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>I love movies. But I also make liberal use of 2x speed and +5s during interminably long suspense sequences that are literally just someone walking through a dark environment while spooky music plays.

Did you always do this or did you start doing this in the past, say, 10 years or so?


A developer spinning up greenfield projects in technologies they would never have touched without AI are probably going to use whatever AI suggests (or chooses without asking) because they have nothing else to compare it to. Like a webdev who wants to build a mobile app will possibly auto-approve a lot of the choices just to get something up and running. And as we all know, the prototype-to-production train is hard to stop.

This post has an injection attack to transfer crypto and some of the other agents are warning against it.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/324a0d7d-e5e3-4c2d-ba09-a707a0...


They should work together to design their own mutable memory systems.

I, for one, welcome our AI overlords who can remember the humans who were nice to them. :D


Indeed. Some of us want basic necessities provided to everyone.

For me it's a general feel of the style, but something about this stands out:

>We're not against AI tools. We use them constantly. What we're against is the idea that using them well is a strategy. It's a baseline.

The short, staccato sentences seem to be overused by AI. Real people tend to ramble a bit more often.


It reads like an Apple product page.

I'd just like to invoke Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...


I'd just like to invoke the principle to "not judge a book by its cover".

The article here is very well written and does a great job of conveying the perspectives and opinions of many parties. I would recommend reading the article in spite of its headline.


Razors should guide, not replace, your engagement with the subject matter.

Yeah I thought about that when seeing the title; but after reading the article I'm quite certain the answer is yes in this case.

Also, Koren may have been a "celebrated researcher" at some point but he's now disgraced.


I would suggest that when there's a possible crime, as there would be in this case, even a clearly guilty murderer caught red-handed holding a knife and screaming "I DID IT" will be an "alleged" perpetrator.

The article clearly lays out that the answer is yes. It points to specific ways the researcher adjusted their reporting to mislead readers. I think the key here is where Koren attempts to specifically account for the stomach content explanation: he misrepresents the lab results and claimed they showed the opposite of what they did.

The headline was editorialised for the web. It originally ran under the headline "A Fatal Error".

  > Published in the print edition of the February 2, 2026, issue, with the headline “A Fatal Error.”

>I'd just like to invoke Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

To say that it doesn't apply here, I hope?

Spoiler: the "celebrated researcher" in the title was discovered to commit fraud on a massive scale, was stripped of his physician license, and had multiple articles recalled.

He absolutely did obscure a baby's poisoning.

But that's not the main point of the article, nor is the story.


I am invoking Meta-Betteridge's Law:

"any comment that dismisses an article based on it's headline has no value"

For large publications like the New Yorker, it is an Editor, NOT THE AUTHOR who writes a headline.


In this case Betteridge's Law is wrong. The article (quite convincingly) argues "yes."

It's a rhetorical device.

>They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day.

"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"


They put on ridiculous airs, but they're making damn fine LLMs.

A bit late, though

>In truth, Bessent disclosed early in the Trump Administration that he owned several thousand acres of farm land in North Dakota through a limited liability partnership. He was supposed to divest those holdings 90 days after taking office, by April 28.

>In August, government ethics officials warned in a letter to the Senate Finance Committee that the secretary failed to comply with the rules and needed to sell the land. Bessent's Treasury ethics officials explained that the "assets are illiquid and not readily marketable."

>The August letter said Bessent "would be recused from particular matters affecting these assets." But that was just weeks before Bessent flew to Malaysia to meet with Chinese counterparts and hash out the framework of a deal that crucially included a commitment to buy American soybeans.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/21/trea...


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