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If only. The replication crisis means a lot of scientists have written books about their area based on bad research. Not only they were trained in their area, some of them even invented it.

I'll give you one concrete example: "Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges", by Amy Cuddy. That book was based on the (now completely falsified) theory of "Power posing"[0], which the author published peer-reviewed papers on.

It's a neat little grift: publish a couple of papers, get yourself a TED talk, sign a book deal, and suddenly you're getting hired to teach leadership courses to clueless MBAs and give conference talks to bored executives.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_posing

100%

I used to be a sucker for this type of books: non-fiction, "science-based", feel-good, insight-porn pamphlets inflated to 300 pages with shoehorned anecdotes and a very distinct flavour of extrapolative slop.

They are usually written by journalists, TED-addicted researchers and, more recently, Youtube and Twitter influencers.

The depressing thing is: For me, the realization that 99% of them are shit only came after reading hundreds of them. My guess is that my brain needed enough samples in order to start accurately classifying them.

It's like one develops taste only after being exposed to a lot of terrible art, since then the actual great art stands out like a beacon.

> a problem is the people involved in The Arts are more interested in being prescriptive about what people should like instead of discovering what we in fact desire.

The thing that grinds my gears is that they do this by trying to redefine language. They don't come out and say "you should like X". They say "X is beautiful" (and if you think otherwise, you're obtuse/privileged/etc). Nevermind what beauty used to mean, since it's just a cultural artifact of a capitalist white patriarchy, and you don't want to be associated with that, do you?

What one considers beautiful stops being an instinctive felt sense coming from within, and becomes just an empty statement used for signaling others how sophisticated/class-aware/etc you are.

It's pure neurosis, and I'm not surprised such disembodied people have trouble actually creating beauty.

awesome, thank you so much!

I was curious about the techniques, but if you have any introductory reading about the whole thing that'd also be cool

Any books you'd recommend for someone curious about this?

Don't engage, this is clearly some sort of ragebaiting, trying to get people outraged about Epic in a completely unrelated thread

Interesting! This is the second time I see a strong recommendation for that product (first one was [0]).

Seems pretty expensive ($300) for a vibrating bracelet. Couldn't you emulate the effect with an Android smart watch and a custom app?

[0] https://acesounderglass.com/2023/05/08/product-endorsement-a...

> But when Western companies load up their hardware with spyware and adware they are smart and savvy at business.

I have never met anybody (online or otherwise) that believes this.

Almost as if this whole thing was the output of an LLM, rather than an actual human... gasps

It's open source[0], you can just self-host it

[0] https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter

lol no, that's a sterile self-help blogpost written by some VC.

This is The Mentor's original manifesto: https://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html

I don't get the point of this comment. Was it ChatGPT-generated?

And miss out on ad revenue? No, they'll just silently mark your warranty as void and continue to force feed you and your family targeted advertisement while siphoning out all the private data they can gather from your living room and your network.

Yes, the problem is not the self-reporting, but rather the lack of details on how they measured it.

> on average, 48% of workers from eight countries indicate that they are currently grappling with burnout.

> Based on a survey of 11,000 desk-based and frontline workers in eight countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, UK, and US)

The actual report[0] doesn't even mention _how_ they measured burnout, only that "The survey captured self-reported data".

[0] https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/four-keys-to-boosting-...

> Each Agile Dating experiment is called a Sprint, beginning with a Kick-off and ending with a Check-in. I found that two weeks was a good length for a Sprint - just long enough to get a decent sense of a partner.

After years of working as a dev in several "agile" shops, reading this just gives me the creeps.

  getting things done, first edition

Is the first edition better than the newer ones?

I bought an iPhone a couple of days ago, and was planning on using the weekend to finally migrate from my old Android phone. Luckily, I haven't even opened the box so I should be able to return it for a full refund. No way I'm spending over $1000 for this kind of experience.

> That’s what Substack was in its original form, but now they seem to be focusing on growth for growth’s sake. They also seem to be evolving into a social media platform that thrives on the kind of conflicts and divisiveness that has driven people away from other platforms.

Ah yes, the classic enshittification pattern. I was hoping Substack would avoid it by virtue of actually charging readers instead of depending on ad revenue, but there must be something else going wrong here that I'm not aware of.

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...in rats:

  Subjects were young adult (3–5 months) and aged (22–24 months) male F344xBN F1 rats obtained from the National Institute on Aging rodent colony managed by Charles River. F344xBN F1 rats are particularly useful for the study of aging and aging-associated conditions as aged rats of this strain remain relatively healthy and show good cognitive function at baseline. Unfortunately, female rats of this strain were not available from this or any other vendor at the time these studies were completed.

ding ding ding!

Exactly. If the commercial enshittified web bothers you to the point of trying to fix it, at some point you'll realize that it's a quixotic crusade, and that you don't even want to engage with the content offered on these platforms anymore. Why would you? The shittier the platform, the shittier the content.

The future of good online interactions is in small, closed, well-maintained and asynchronous communities.

Isn't this the case for most programming languages' package indices? crates.io for Rust, the NPM registry for Javascript, etc. They are all public in the sense that anyone can just create an account and upload a package.

From the article:

> Sarah was, in fact, changing. She felt herself getting smaller, constantly appeasing. She apologized, again and again and again. “I have been selfish, childish, and confused,” she said. “As a result, I need your protection.” A spokesperson for Huberman denies Sarah’s accounts of their fights,

Having played around with local LLM chatbots using different models and templates ("characters"), I find this pattern of talking _remarkably_ similar to how chatbots would respond to certain situations. The repetition ("again and again and again"), the use of multiple adjectives in a row as self-description ("I have been selfish, childish, and confused"), and the explicit closing of sentences ("As a result, I need your protection") fits almost perfectly with what I would expect from a waifu/husbando chatbot at the ChatGPT 3.5 level.

Does anyone talk like this in real life? English is not my native language, but this all sounds extremely weird to me.

do you have a source for that?

This is the most terrifying exchange I've read on HN in a while

KeePassXC supports them in their latest stable version as of last week [0].

[0]: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2024-03-10-2.7.7-released/

> You can sell Reddit accounts.

This. There's a whole market for high-karma old Reddit accounts. If it has a comment history that makes it look like a real person is behind it, even better.

Buyers are usually companies looking to astroturf their product/service, or scammers.

Google "buy reddit account" and see how many results there are.

Of course it's a fake story. It's a tried and true method of farming karma: write the most rage-inducing (read: engaging) story you can possible come up with, post it on r/AMITheAsshole (or similar ragebait subreddit), and just watch the upvotes come.

It's called bait for a reason, and it's why most popular subreddits are not good places to hang out anymore.