Jason Crawford

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Does anyone here have any experience taking Ozempic? I wonder what people think of Ozempic? Is it net good or net bad for society?

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If no one is criticizing you, it's not because your work is unimpeachable: it's because you're not doing/saying anything important, or you don't have a significant audience. Any important work that gets attention will draw criticism.

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Yes but I think this happened years ago

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“What would a practical abolish-the-FDA-lite policy proposal look like?” 1. Legalize artificial supplements 2. An “experimental drug” category, “where they test for safety… but don’t test for efficacy” https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/beyond-abolish-the-fda

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If we want to see our scientific institutions improve, we need to think about how they can evolve: https://rootsofprogress.org/accelerating-science-through-evolvable-institutions

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If you feed in the key text from the above two pages to ChatGPT, and tell it who you are, it can generate a good draft comment for you.

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“Lab developed tests have never been FDA regulated except briefly during the pandemic emergency when such regulation led to catastrophic consequences” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/12/dont-let-the-fda-regulate-lab-tests.html

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Comment on the FDA's proposed rule to regulate lab tests, today is the last day: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/03/2023-21662/medical-devices-laboratory-developed-tests

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Is this even true? They must have done user testing at least internally?

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Seems like there are plenty of ways to get social connections as a homeschooler. The main purpose of school is education, not socializing. a good school > homeschool > a bad school

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Vitalik's message to AI developers: “you should build, and build profitable things, but be much more selective and intentional in making sure you are building things that help you and humanity thrive” @vitalik.eth https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html

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The early history of steam power, with interactive animated diagrams! From Hero's engine to Savery's pump, with many highlights in between that aren't in the standard telling of this story Text by Anton Howes, animations by Matt Brown https://rootsofprogress.org/steam-engine-origins

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When I hear people saying things like “AI can't possibly hurt anyone because it's just math” (or “just software”), I don't think they're fully taking safety concerns seriously.

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What I like about e/acc and where it falls short: “You will not find a bigger proponent of science, technology, industry, growth, and progress than me. But I am here to tell you that we can’t yolo our way into it” https://warpcast.com/jasoncrawford.eth/0xdc1684d4

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To build the glorious abundant technological future, we’re going to need more than vibes. We’re going to need ideas https://rootsofprogress.org/neither-ea-nor-e-acc

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Bottlenecks of aging, Starship launches, the ARPA Playbook, and an opportunity to cure your red-green colorblindness: https://rootsofprogress.org/links-digest-2023-11-24

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Image from: https://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fortune/xb/50.jpg Sourced via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave

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“Mechanization, the harnessing of energy, is man's answer to slavery” –Buckminster Fuller Map from 1940, when the world had just over 2 billion people, and machines doing the energy equivalent of 37 billion people's worth of work for them:

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Thanksgiving took shape 160 years ago, as a deliberate contrast to haute cuisine, based on “a long tradition of anti-monarchical republican political and culinary thought” https://www.rachellaudan.com/2023/11/american-thanksgiving-as-a-republican-meal-a-repudiation-of-the-high-cuisine-of-monarchies.html

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Episode 5 of Age of Miracles dropped today! @packy and I go deep on advanced nuclear reactor startups, including my own, Antares, among several others. Give it a listen and let us know what you think! YouTube link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_IJ1C_XuQI&feature=youtu.be

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