It really could be plausibly more convenient to recharge your EV than fill your car in the near future. I can still imagine gas stations becoming less common, pushing ICE cars into a death spiral of inconvenience.
Trying to make sense of these survey responses is difficult, it's not just a media bias, 60% of americans own stocks, they should know that the market isn't down. Thompson goes on to speculate that people are upset about inflation, and they just go ahead and paint all economic indicators with the same brush. Joey Politano alternately suggests people are just consistently badly informed: "It is always funny the extent to which econ polling can ask questions like 'what color is the sky' and get 49% of people to answer 'red'"
This is an excerpt from this opinion Tabarrok wrote for MSNBC. While I had either forgotten or never heard about the difference between the kinds of UV light, I had at least previously heard of the solution he's proposing: "Peer approval". If other major health regulatory agencies approve of a drug, the US should also. Politicians on both sides of the aisle agree this is a good idea.
I'm doubtful that I could have avoided that oncoming car successfully. They of course followed up with a link to Waymo's analysis indicating they've reduced injuries by 80%
Ok, it's only vaguely vaguely related, but this trailer for Wolfs looks great.
Longer Reads
• Argument that kids should practice some 'lone performance' skill so that they learn to fail and then move on. (src)(cached)
• Here's a thread discussing how the US government figured out that zoning was the biggest imediment to housing production back in the 1970s. This same result comes back every time anyone studies this. Although the newest stuff indicates that the high 'hard costs' of construction are sneakily also caused by bad land use rules. (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Only 62% of voters recall the access hollywood recording of Trump! (src)(cached)
– Long thread, OpenAI leadership says they had no idea they required non-dispariagment agreements for former employees, but leadership signed the agreements, someone is lying. (src)(cached)
– Anthropic was able to extract meaningful features from within a production-scale LLM, this has previously been difficult to do with leading-edge models. They could find sets of neurons that would activate when identifiable concepts were being output, sycophantic praise, secrecy, internal conflict and honesty. Here's the full paper. (src)(cached)
– Russia is getting very close to an act of war against a NATO ally. (src)(cached)
– The US is trying to do something about lead exposure in children in poor countries. This is important: "HALF of kids in poor countries have blood lead levels above the US trigger threshold" (src)(cached)