adamisom

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by adamisom 6y ago
Fair question. I guess I was thinking that a civil war would be heralded (e.g. by all major news outlets) before long-term effects started happening (like currency changes), but who knows.
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by adamisom 6y ago
Could be they're inherently political in one way, but that doesn't mean they have to be in other ways. They might just want to focus on their vision and let others focus on other (political-in-nature) visions.
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by adamisom 6y ago
Heck I'll raise that, and offer 20:1 odds to danielheath, I pay $400 if there's a civil war, he pays $20 if there's not.
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by adamisom 6y ago
The true GPT-3 was us all along.
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by adamisom 6y ago
I agree people should optimize for a good life. That's why spending four years living your good life at college shouldn't be the focus--because you'll have decades more, and it's more important to get 50+ years right tha
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by adamisom 6y ago
Eh, seems like expectations management to me, i.e. "don't blame us if you do something business-critical on the free tier and it goes wrong and you didn't pay for support to get you out of it".
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by adamisom 6y ago
The expert you're learning from probably has a better idea than you do of what programs you should write given (a) your presumed knowledge level and (b) what programs would help you learn the fastest and/or the most relevant featu
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by adamisom 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by 'mistaken unpleasantness', but getting at the truth, however unpleasant, is a far higher and more widespread norm in the rationalist community.
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by adamisom 7y ago
Exactly seems like a pretty tough thing to answer. What's the exact effect on the climate of X or Y company?
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by adamisom 7y ago
Why? It seems to me unproductive to make some general characterization of the author instead of engaging more with the actual piece that was posted.
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by adamisom 7y ago
I think if I had a theory that became popularized, I, too, would have legitimate concern that people were using that theory imprecisely—-ie incorrectly. Ive noticed that as ideas get popularized they get watered down or misapplied. Think A
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by adamisom 7y ago
I think your reply is exactly the sort of high-value reply dang was hoping to see.
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by adamisom 7y ago
That's nuts. This should be the top comment. And here I was just thinking the finding makes sense to the extent that AA is (probably) more involved than (most) psychotherapy. To extend my point, I think when people consider the benefit
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by adamisom 7y ago
Carl Sagan and his fans (me among them) understand your sense of awe. I do think it's important not to forget that when you lose religion. I also think it's important, as Sagan probably did, for the secular world--for humanity--to
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by adamisom 7y ago
Although I think "immorality" was a typo and you meant "immortality", it's a funny typo, because ethics are definitely relevant.
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by adamisom 7y ago
It wasn't worth deconstructing their "logic". Rather, my implicit message was 'if you find yourself disagreeing with someone likely better than you at X, step back and assess the epistemic foundations of _your_ belief.&#
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by adamisom 7y ago
Like my recent job as a software tester at state govt. honestly, I swear I got more positive reviews when I didn’t do shit. There was a dearth of meaning since I knew we could all be more trained, systematic and use more auto, less manual.
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by adamisom 7y ago
Would it help to point out the the author of that post invented React?
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by adamisom 7y ago
If only there was a big name L. GANDALF
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by adamisom 7y ago
This event is the perfect example of "heavy-handed" centralized government doing things right. In fact, I'm really scratching my head how you think it could be improved. edit: oh wait, this was sarcasm, right? Since obviously
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by adamisom 7y ago
Weird. My first thought reading that even men! parenthetical was not that the author actually had a dim view of men. If the parenthetical read "even women!" that would not be perceived as a minute poke at the female ego. Commentar
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by adamisom 7y ago
So, just to be clear.. when a person signs up for.. wait for it... Facebook... they shouldn’t expect that Facebook has an image of their... face?
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by adamisom 7y ago
It’s pretty obvious what the point is. It’s to complain about the soapbox / complaints in hopes of seeing less such comments in the future.
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by adamisom 7y ago
"Some Home Depot workers built a walker". That's information. That is not (all) reporters do.
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by adamisom 7y ago
"that is in fact behaving as most people expect" Pretty subjective, what's your sample size? Oh, one? Look ,this is me being equally as dismissive and contrarian, it's not too fun is it.
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by adamisom 7y ago
or there could be nobody around to make the observation that there's nobody around, if any existential risks actualize
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by adamisom 7y ago
I've typed in medium.com I've also clicked on articles while on the website for a different article
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by adamisom 7y ago
That piece is emotional AF. That doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong, but here is a concrete sign that it is extremely biased "and salary earners in structured jobs that resemble the tests" Ha! Haha! Is Taleb wilfully ig
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by adamisom 7y ago
So the universe would be "de Sitting"
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by adamisom 8y ago
In this case we can probably assume the author is proficient in several other languages, as well as in pedagogy, so nah.

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