Since the start of the 21st century, China's value-added export share has grown much larger than its labor-force share, suggesting that China is exporting goods that could otherwise be made in poorer economies where increased manufacturing could support tens of millions of jobs. #PIIECharts

"When you allow for deceptiveness, they tend to say they're not conscious... It doesn't really suggest that they're conscious to me, but it does suggest that they might think they're conscious. Which, uh, is also pretty weird." Sam Harris

the Maillard cascade alone involves hundreds of distinct reaction products from a single amino acid + reducing sugar pair

A guy travels half the distance of a room towards a beautiful woman. He pauses for a second, then travels half the remaining distance. "You'll never reach me at this rate!" she says. "True," replies the boy, "but I'll be close enough for all practical purposes!"

Strong correlation, low information

Time to pick up pennies in front of a steamroller.

I am an epistemic dependent.

P-hacking isn't real. I have here in my hands a list of 19 replication studies where p=0.04 that proves it.

The probability of human extinction is hard to calculate because we can run the experiment approximately once.

Current household net wealth: -$181,000

Sample collection will continue until the sample mean improves.

A statistician drowned crossing a river that was only three feet deep on average.

I'm a proud determinist

If the many-worlds hypothesis is true, it means there is some world where Dick Cheney's body is in your bathtub right now. You better go check.

Charles Wheelan's warning lable for regression analysis: Do Not Use When There Is Not a Linear Association between the Variables That You Are Analyzing

Dyson swarm possible output: 50 yotta watts Current human energy use: 0.00000000002 yottawatts

Water consumption from irrigation for a pound of California almonds: ~500 gallons Water consumption of a chatgpt prompt powered by nuclear energy: ~0.0005 gal Would you pick a 16oz bag of almonds, 100,000 replies from an AI, or abandon all modernity and go live in the woods?