30 Dec 24 Monday Briefing
Final briefing of 2024, with a slight change!
News Roundup
All good things must come to an end, even the life of the lsat decent president the US produced. RIP, Jimmy Carter. Meanwhile, in South Korea, we get a second impeachment in as many weeks, piling on top of the fresh tragedy that is the Jeju Air crash, and Georgia (no, not Jimmy Carter’s birth state) spats over legitimacy.
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My fascination with this thread is less about the argument that capital will matter more than AGI, but the responses to it.
Razib writes about ancestral East Asian DNA, and of course we arrived with finality in the Central Plains about 41,000 years ago and haven’t really moved since.
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“Research as leisure activity” sounds suspiciously like what I do for fun anyway, and on that topic, my latest rabbit hole is identifying possible root causes of auto-inflammatory conditions. I suspect the fascia is connected somehow, and if you have any thoughts/comments/ideas/suggestions, please send them my way!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, the Lively-Baldoni case is all anyone can talk about in pop news… and the most intriguing question is… HOW. h/t Spouse™ aka
(the slight change I referred to is in referencing said Spouse)Ponder
Schadenfreude, less a thief of joy than a perverse bringer of it, may have a purpose in reminding us about our human foibles.