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Two of the most under-discussed aspects of gifts are their functions as displays of power and demonstrations of conspicuous care. Robin Hanson’s book The Elephant in the Brain touches on this.
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I would read 1491 before 1493, but you could certainly read wizard and prophet on either side of that. I don't think he has a solution to reconcile the wizards and the prophets. The two approaches are not at all mutually exclusive, but
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Charles C. Mann is a genius among journalists. 1491 was mind-blowing for me, and I'm halfway through 1493 (equally good). Most of what people were taught about pre-Columbian civilizations in America is wrong. They were far more sophist
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Sometimes they give critiques as a part of a bureaucratic process that makes termination easier down the road.
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The reason why many remote jobs exist is because companies can hire people remotely for less. I see no problem with that. This is a classic economic demand curve: at a lower price, there is demand for more workers. At a higher price, there
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Thiel appears powerful now, but there were years when he wasn't. But he gave up attempting to climb to the summit of the traditional hierarchy when he abandoned his career as an attorney to become an entrepreneur. This notion of counte
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He called 2020's civil unrest. A trader would have to extrapolate to place a bet on that.
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One of the most interesting aspects in Turchin's hypothesis is the notion of counter-elites: those who are groomed for power and then excluded from it, who wreak their vengeance by turning against the existing hierarchy. The Atlantic a
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Also from Peter, lest this become a predictable round of journalist bashing: "Graeme is a very intelligent journalist and his explanations of cliodynamics and structural-demographic mechanisms that bring about state breakdown are quite
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Pick up phone. Check email. Regret screen exposure. Bury phone.
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The parts of IBM are worth more than the whole, and many of the company's board members and investors realize that. They are getting the value of these deals, even if "IBM" is not.
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A great example of a 20th-century writer-diplomat is Romain Gary, of France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain_Gary Married to Jean Seberg, once challenged Clint Eastwood to a duel, and wrote more than excellent nov
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Those are some beautiful pieces you've made!
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Connecting Reinforcement Learning to Simulation Software with Ray(thedataexchange.media)
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Chuck's actual works get just a little mention in this piece. He is known for helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. That is, to end the Troubles, a conflict that lasted about 30 years, from the late 60
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Can we please call these bed-Zoom communities? ;)
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I grew up in a mountainous area of the US, and can confirm the presence of these personality traits, although it's hard for me to evaluate if they are more or less prevalent than in the coastal city where I now live (hello, mobility!).
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How about the fact that the British Empire, at great cost to its own interests, ended the practice of slavery widespread among Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrfjUzYvPo That does not fit in
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The New York Times is not perfect, but they do a very good job as well, despite what some commenters in this thread may think. And the paper is not run by a political appointee, as are most of the public service media organizations in Europ
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Nobody has time to do that for every topic that is relevant to the life of a citizen. They need trusted sources of general news. The New York Times is a better approximation of that than most publications.
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What does the author of this piece want? The "truth", or even a plausible interpretation of the facts, is expensive to produce. It is even more expensive when you do it every day covering a wide array of topics. If you value facts
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This podcast feels like Freud warmed over. It doesn't provide much insight into what goes on in people, or what they should do.
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Do you want artificial intelligence or do you want energy efficiency? Personally, I think this work is about proving that we can create the former. Making it small and efficient comes later. That has been true of many advances in technology
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Both DeepMind and OpenAI were founded on the premise that we are in an AI overhang. OpenAI, in particular, believes in scale. Scale will get us there based on the algorithms we have, such as the Transformer. With each new release, they add
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Some ideas are dangerous, and closely tied to both actions and policies. It is the responsibility of smart, powerful and conscientious people to acknowledge that. I am not saying that dangerous ideas should not be discussed. But we should b
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When really it's more like a SaaS product. You need to keep paying for the self-improvement, month after month, with your time...
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This is the Twitter version of bad journalism. * pick something famous * say it's dead * cherry pick the worst things about it * get your 10 minutes of fame All it costs you are some burnt bridges. I've met several really smart fo
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I recently read this book, recommended in another of the infinite posts about writing well, and it is truly good: https://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publish... The chapters from 1 through Cohesion II are b
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I do not think that Bloomberg terminals are any more useful for insider trading, in the strict sense, than any other communication device, and probably less so because they are more likely to be monitored by one's employer. However, th
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A lot of people misunderstand the uses of a Bloomberg Terminal. I'm a former terminal user. Bloomberg introduced one of the first, and certainly the longest-lasting, social networks when it debuted in 1981. It is a social network whose

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