Amezarak

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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's just bizarre. Probably 80% of corporations are paying Microsoft billions of dollars really just so they can have Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel. What makes it valuable is precisely that it is a "legacy" app peop
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Right, it's only a correlation, not a guarantee. And people who don't end up part of the correlation have maybe their best shot of becoming successful (assuming they pursue a career requiring a degree) via test scores. Anything el
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yeah, the article ends with: > In conclusion, our work focuses on the predictive power of admissions tests and shows that this power is not an artifact of SES. There is a substantial SES–test relationship, though it is important to note
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Intuit isn't the good guy here, but they get a ridiculous amount of hate proportional to their role in the system, and they did actually make things better. The status quo until consumer tax filing software like TurboTax was people pay
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by Amezarak 3y ago
That appears to be their argument. Mine would be that the Mongols were brutal and efficient administrators. Killing 50 million people and being a good administrator are orthogonal concepts. Reading through the Wikipedia article, you can a
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The Mongols undoubtedly wiped out entire ethnic groups during their conquests. They killed millions of people. In some cases languages would have been wiped out. You just don't hear much about them these days because dithering over the
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It seems strange we're allowed to argue for a technology because we read Culture and not against it because we saw Terminator. Nevertheless, the goal of OpenAI and other organizations is to develop AGI and to deliberately cause the
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> People shouldn't be able to block others developing useful technologies just based on some scifi movie fears. The GP was suggesting we have to develop AI because of scifi movie visions of spacefaring utopia, which if anything is m
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Are stimulant prescriptions for ADHD carefully calibrated in dosage and time to get patients to a baseline? In my experience, doctors ask you questions to determine if you have attention deficits, then give you a prescription, which will be
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Gambling on the odds we all die for the chance at a "utopian starfaring civilization" seems liek the sort of thing that everyone should get a say in, and not just OpenAI or techies.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> The whole point is to play for time in the hopes that somebody comes up with a good idea for safety and we manage an actually aligned takeoff, at which point it's out of our hands anyways. Given "aligned" means "in
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Even in 1959, the US labor force participation rate for women was 37%. So since that time, there’s only been about a twenty point increase. Most people were poor, and married, and with children, so that would make sense if the real issue wa
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by Amezarak 3y ago
In the US the labor force participation rate in 1975 for women was 45%; today it is 57%. Was it really that much worse in the UK?
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Recent human experience. Local climates were never in steady-states during human experience. California is a great example: during the industrial age it's been in an unusually wet period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The US government as a whole already spends more on health care than it does on defense. 2022: 944 billion (Medicare), 805 billion (Medicaid). [1] We could add the VA health care system (approx 100 billion), CHIP (few tens of billions), ACA
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I am extremely pro-labor and would have much stricter enforcement and severer penalties for wage theft, but home burglary, carjackings, and muggings are qualitatively different than wage theft and it does not make sense to compare the two.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
People say this but I'm skeptical. I regularly leave valuables in my car. My windows have never been broken. I've never had anything stolen. Nor do I know anyone who has. All the stores have free-to-use, unlocked public bathrooms.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yes, Caesar added our leap day specifically in his reforms. I just don’t think he reordered the months.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Well, there's more to it than that: the leap day is really February 24th; there are "two" February 24ths. > Except that isn’t exactly true. The Romans did not add an extra day on February 29, but on February 24, which is
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Even if you exclude the private insurance market (!) and look only at public health costs, the US picture is dismal. - 944 billion on Medicare (federal) - 805 billion on Medicaid (federal + state) - 118 billion on VA health costs - 21 billi
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Health care cost disease in the US has little to do with doctor salaries or demand for doctors. Unfortunately, as that would be a relatively easy problem to solve. The data I've seen indicates physician salaries adjusted for inflation
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I have a CRV but the price is for sure a showstopper all on its own before even looking at the range. I paid 25k for what I have and it really felt like too much, and I regret it. I can't imagine paying 50k. I mean, obviously a lot of
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yes, distractions have always existed. I don’t think it’s controversial to say that smartphone addiction increased the scale and severity of the problem by orders of magnitude.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I can do this with voice on my iPhone. Worst case scenario you pull over and do it.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I sympathize with your sentiments, but the social problem was created by tech solutions in the first place. > How about we try and figure out how to train people to be better drivers, and more responsible adults in general, You can'
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't think you can in an intelligent way. One simple solution would be to only disable the screen if the phone is connected to car Bluetooth - but this would just result in most phone addicts not connecting their phone to the car. T
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by Amezarak 3y ago
People are making snaps (I see ZILLIONS of stories made by car drivers), scrolling through TikTok, watching YouTube, sending texts, not just making calls. There is a very simple technological solution to this - disable screens on phones in
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by Amezarak 3y ago
There are plenty of Iranians, Berbers, Palestinians, Turks, and Arabs that, if they were walking down the street in NYC dressed in jeans and a tshirt, would be recognized only as "white." I'm not sure on what basis you exclud
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The problem they're trying to address is not bias in the training set, it's bias in reality reflected in the training set.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Sure. But the real issue is both of them are absolutely lethal and uninhabitable environments. There is no plan or even real dream to change that. Stepping outside on Mars will kill you just as dead as it will on the Moon. If you're go

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