Saturday links, assorted

Dan Luu: Ed Zitron’s AI prediction track record. Not great. I have linked to Zitron a few times, to articles that were short enough for me to actually read and understand. Most of them were just too long and/or too angry. Fitting that a critique of Zitron’s writing is just as long, though much more even-keel. Lilly Lynch: Sympathy for the Devil? Lindsay Clancy, Mercy and Maternal Filicide in History. The less I know about this case the better, but this was some good context. Ernie Smith: Wanted: Some Cheap Computing. Issue No. 1 of Smith’s mini-PC newsletter. I am in the market for both a heavy-duty primary machine and some satellite servers, and thanks to the ramapocalypse the latter — and therefore this newsletter — is much more appealing. Derek Sivers: Bangalore India hospital flow. Today I learned Sivers was a fan of “executive health checks”. Yikes! As I wrote in a comment to the article: The human body is not a car. We don’t know how most of it works. There are a handful of labs…