Totally unrelated to the content of the thread:

Why didn't I use a more fun AI generated picture?

Because, somehow, all the image models are unable to draw trains going from DC to SF. It's actually pretty weird (thread)

https://twitter.com/AaronBergman18/status/2043515244639559835

So this didn't work, which was a little weird - Gemini is plenty smart, and every modern image model knows basic geography and directions

There’s a perverse dynamic in the AI biorisk classifier world

The world I *selfishly* want to live in is one in which all major players have the same classifier that minimizes false negatives… This is going to be annoying to me sometimes because my innocent questions will get blocked, but that is the tradeoff I want to make, the least bad option

Pretty recently I was set to speak to a journalist about something (not gonna get more specific but it’s really not that special or juicy) but then requested a copy of the interview recording as a condition of the interview and the journalist refused, and we cancelled I don’t entirely blame them or think that their refusal was a terrible thing - from their POV *I* could be the irresponsible one with the content and twist it somehow or generally become a pain in the ass somehow

Getting sniped again. Did everyone realize that (at least at the population level between 1990 and 2010), % of calories from carbs is a super robust predictor of overweight/obese prevalence?

https://twitter.com/AaronBergman18/status/1686211958779813888

Not just a proxy for time

Would a Google Doc survive nuclear war?

No, really, how many individual locations would need to be destroyed for the information stored in an arbitrary Doc, or YT video, or website, or anything stored online to functionally stop existing? I honestly have no idea what the answer is. I’d be surprised if it’s 1, but basically any other number up to like 1000 seems totally plausible, including that everything exists on a satellite or something like that

Serious question for #YIMBYTwitter: where height restrictions per se are the issue, why haven’t developers started building vertically but *down*, underground?

I mean windowless apartments don’t sound ideal, but probably less bad than unaffordability and homelessness Is it just too expensive? Even with median rents $4k+ in some places?

Is it illegal for some other reason?

Are there just random pipes everywhere?

Dusting off the ol' R skills (zoomed in version below👀)

https://twitter.com/JacquesThibs/status/1535068356436701184