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by chillacy 6y ago
There was a section on this in the sci-fi novel Three Body Problem. The students force a professor of physics to recant his claim that relativity is a legitimate theory, and he refuses, then gets beaten by students. I remember thinking at t
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by chillacy 6y ago
> I think that you'll find all four types in most societies, and that which quadrant people fall into depends more on their own personality than the beliefs prevalent in their society. Personality is a real topic of psychology resea
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by chillacy 6y ago
I've always thought that in the absence of regulation, pure market forces will always favor power conglomerating into few large entities just due to efficiency at scale. Is the absence of enforced regulation (anti-trust, different tax
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by chillacy 6y ago
The parent did not claim that it is a weapon, only that the statement > The Air Force X-37B is not a missile or weapon. cannot be proven. In fact they went on to say > There is no confirmation, either way, whether it is or isn't
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by chillacy 6y ago
As someone who doesn't particularly like math but thinks robotics is cool, I had the horror of having to encounter this type of thing: https://www.rosroboticslearning.com/jacobian
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by chillacy 6y ago
In China wechat serves a similar role, especially in rural areas. You can pick up fresh veggies and meat directly from farmers on wechat, it's like a virtual bazaar.
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by chillacy 6y ago
To go further, the Author also suggests an alternate technique along the lines of Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets and Superforecasting where probabilities are assigned to estimates. I had previously encountered such practice in Scott Ale
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by chillacy 6y ago
I like how the author put it: > Saffo’s original idea is so quotable it has turned into a memetic phenomenon... ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ turns into ‘Strong Opinions, Justified Loudly, Until Evidence Indicates Otherwise, At Which Po
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by chillacy 6y ago
I learned from Snowden's book that the real way to make money working for the government is to quit and become a contractor.
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by chillacy 6y ago
For more evidence consider magazines from the front counters of grocery stores. That stuff is at grocery store checkouts, by popularity it's more representative of what people like than say... pg's essays. That Snapchat's (cu
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by chillacy 6y ago
Traditional news media is also organized by engagement: an entire department is responsible for picking the home page of a newspaper and importance of each story. The major publications do a better job at not sensationalizing everything, bu
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by chillacy 6y ago
For those interested in past predictions as a track record, I found Scott's previous predictions here: 2018-2019: https://www.profgalloway.com/2019-predictions 2019-2020: https://www.profgalloway.com/20
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by chillacy 6y ago
When it all goes down it won't even matter how good your cognition is under normal circumstances, your brain is going into lizard brain mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack
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by chillacy 6y ago
Parent poster is pointing out that _in addition_ to your degree you must pass a professional exam as well. This is common in professional fields where there is a licensed title (e.g. M.D. or P.E.). Btw there is a Software Engineering PE exa
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by chillacy 6y ago
Every year I've noticed the questions get harder too. A hard question in 2012 (off the top of my head, 2 pointer solution to linked list cycle detection) might be considered an easy question today.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Facebook ads are sold as an auction so the discount on ads is already happening. It also tends to produce the type of tempting situation which makes it impossible for brands to resist going back in if they can sneak an advantage in over the
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by chillacy 6y ago
This link was included in the article: https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in While China has certainly strayed pretty far from its state-controlled economy in recent years, it also seems pretty clear
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by chillacy 6y ago
I was wondering awhile ago to what extent the famous saying "the medium is the message" applies here. It's famously easy to misread the intent of text, to see hostility when there is none (and so smiley faces and emojis came
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by chillacy 6y ago
That discounts intent: Facebook's intent is for better or for worse to sell a bunch ads and make profits. That Cambridge Analytica was able to exploit Facebook's social graph for political ends is not conducive to the company&#x27
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by chillacy 6y ago
I haven't verified this but supposedly this is now done automatically with machine learning: https://www.tiktokbeautiful.com/
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by chillacy 6y ago
> What are the signs that the Chinese want to export their way of life? Any recent war launched by China? Any attempt to force a Western goverment to accept their condicions? There are two distinct reasons I see: 1. Some people read rece
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by chillacy 6y ago
> And ironically enough, the fast developing era of taiwan, south korea, by today's standard, are not under any form of democracy. This is I think an under-appreciated point... Taiwan and SK both made the most economic gains under m
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by chillacy 6y ago
America had to undergo a great amount of social change too before it came out the winner. With groups like the Black Panthers carrying around Mao's little red book, it seems to me that America had to (was forced to) become more inclusi
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by chillacy 6y ago
You do have a right to buy Huawei equipment but you do not have the right to force your city/government to buy their equipment.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm a native english speaker but trying to learn other languages (and speaking with english learners) has given me a new appreciation for simplicity for ease of learning. For something which wants to be the lingua franca of the world I
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by chillacy 6y ago
Maybe not directly related but some traffic lights in japan are more what we'd call blue than green https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/515205/why-does-japan-ha... At the end of the day why bother with anothe
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Blacklists are to become either “denylists” or “blocklists” and whitelists will become “allowlists” or “passlists”. I'm glad they chose allow/denylist instead of another often proposed redlist/greenlist. From a language
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by chillacy 6y ago
I mean, the other way of looking at it is that the market is always "right" for mysterious reasons and we mere mortals (often) get our predictions wrong.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Hmm, I assumed the author implied literally short selling the underlying stock but I think that's a bad idea: potentially unlimited losses. The author may even be correct but the market can be particularly irrational around growth stoc
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by chillacy 6y ago
Apologies, I think I'm describing something more like the EITC which is phased out. I remember reading something by Mankiew briefly describing their equivalence. http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-quick-

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