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Dating advice for men: use words to communicate your feelings (opens the original)
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I am a terrible person to give dating advice. I haven’t dated in twenty years and even when I was ‘dating’ I never went on many dates. And yet, I think I can provide some useful advice precisely because I’m so far removed from the ins and outs of contemporary dating scenes. That ten-thousand foot view certainly clarifies some basic stuff.For example, this:Four dates in and she hasn’t initiated any date plans of her own for us. Fair to move on?I
How women experience motherhood is a social choice (opens the original)
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I recently attended a talk by about her book Touched Out,1 which I’ve since picked up at the library and started reading. It was a great talk, and the book is also really interesting. In part because it’s the sort of book that is very explicitly not trying to be ‘for’ everyone. It’s a personal story, which uses memoir to introduce a variety of broader arguments about culture, society, and public policy.
Most things are complicated (opens the original)
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I recently ran across a post which struck me as deeply frustrating. Not in a ‘this person is Wrong Online’ sense (although they are wrong), but in a ‘this person has no apparent interest in thinking generously about a complicated question’ sense:For context, this is what the first person was responding to:And here’s the thing: while I’m more sympathetic to JD here, I also think they suffer from the same basic problem. They’ve identified an irritating viral tweet and have decided to respond in th
The AI detection panic (opens the original)
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Like most right-thinking people, I believe ‘natural’ writing has a higher ceiling than content produced by LLMs. I remain somewhat agnostic about the durability of that claim, but at least for now, it seems obvious that AI content is inferior to the best human writing. However, it seems to me that (in some communities) the fairly unobjectionable truth that ‘good human writing is superior to LLM writing’ has transformed into ‘AI writing must be rejected in every case, and we should invest signifi
Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind (opens the original)
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For most of my life, I was pretty sure I didn’t want kids. It wasn’t until my mid-30s that I started to shift my perspective. As I’ve written before, I reached an important turning point thanks to a song.I was in Lyon for the Women’s World Cup. It was a blast covering that tournament, and it got me thinking a lot more seriously about the potential joy of family. Wouldn’t it be cool to get to share something like this with a kid someday? Which
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