Best of Twitter week of August 19-25, 2024 (2/2)

The Venetian method for electing a Doge was literally insane, or genius

— Giles Wilkes (@Gilesyb)
1:26 PM • Aug 19, 2024

actually insane that solar panels and semiconductors are basically the same technology. turns out that halfway up the technological tree for teaching sand to think you also get to turn light into lightning

— sophia (@cis_female)
1:39 AM • Aug 19, 2024

Am fascinated by the almost universal popularity of some philosophy of science ideas that I find completely untenable. Here's my pitch for a worldview: Popper is simply wrong about his most important claims like binary falsification and confirmation, people like Kuhn ...

— Mason Meyer (@masonmeyer_)
6:06 PM • Mar 10, 2024

Btw this is a good scientific explanation for why humans read fiction and consume art too.

— Erik Hoel (@erikphoel)
10:37 AM • Aug 20, 2024

"In 2007, Patriarch Ilia II of the Georgian Orthodox Church made a decision: facing a country with a declining population...the church leader announced that he would personally baptize and become godfather to any third-or-high Orthodox child born to a married couple in Georgia"

— LiorLefineder (@lefineder)
11:44 PM • Aug 20, 2024

Per Jonathon P Sine:

— Ben Rong (@2school4cool)
3:11 PM • Jun 12, 2024

Compared to the US:

— Ben Rong (@2school4cool)
3:12 PM • Jun 12, 2024

WOW. Cervical cancer vanishing among HPV-vaccinated cohorts in 🇩🇰.
First cohorts to be offered #HPVvaccine (in late 2008) corresponds to the 25-29 age group in 2021. #VaccinesWork

Will be interesting to follow effect on younger cohorts, affected by negative #dkmedier coverage.

— Peter R. Hansen (@ProfPHansen)
2:06 AM • Aug 21, 2024

You know what's not going up?

Test scores. Academic outcomes. Anything that actually matters.

— rebelEducator (@rebelEducator)
3:49 AM • Aug 9, 2024

Most interesting thing about the Lex Neuralink podcast is one of the guys describes that when the Neuralink subject moves a cursor on a screen, it actually moves before he expects it to, almost before he tries to move it

— 𝐒𝐕𝐕𝐕𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐃 (@SVVVAYED)
3:23 AM • Aug 7, 2024

“intelligence killed genius” — this is one of my fav essays of all time, completely changed my life @alexeyguzey

— Maitham (@notmaitham)
5:54 PM • Aug 23, 2024

Believe it or not, it's dangerous for a startup to raise too much at too high a valuation. This sounds like a good problem to have, but it isn't. Both make your next round harder.

— Paul Graham (@paulg)
7:18 PM • Aug 23, 2024

The war on carbohydrates of the 2000s encouraged many to blame sugar consumption as a cause of ADHD. This became canon among medical professionals for some time, but many studies since have suggested that the increased sugar consumption is compensatory rather than causal.

— motorhome laboratories (@motorhomelabs)
1:05 AM • Jul 22, 2024