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by blagie 4y ago
Concrete example: I had someone reaching out to me, quite a bit, wanting to interact. On the other hand, whenever we interacted, I had the distinct impression they didn't like me. It was not a person I knew well. I'm limiting a lo
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by blagie 4y ago
My experience is that for elite schools -- Stanford and MIT -- the remaining factor is how much one is willing to cheat. There is a random component, a merit-based component, but most (and I have large n here) successful affiliated facult
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by blagie 4y ago
Why would they care? They get their name as the chair of the conference on their CV. No one remembers who chaired a specific year or how a given year went. If they did, there's enough noise in the process it wouldn't be attributed
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by blagie 4y ago
No mystery. Behavior converges to incentives: * You do get academic points for chairing a conference, and as a chair, you do need to find reviewers. * A colleague is running a conference, and asks you to do a favor. You want to help your co
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by blagie 4y ago
I'm well-known in a research community. I'm positioned such that I don't need more academic points. I've mostly stopped publishing in branded prestige academic venues, in part due to rejection rates. My goal in doing wor
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by blagie 4y ago
It hasn't really played out that way. With GPT-3, that bias is pretty explicit, and not hard to manage. I also don't treat advice as necessarily /good/ advice. A good way to think about it is ideation. A good example is
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by blagie 4y ago
Personally, I think companies with beyond some level marketshare should be regulated like we did train and telecom companies. As a common carrier cannot discriminate against customers, and tech monopolies shouldn't either. There should
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by blagie 4y ago
I've started asking GPT-3 for relationship advice. It's often... insightful. There is a bit of prompt engineering. If you start your question with things like "As a qualified therapist, what would you recommend to" ....
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by blagie 4y ago
I find I'm happiest and most satisfied when I'm incredibly busy with something truly meaningful. Capitalism does a mediocre job of allocating rewards to those who contribute, and most people I know have make-work: advertising, leg
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by blagie 4y ago
This feels ethical. We have broken, emergent incentive structures in our system. Tweaking those can be good or bad. It's not like a cheating on a test. If I were to modify it, I'd make it draw a picture :)
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by blagie 4y ago
I think Carmack would get funding whatever he's doing. Guy's got a track record.
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by blagie 4y ago
Inaction is absolutely complicity. You're (personally) complicit in a lot of things, probably including treatment of refugees from ISIS in Turkey, the famine in Afghanistan, drug cartel in Mexico, and the Yemeni Civil War. I don't
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by blagie 4y ago
> If you vote for a person who explicitly .... then that says something about your own personal philosophy. I'd suggest 1984. Democrats do horrible things Fox News reports on. Republicans do horrible things NY Times report on. Each
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by blagie 4y ago
It doesn't matter whether one side is right or wrong, or whether one side is more or less extreme. Your tactics don't work and lead to harm. Let's work from your Taliban example. The extreme pressure placed on the Taliban doe
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by blagie 4y ago
If I were running a business ethically, I'd want to mute my criticism of politics, including fairly extreme ones. Partisanship is tearing the world apart. I want people with different viewpoints to interact. That's the only way to
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by blagie 4y ago
I stopped by Sony phones because of the same issue. Sony Xperia Z-series phones would spontaneously develop serious screen cracks. I thought it was a fluke, but it happened over, and over, and over. The last Sony phone I bought was in a pad
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by blagie 4y ago
I've done 80-hour work weeks in blocks ranging from 6 weeks to 6 months. I did literally nothing but wake-work-sleep-wake-work-sleep, with time for food and similar necessities. I didn't have many blocks like that, but those were
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by blagie 4y ago
I think a trick might be to: - Go with geographic rather than political regions where possible - For political regions, have an alternative motive (e.g. traditional versus simplified characters for Taiwan versus Mainland China), and express
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by blagie 4y ago
Sorry. Typo. Take 你去商店吗 (I started typing 你去不去商店 and changed part-way)
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by blagie 4y ago
I think a better example wouldn't use 是. For example: 你去不去商店吗? (Are you going to the store?) The way to answer is either going (去) or not going (不去). There are a lot of phrase for "that's right" or similar, but that&#x27
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by blagie 4y ago
We have ways to manufacture cars at the price point we do due to a century of optimization. It's fundamentally a very, very hard thing: we're containing a gasoline explosion many times per second. Electric vehicles are expensive,
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by blagie 4y ago
It's not a shortcut. I described that as the most rational process, and why it makes sense for individuals who want to run successful businesses. It absolutely is detrimental and unethical when scaled. Solving this problem doesn't
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by blagie 4y ago
Last time I managed a team, the worst employee was technically brilliant. He was a former professor at a good university. He basically went off and did his own thing, mostly unrelated to what the rest of the organization wanted or needed. H
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by blagie 4y ago
> If the truth was good, that we lived in a wonderful society with wonderful people in a universe that cares about us, smart people would be so happy. Relative to 200 years ago, we do. People aren't any happier. That's not how
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by blagie 4y ago
It's very much technology. With Standard Oil, prices didn't go down, except in the very short term. Monopoly can seek out higher profits once monopoly is obtained. The pricing of LinkedIn, of dating web sites (almost all now owned
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by blagie 4y ago
I think the problem is a bit simpler. When I'm hiring, I often want to hire someone I *know* to be qualified. The most rational process is: - If I know you, and you're qualified, I'll hire you (over potentially more qualified
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by blagie 4y ago
The reason we have antitrust regulations is because the world ended up in a very bad place without them. This: "GitHub shouldn't be allowed to deny me service because I want to use it" isn't a fair paraphrasing of my arg
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by blagie 4y ago
Because all the projects I contribute to are on github. And that's where all the developers who contribute to my projects have accounts. There's nothing magical about the github system, but it's where the network of projects
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by blagie 4y ago
Thing is, if I got banned from github, I couldn't contribute to pytorch or many other projects I've contributed to. And if I ran my own server, no one would contribute to mine. The value comes from the network.
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by blagie 4y ago
Let me make this simpler, since there are a lot of comments like yours: 1) If I want to exchange redlined documents with lawyers, I need Microsoft Word. I cannot run a successful business which deals with law firms without Microsoft Word. M

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