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LessWrong curator shares links on beauty ideals, apologies, and AI

This LessWrong post is a curated collection of links and thoughts from June 2026, focusing heavily on engineering and rationalist topics. It includes observations on how beauty ideals in China shift with socioeconomic status, a reflection on the nature and meaning of apologies, and a brief update on a dental probiotic's postmarket testing challenges. The author notes a preference for engineering-centric content and advises readers to use LLMs to digest comment sections of Hacker News articles. AI

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LessWrong curator shares links on beauty ideals, apologies, and AI

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    Links #4: 2026/06 Part 2

    <details class="detailsBlock"><p><span>Preface</span></p><div class="detailsBlockContent"><ul><li value="1"><span>I show my discovery graph in (via …) blocks, those without usually come from my RSS reader, or the algorithm of that site</span></li><li value="2"><span>This is appro…