ZhuanXia

6 ms·

1.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
I was not intending to be antisemitic. I just think is a salient example of a religion that no longer believes in God. Christians tend to profess a belief in God right up until they become atheist, at which point they no longer attend churc
2.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Then those resistant to conversion will be selected for.
3.
The Children of the Revolution(quillette.com)
1 points by ZhuanXia 6y ago|0 comments
4.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
You should not impute beliefs on others when you have not read their arguments. I would recommend reading this: https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...
5.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Bear case for self-driving: in 1 million miles of driving, roughly the number between major human accidents, do we really think these cars will not encounter one AI-complete problem.
6.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
A few years before I started working, I read Average is Over. Made a good case that labor power's decline would ramp up ever further. People like to poo-poo AI, but I have been following AI since the dark times before 2012. Winograd sc
7.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Would not want to be Graphcore right now.
8.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
I find monetary policy a hard subject to reason about. It is too complex for me to understand. Yet the political economy of it is such that I would expect the expert classes to be corrupted in some way. Still, I just act like I believe the
9.
Loyc: Language Conversion and Interoperability(loyc.net)
2 points by ZhuanXia 6y ago|0 comments
10.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Julia Galef remains the best interviewer I have ever heard. She is so incredibly sharp. Her guests will make a point about an abstruse philosophical/economic/statistical topic and she will reply with a perfect, novel, challenging
11.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
McNamara’s Folly is a great book on one of his more idiotic policies, and a great meditation on the dehumanizing cruelty that results from basing policy on false but ideologically pleasing assumptions.
12.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Physicist/geneticist Steve Hsu and linguist/neuroscientist Cory Washington have an extremely good podcast called Manifold. This episode in particular is a good introduction to the show: https://infoproc.blogspot.com&#x2
13.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
I see. Just a c-style loop absent conditions. I find it kind of ugly for some reason.
14.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Not a Perl guy. What are the semicolons in that if statement all about?
15.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
I have seen a lot of shoddy statistics used by ad people to justify the necessity of ad people. I would trust a random engineer over the ad team for this task purely as a matter of incentives.
16.
by ZhuanXia 6y ago
Just going to leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
17.
Conway's Game of Life Implemented in Conway's Game of Life(youtube.com)
68 points by ZhuanXia 6y ago|5 comments
18.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I have seen the progress in China since the late 1990s. A rate of change impossible for a modern westerner to believe. China is not a photograph but a video on fast-forward.
19.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The shameful lies about masks not working for civilians will kill thousands. Evidence based medicine (over the modern Bayesian Science-based medicine) has paralyzed our health officials from making common sense calls off priors. Homemade ma
20.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Patents are government-granted monopolies. Hardly a free market. Same with land ownership, hence my Georgism.
21.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
High prices induce production that would not have occurred otherwise. They also curve demand downwards so that only those who really want the item will get it. There is little reason to outlaw price gouging save for humans have a disgust re
22.
Shiller PE Ratio from 1880 to Today(multpl.com)
2 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
23.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The historical context for that statement is it was made when America had a monopoly on nuclear weapons and Stalin's Soviet Union, a dictatorship of incomparable authoritarianism and delusion, was on the cusp of developing such weapons
24.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>Would this diminish our view of his legacy, for him to come "down to earth"? I doubt it. Consider how the greatest minds of the 20th century thought of him: "I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew
25.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Most services exist to ameliorate a want. That is to reduce misery. Your statement basically means people shouldn’t profit. But if they shouldn’t profit what incentive will they have to reduce misery? It seems clear to me that if anyone is
26.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I feel like brass may be better, as it contains zinc and copper and does not oxidize as easily. How about an alloy of zinc, silver and copper?
27.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
We have a legally entrenched doctors guild with a government granted monopoly on their profession. We have patents granting monopolies on chemicals and devices. This is not a free market. We have zoning laws granting landlords a monopoly on
28.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
There is a notion in economics of complements and replacements. The plow was a complement to horse labour, while the gas engine was a replacement. The former increased demand for horses while the latter basicly eliminated it. If we truly ha
29.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>An AI revolution is not required to eliminate jobs. Yes it is. If you have tasks that cannot be automated, people's labour will have value. It would require AI that is as good as any human, and that is cheaper of course, to elimina
30.
by ZhuanXia 7y ago
In my experience automating tasks many highly educated workers are easier to replace than low-skill workers. Many a university grad has been made redundant by a Python script; 0 plumbers have. AI people have a term for this: https:/&#x

More ›