marojejian

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A.I.'S Effect on the Work Force Is Showing Up in Wages(nytimes.com)
3 points by marojejian 14h ago|12 comments
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Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease(npr.org)
3 points by marojejian 15h ago|1 comments
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The End of Friday Nights with Friends(journals.sagepub.com)
25 points by marojejian 3d ago|5 comments
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How Much Redistribution Will AI Require?(marginalrevolution.com)
7 points by marojejian 7d ago|0 comments
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Limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature papers(arxiv.org)
1 points by marojejian 7d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 7d ago
>On a composite of all three dimensions, a reviewing agent powered by GPT-5.2 scores above each paper's top-rated human reviewer (60.0% vs. 48.2%, p = 0.009) note this was GPT-5.2
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Why Labor's Share of Wealth Is Shrinking(nytimes.com)
10 points by marojejian 10d ago|8 comments
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by marojejian 10d ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/opinion/labor-capitol-wor... I've agreed with this conclusion for a while: the decline in labor's share of income is mostly due to automation, broa
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by marojejian 11d ago
I'd like to 2nd schiffern' s comment. Your comment gives a persuasive perception of competence. But that's not sufficient to accept your point. I'd love to have more data and details to work with so I can decide which
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Another heart drug fails, previously assumed to be the vanguard of a new era(nytimes.com)
4 points by marojejian 12d ago|3 comments
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by marojejian 12d ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/science/heart-drug-fails-... Damn, biology is complex. But I'm glad our system at least has enough integrity to admit failures of this magnitude. >Th
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by marojejian 13d ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/opinion/clinical-trials-d... This isn't news at all, but simply a process that has gone on for decades. But it is nice to see the NYT giving it coverag
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Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality(nature.com)
2 points by marojejian 14d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 14d ago
>Common genetic variants explain a moderate 4.8–9.3% of the variance in measures of each trait But this is just the influence of "common" 1000 markers they looked at. Overall Big Five personality is >40% genetically heritab
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by marojejian 18d ago
Not sure what the new data here is, but I think this is an important point worth promoting. Perhaps it's the geographic association they show. In that case there could just be a confounding correlation: areas with more dynamic econo
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Cross-class friendships are strong predictors of upward mobility(ft.com)
2 points by marojejian 18d ago|2 comments
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Why America's prisons are shrinking and racial gaps are closing(nature.com)
9 points by marojejian 18d ago|13 comments
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by marojejian 18d ago
Forget the why, I wasn't aware the gap was closing... Someone with more, info feel free to refute this. I can't defeat the paywall, but these posts have some more detail: https://news.wisc.edu/incarceration-rates-a
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Personal Holding Companies, Tax Progressivity, and Inequality(nber.org)
3 points by marojejian 18d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 18d ago
Can't get past the abstract, but that lays out the key assertion: >Accounting for income in holding companies erases half of the difference in the 1980-2020 rise of the top 1% fiscal income share between Nordic countries and the Uni
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by marojejian 18d ago
This could be a The Onion headline. But also pretty fascinating, beyond the lowbrow humor. Found this linked in another HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448665
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Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt(ft.com)
138 points by marojejian 20d ago|55 comments
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by marojejian 20d ago
free w/ signup, but here's the archive anyhow: https://archive.is/wU0s9 Pretty impressive long-term charts, and dramatic surge in the last years. Of course there are lot of other relevant details (e.g. more peopl
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Single CRISPR Treatment Slashed LDL Cholesterol for a Year(nytimes.com)
12 points by marojejian 20d ago|3 comments
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by marojejian 20d ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/science/an-experimental-s... n=15, but this is still an impressive example of gene therapy, especially since it doesn't addresses a rare single-gene dis
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by marojejian 24d ago
I've long been a fan of this view (though i do think some aging is also essentially entropy). Natural selection favors organisms with a lifecycle time that is optimized and not random. Some organisms will benefit from shorter lifecycl
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Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown(quantamagazine.org)
4 points by marojejian 24d ago|2 comments
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The Intrinsic Valuation of Biodiversity Loss [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
1 points by marojejian 29d ago|1 comments
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by marojejian 29d ago
Not a happy message: >the aggregate sentience losses of animals in the past half century outstrip the sentience gains to humans from population growth by at least 10,000-fold. Breaking even in welfare terms requires assigning a correspo
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by marojejian 1mo ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/science/humans-love-havin...

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