It’s remarkable how much some of George W. Bush’s non-Iraq initiatives have improved in standing.
- No Child Left Behind
- Privatizing Social Security
- PEPFAR
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Chris Said
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Chris Said
@Chris_Said
Data Science at @ThePropelApp. Formerly: Stitch Fix, Opendoor, Twitter, Facebook, neuroscience.
New York, NY 가입일 Ağustos 2008
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@Kathy_Rice No, it's not enough. People have been loudly calling out Boaler's work for over 2 years. But she is just one person - the canary in the coal mine. The issue is systemic and needs to be fixed at a policy level in my opinion.
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And to be clear there were a lot of great hard-working interesting people in the program, and people who helped me a ton, but the general space is just way too tolerant of mostly fake ideas and doesn't seem to know how to handle or confront them.
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Thought I had seen every iteration of “hyperscalers are spending a lot of money” but this is a pretty wild chart
Fin Moorhouse@finmoorhouse
The hyperscalers have already outspent the most famous US megaprojects
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I personally would be happy with a Canada-style ceiling, but it's politically dead on arrival.
slowboring.com/p/my-most-prog…
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I like the framing of "universal healthcare should be a floor, not a ceiling"
Ceiling (bad): Canada
Floor (good): Israel, Australia, France
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Here's the dramatic reveal from the HBO documentary on Bitcoin.
@CullenHoback confronted @peterktodd and accused him of being Satoshi, while @adam3us stands in the background watching.
This scene is very funny if NYT is right that Adam Back is Satoshi.
x.com/BritishHodl/st…
BRITISH HODL ❤️🔥🐂❤️🔥@BritishHodl
Peter Todd, who HBO’s genius’ have decided is Satoshi Nakamoto in the Documentary about #Bitcoin. This will be a flash in the pan moment and as usual, mainstream journalists will come out looking like moron’s when it comes to #Bitcoin - watch:
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@tgof137 @CullenHoback Put this text in a standalone tweet with the quoted video tweet and it will go places...
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If it is true that Adam Back is Satoshi, then this scene is very funny, because @CullenHoback had the actual suspect right there next to Peter Todd, but confronted the wrong one of the two guys.
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There's a documentary coming out in 2 weeks which also promises to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto.
If you think the New York Times article's conclusions were wrong, go and bet on whether it will also name Adam Back:
manifold.markets/PeterMillerc03…
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I love that people are still trying to crack this. I wasn't, however, 100% convinced by the evidence or the conclusion. The stylometry is interesting, but on content, ofc all the cypherpunks had similar thoughts on politics and privacy and the architecture of the internet.
John Carreyrou@JohnCarreyrou
The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. nytimes.com/2026/04/08/bus…
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2. His prior writing had the highest cosine similarity to Satoshi
3. He slip-of-the-tongue admitted it on a Naval podcast.
4. His early Cypherpunk writing showed the great effort he took at hiding his pseudonyms.
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I still think Nick Szabo is Satoshi.
1. He forward-dated a blog comment to extend his bit gold idea to make it look like it was posted after bitcoin was released!
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Happy SAT day to all who celebrate.
Reminder that a disproportionate number of kids in rich school districts get 1.5x the time that everyone else does.
And everyone in the system is conspiring to keep the numbers non-transparent.
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@zeynep Who is saying hallucinations are solved?
The claim is that these models are powerful and hallucinations are reduced.
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It’s incredible how many people — even journalists — who obviously don’t understand much about generative AI will claim the “hallucination” problem have been solved. Soon! Just around the corner. You’re not using the best model!
But reality eventually catches up.
Merryn Somerset Webb@MerrynSW
What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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@scottleibrand @NateSilver538 I saw that note and am kind of skeptical about its relevance. I'd be surprised if a meaningful number of most engaged accounts were not on that list.
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@NateSilver538 @Chris_Said Apparently not, according to the community note. Worth un-RT’ing?
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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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Collecting DNA from people charged with felonies reduced future crime convictions by 42%.
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys
The deterrent effect of gathering DNA from people arrested for felonies is large, and illustrates something important about crime. 1/2
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This exact dynamic played out with EAs, as @ilex_ulmus has documented many times.
The think tank community is the next wave.
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With so many elite writers joining Anthropic, their social circles may find it harder to openly criticize the company.
Santi Ruiz@rSanti97
Some professional news: I'm joining Anthropic's editorial team! I'll be leading the team's work on economics and policy, and working closely with the Anthropic Institute (about which more here: x.com/AnthropicAI/st…). Dramatic AI progress is coming in the next two years, and researchers+policymakers+the public alike will need the best information available about that shift. It's a big new challenge, and I can’t wait to get started. [Some important housekeeping: I’ll keep running Statecraft at @IFP as a Nonresident Senior Fellow! And will remain on the board at Recoding America/ as a journalist-in-residence at @johnshopkins School of Government and Policy. I start at Anthropic in a few weeks.] The move from frontier think tank to frontier lab is bittersweet. I’ve been at IFP for three years, and it’s been the most formative professional experience of my life. In a short period of time, IFP has become one of the most effective institutions in DC, generating a truly shocking amount of counterfactual policy impact (not all of it public). Being on this team has permanently raised my ambitions. I'm very grateful.
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