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by abeppu 2y ago
I think people really over-estimate the wage growth differences between good and bad labor markets. Median usual weekly earnings are (in 1982 Dollars) Q1 2024: 365 Q1 2013: 331 So over 9 years, including the largest bump in wages in generat
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by abeppu 2y ago
What Ghosh chose to include and not include in this leaves some really weird gaps. He mentions Descartes, and the "cogito", but quotes Seth in attributing to Descartes an "unholy trinity, of language, intelligence and conscio
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by abeppu 2y ago
This made me think of two tangentially related things about code quality and reading which are each 10 years old! Peter Seibel repeatedly tried to start "code reading groups", but found that they didn't quite work, because wh
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by abeppu 2y ago
> If we randomized and reassigned everyone's salaries, would you prefer a higher chance of having a higher salary or would you rather a lower salary but have less of a gap between you and someone who earns more? This is a classic fa
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think every "effective tax rate" calculation, which necessarily combines several things, needs more information about methods ... but I think your statement sounds pretty backwards. E.g. this seems pretty methodical and finds 13
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by abeppu 2y ago
"In Soviet Russia, ad watches you."
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> For now, the concrete supercapacitor can store a little under 300 watt-hours per cubic metre – enough to power a 10-watt LED lightbulb for 30 hours. > The power output "may seem low compared to conventional batteries, [but] a f
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by abeppu 2y ago
I'm not convinced labeling regulations work. Producers don't label accurately, and consumers aren't realistically in a position to make the choice being described. I live in California, where we have Prop 65 warnings on every
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by abeppu 2y ago
I don't know why this got down-voted so much. Maybe scaling up too fast is the biggest part of the problem. Perhaps, putting it in a framing familiar to tech folk, if we have a new version of some important component of our applicati
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by abeppu 2y ago
To be clear, I'm not asking for anything. I'm raising a question, because I'm genuinely conflicted. It seems intractable to test everything for long enough to know that it's safe. On the other hand, the 20th century had
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by abeppu 2y ago
A bunch of comments here are roughly "there's not great evidence that these are harmful" -- but is that the right standard? Or should there be an obligation to provide evidence that something is "safe" in order to u
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... are there actually only a finite number of ways matter can rearrange itself? Or are configuration spaces "actually" described by real (or complex) numbers (whether for things like distances or angles, or for things like the pr
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by abeppu 2y ago
They're claiming we can see both, because the number of people sheltered per unit of land will have increased. While I see this as plausible in some cases, I also think it's sweeping a big error constant into "housing afforda
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think this assumption, though perhaps reasonable, is incorrect, for at least two reasons: - There are animal model studies which vary environment brightness and show a causal relationship between darker environments and myopia. The animal
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by abeppu 2y ago
Setting aside the slowness, tho I am not a designer, these all strike me as just visual noise. I think animated borders, animated shiny text, animated meteor backgrounds today are no better than an early 2000s page with animated elements. I
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by abeppu 2y ago
I've heard about Scottish bothies. As an American, culturally it seems hard to imagine not only a right to walk over private land, but land owners sometimes even donating shelter for use by strangers, for free.
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by abeppu 2y ago
> No one says it was "stolen from common people", because they have always owned it. ... but enclosure acts were specific legislative acts which privatized land and removed common access. I.e. common people had access to the la
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by abeppu 2y ago
I've heard that the ultra-rich borrow a lot against potentially illiquid assets to avoid realizing gains and taxes, but I'm confused how it works long term. Do you just keep taking out new debt to pay back your old debt, and conti
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by abeppu 2y ago
In the context of the original chart which covers a long period of US history ... is Bernanke's statement still true for most of it? Clearly, I am not a monetary policy buff, but certainly I've heard people talk about the US getti
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by abeppu 2y ago
I've always heard that deflation is awful and must be avoided. Following WWI, this marks a period of "13 Year Deflation" from ~1918 - 1931, but this includes a period marked "prosperity" from 1922-1929, though commo
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by abeppu 2y ago
I mean, I've heard that clothes are a major source in that washing synthetic fabrics produces microplastics that end up in the water supply. Are you saying that wearing clothes somehow means we take them in through contact? Certainly
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by abeppu 2y ago
I was a little surprised that the values are higher for humans than dogs b/c I am used to seeing dogs gnaw on any random thing, trying to drink from puddles, etc, which I would have thought would lead to higher intake. But ... is it ju
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by abeppu 2y ago
We can't use the fact that these will be around for a very long time as a reason to not get rid of them where possible because then we'll continue producing them and the problem will only get worse.
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AI in the specific form of generative models for images is not dissimilar to photoshop. My claim is that AI software more broadly is like a lot of other software, in that you can use it for a lot of things, a minority of which are bad.
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Yes I have pics of cops eating pizza. No, I will not post the faces of particular pizza eating cops, because they are still people carrying guns in my neighborhood who can probably kill and get away with it. I don't benefit from attack
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by abeppu 2y ago
> spill some of their greasy secrets like which corrupt cop is cheating on their wife or whatever > Do this publicly, name and shame I think these are the parts that are most likely to trigger dangerous retributive action. I think a l
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by abeppu 2y ago
The AI community is not monolithic. I do not think we're close to AGI, and have never claimed that we are. My lane is this: I think we're producing new and powerful tools. Some of those tools can be used as weapons. Some of those
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by abeppu 2y ago
I mean, if a model has the potential to be used in ways which might be harmful, shouldn't we criminalize the people actually using it to do bad things (create deepfakes for pretend kidnap and ransom schemes or whatever) rather than the
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by abeppu 2y ago
I get why this idea has appeal, but unless you're able to get a large group to do it with great operational security (probably not achievable), I think this story leads to the organizers being endlessly harassed by the police, charged
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E.g. this tool from Berkeley lets you select (but not deep link ...) by major and see median salary by year. https://career.berkeley.edu/start-exploring/where-do-cal-gra... - EECS goes from $116 in 2018-2019 to $129K i

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