Saturday morning links

Been providing a lot of my content for free the last month or so. I can’t quite figure out the right combination of free to gated, but today I’ll have partly gated. Here’s this week’s links I either found interesting enough to read, or interesting enough to keep open on my browser.

Spent a late night watching the new show on Amazon Prime, Fallout. Based on the old video games, set in a post apocalyptic America, and if that’s your kind of thing, you’ll like it I bet. It’s getting great reviews.

Subcultures for kids have perhaps collapsed. Not exactly sure what this means though. I would have to be a kid to better understand what it’s saying they don’t have that I had and vice versa. Or I could read the article more closely.

Doctors are paying attention more to dying patients and realizing that the dying experience visions, not hallucinations, and that it appears to be part of a process of personal growth when it happens.

Theres a nice looking picture of Johnny Rose from Schitts Creek you can buy from Etsy. But it’s just a digital download.

California passes a bill tackle the states homelessness problem. Not closely familiar with it, so can only say hopefully this helps.

The video doesn’t thankfully show what happens, only the attempts to make it happen. Rikers island loses a $28m case involving an attempted suicide. Just so you know, suicide is the leading single cause of death in jail. I discuss a recent paper of mine in JHR on the topic in a substack this week.

Optimal crime is the idea that we should reduce crime up to the point where the last crime stopped gained society in reduced harms what it cost society in resources to stop it. It’ll be interesting what Americans and American courts are wiling to tolerate of large tech firms cutting corners on their terms of service in order to get more data, likely now harvested in violation of their own terms, for training the large language models they are building and expanding.

The hack codes for Netflix so you can focus in your search by genre are in this article.

Action & Adventure (1365)

True Crime (9875)

Children & Family Movies (783)

Independent Movies (7077)

Romantic Favourites (502675)

Cult Sci-Fi & Fantasy (4734)

Binge watched “The Big Door Prize” recently. A video game type machine suddenly appears in a small town and tells people their life’s potential. Simply being told their life’s potential has a disruptive effect on the towns equilibrium. Is it destiny? Does it mean what it seems to mean? The story surprisingly worked and I was hooked almost instantly. A theremin makes an appearance.

Do you care to learn why rappers Drake, J Cole and Kendrick Lamar don’t like each other? Here figure it out.

Should we be teaching philosophy of science? We should be teaching everything, but the question is what should we not teach so that we can teach philosophy of science? We’re already on the edge of the production possibility frontier for educating graduate students, so we should ask what’s the marginal class to drop?

Found an interesting two sided matching platform that I bet Al Roth wasn’t expecting but won’t surprise him. Are you a traveler who has pets and needs someone to watch them so you can travel? Are you a traveler who is willing to take a break in a new town and live in someone’s house and take care of their pets? Look no further than Trusted House Sitters.

The common Texas Grackle is a bird species that has fully adapted to urbanization. It sits outside our grocery stores in packs of what seems like thousands tucked into small trees and electrical wires eating garbage and chirping like robots. Very resilient creatures. I am inspired by them

A discussion of people’s dissatisfaction with legal cannabis as a segue into discussing are people likely to be happy with legal psychedelics. I’m skeptical of articles like this.

New York Times discusses Jevons. He was very interested in the stars and even had a business cycle theory based on celestial objects. Not the craziest model I’ve seen by far.

The late Charlie Munger said get a $100,000. But it’s now likely $200,000 because of inflation since when he said it.

MIT Sloan wants to know who benefits the most from generative AI.

A new paper just out in JHR by Adriana Corredor-Waldron and Janet Currie examines rising suicide attempts among adolescents. Using the universe of hospital visits to New Jersey from 2008-2019, they interestingly provide evidence that this may be coming from policy changes like how ideation is coded.

“These results suggest that underlying suicide-related behaviors among children, while alarmingly high, may not have risen as sharply as reported rates suggest. Hence, researchers should approach reported trends cautiously.”