My main takeaway is: Alexis Ohanian (Reddit's u/kn0thing) is married to Serena Williams???

Eating live fire ants is flawed. But what's the alternative?

I mean yeah, not exactly new news. Although I have to make a correction:

Manifold is a startup that runs Manifund, a prediction market – a forecasting method that was the ostensible topic of the conference.

Manifold is the name of the prediction market. Manifold the company also runs Manifund, which distributes money to various EA efforts.

Also, "Manifest has no specific views on eugenics or race & IQ" does not give me confidence in Manifest's views on eugenics or race & IQ.

I also think that AI companies shouldn't be allowed to have non-disparagement agreements. Not because of x-risk or anything, but because a) I think all companies shouldn't be allowed to have non-disparagement agreements, and b) it would create a bunch of entertaining content for this instance.

Felons in New York can vote as long as they're not incarcerated.

From some searching around, it looks like the hole tilts as you stand on it. It doesn't look dramatic but it could definitely induce falls in people who are prone to such.

I thought, "1.4 billion pounds of cheese can't be a real number, right?" Turns out, it kinda is. 1.4 billion pounds (actually generally 1.45-1.5 billion) is the amount of cheese the USDA stores in cold storage warehouses across the US. And indeed, much of that seems to be in caves in Missouri. But any particular cave probably only stores a few million pounds, although getting specific numbers is rather difficult.

On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet

If you use the Japanese name of a show with a well-known English name while speaking English just to be more obtuse, I think that's fair to criticize.

Which comes out to about 1/7 of a person in that room being shot per year.

This is standard for how they do technical inspections. They can't check every rule on every car, so they check just a few important ones for every car (fuel, weight, etc) and then do random checks on a handful of cars each for others. The idea is to prevent it from being worthwhile to break the rule, while also requiring substantially fewer resources. That's probably also why the penalty is so steep: if it was a slap on the wrist that you had a small chance of being caught for, you might as well just always run out-of-spec.

Make their birthday a magic number