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Same authors have interesting related papers: * Neophilia ranking of scientific journals https://www.nber.org/papers/w21579 * Age and the Trying Out Of New Ideas, Journal of Human Capital (2019) https://ww
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> I for one would feel disgusted with myself if I were to discover that I'm nothing more than the output of a reward function. YMMV. Very interesting and heavy statement to say in this context. (I think your comment should be upvot
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As the society advances and problems are solved for us, we are left with the most central core problem, ourselves. Related to concepts like 'agency', 'impulse control', 'willpower', 'restraint', &#x2
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In both cases, if you believe in society based on laws, what I said stands. Agreed?
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It's not mutually exclusive. * Sometimes individuals must break the law for greater good. This is called civil disobedience, or civil resistance. * Just because one is breaking the law for common good, civil servants can't and sh
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What is mechanism design and why does it matter for policy-making? (2007)(voxeu.org)
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Cybersyn is great. It highlights the problem of applying cybernetics (systems theory) into a system with many unknowns. Economics as a whole is not a controlled environment like factory where systems theory can be successfully. More modern
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Side note about Newton and occult. Newton was not just a physicist who dabbled with occult. He turned occult into physics. Before Newton scientists and natural philosophers like Descartes believed that movements were caused by physical co
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The JQI Curve: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/voxaradev/pages/11297/... Current Level is 80.62 Change From 1990 Inception is -14.3% > They recently unveiled the US Private Sector Job Quality Index (
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The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI)(jobqualityindex.com)
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The whole point of IQ is that it tests common factor (as in factor analysis) underlying different tests. There is known correlation between different testing methods.
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Intelligence researches don't use normalized IQ when they compare intelligence across target populations or across different times. They use raw IQ score data.
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MIT style licenses provide 'snapshot freedom'. The code is a collection of text files at one point of time. GPL license is additionally a share agreement. If the code is also an valuable asset that requires constant development, u
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Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets(economics.mit.edu)
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If printing press in the 15th century is the analogy, we will have Thirty Years' War ahead of us. Martin Luther was one of the first political troublemakers in the printing press era. He used printed pamphlets to spread his message
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Transcending the brain: is there a cost to hacking the nervous system?(academic.oup.com)
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> allocate 5% to put options on the losers How do you do it withing the frame I described the problem (cost effectively and without increasing risk) for relatively small investor?
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1989 Tienanmen protests were ignited by the death of pro-reform general secretary Hu Yaobang and the perceived notion that the party had mistreated him. They were the end of the movement that started with 1986 Chinese student demonstrat
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That what I was thinking too. I think it could be implemented as SP520 index fund with a low cost swap sold separately against the fund.
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Really good choice for two reasons. 1. The research subject is very important. 2. The methodology and experimental design these researchers have developed is really good.
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I find it easier to select what companies not to buy. It's hard to do it cost effectively and with low risk. Short selling or put options is not the answer. Idea for a new fund directed at retail investors: S&P 520 index fund. It&
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There is a great book: "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" Two things to learn from the book: 1) The are same people and organizations behind many
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Satire is effective influencing method. The additional benefit is avoiding the requirement for reliability and responsibility because it's not real journalism. In the US The Daily Show established satirical ha-ha as effective method to
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Most top players today are like athletes. They eat, exercise, and study the game like pros. Being a sick drug addict and winning tournaments was just raw ability. The level of the game was lower at the time. Ungar would be high level play
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Robert D. Hare (known for Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised PCL-R) has described psychopath as intraspecies predators. Psychopaths relation to other humans is similar to how humans relation to other animals. Humans have pets they like, but
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Cognitive scientists sometimes use term nonconsious as instead of unconscious. The concept of unconscious is not controversial. We simply don't observe much of our own actions or body to be aware enough to make decisions. Most of our c
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I said that sign language has linguistic structure so it's language. Proper language requires this structure, just making sings is not automatically language. Just the ability to signal using single atomic words, in some medium (sign
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My understanding of what 'language' means to cognitive scientists. You may have use different meaning for the language. Only when you use semantic and syntactic structures to connect symbols into more complex meaning you are usin
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Why you can't program computers to "be" requires explanation. Maybe someone who has read the book can comment. I'm sympathetic towards "consciousness is about being" idea. I don't see why consciousness req
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Sign language has linguistic structure. Vocalizations or signs that are composed of simple symbols are not language.

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