Maxim Lott
@maximlott
Fmr exec producer for John Stossel. Created https://ElectionBettingOdds.com, https://TrackingAI.org, and:
With assistance from lawyers at @HamLincLaw, I and others (@slatestarcodex and @tedfrank) have filed an official comment with the CFTC urging them not to ban prediction markets in the US, as they have proposed doing. I hope the regulators will listen! hlli.org/hlli-files-com…
As well all know, SSRIs and therapy are a joke. The human brain is actually a very finely-tuned, sophisticated machine and conditions like depression+anxiety are reactions to very real environmental conditions and stressors, not "chemical imbalances" that you were randomly cursed…
thoughts on mental health that would have you like this?
Here’s an excerpt from an old post of mine (“Even Socialists Don’t Want Socialism”) explaining why it matters that socialists rarely start worker cooperatives
🇺🇸 Today is a day we have been working towards for six months. We are announcing America’s AI action plan putting us on the road to continued AI dominance. The three core themes: - Accelerate AI innovation - Build American AI infrastructure - Lead in international AI…
"The Trouble With Wanting Men" - NYT Magazine This female author, who (a) was in open marriage and then divorced her husband after deciding she wanted to be with one of her other male partners who never wanted a committed relationship with her; (b) says that men are "what is…
Colombia recorded only 445,000 births in 2024, way below UN projections of 701,000 births, for an official fertility rate of just 1.06 births per woman, and just 0.84 in Bogotá. (The true rate may be a little higher with unregistered births.) Why such a dramatic collapse? 2/10
In Europe, thousands are being convicted for the crime of criticizing their own governments. This Orwellian message won't fool the United States. Censorship is not freedom.
#EuropeProtects #DSAProtects #DemocracyNotAlgoracy
This chart makes me laugh each time I see it. Can you name a decision that caused more economic, geopolitical and environmental damage, than Germany‘s ideological decision to close its perfectly fine nuclear power plants?
It's hard to find a country that is too hard on repeat criminals. Swedish data suggest that a simple 3 strikes law could lower crime by 60%.
They want people to think that going after criminals is wrong, because they want those criminals to run rampant on Swedish streets and destroy your beautiful country from within. Just like they’re doing across much of the world. It’s all by design.
Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."
my bar for agi is an ai that can learn to run a gas station for a year without a team of scientists collecting the Gas Station Dataset
it is kind of amazing that elite schools would look at the current world and worry they are not selecting for conformity strongly enough and then work on new ways to select for conformity
This is a thought control filter for universities. Students will have to be in favor of mass immigration (or lie and fake it), in order to be rated "empathic" and "kind" by fellow applicants.
It reflects an insane lack of self-preservation instinct that this is who the NPR board decided to have run the organization
Katherine Maher has been an incredible asset for conservatives. It's as if we built an AI bot on the most ridiculous over-the-top Fox News parody of a "woke liberal" and asked it to pump out 29,400 tweets.
Left-wing authoritarians cannot self-perceive their own authoritarianism, while right-wing authoritarians can. This is one of those facts that, once learned, you start seeing everywhere.
Oh look, they figured out how to scale ideological conformity testing
College admissions basically adding “virtue signaling” to list of enrollment requirements
Not a surprise for those of us who follow @maximlott's trackingai.org/iq (the offine test in particular, since that one hints at how well LLMs do at novel cognitive tasks).