the mall's distorted reality!"

Spotify now automatically generates chapters for news podcasts, but the hilarious part is that it uses the same algorithm and tone for horror podcasts.

In any case it seems like a pretty massive, invalidating flaw in a study claiming to measure overall amount of time spent reading for pleasure.

Their discussion touches on this but also implies that people reading on the Internet aren't reading fiction, which seems kinda odd.

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Recently a lot of media has been talking about how AI is bad for your brain. Is this true, and what can the science of learning and brain exercise tell us about it? Chatting tonight at 6:30 eastern time! www.twitch.tv/philososcien...

I understand why they do it, but the idea that AGI is AI that can do useful work seems kinda stupid. Children clearly have general intelligence, get they do rather poorly at SWE-Verified (or running a business in general)

I believe this is what they call a coward's hypothetical

We are back tonight to talk about space! Interstellar comets, nuke plants on the moon, and whatever if going on in this graph!

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New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

New ArsTechnica story about the new steaming pile of Executive Order...

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New hope for Alzheimer’s: Groundbreaking Harvard study finds lithium reverses brain aging - The Boston Globe The research suggests a new approach to preventing and treating the mind-robbing disease.

Funding for this groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's was terminated by the Trump Administration
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

Kinda fun how the modern definition of ultra processed food is just food that has been cursed.

Like what is different about it? Idk but don't eat it, it has a curse on it.

Like learning how to build a nuclear reactor that is (1) safe and small enough to fly in a rocket and (2) doesn't require a massive amount of cooling water seems like a genuinely useful thing to do.

I mean if some guy kept emailing me every 3 months asking I explain human behavior without information processing I would probably just ignore him too.