Chickenality

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by Chickenality 7y ago
For those who find this horrifying, the [typically unstated] assumption is that it works. I'm pretty skeptical of this. Think about it: what do you imagine the effect size is of seeing 10 articles like "4 Secrets to Losing Weight
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by Chickenality 7y ago
The atmospheric pressure and temperature on Venus are far too high for it to be habitable. Even if those problems were surmountable, there is no liquid water, and the days are very very long.
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by Chickenality 8y ago
> (which lead to subsequently wiped out all our gains in a week) This is the key point. Many strategies that yield above-market returns often do so only because they're taking on large amounts of risk, even if that risk isn't
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by Chickenality 8y ago
This is my first time hearing about art19. But after a quick visit to their site, I can guess at what GP was referring to. Looks like they do listener tracking, targeted ads, dynamic ad insertion, etc.
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Wall Street Is Moving, and It’s Reshaping New York(bloomberg.com)
4 points by Chickenality 8y ago|0 comments
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by Chickenality 9y ago
A lot of indices are something like "Top [N] stocks weighted by market cap in [industry/region/country]". You could call those stocks 'picked', but it's not as though someone is doing some deep analysis of
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by Chickenality 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this infographic. Today is the first time I've ever heard about Kowloon Walled City. I was immediately intrigued, because it looks like something out of science fiction. It reminds me of just how breathtakingly diver
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Kowloon Walled City(en.wikipedia.org)
90 points by Chickenality 9y ago|25 comments
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by Chickenality 9y ago
I don't understand the connection to energy consumption. Humans have been able to extract increasing amounts of energy over time without correspondingly large increases in human intelligence. I don't see a strong reason to doubt t
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by Chickenality 9y ago
This is probably a good criticism if it turns out that the right level of abstraction for most problems is Physics. And it seems like your argument would apply equally well against the idea of human intelligence. Luckily, our minds have dev
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by Chickenality 9y ago
I haven't seen anyone argue that intentionality, qualia, or consciousness would necessarily be either a precondition or a result of developing AGI. In fact, thought experiments like the "paperclip maximizer" are often brought
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by Chickenality 9y ago
Maybe just commit to removing the most attention-grabbing apps from your phone? Seems like a good way to keep the aspects of your phone that you value while getting rid of the ones that you don't.
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by Chickenality 9y ago
Sure it does. During a recession, people will lose their jobs, the value of their assets will go down, etc. Do you think they won't cash out any of their BTC in order to cover expenses?
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Confessions of a Slacker(putanumonit.com)
2 points by Chickenality 9y ago|2 comments
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by Chickenality 9y ago
I think this assumes that the value of the voting rights is constant. In OP's example, the stock buyback only happens for voting shares, which should cause the market to update its estimate of the value of voting rights.
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by Chickenality 9y ago
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by Chickenality 10y ago
One major difference is how concentrated the special interests are. In the case of the Chinese government, public opinion is being swayed by a single entity. In the US, a large number of interest groups are all competing to try to sway publ