bangkoksbest

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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Intelligence is a quality describing psychological and cognitive ability. It doesn't sit on some hidden one-dimensional quantitative scale as given in the half-assed pseudostatistic known as IQ. That you're asserting as fact an op
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Because the systems under study are not isolated external systems that follow well-order rules like a laboratory science. Prediction of human systems is like prediction of weather systems one week ahead: there are ways to model and improve
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
> When you go against Amazon, you go against something that Americans like more than Netflix. That just gives more reason to go against, there's quite a few Western comforts that could use a bit more opposition, Amazon being one of
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
More is different. Even when things share the same base units they can have completely different qualitative properties at scale based on the structure and environments. You and the sun are both just leptons and baryons, but that's not
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
One thing I actually liked about the Stanford workshop that accompanied this white paper, was the emphasis on, what in physics we often summed up as, “More is different”[1] Basically, it's the principle that drastic qualitative change
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
I don't mean everyone should be Dickens lol. It's fine to be Hemingway, but not because that's the objectively positive way to write.
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Why is the writer's role to treat some stereotyped profile of a reader within some optimization function? I have a lot of time to parse essays from an interesting and idiosyncratic writer. I have no time to parse through some 100 word
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by bangkoksbest 5y ago
Don't Americans split off Hispanic status as a separate question? That's what I've encountered when filling in US forms... There's plenty of white people in Latin America, and race is, if anything, much more rigidly stra