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Sam B's avatar

The Secretariat thing is false--it was a great horse but is not even the consensus GOAT horse, let alone a greater GOAT than any other athelete. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/horse-of-the-century-man-o-war-vs-secretariat/2020914/

Perhaps passing on the unsourced claims of random twitter users is not the best use of your resources.

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Sam B's avatar

There are many other better candidates for the GOAT of GOATs but I enjoy this fact about Jerry Rice quite a bit:

NFL receiving yards after turning 40:

1. Jerry Rice, 2,169 yards

2. Tom Brady, 6 yards

3. Marcedes Lewis, 2 yards

4. All people who have ever lived not on this list, 0 yards

117,000,000,000+: Brett Favre, -2 yards

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Delta Clipper Fan's avatar

> Cycling in London has increased by more than 70 percent since 2017.

The article is actually about the City of London aka the Square Mile, which is distinct from Greater London. It has about 1000x less residents and about 500x less area

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Delta Clipper Fan's avatar

This is quite a big mistake for you to make, albeit an easy one for those unfamiliar with the weird name

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Jacob Gardner's avatar

This was a fascinating post. I am going to be chewing on this one for a while.

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Josh Baldwin's avatar

I love these types of posts! So much good stuff to read.

I do want to point out one thing that I find odd. This substack is about progress and the future. In particular, a better future. So do you see farming and eating animals as part of the future, given the destruction it causes the environment and the ethical issues involved? Allowing gene-edited pigs for consumption hardly feels like progress to me when we should be more focused on cultivated meat and the general promotion of plant-based diets.

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Joel Bhatt's avatar

Progress is finding better and more efficient ways to give people what they want in greater abundance. That could be improvements in technology (including policy and regulation) or investment in productive capital. As long as we live in a world where people want to eat meat, we need to continue making this kind of material progress.

You could also argue we need cultural progress towards a society that has even less, maybe zero-tolerance of killing animals for food. However whether that is actually cultural progress or not depends on one's perspective and moral stance.

On the suggestion that we should focus on cultivated meat; it would be risky to focus all resources on one technology at such an early stage of development. At this early R&D phase it is far less risky to try lots of different things until potential winners become more obvious. Gene-edited pigs could also be a nice improvement until cultivated meats become viable.

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