VladKovac

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by VladKovac 9y ago
there's a sweet spot, obviously if you go too low you're talking about barely autonomous people
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by VladKovac 10y ago
sigh singularity hypothesis requires no "accelerating change" any eventually upward slope will do.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Max Weber's theories on Protestantism being the cause of success in America have been pretty much thoroughly debunked when you control for differences in aptitude amongst the religious sects that arrived to America in it's early h
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by VladKovac 10y ago
One thing I found out from interviewing a lot (for junior-ish positions) was that dynamic programming questions are actually your friend. Since it's a "hard topic" they give you a relatively easy one that can be solved using
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by VladKovac 10y ago
He has Ezra Klein voice. Or maybe it's called NPR voice.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
I believe the author himself said that computation improvements does make it easier to solve general AI. I think in value alignment theory there are still problems that they don't know how to do properly even with infinite computation
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Stopped reading this comment after "Gladwell".
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Contentiousness is a ~50% heritable personality trait, only slightly less than IQ.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Can I just say this was very beautifully laid out. Much simpler and more convincing than what I could have done. Thank you.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
If you repeat the word "collapse" enough you can trick your brain into thinking you've actually explained something :P
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by VladKovac 10y ago
How convenient that this supposed "spooky action at a distance" can't actually send information ftl. Locality is very important for coherent laws of physics. Many worlds is still the most parsimonious explanation which is why
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Turkheimer's laws are not the property of the man himself! I think it's pretty safe to say there's no clear winner on what the effects of schooling is on the margin at least. You're right to correct me on school being
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Guys before you take this too seriously, PNAS is a publication repeatedly criticized by stats experts like Andrew Gelman. NHST techniques are bad, and there are many papers showing almost zero effects of education. Plus your prior on this s
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Good way to get around NYT is open an Icognito window and paste the link, or use mobile which has a different article count already viewed.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Actually we do have real female computer heroines like Grace Hopper which will do just fine.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Angry rhetoric against middlemen, how predictably simplistic of you.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
How is that refreshing? This has basically been the natural state of human thinking until maybe around the enlightenment. People used to just say things like "all is water" or "all is fire" in very principled assertive w
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by VladKovac 10y ago
So the way to counteract information asymmetry (if we assume it exists) is to artificially enforce less information on the employers? That can't possibly be the right answer unless there's some systematic bias that leads to worse
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by VladKovac 10y ago
>It was really intrusive Imagine how painful it is to be an entrepreneur with a very weak signal about how much you can pay people to remain happy to work with you without going broke and still retaining good enough talent.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
What are the chances that in this particular case, enforcing noise in the data actually leads to better economic results? Technically less information can lead imperfect human reasoners to more rational allocation of resources, but you&#x27
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Two questions about the Poverty Equilibrium: 1. Are the majority of the evil extractors (a)regional powers that impose uniform rents or are they (b)targeted extractors that specifically exploit low educated/frail-minded individuals? 2.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
> I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform Pretends that party agrees with everything he's saying.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Functional programmers love to emphasize how all the aspects of programming that their pet language is uniquely good at dealing with also happen to be the biggest problems in code maintenance. Is there any actual data on what the biggest pr
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by VladKovac 10y ago
They have a big market share, they protect the IP, and they are technically beholden to their clients. Why wouldn't you do business? The cost-benefit for Apple probably always leans towards "Hope competitor X fails".
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by VladKovac 10y ago
I can't resist: "I want to live one more day. Tomorrow I will still want to live one more day. Therefore I want to live forever, proof by induction on the positive integers." - http://hpmor.com/
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by VladKovac 10y ago
I don't think infinite scrolling is an obvious lowest common denominator manipulation technique like sexy photos, pimple popping thumbnails, or clickbait titles. Mainly because it isn't signalling that the content is obviously low
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by VladKovac 10y ago
This misses the most important question: Does it work better than alternate designs at baiting customers to keep reading?
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by VladKovac 10y ago
This isn't some local trend in history, everyone is born with anti-market bias. We come from small bands of hunter-gatherers with fairness and egalitarianism built in through reciprocal altruism. The problem is a lot of market policies
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by VladKovac 10y ago
So you're telling me you can only tell if it isn't a bubble if the market steadily declines eventually? Also how much should it steadily decline by before we're sure it's not some local decline phenomenon unrelated to th
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Ceteris paribus allowing anyone in the world to take a job if the employer wants them leads to better outcomes on average. That includes the situation where America is paying for global protection and other special negotiated treaties. Even

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