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by TylerLives 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
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by TylerLives 1y ago
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/983739
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by TylerLives 1y ago
>Ukrainians don't have a choice. Why not? What in the life of an average Ukrainian will change if he is ruled by a bureaucrat from Moscow instead of a bureaucrat from Washington? Let's say that he prefers a bureaucrat from Wash
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by TylerLives 1y ago
I would love to know in what way have you determined that the Ukraine is less corrupt than Russia. >Funding of free press is supporting a democracy It's not really "free" if they depend on foreign donations. Do you believe
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by TylerLives 1y ago
What's the alternative, fight until the last Ukrainian? And we can't even have a referendum there, to make sure this is what Ukrainian people really want?
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by TylerLives 1y ago
Fair enough, elections could really cause political instability. Would you be in favor of a referendum, simply asking Ukrainian people if they want to continue fighting or accept peace under whatever conditions are offered by Russia and the
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by TylerLives 1y ago
>Also, while polls say Ukrainians want peace, the part that is not reported says the majority of Ukrainians does not want to give up land for peace. I find this hard to believe. Do you think it would be fair to confirm it via a referendu
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by TylerLives 1y ago
>as if Russian or Ukrainian people are bots who can't desire freedom and non corrupt governments. Even with all the propaganda and force being used (and there is a lot of force, search for videos of how Ukrainians are being conscrip
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by TylerLives 1y ago
What about the other ones? How would the US react if some foreign power was funding NGOs in their country with the goal of overthrowing the government? Btw I'm from Serbia where this has happened in the 90s and is now happening again.
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by TylerLives 1y ago
This is why all the smart Russians are leaving Russia to go study at the Chinese Harvard. This is why they're all getting their news from the Chinese internet and why they're dependent on the Chinese military for protection and ca
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by TylerLives 2y ago
I haven't followed Gumroad much, but I remember them being very pro freedom and having some interesting hiring practices. IIRC they were all being paid equally (based on position and hours of work) and had no meetings. Now I see a Code
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by TylerLives 2y ago
I've never understood "fat acceptance". Is your view that having more fat people in the media will help other fat people fell better about themselves? I have sympathy for them and understand that for some people it can be ver
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by TylerLives 2y ago
This is a good video on the topic https://youtu.be/F7-18qCOfJo You can skip the first 13:40.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
Sure, there was never a perfect meritocracy. I believe we should move towards a more meritocratic society and hiring based on gender and race goes against that.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
That's maybe 1% of DEI. The other 99% is stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33165844 and making characters in video games ugly
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by TylerLives 2y ago
>Any relevant experience I think it comes down to how well you think the government functioned prior to Trump. If you believe that it was terrible, then having experience in the old system can be seen as a negative. Btw I don't thin
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by TylerLives 2y ago
The two are incompatible. You're either hiring based on race, gender, sexual identity etc. or based on merit. Firing people who got hired because of racist and sexist DEI practices increases merit.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
I don't think years of experience is a good measure of merit. If you believe they're worse at their jobs, you should demonstrate that in some other way.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
How will this help your software engineering career?
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by TylerLives 2y ago
I never claimed that all suffering is good, or that we should maximize suffering, only that eradicating all suffering would be highly undesirable, and even impossible, as lack of suffering would inevitably bring about new suffering.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
Without suffering everything would become meaningless instantly. It would be like playing a video game with cheats.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
It's actually about LLMs. They're fundamentally limited by our preconceptions. Can we go back to games and AlphaZero?
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by TylerLives 2y ago
Not sure about Canada, but Trump's actions will make a lot more sense if you consider that to American rightists, American leftists are a much bigger enemy than Russians. I think the same is true in the opposite direction. These 2 grou
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by TylerLives 2y ago
This has been my experience as well. Breaking problems into smaller problems where you can easily verify correctness works much better than having it solve the whole problem on its own.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
I don't have a way to prove this and it's based purely on intuition/experience, but I disagree. I think ideology doesn't meaningfully influence such people. There is a deeper psychological drive and they only create a ph
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by TylerLives 2y ago
He was installing Arch.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
As long as people are not willing to acknowledge that we're not blank slates, but posses vast intelligence inherently, and that even the simplest life forms are infinitely more intelligent than LLMs, there won't be progress.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
Lots of aspirin - https://raypeat.com/articles/aging/aspirin-brain-cancer.shtm...
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by TylerLives 2y ago
When you suppress ideas in this way, they become more attractive to a large number of people. There is a problem with bad ideas spreading quickly on the internet, but censorship hasn't helped with this imo.
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by TylerLives 2y ago
I believe he is being honest. I remember him making similar remarks in the past, saying they don't want to be the arbiters of truth. Most tech companies were like this before, but they were pressured by some other force to censor. Glad

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