I love the fact that in Japan you need to avoid 5 star things and look for 3-4 star places because Japanese people tend to use a 5 point scale sanely and it's only foreigners giving 5 stars to everything, so a 5 star rating means "only foreigners go here"
The rating economy for things like Airbnb, Uber etc. made a huge mistake when they used the five-star scale
You've got boomers all over the country who think that four stars means something was really good, when in fact it means there was something very wrong with the experience
I can't shake the feeling that the biggest impact on fertility rate is that our standards are higher now when it comes to kids, we're less ok with kids being abused or neglected or being in danger and that means the average parental mental load is much higher than it used to be
Finances are just an excuse, people aren’t having babies because they don’t trust each other enough to make the lifelong commitment of having a kid with somebody
the lemoine/LaMDA episode is terrifying and dystopian but not in the way the guy thinks it is
it's proving that AI doesn't need to be anywhere near sentient or anything like a superintelligence to convince people to do really stupid things
im getting a lot of parenting content atm and it viscerally horrifies me how many women don't say no to their toddlers when it comes to their bodies, their time and their everything else. and worse police other women for it like "no you can't say no to them taking your food" etc
the average human can't follow instructions without help. did a treetop adventure park recently, was in a group learning the safety system, and the instructor was amazed I followed the *clearly printed, colour-coded instructions* about which thing to clip where without her input
it was such a weird thing as a kid that everyone kept calling me a “computer genius” bc i knew how to…read what it says on the screen. what was up with that.
marie kondo's "thank you" to thingd you are discarding is an incredible piece of psychotech, a bit of scaffolding that gradually builds you up to be able to cleanly handle the infinite daily micro-griefs (and accumulated lifetime macro-griefs) borne of inevitable impermanence
TIL playing tetris immediately after witnessing a traumatic event can reduce the severity of ptsd flashbacks. this seems like *really useful* mental health first aid for it not to be common knowledge
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The studies that have claimed this have been criticised for their poor quality of data science.
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it seems that babies really thrive on more energy than just two parents can give. and it's obvious when we're out with the baby that everyone *wants* to give babies lots of energy, engage with her, play with her - so between a community there would be enough such energy
what's your "special sauce question", the one they pay you for, the one you keep ending up asking people in different situations and it always helps?
mine is "have you tried telling them what you just told me?"
