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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The gains from engineering human capital are so large they will be plucked. Screaming “eugenics” is not going to change that. One slur does not an argument make. Gains of several standard deviations in mental traits, including intelligence,
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>The danger is twofold. First, people forget that these are population level trends and that it is bad reasoning to automatically assume every individual in a given group conforms with these trends. Yet it is equally bad reasoning to ign
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Generating Folk Music with GPT-2(gwern.net)
4 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I often wonder about this in the context of musicians and actors. You would have to be a fool to pick such careers, as the prospects are so dim. Yet because of this dimness the selection pressure is very high on the pool of contenders. So o
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>$70k per device That's pretty steep compared to the price of the labour.
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Nano-nonsense (2010)(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
49 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|18 comments
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Worth noting that this is no longer true: “The world’s best chess players are neither computers nor humans but humans working together with computers.”
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Interesting things I’ve learned about this chip after a little sluthing. CEO implies in the FYI podcast that it can handle model sizes of a max of ~4 billion parameters per wafer. Respectable but not as large as I assumed would be possible
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Rents are by their nature exclusionary; it is hardly surprising they became hereditary rights. They are called guilds after all.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>distributed the wealth of the world In the limit of a single individual wealth works in a naive fashion where such distribution is possible. But on the scale of the economy, such a thing is not possible without inventing a better distri
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>.... are we willing to sacrifice helping them do better to help the top achievers do their best? How much are we willing to sacrifice in either direction? It is so strange reading this comment, as I know how Americans are primed to resp
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Absent patent rights, none of that would matter. Patents are grotesque rent seeking and responsible for all these ills.
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Multi-Stage Bean Machine Visualization: Advantages of Repeated Optimization(gwern.net)
2 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
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Progress in Landing Model Rocket Using Thrust Vector Control(youtube.com)
1 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
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There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence(intelligence.org)
1 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Gwern on the luck of the last mover: "Launching too early means failure, but being conservative & launching later is just as bad because regardless of forecasting, a good idea will draw overly-optimistic researchers or entrepreneur
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OpenAI Robot Dexterity Advancement, Rubik's Cube with Anthropomorphic Hand(twitter.com)
6 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
If we had billions of dollars being spent on genetic research towards build giant Scottish aquatic lizards, than a Loch Ness expert would be valuable. The lack of imagination on display here is astounding. Billions are being spent by DeepMi
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>We can't have a rational, dispassionate debate about whether I should have rights. I can't argue for my existence, I want it. Effective rhetoric, but that's about it. In practice, people take their self-serving policy pre
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
If homo economicus does not exist we must surely be obliged to create him...
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Starts off like a diamond but gets progressively softer until the end is just pudding.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The "free market" doesn't really exist. It is an ideal, and an ill defined one at best. What does exists are mechanisms. A law that forces prices to be visible is a mechanism that is likely to increase economic efficiency at
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Bryan Caplan’s Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is worth a read for anyone who is taking parenting too seriously. Developmental psychologists have brainwashed the public into thinking children can be ruined by insufficiency dedicated paren
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Is it possible to do mathematics while on such drugs? I am working through a textbook on projective geometry and I feel like those visualization enhancements would be super useful.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I have been reading the works of the great social reformer Henry George. A socialist literate in political economy, he advocated a land value tax, which does not distort economic incentives as land cannot be produced. I see many angry youth
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I used to read Dominic Cumming’s blog. He is a very bright guy, obsessed with the right tail of human capital, which Hong Kong has a disproportionate amount of. He is in a position of huge influence in the new government, which I think some
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Many of us do not believe IP is a legitimate property right.
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Finetuning the Gpt-2-Small Transformer for English Poetry Generation(gwern.net)
1 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|0 comments
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The rise of technology was not so much the birth of new capacities, but the removal of old constraints. China, despite a much larger and more educated population, did not spark the industrial revolution. Their feedback loops were too stable
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The Gig Economy (2018)(zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com)
146 points by ZhuanXia 7y ago|20 comments

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