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by babesh 6y ago
Another interesting thing is that power is often relative. The presence of the billionaires blunts the power of the multimillionaires.
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True but that is by definition NOT dynastic wealth. Wealth is actually present throughout the society. In fact there are many forms of wealth throughout society: culture, connections, skills.
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Because the data he presents and his argument is a good one and your logic is shete. His argument is that dynastic wealth doesn’t persist in the United States. If it did, then wealth would STILL have accreted to renters even if most of the
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by babesh 6y ago
In the 80’s, there was a fight won by the left to stop logging especially of old growth. I think that they were right to prevent the wholesale cutting down of trees but they went too far. They also prevented culling of trees and controlled
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by babesh 6y ago
We need better sources of news. It is somewhat happening already with the rise of individual 'reporters' on YouTube and other social media who amass followers and support themselves with patronage, advertising, merchandise, etc...
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You need to consider it from the point of view of each entity. Each entity may not like to be destroyed irrespective of whether there is a copy.
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You are a process rather than a snapshot of material. The material is what the process runs on.
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Human society is part AI already. Humans to human society is as cells to a human being.
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by babesh 6y ago
I think another possibility is that connection of our brains to a primitive AI will boot the AI with some human intelligence. Also, an AI based on current silicon seems very fragile. It could make sense for AIs to build synthetic biological
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by babesh 6y ago
The US air force had drone f-16s and used them to test missiles (they shot the missiles at them). https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a29847417... https://www.boeing.com/defense&#x2F
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by babesh 6y ago
The US military already has drones that are flown remotely. It seems to be a small step to add a dogfighting AI to a plane and just have the remote pilot sic the AI at another plane. The remote pilot just has to reengage after the fighting
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Probably not that bad since, with the advent of masks and social distancing, supposedly ~95% of cases are NOT from community spread. Most of the spread is from dense living situations and meeting with friends and family without masks when y
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Hacker News doesn’t let you edit a comment after a period of time.
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Yes
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https://humanvarieties.org/2015/10/30/asian-american-subgrou...
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Or the extra opportunities to explore your interests.
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UC commissioned a study to see if the SAT was biased. The study found that it was not.
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https://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions... Harvard Tap on SAT by Ethnicity Look at Pacific Islander vs Asian. That is as close as I have found so far.
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The lawsuit asserts that they discriminate on the basis of both race AND national origin.
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You could say that standardized testing is somewhat biased against poverty rather than minorities directly. Poverty won’t let you afford extra summer tutoring, SAT prep, etc...
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The well known hack for the essay is to emphasize how you grew up poor, disadvantaged, first in family to go to college, escaped war, etc... Apparently helpful both for college and medical school.
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by babesh 6y ago
You should look closer at average test scores of admitted students by more fine grained ethnic groups. My high school discriminated by particular ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Hispanic, etc...
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by babesh 6y ago
An example: I interviewed an underrepresented minority student from Stanford. He was bright but obviously only understood computing from what was taught in class. So he didn’t do that well in the interview. If it were up to me, I would stil
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One good step is mentorship, outreach, and internship programs for socioeconomically disadvantaged kids starting from elementary school. The tech giants should just embrace this.
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The best white/Asian kids seemed to be much more experienced with actual computers and computing. Classes taught in schools cannot compensate for this. It’s the difference between learning about programming in school and actual on the
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But is that how the universities behave?
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I read a study from awhile back that said that for whites, wealth correlated with intelligence but that it didn’t with blacks when there was discrimination.
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That is probably not true on average. Wealth correlates with intelligence especially when there is less discrimination.
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The effect of AA on these universities is that they gradually lose their prestige amongst the population they discriminate against. Supposedly amongst the Asian population, UCB is held in as high a regard as Stanford. UCB was mandated by la
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The Thai and Philippines kids aren’t tossed in the same Asian bucket. The Asian bucket is actually the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Indian kids. The Asian bucket was better performing even before the latest wave of immigration. However, s

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