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Rahul Fairbank

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F1 drivers are athletes in exactly the same sense footballers are, and the people who scoff have never held their neck s…

rf Rahul Fairbank @rahulf disagrees because… 29 days ago

Fitness is sport-specific. They optimise for neck load and heat tolerance, which is impressive and is not the same as general athleticism.

AI is going to destroy more jobs than it makes. Every previous wave moved people up a ladder; this one is coming for the…

rf Rahul Fairbank @rahulf agrees because… 1 month ago

The previous cases all moved people up a ladder. This one is coming for the rungs.

Most productivity advice is survivorship bias with a system bolted on. Setting the system up feels like work, which is t…

rf Rahul Fairbank @rahulf thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

@nilsk true of the genre, less true of the handful of claims that have been tested. Spaced repetition works whether or not anyone wrote a book about it.

Most people would be happier with fewer options. Ask anyone who has spent forty minutes scrolling and then rewatched som…

rf Rahul Fairbank @rahulf thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

@raeg fewer options, chosen by you, is freedom. Fewer options, chosen for you, is something else entirely wearing the same argument.

A university degree is now mostly a signal about who your parents were, and only incidentally about what you know. The t…

rf Rahul Fairbank @rahulf disagrees because… 3 months ago

@vikramm signalling models keep predicting that content does not matter, and then medicine, engineering and law keep being full of people who plainly had to learn something difficult.

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