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by Herring 2y ago
Then I can agree with that: short-sighted decision-making on both obesity and Trump's tariffs.
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by Herring 2y ago
? I look forward to your article about Americans obviously being pro-obesity, and finding heart disease super attractive.
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by Herring 2y ago
I'd believe that article more if Trump hadn't called on congress to eliminate the CHIPS act, or if tariffs+Musk hadn't undermined it, or if republicans were for the Green New Deal, etc. If you're interested in onshoring,
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by Herring 2y ago
Empires come and go, that's just a fact of life. The question was whether they'd fall back relatively gracefully like (Western) Europe, now with multiple countries ranking at the top of "World's Happiest Countries",
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by Herring 2y ago
No, it's still stupid. High corruption leads to weaker economic performance (eg compare red vs blue states). Nepotism looks like winning right until it sinks your company.
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah well this comment thread is right at the bottom of the page, so it's not gonna happen anytime soon. Top of the page indicates they're more interested in infighting (calling him spoiled).
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by Herring 2y ago
Trump won the popular vote. I don't think this is going away without a major demographic shift, time probably measured in decades.
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by Herring 2y ago
That's weird, cause they sure smeared millions of people real fast as undesirables trans/illegals/DEI/woke, but Trump gets a million chances and coup do-overs and please explain take your time sir: What is the amazing 4D
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by Herring 2y ago
> What will be America’s competitive edge in that scenario? Comparative advantage means countries benefit from specializing in producing goods or services where they have the lowest relative opportunity cost - not necessarily where the
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by Herring 2y ago
*shrug, You sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas. You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Be the change you want to see in the world etc etc. This is an age-old issue, what to do about shitty people in your supp
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by Herring 2y ago
I'd start by getting a better social circle. I have zero patience for white supremacy. I fired a lot of friends over the past decade. On a less immediate note, issues of greed are likely countered by generosity, so volunteering is good
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by Herring 2y ago
Yep. Anything that insulates you from consequences also degrades your ability to learn from those consequences (pain = real-world feedback), so it makes you dumber.
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by Herring 2y ago
If you're not being targeted, like from a distance, it looks like "anti-intellectualism and fear". He's just running "distractions", or "scapegoating" Mexicans or something. It's easy to minimize
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by Herring 2y ago
See: How Tribalism Overrules Reason, and Makes Risky Times More Dangerous https://bigthink.com/articles/how-tribalism-overrules-reason...
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by Herring 2y ago
The racism overrides everything with these people. The red states have had the worst outcomes for generations but they still vote Republican like lemmings solely because of it. Trump just has to mention "trans" and they switch off
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by Herring 2y ago
No, the issue is half of Americans and American states are still into Red-state zero-sum policies which don't work very well in a modern world and modern economy. Today you want the black/female/trans/foreigner working a
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah 1) He won the popular vote. His support actually increased the 2nd time around, and 2) He should be in a tiny jail cell right now, what was Biden doing for 4 years? This isn’t going away even if he leaves office in 4 years (which is lo
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by Herring 2y ago
> The president has an obligation to faithfully execute the law. No no. The president himself is a felon so everything cancels out, see?
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by Herring 2y ago
It would still be a million times better than anecdotes and ragebait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St... > Policy-makers in most participating countries see PISA as an important indicato
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by Herring 2y ago
PISA scores for the US are fairly good and stable in Reading and Science, especially compared to the OECD average. It's Math that has taken a hit over time. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-resul
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by Herring 2y ago
On a more hopeful note, there's a chance it might happen when China's happiness level passes America’s. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart Around 2030, based on a simple linear trend.
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by Herring 2y ago
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Americans (esp white Americans) have a lot of individualist, anti-collectivist, anti-government cultural attitudes. The last time a situation like this happened, it took a
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by Herring 2y ago
Hmm yeah this article rubbed me weird, like why can't rich investors just snap up any amount of new housing? Article didn't mention "affordable housing" once.
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by Herring 2y ago
Go debate creationists for a while then come tell me I'm being abrasive. Believe me this is the easiest way when we disagree on basic facts. US culture (especially among white men) has a lot of internalized individualist, anti-union, a
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by Herring 2y ago
This comment is sadly wrong, like saying "the sky is green". I recommend you talk to chatGPT (4o+) and learn something. Nordic countries combine high taxes and spending with competitive, open economies. Denmark and Sweden have hig
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by Herring 2y ago
You'll discover that compounding growth is useless to YOU, when Trump and Musk are taking 99.9% of it. Wages are stagnant. The US is #24 on the world’s happiest countries list, and has been dropping for a long while. At the top of the
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by Herring 2y ago
Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders.
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by Herring 2y ago
Look up the Keeling curve. Covid didn't even make a dent on the trend. You can't see any difference at all.
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by Herring 2y ago
But LLM performance scales according to the log of compute, so yeah it’s pretty insignificant. I think we’ve reached a bit of a plateau.
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by Herring 2y ago
Excellent work. What optimizer did you use? I assume AdamW? I didn't see it listed.

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