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This sounds like a nice idea for a day or two, but I think how it presents in reality could be rough. The power grid might be down for a few days causing food spoilage, it could be taking down banks so people don't have access to their money, it could be screwing up IT at a hospital which interferes with treatment and care, we may not be able to fill up our gas tanks... I don't think it'll be "nefarious-gun-on-a-robot-dog" any time soon, but rather something that still causes major major issues.

It feels like propoganda.


As long as it is repeated often enough, everyone will accept it and most will also believe it. Even when corrected later, whatever was repeated more often will live on.

This is why all the things you are supposed to believe are repeated and repeated and repeated some more.


That’s because it is. And not even well presented propaganda.


> Tailwind's business model existed due to a massive inefficiency

Yeah, that's why most businesses form.


Excellent tip, thank you!


Could you share the specific mg/week taper you did for Sertraline?


I did 10% relative reduction in my dose per 2 weeks, until I got down to ~2-3mg and then went cold turkey from there. Very very conservative. The 10% relative part is important - if you dropped by a constant, say 5mg, proportionally you'd be doing bigger drops each time which is where people get into trouble, especially at low doses.


Oh good call. Thank you!


You start with Marcus Aurelius and work your way up to Nietzsche.



> To people asking why, this is a good lesson on the Collison’s ambitions.

Where can I read more on Collison's ambitions?


Cats make certain people's opinions about consent quite clear.


Can I make a feature request? I would love to be able to search by author. I recently started Caro's LBJ series (it's amazing so far) and I'm curious how many awards he's won. Anywho, I love non-fiction so I plan to visit this website often. Thank you and great work!


More generally, just sort by any of the column headers (year, title, publisher, author, score, ...) by clicking on it. In some views it works, in some it doesn't. A bit unintuitive.

The toggle between "traditional" text and "semantic" search is cool and new, but maybe the toggle could stay visible (it's there on the home tab, but then not anymore on the books tab).


Beautiful. I'm going to use some of these to make a coloring book for my toddler.


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