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by anbende 9y ago
If by cool things you mean "improved cancer treatment" and "inexpensive access to entertainment" then yes, inequality IS less important because people have these "cool things". The idea that there is a gap is m
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by anbende 10y ago
To focus on just one point you made: >A lot of economists have a vested interest in pretending that the following policies are generically, speciously "bad for the economy", because reasons This sounds like you're saying t
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by anbende 10y ago
Some of your ideas are good. Some, I think, seem good on the surface but would wreck the economy. In particular raising corporate income tax is pretty bad. Remember, virtually every job there is comes from some sort of corporation. You&#x27
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by anbende 10y ago
Agreed. Reading this on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop. I may head over to my office and read it on my Ubuntu desktop later! (That said, I may in fact be part of the "developer culture" that surrounds desktop linux according to the articl
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by anbende 10y ago
If he's physically present and doesn't have his hands over his ears, he's at least hearing what they have to say. And these people are masters at finding ways to influence others based on others interests.
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by anbende 10y ago
I think that people like Musk likely have a strong belief in their ability to persuade and influence. I think that the idea that Trump is completely uninfluencable is a bit hyperbolic. He's not an irrationality machine. He cares about
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by anbende 10y ago
The fact that he spends time physically present and apparently listening to the left wing technocrats. Nobody is expecting a radical shift in his policies, but even minor shifts on key issues are arguably worth the small time investment. Th
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If that were completely true then he wouldn't have a council of tech advisors that all hold views counter to his own. If the man is willing to talk to you about the things you care about, then why on earth wouldn't you?
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by anbende 10y ago
We have a set of positive motivation systems as well. Achieve, acquire resources that are not currently critical. Sex-drive. Caring system. Fun-seeking. Etc. See Jaak Panksepp's affective neuroscience.
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by anbende 10y ago
Agreed, constructs like integrity and commitment are notoriously abstract and hard to rigorously define, let alone quantify. If one truly wants to quantify leadership, one would need an operational definition that is concrete. "Leaders
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by anbende 10y ago
I did a little back of the napkin math and came up with something similar. However, 20k staff would cost Google between $1b and $2b per year, which they absolutely have. They've been consistently posting quarterly earnings of around 5b
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by anbende 10y ago
The current trend-line puts computing power at the level of the human brain in 10 years or so. However, processing power increases has been slowing down lately both in terms of time and the amount of money required for each new advance. I
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At this point we're unable to simulate a rat brain. We think that we will be able to, but it's orders of magnitude beyond what we can do right now. Our biggest neural net computers have about a 1 million nodes (last time I checked
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by anbende 10y ago
I'm seeing that too. People are locking on a piece they like and hoping that he's just kidding about the rest. She's hoping he'll be tough on radical extremists but that he's just kidding about banning muslims or cr
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by anbende 10y ago
If there are ways of farming that are ethical that are already in use (the 1% in your argument), then we absolutely should discuss those. We would want to start increasing that number. It changes things considerably whether livestock can be
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by anbende 10y ago
Thanks. I guess it's gotten a little more twisted in my memory over the years.
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The atmosphere? Oh man, so good. I loved the little quotes in the descriptions of new technology. They got darker as the tech got higher up the tree. I still remember the gist of the one for human cloning: "She's gone. She said sh
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by anbende 10y ago
If this is really about Tesla pushing their own ridesharing, wouldn't it be smarter for them to make all future price-breaks contingent on using their system? That way if someone really wants to drive Uber they can, but it'll cost
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by anbende 10y ago
I just tried to clarify my position in a post close to this one. Let me add this about tenure. Tenure is meant to protect researchers so they can do the resarch that they want and find most interesting. The idea is to insulate them from the
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by anbende 10y ago
What am I wrong about? Seriously, I'm not sure what you think I'm arguing for. I'm saying that a university with an employee who does nothing for decades has the right to be a little pissed about that. I'm not saying tha
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by anbende 10y ago
Let's stick to the facts. University employs a Nobel Award winning scientist. He spends the next 30 years doing very little. The University says "hey, that's not cool. We thought you were going to keep doing research. Everyon
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by anbende 10y ago
Except it wasn't a great investment. Unless he was doing something great besides research. If you put in amazing groundbreaking work in the first years of a startup and then started slacking off. How long before the company that you he
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by anbende 10y ago
I appreciate the interest. Thanks for the well-wishes!
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I can go into a little bit. I don't want to totally out myself when I'm still a months away from a product that I could demonstrate. Bottom line is that the online experimentation tools for large swaths of psychological research (
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Well, I'm personally funded for the next 3 years, so as a one-man shop, I'm fine for awhile. In terms of actually getting funding, that's another question, but my university has a fair amount of startup development including
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by anbende 10y ago
Also a current PhD student, and I've definitely found myself frustrated with the way that academia seems to be at odds with my desire to work on the things that I think are not only the most interesting but the most important. I look a
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by anbende 10y ago
That's very interesting. I'm in psychology and I've never heard this. Do you have a source for that covariation? Thanks!
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It's not at all clear that that is the case. On of the problems, as I understand it, is that there's just not enough material in a drop of blood to run many tests. I'm not an expert, but while improvement may be possible, mir
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Only those things that one is hoping to sell in those boardrooms...
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Except that it is in no way involuntary. It's never against your will, and its generally not for no pay. It's just long hours for low pay. It's hard to see what you mean by involuntary here. It's a work for education arr

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