Brad LeVeck

Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.

This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.

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I agree

Itai Sher @itaisher • Mar 2 I don't believe it is true that Al now can do social science better than most professors. 112K只企 S... Alexander Kustov * @akoustov Perhaps not most of your colleagues, but globally? Having some familiarity with social science in developing countries and the former soviet bloc, much of what gets published in MDPI-type journals isn't meaningfully advancing knowledge. Al can already do better than that. 4:40 PM • Mar 2, 2026 • 6,029 Views

I think this exchange on X provides important context for the headline claim. I like Claude Code a lot, but I don’t think it could get tenure at most R1 universities in the US (even if you think the research coming out of those institutions is terrible too).

Stocks, Bonds Face New Pressure as Attacks Widen Markets took big hits Tuesday as the Middle East conflict showed signs of escalating. Stocks sold off, with the Dow industrials dropping more than 1,000 points. The index is on track for its biggest o...

The thing with Liberation Day tariffs, Minneapolis, and all the other crises Trump has started, is that they were in his control to ratchet down when they became unpopular or the bond market got a little too spooked.

I am afraid that this is different.
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This is the product I want most from Anthropic.

I think posts like this trade on a kind of ambiguity in the phrase "take seriously." You can take a wrong position seriously in one sense, as one that you should engage with and disprove.

Makes sense. I went straight from Intel to M3 Max on my work laptop and it’s been amazing. Should have switched sooner like you.

Not sure if a parameter like this is in the model (will read carefully later), but I suspect this problem is worse for the executive when a large swath of the public has a strong prior belief that they’re a bunch of of lying-McLiarsons.

One of the Trump admin’s explanations for striking Iran—preemption of an imminent attack—put me in mind of my article w/@yujimasumura.bsky.social at @ajpseditor.bsky.social, which examines when govts use the preemption casus belli and how publics react. (1/x)

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What upgrades here are most exciting to you? I’ve been thinking I should upgrade my m3 max before some grant money runs out, but haven’t really been paying attention to what’s happening with mbps.

What do you think is the most likely path for this to happen? I’m very worried about the war spiraling out of control, but my knowledge of the region is poor, which makes it really hard for me to distinguish which scenarios are more or less plausible.

He can’t taco his way out of this one, and they might be starting to realize it

5 min apart. Read my mind.

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Stocks, Bonds Face New Pressure as Attacks Widen Markets took big hits Tuesday as the Middle East conflict showed signs of escalating. Stocks sold off, with the Dow industrials dropping more than 1,000 points. The index is on track for its biggest o...

The thing with Liberation Day tariffs, Minneapolis, and all the other crises Trump has started, is that they were in his control to ratchet down when they became unpopular or the bond market got a little too spooked.

I am afraid that this is different.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

An experimental investigation of evolutionary dynamics in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - An experimental investigation of evolutionary dynamics in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game

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Two waymos struggle to get past each other. But they do figure it out! And this video makes it incredibly clear they aren't just being teleoperated. The failures are always more informative than the successes!

The past is a foreign country

Some people have a mental disorder where their reaction to Republicans doing something bad is to get mad at Democrats.

This is also why I (usually) don’t put too much stock in critiques along the lines of “Dems look weak.”

The minority party *is* weak.

Everyone who is upset at this statement is addicted to being mad. This is literally all the minority party in Congress can do. Go yell at your parents for being Trump voters.

A lot of my academic focuses on public attitudes about foreign policy and the use of force. The just initiated bombing of Iran lacks many of the components that build and sustain domestic support for military action.

Obviously not the biggest thing, but it is striking how lazily constructed Trump's announcement is.

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Me: One great thing about the west coast, late night sports nbd.
Also me: ... ****

The detail that sticks: Anthropic has been deployed on classified government networks since June 2024. They're not anti-military. They drew two specific lines and are being treated like a foreign adversary for it.

Me yelling at clouds, "The government used to have to do a whole year of propaganda before it could do this ****."

Seems bad

Yeah. @mattyglesias.bsky.social made a similar point awhile ago: too many companies are acting like Trump is already the dictator they insist he is not. Anthropic saying no in the face of these threats is a bfd.

Feels like we've actually been Claude Code pilled for awhile.