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>Huberman’s popularity definitely fell off after it was revealed that he was not a great person.

I’m not aware of such revelations, maybe I haven’t kept up on all, I recall a piece where women he was dating would get together and talk about dating him while continuing to choose to date him. But I don’t remember any story that revealed something negative about him.

I’d like to know whether writers eventually come to write for an actor’s persona as much as (or more than) the character they portray.

Brin’s an interesting case. In addition to his impressive bibliography (still hoping for the sentient space-exploring dolphins movie to get greenlit..), he has consulted for NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. He’s also quite vocal politically, for team blue. Last week he penned this pre-mid-terms piece on the UAP transparency topic: https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/10/disclosure-ufo-cults-... . Couldn’t be more critical & denigrating. I happen to disagree, but at least he’s engaging with the subject, Manhattan Project 2.0 and all, which is more than most from his side of the aisle do. (Notable standout exceptions Andre Carson and Jared Moskowitz)

*SPOILER quote re today’s episodle*:

[episode’s protagonist]: Computer, begin new programme. Create as follows, workstation chair. (he sits in it) Now, create a standard alphanumeric console positioned for left hand. Now an iconic display console positioned for right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core, utilising neural-scan interface. COMPUTER: There is no such device on file. [protagonist]: No problem. Here's how you build it.

(some period context: circa 1990, a neuralink interface was pretty much unconscionable)

But you don’t understand it’s okay when Mossad and Shin Bet do it.

>That is how Communists get tbeir cultural revokution, you know

That is how blowhards get Red-Scares and Cold Wars, you know. And exactly the abuses OP posting is decrying.

I wonder why this comments page isn’t anywhere close to the HN front page (couldnt find it at all through four pages in), in favor of the Reuters article comment page that is on page 2 at time of posting this.

If the problem as presented is either invisible or neutral to you then, respectfully, you are of my adversary.

I’m glad to see in their advocacy of technology usage that the Carmelites are so vocal. . . ba-dum pum.

The timing was sadly important too. She started 2020. The pandemic had disputed origins. I would say one can guess which side her editorial take took, but one doesn’t need to; she openly mentioned her views on lab leak in a handbook for scicomm editors she authored.

https://ksjhandbook.org/editing-controversial-science/about-...

“Trumped-up controversies about where the novel coronavirus originated have fueled racism and given cover to politicians who withdrew funding for international collaborations with China.”

That handbook was her leaving her indelible mark on all western scicomms editing.

In nomadism (as in digital nomad) this is quite salient to me, relevant to communication with relations, colleagues and potential ones (i.e. job/gig economic opportunities) across time zones and countries. I am constantly on the lookout for tools that create the feeling of geographic salience without actually being in the same area. I’ve learned to avoid answering the remotely-asked question ‘so where are you anyways’ for as long as possible, for answering candidly usually ends any follow-up communications (“this person is ‘out there’, not serious, etc”).

Gen-C coming right up.

Brilliant.

I’d be interested in a Bayesian analysis of how they arrive at the degree of certainty that their hypothesized solution is in fact the correct one. Like even if it’s 99.999999% likely or some such, I’d still like to see the math at how they arrive at that. Edit: Since in crypto solutions there’s always this question of hamming distance. PS. Amazing I can get downvoted already, minutes in, for posing a show-me type comment, (presumably just for making noise in face of big crypto brand names like Anthropic & NSA), without substantiation for the downvote; thanks HN community for displaying your spots. Even if a Bayesian analysis would be trivial in the case at hand, the effort would be helpful at informing similar efforts entailing comparatively greater uncertainty.

how convenient to some for us to be placed into such an inextricable position.

Jay Stratton’s long-awaited DOPSR-cleared book on his government experiences facing the phenomenon of non-human intelligence (NHI) goes on sale today. He was a central behind—the-scenes character in the Disclosure narrative to date, whose public-facing component started in 2017 with the NYT article by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal.

> If you own a house, you didn't have its cash value when you bought it;

> we solved the problem with ramshackle one-room buildings with dirt floors,

there is a fallacy here. People with access to debt bid up the price of an asset, like a house, against other peoples’ similar access to debt. Sans debt access, the solution was not necessarily a small ramshackle house. The fallacy is the belief that the same asset price - whether opulent or ramshackle house, wouldn’t adjust to the reduced level from the bidding environment. The differential cost of construction for a nicer house can be countenanced in the access-to-debt case, but that is second order.

Illustrative straw-man example: Suppose, once one had a parcel of land, that it was trivial to construct one’s ‘starter home’ the ramshackle house if you like. Get one’s family and friends to help build in exchange for future return favors. As one advances in life, rebuild to have something more opulent. The rub is in the parcel itself. Unlike the would-be house, it had no cost built-in, just whatever price the previous owner was willing to accept to release their parcel. That parcel’s (and those around it) price reflects the market’s access to debt, or lack of access to debt. In the market without access to debt, parcel pricing reflects which buyers have accrued more savings vs other buyers. In the market with access to debt, parcel pricing reflects who can access more debt (through the various means we know of today - down payment ability yes, which parallels the non-debt’s savings case, someone co-signing, long term expected future earning potential vs someone retired, the parcel itself put up as collateral, perhaps other non-immobile assets put up as collateral, like the family oxcart).

The point is that there isn’t necessarily a 1:1 coupling between market’s debt vs non-debt access and whether the construction is opulent vs ramshackle.

Recommend wariness of technology history narratives, especially “just-so” retrocausal stories and, like this one demonstrates, “great man” narratives (like, but for this person, we would not have [invention mentioned in headline].

For example, the answer to ‘who invented the airplane’ takes different form depending primarily, in my experience, on the matchup between reporting outlet’s nationality and the nationality of the putative inventor(s). Qualifiers like ‘steady level flight’ follow from, and do not precede, the nationality matchup.

* studies technology history

Thank you for offering zero evidence to center me as the one who may be at fault rather than engaging with the topic at hand.

TFA’s missing info in between its PR pairing of the unknown biohub with the (much more well known) NIH and DoE is that biohub is a Zuckerberg initiative. So just imagine all your biological data paired inextricably tied on an opt-out-but-cant-really basis with your Facebook & Insta account.

Odd no mention of DFJ as started by his son, the single most familiar association with the name Draper in tech (with apologies to Charles Stark D..)

Can we tell the rest of his UAP Science Advisory Council’s 18 members?

His father is particularly intriguing with respect to wartime / postwar history, Good bet there’s probably more content there buried in the archives worth coming out.

Thanks, edited along w/ several other typos (checks glasses prescription) :)

Yes but draw an arbitrary line around any group. Call them HNdrathals if you want. Define them at one instaneous snapshot in time as 100% conserved gene corpus. Then watch generation after generation, as some of the HNers (against all odds) interbreed with the surrounding populace. After one hundred generations, should we expect many people to be more than 2% HNdrathal? Yet did the HNdrathals ‘die out’?

sounds like pulsars.

E.O. Wilson / Richard Dawkins?

finally, a bonafide non-LLLm (c. 2026) answer! :)